German Parliamentary Elections 2005: cine plus to provide the technical equipment and organisational facilities for international TV election reporting on behalf of Eurovision

Berlin, 12 September 2005 / cine plus, one of the biggest media service providers in Germany, will be providing the technical infrastructure for international TV reporting on behalf of Eurovision at the German parliamentary elections, 2005. 30 to 40 international TV stations will use the services of the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) in the Paul Löbe Haus, Berlin.

The IBC has 14 edit suites and 40 newsrooms along with all the necessary telecommunications equipment, live positions and satellite uplinks – all covering a total of about 1000 square metres. All signals, including those from the linked party headquarters, come together at the IBC's central digital control room. A special multiplex procedure makes it possible to transmit them to the satellites in parallel via 18 programme outputs using three SNG vehicles. The signals will be transmitted from the party headquarters to the Paul Löbe Haus using analogue and digital Canobeam lasers provided by Eurovision. "The advantage over point-to-point radio links is that with the digital Canobeam you can send up to six bi-directional signals at the same time," stresses Earny Thiemann, manager of cine plus News Service. The Canobeam has up to 270 Mbit/s of bandwidth and is individually scalable. "We are especially pleased to be able to offer these special systems, particularly since there are not many available in Europe," says Thiemann.
In addition to handling the technical and organisational side, cine plus is also providing the TV stations and their correspondents with 25 camera teams. Altogether, more than 50 camera sets and a staff of 170 will be deployed.

At the 2005 general election in Germany, cine plus News Service is not only Eurovision's technical service provider, it is also supporting other TV stations such as Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and ARTE with their production planning and implementation.


 

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As Eurovision's one-stop-shop premium partner, cine plus News Service organises the local technical and organisational infrastructure for foreign correspondents at major media events in Germany, Austria and Poland, among other places – most recently at the Catholic World Youth Day in Cologne, where 56 international TV stations sent more than 10,000 minutes of programming to their home stations via up to 12 parallel transmission routes. As far as stationary equipment is concerned, cine plus News Service offers everything needed for up-to-the-minute reporting from Berlin's government district, including ENG teams, editing rooms, editorial offices, studios and the teleport (ATM, satellite up/downlink).
 

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