Paris, France – August 20, 2019 –Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a deal with Austrian private broadcaster group ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to fully revamp their media operation with the agile Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform. ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 is home to hits such as Austrian’s Next Top Model, iconic UEFA Europa League and international sports coverage such as National Football League and popular thematic news, talk and show programs. The Dalet Galaxy five installation will equip the well-known broadcaster with a state-of-the-art media production workflow that realigns production and delivery to optimize cross-functional team collaboration and multi-platform content output across its three channels PULS 4, ATV and ATV 2.

ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 Broadcast System Engineers, Christoph Stadlhofer and Dirk Raschig comment on the vision for the leap forward and partnering with Dalet to better manage the news, sports, archives and program preparation workflows, “We have a rapidly growing pool of content that needs to be centralized and enriched with metadata. In addition, we need tools that enable our staff to easily search, prepare and distribute that content. Facilitating these needs combined with managing a much higher output of program and news content to our digital platforms is what we expect to accomplish with the move to Dalet Galaxy five.”

Tobias Stößel, Project Manager of this Project at ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 continues, “The Dalet Galaxy five core media asset management and orchestration capabilities will free our users from many manual processes and technical duties that currently weigh them down. It will enable them to reach a higher level of collaboration, giving them more time to focus on the project at hand.”

The full implementation of Dalet Galaxy five will allow ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to build an end-to-end, cohesive digital content supply chain that unifies all operations and processes from the newsroom to program preparation to post-production to distribution and archives. Key components include: a centralized content catalogue (MAM) that houses enriched metadata for ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4’s three channels; Dalet Webspace for browse, search and media management; Dalet Workflow Engine for the orchestration of operations and processes; the Dalet Brio I/O platform for centralized ingest management; and Dalet AmberFin scalable transcoding. The Dalet installation will facilitate seamless collaboration between all users including editors on Adobe® Premiere® Pro through Dalet Xtend and Avid® Pro Tools®.

“Dalet Galaxy five will unify the infrastructure with an underlying component-based workflow that enables ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to scale at will its content production and multi-platform delivery and thrive in an ever-changing media landscape,” comments Johann Zemmour, General Manager, EMEA and APAC, Dalet. “We look forward to working closely with ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to revamp its infrastructure and deliver on the ambitious roadmap that will undoubtedly transform the way they produce and deliver their premium product to the delight of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 audiences.”

Philipp Beuchert, Head of Broadcast & Production Systems at ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 concludes on partnering with Dalet, “We are also looking into future technology and here, we think Dalet is one of the key players on the market. ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 is happy to improve the in-house technology together.”

For more information on Dalet Galaxy five and Dalet solutions, please visit www.dalet.com.

About Dalet Digital Media Systems

Dalet solutions and services enable media organizations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximizing the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions.

Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics.

Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—ION Media has acquired five full-power UHF TV stations, expanding its nationwide presence with stations in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, and Dayton, Ohio, the company announced today.

The acquisitions take ION Media’s full-power TV station count to 70 in 61 markets. Together, the five newly acquired stations reach 9.1 million.

ION Media has acquired KILM-TV in Los Angeles from Sunbelt Television and WDLI-TV in Cleveland, WCLJ-TV in Indianapolis, WSFJ-TV in Columbus and WKOI-TV in Dayton from Trinity Broadcasting Network. The company also acquired five broadcast towers from Trinity to support the repack of some of its stations as part of the FCC’s reallocation of TV spectrum in support of its broadcast incentive auction. Financial details of the transactions were not immediate available.

“These acquisitions follow through on our commitment to invest in ION’s broadcast television growth story,” said Brandon Burgess, chairman and CEO of ION Media. “Over-the-air and over-the-top are the two fastest growing wireless delivery platforms for affordable quality television content. Our focus on UHF spectrum and quality content will allow us to best provide both OTA and OTT services to value-oriented distribution partners and consumers.”

According to an ION statement, the acquisitions reinforce the company’s position “as the largest U.S. holder of full power broadcast TV spectrum,” covering 1.3 billion MHz-pops and 225 million people around the country in all key metro areas.

