BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH

from PRO50 2017

Aret Video and Audio Engineering

GERMAN ExpERTISE IN BROAdcAST ANd MEdIA TEchNOlOGY

BFE is a leading European broadcast systems integrator with more than 40 years of experience in planning and implementation of complex projects in broadcast and media technology including studios, master control rooms, broadcast IT systems and OB vans.

As a competent and reliable partner, BFE supports its customers in implementing system solutions tailored to their specific requirements. BFE’s clients also rely on them as a general contractor. In taking on this important responsibility, BFE is utilising its comprehensive competencies in solution design, broadcast and IT-engineering and project management. To deliver the highest quality on time, BFE relies on in-house capacities in mechanical and electrical engineering and production, as well as inhouse joinery.

Over the past 40 years, BFE has successfully delivered projects in Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. Additionally, BFE is a leading provider of broadcast control and master control room management systems. The KSC software solutions such as the latest KSC CORE Control and Monitoring System, take care of the entire broadcast chain, enabling fast and flexible control of all systems. KSC solutions have been deployed worldwide more than 900 times.

pROJEcTS IN ThE MIddlE EAST OMAN TV

Oman TV is the national television channel broadcaster in the Sultanate of Oman. BFE designed, built and delivered two OB vans for Oman TV. BFE was the main contractor with United Broadcast & Media Solutions (UBMS). The two OB vans featuring 10 and eight cameras, have a length of 12.6m and 10m, respectively. Each of these was built on a Mercedes Actros chassis with the larger one featuring an extendable frame for maximum work space. Both OB vans have the latest HD camera and slow-motion technology on board and are controlled by BFE’s own KSC commander control and monitoring software

Oman TV OB vans – Two HDTV vehicles with specialised air-conditioning system and ambient lighting (2015).

and BFE control panels. The vehicles are used for live coverage of sport and other national and international events and TV productions.

A major challenge in the project was to take the environmental conditions of Oman into consideration when constructing and designing the vehicles. The two vans are equipped with specialised air-conditioning systems to cope with the extreme climatic conditions of up to 50°C of heat, dust and humidity. All work areas, separated into audio control, video control and technical control rooms, feature a tailor-made ambient lighting system for a truly high-class look and great working environment.

Additionally, BFE built a flight case studio for Oman TV consisting of six shock-absorbing 19” flight case racks to accommodate all of the technical equipment. Part of this production unit is a support van designed for transport of flight cases and other necessary production equipment.

Al JAZEERA

Al Jazeera was launched in 1996 as the first independent news channel in the Arab world; presently it has more than 70 bureaus around the world. The project was to overhaul and augment the channel’s working infrastructure. Al Jazeera needed to centralise, upgrade and renew the core of its distribution facilities to deliver its audiences with unparalleled coverage and an elevated viewing experience.

With more than 40 years of experience in successful projects for the broadcasting and media industry, BFE was chosen to design and build a new, centralised master control room, upgrade and refurbish the teleport facility and build a teleport network operations centre in Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar. The project aims to change and innovate Al Jazeera’s communications and content management processes by utilising state-of-the-art equipment and cutting-edge technologies,

Al Dawri & Al Kass Sports Channel – Three HD TV Studios with custom-made furniture by BFE (2014).

Smiths Detection, Scan Vans – 10 Mercedes Sprinters as mobile security command centres for airports (2014).

thus redefining the industry and setting new standards for excellence.

INTERNATIONAl pROJEcTS TV ANd RAdIO

• Al Kass – Integration of three HD TV studios for Al Dawri and Al Kass Sports

Channel, Doha, Qatar • BBC – New broadcasting centre with two

HDTV control rooms and three studios, 12 digital radio stations, Glasgow, United

Kingdom. • Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Delivery of technical equipment for TV studios,

Alexandria, Egypt • CBC – Infrastructure for new TV centre,

Baku, Azerbaijan • Deutsche Welle – Renewal of studio 3 and construction of innovative LED video wall, Bonn, Germany • MBC – Implementation of tapeless environment and MAMS, Dubai • MOCI – Implementation of broadcasting complex for Radio Jeddah, Jeddah, KSA • RTS – Systems integration of 2 HD studios,

Geneva, Switzerland • Sharjah Media – Renewal of TV and radio infrastructure, Sharjah, UAE

centre, Neuburg, Germany • FIS Ski World Cup 2011 – Technical equipment for main press centre, Germany • German Central Bank – Renewal of

Central Bank council chamber, Frankfurt,

Germany • Kofi Annan Centre – Peacekeeping

Training Centre, Accra, Ghana • UEFA Euro World Cup 2008 – Installation of media centres and media stands, Austria and Switzerland

Deutsche Welle, Studio 3 – Tailor-made, seamless 11m-wide LED wall (2014).

TPC Switzerland, HD6 OB van – 10 cameras, extendable frame and antenna for broadcasting in the Swiss mountains (2015).

• SRG SSR – Renewal of playout and master control room, Bern, Switzerland • TVR – TV centre & regional TV centres,

Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

OB VANS

• JSTV – eight-camera OB van, Nanjing,

China • MOI – Three 5-camera OB vans, Riyadh,

Saudi Arabia • Oman TV – 10- & 8-camera OB van,

Muscat, Oman • RAI – Two DSNG uplink vehicles, Rome,

Italy • RRI – 49 radio OB vans, Jakarta, Indonesia. • Smiths Detection – 10 X-ray scan vehicles as mobile security command centres for international airports, Wiesbaden,

Germany • TPC – 10-camera HDTV OB van, Zurich,

Switzerland • TVP – 20-camera HDTV OB van, Warsaw,

Poland • TVR – 4-camera OB van, Tashkent,

Uzbekistan

MEdIA TEchNOlOGY

• Audi AG – New Audi driving experience

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