This renovation promises to allow for efficient, flexible IP workflows, including remote production capabilities for future-proof operation utilising the highest quality standards.
Turkish media company Turkuvaz Media Group has commissioned a newly-updated media centre facility in Istanbul with Lawo as a technology supplier.
System integration services for this key broadcast installation are supplied by Lawo’s partner in Turkey, Radikal Elektronik Ltd. Sti.
The Turkuvaz Media Center is Turkey’s biggest media campus, comprising a Plaza, a TV block and a Printing block, an area of 50.000 sqm that hosts 160.000 sqm of production space.
The company operates nine TV channels and four radio channels, with 12 12-metre-tall studios measuring from 200 m² to 1500 m², and five 6-metre-tall studios between 100² to 350 m² in the TV complex.
The TV buildings also contain ten studio control rooms, six producing in 4K and four in HD.
Turkuvaz’s IP infrastructure includes several networked Lawo mc² mixing consoles and crystal radio consoles linked with a sophisticated central routing system, as well as a V__matrix video processing system equipped with Lawo C100 software-defined processing blades.
In addition to renovating the broadcast studios, a new OB van equipped with Lawo IP networking was rolled out in November 2020, with the overall project completed in December.
The newly-modernised studio control rooms are customised for their individual tasks like news, 4k-video post-production, HD sports programming, and a shared HD SCR, integrated by an IP infrastructure built upon Lawo systems.
This renovation promises to allow for efficient, flexible IP workflows, including remote production capabilities for future-proof operation utilising the highest quality standards.
Lawo equipment installed during the upgrade includes eight new 48-position mc²56 mixing consoles fitted with the unique Dual-Fader option to provide 80 total faders, giving Turkuvaz operators direct surface access to large numbers of audio channels.
Audio connectivity comes by way of DALLIS stage boxes; a central routing matrix with 8,192 x 8,192 mono crosspoints was built using a Nova73 HD Router.
In addition to an mc²36 console providing “all-in-one” functionality, the audio setup includes six radio studios with Lawo crystal mixing consoles and companion Compact Engines. The media centre’s video and audio processing is handled with eight V__pro8 video processing units and Lawo’s V__matrix software-defined IP Core Routing, Processing & Multi-Viewing platform, fitted with two C100 processing blades to perform SDI IP encapsulation and de-encapsulation.
The networking fabric of the new Turkuvaz facilities connects the DALLIS units to the Nova73 central router via MADI, with RAVENNA linking router and console cores. AES67 / ST2110 networking with video devices between console cores and router are also implemented.
Commenting on the new media centre, Yavuz Nart, General Technical Manager at Turkuvaz said: “Before we even started planning our new facilities, our project team analysed the market situation to find a coherent future-proof solution for an IP infrastructure. With Lawo, we found a company with the latest IP broadcast technology under one roof. Lawo IP technology has been long established in the market, and they are known as a technology leader with high-quality products and extraordinarily high expertise in the broadcast. And who better to install this new system than Radikal, who has been a trusted audio partner for many years.”
Seha Akbaş, Systems Engineer at Radikal added: “As an audio engineer and systems designer in broadcast, you must, of course, have faith in the quality of the products you offer to your customer. With Lawo, we are working with a manufacturer that delivers the very highest quality standards, paired with innovative solutions and fast, expert support. We are very happy to be involved in what has turned out to be one of the biggest projects in Radikal’s history, providing Turkuvaz with the best broadcast solutions available on the market, with the most modern IP infrastructure found anywhere in Turkey today.”
Mustafa Yavuz, Assistant Technical Manager of Turkuvaz, noted: “We are very impressed with our new IP infrastructure. It enables us to apply radical new workflows inside the studios, as well as the capability for remote production. The desire for this new option had already been on the rise, but with the pandemic affecting operations, remote production has proven to be the best solution for maintaining up-to-date and reliable broadcast production. Radikal and Lawo have always listened to us, presenting and installing optimal solutions to achieve our goals. We can now proudly look at our new facilities as one of the most modern broadcast centres to date!”