More information is available on the ION Media website.

Here’s another example of the blurring boundaries between “enterprise IT” functions and broadcast engineering: Security. Not so long ago, the IT side of the typical TV broadcaster handled Internet-facing security necessities, like email and firewalls, while the engineering side shored up distribution-related security, usually over dedicated links. Those links were plumbed in Internet Protocol (IP) but didn’t traverse the “big Internet,” so they were, in essence, cordoned off.

These days, securing the attack surfaces of broadcast and media providers is necessarily a collaboration between IT and engineering, increasingly buttressed by top-down mandates to do whatever it takes to keep the bad guys off the digital premises. Just ask TV5Monde, in France, which suffered a massive hack in April of 2015 that took down 12 of its 12 channels overnight. Like so many hacks, the bad guys had gained entry a few months earlier, maneuvering in the background to find the weak spots.

“The real-time nature of broadcast television doesn’t lend itself well to today’s time-to-detect metrics,” which can average 100 days, said Michael Korten, cyber security practice leader for Cisco. “Everyone knows the stresses that come from ads not airing, regardless of the reason.” To use a worst-case example, Super Bowl ads cost around $170,000 per second.

Korten’s group, and in particular Cisco’s Talos division –a team of nearly 300 cyber security experts– live for this stuff. They are scheduled to deliver a full readout of the latest trends during the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas. This will happen in the Connected Media IP Theater (which is in the South Hall, Upper Level of LVCC) on Monday, April 9, from noon to 1 p.m. They deliberately won’t compile their report until much closer to the date, so as to capture what happens between now and then. But here’s a short list of best practices and general observations they’ll likely cover:

1. You can’t protect what you can’t see –visibility is job No. 1.

 The prevailing wisdom over the last two or so decades was to buy hardware to secure different types of “perimeters” –the so-called “see a problem, buy a box” solution. Each hole gets plugged with a new thumb, which is fine, until you run out of thumbs. Plus, broadcast and media companies typically average 40 to 50 individual security products. But if the firewall can’t “see” the web security product –and so on down the chain– the entirety of the threat surface can’t easily be visualized, let alone pre-emptively protected.

2. Add “time-to-detect” to your vital metrics.

 According to the Talos folks, the average time-to-detect for enterprise companies (meaning beyond the media/broadcast sector) is 100 days. That’s a little over three months! How to get that vital metric down from months to hours is one of the things they’ll explain during the NAB keynote.

3. Know your attack entrances (which are anywhere there are end points).

 E-mail is a threat surface for its potential to disseminate malicious links. Web searches can be a threat surface because of rogue DNS addresses that redirect to unsafe places. Memory sticks, remote and unsecured (non-VPN) network access, cloud handoff points, connected devices, orphaned or neglected websites –all need to be sussed out, continuously.

4. Attacks increase with each new innovation.

 Whether it’s a new cloud platform, mobile offering or device, if it’s new, digital and “on-net” from production to distribution, it’s probably already being deconstructed somewhere for undesired access. Innovation cuts both ways –the intended uses and the unintended consequences. (This is why security people constantly talk about how security needs to be considered from the get-go of any new product or service and not bolted on at the end.)

5. Have a “before, during and after” plan, and check it frequently. 

Improved visibility across all potential threat surfaces is step one; gaining control after a breach is step two. “The first thing people want to know, after a breach, is scope –can we contain it?” said Cisco’s Korten. “The second thing they want to know is: how bad is it? How much damage, what does remediation look like?” That’s why it’s a good idea to know what levers to pull once the alarms have sounded. (Sometimes, it’s a matter of even having levers to pull.) That means a security blueprint with perimeter detection and a “cloud firewall” designed for real-time threat management and automation. Overall mission: Stay ahead of the hack.

The grim reality about broadcast TV and security is this: Attackers have unlimited opportunities to get where they want to go. They’ll keep trying and trying and trying. We’re likely see more evidence of this, even in the short run-up to the 2018 NAB Show. If this is a topic near and dear to your day-to-day, it might make sense to check out the Talos presentation and the rest of its security portfolio while you’re in Vegas.

