Palestine-based systems integrator and Sony distributor Star 2000 has secured a US $1.5million contract to build a TV facility for An-Najah National University. Thought to be the largest university in Palestine, An-Najah, which is located on the north of the West Bank, plans to build a facility that will enable it to run a […]

Palestine-based systems integrator and Sony distributor Star 2000 has secured a US $1.5million contract to build a TV facility for An-Najah National University.
Thought to be the largest university in Palestine, An-Najah, which is located on the north of the West Bank, plans to build a facility that will enable it to run a full-fledged satellite TV channel from its premises. The project is scheduled for completion in April 2012.
According to the contract, An-Najah, which presently has a media facility, will build two three-camera studios. The studios will be used for training and production purposes.
“This will be the first university in Palestine to be equipped with a full HD facility. We will be installing High Definition equipment across the chain to enable the production and transmission of HD content,” commented Firas Ishaq, general manager of Star 2000.
Key areas at the facility will include two studios, two control rooms and a master control room.
An-Najah will invest in 12 of Sonys PMW 320 ENG cameras, six of which will be used in the studio with a studio adaptor while the rest will be used on the field. Besides this, key equipment will include the Omneon Media Deck servers one for ingest and one for playout, Mirandas multi-viewers and glue equipment as well as four Final Cut Pro editing units. An archive system from CACHE-A will also be part of the install.
“I believe there are more phases in the pipeline. Once the infrastructure is in place, they will perhaps look at producing content to populate the channel,” added Ishaq.