Network Operations Center Technical Specifications

Broadcast Management Group’s Washington Broadcast Center is home to its BMG Cloud Control Center™ and its Network Operations Center. Currently, the company has 30,000 sq. feet of custom-built broadcast production facilities that house its corporate offices, Cloud-Based TV Playout Facilities, Media Asset Management facilities, production and audio control rooms, studios, mobile unit parking, event production gear, and houses its integration division.

Studio Spaces

  • Insert studio 17ft by 20ft (160 sq ft) and 8ft to the grid
  • Studio A (Coming Soon) 85ft by 40ft (3,400 sq ft) and 16ft to the grid
  • Studio B (Coming Soon) 60ft by 40ft (2,400 sq ft) and 16ft to the grid

Production

  • 2 Grass Valley Kayenne K-Frame 4 ME Switchers, 64 Inputs, 48 outputs with Internal Still Store and DVEs and full-featured eDPMs
  • 1 Ross Acuity 4 M/E switchers with 64 inputs and 64 outputs

Audio

  • 4 ACRs, 2 with Yamaha DX7 Audio Boards, 2 with CL5 Yamaha audio boards, all with 5.1 Surround sound
  • Full Wireless Mic and IFB Complement for each studio
  • Audio playback system
  • Noise Compression System

Communications Systems

  • 4 RTS Odin Systems with a total of 512 Ports
  • Trunk Master for RTS Management
  • Unity System for each studio with 30 Users
  • 8 IFB Channels per studio
  • 16 RTS Romeo Wireless Belt packs for each studio
  • 4 phone lines per control room
  • Ring Down phones
  • 20 Walkie Talkies with Base Station per Studio

Cameras

  • Each studio has 5 LDX 96 GV World Cam 1080P HDR cameras
  • Each Studio with 4 Vinten Pedestals with Vinten Heads
  • Insert Studio, Sony HDC-100 with 23 DIGISUPER box lens and Vinten Pedestal and Head with AutoCue prompter
  • Jimmy Jib with up to 30ft Arm

Lenses and prompters

  • Each Studio with 4 FUJINON DIGISUPRE 27X Box lenses with a prompter
  • Each studio has 1 23 wide-angle lens for ENG camera or Jib

Graphics Systems

  • 3 Xpression Systems, each with three channels
  • 1 Xpression System, with four channels
  • 1 Zero Density 3-D/ AR Graphics System
  • 1 Zero Density Virtual Set System running on Unreal Engine

Media Asset Management, Record and Playback

  • 8 Channel Ross Tria Playback and Record
  • 3 3-Play systems with up to 8 channel record and two channel playback each
  • 1 3-Play systems with up to 4 channel record and two channel playback each
  • 16 Channels of Kipro Record machines
  • AMMP GV Framelight X (Media Asset Management System)
  • 64-channel Tascam audio recorder
  • 8 Hyper Deck Recorders

Cloud TV Playout and Distribution

  • 100 Fiber Strands diverse with 3 ISP Providers
  • Six Operator Workstations
  • GV AMMP Playout X (Cloud TV Playout System endless channel scaling)
  • 14 Channels of Live U Encoders
  • 40 Channels of Live U Decoders
  • 3 Channels of LTN Encoders
  • 3 Channels of LTN Decoders
  • 4 Channels of Havison Encoders
  • 4 Channels of Havison Decoders
  • 16 Channels of TVU Encoders
  • 4 Channels of TVU Decoders
  • 24 Channels of Generic encoders with SRT, RTMP, RTSP, WHIP
  • 4 Uplink Paths, KU or C-Band
  • 4 Downlink Paths: KU or C-Band
  • Support Equipment
  • 2 Closed-Captioning Encoders
  • 16 Channels Sony encoder

Data Center

  • Evertz EQX Router 512 x 512
  • Evertz 48 DEEMBED, 16 channel EMBED
  • 2 Evertz Time Code Reader/Generator
  • 28 Outboard Evertz Router Multiviewer Heads

Support System

  • 1,200 amps of building production power
  • 65KVA UPS System
  • 500KVA Gas Feed Generator
  • Redundant HVAC System

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