To attract viewers from South-east Asia and beyond, Telkom Indonesia, an Indonesian multinational telecommunications conglomerate, has launched SEA Today (Southeast Asia Today), an Indonesian English-language news and lifestyle TV channel.
The successful launch of the channel was supported by Magna Systems & Engineering and its team in Jakarta, led by Maulana Alamsyah, Senior Pre Sales Engineer. He said, “Telkom Indonesia was already sending channels to Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and other countries so the new SEA Today channel has to meet and utilise the same high quality broadcast standards and other significant technological requirements.
“In order to make SEA Today a success, Magna Systems & Engineering provided Telkom Indonesia with a vendor agnostic solution that streamlines a fast news workflow and that also integrates with the company’s existing Vizrt media asset management (MAM) systems.
“Vizrt also now manages video processing for the news workflow from ingest through editing, sending to studio playout and archiving.”
Magna’s solution also includes an Octopus Newsroom (NRCS) system, which is suitable for all newsroom types and sizes, from a single channel with just a few bulletins per day up to full-scale 24/7 news channels even from with multiple locations.
Magna has also provided full workflow capabilities for SEA Today, including being able to ingest raw clips, enabling journalists to create stories and also insert all elements required within story including video and CG, editing raw clips, final checking by script editors and final approval by producers to send to playout.
Maulana concluded, “The new SEA Today channel is very efficient and very successful. Magna was able to manage the SEA Today project within a tight timeline and finish the project on time with the right resources in order to meet the client’s requirements for their specific workflow.
“Magna’s solution is very cost-effective and vendor agnostic and these key elements, along with the fast workflow we provided, meet all of the customer’s main requirements for their channel.”