This is the third in a six-part blog series preceding the 2018 NAB Show. Click here to read more about what broadcasters will be talking about at this year's show. 

About the Author: Leslie Ellis is a respected “technology translator,” known in cable and telecom circles for her award-winning, 20+ year “Translation Please” column in Multichannel News. She took on this Cisco-sponsored pre-NAB series to point out common and frustrating obstacles, for anyone on the sliding transition toward “being more Internet-like.” It is less of a comprehensive representation of available options and more a glimpse into what’s worrisome, on a day-to-day basis for engineers and IT people who work in media and entertainment.

CARLSBAD, CALIF.—Because of the heightened importance and increased scrutiny of broadcasters in today’s environment, CareerCast has dropped the broadcast profession to the second-worst ranked job of 2017, only beating out newspaper reporter, who is currently going through the same pressures. Jobs like logger, firefighters, enlisted military and taxi drivers were ranked higher.

“Both of these industries [broadcasting and newspapers] have felt the years-long squeeze of diminishing job prospects, due to declining advertising revenue that has impacted the newspaper, radio and television industries,” said Kyle Kensing, online content editor for CareerCast.

CareerCast utilizes criteria such as income, outlook, environmental factors, stress and physical demands in ranking jobs.

Here is the complete the top 10 worst jobs per the CareerCast report.

1. Newspaper Reporter

2. Broadcasters

3. Logger

4. Enlisted Military Personnel

5. Pest Control Worker

6. Disc Jockey

7. Advertising Sales Person

8. Firefighter

9. Retail Salesperson

10. Taxi Driver

This year’s best job, according to the report, is statistician. View the full list on CareerCast.

CARLSBAD, CALIF.—Judging on salary, work environment, outlook and stress level, job search portal CareerCast has ranked broadcaster as the third worse job in the country in its 28th annual 10 Worst Job List. It is joined by newspaper reporter and logger, which make up the top two worst jobs, as well as disc jockey, enlisted military, retail sales, advertising sales, taxi driver and firefighter.

According to the report, employment of broadcasters is expected to decline 9 percent by 2024, an estimated total of 4,800 positions. The emergence of digital media is one of the main contributing factors to traditional media jobs like broadcasters and newspaper reporters, says Kyle Kensing, online content editor for CareerCast.

Here is the full rankings of top 10 worst jobs from CareerCast:

1. Newspaper Reporter/Print
2. Logger
3. Broadcaster
4. Disc Jockey
5. Enlisted Military
6. Pest Control Worker
7. Retail Sales
8. Advertising Sales Person
9. Taxi Driver
10. Firefighter

The full list of 200 worst jobs can be found here.

On the flip side, data scientist is the top rated job in CareerCast’s report of best jobs. To see the list of best jobs, click here.

CARLSBAD, CALIF.—What does a broadcaster have in common with enlisted military personnel and a taxi driver? According to CareerCast, a job search portal that also ranks 200 jobs across North America, it is a place on its top 10 most stressful jobs list for 2016.

CareerCast evaluated 11 stress factors—travel required, growth potential, deadlines, working in the public eye, competition in the field, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered on a regular basis, own life at risk, life of other at risk, and meeting or interacting with the public at large—to determine the most and least stressful jobs.

Broadcasters scored a stress score of 47.3, high enough to be the eight highest stress level among jobs in 2016. One major reason for its ranking, according to CareerCast, is the declining growth outlook, which currently sits at -11 percent, the worst among all jobs in the top 10.

Here is CareerCast’s full top 10 list of most stressful jobs for 2016 and their stress score:

1.Enlisted Military Personnel - 84.78

2.Firefighter - 60.59

3.Airline Pilot - 60.46

4.Police Officer - 53.82

5.Event Coordinator - 49.93

6.Public Relations Executive - 48.46

7.Corporate Executive (Senior) – 47.46

8.Broadcaster – 47.30

9.Newspaper Reporter – 46.76

10.Taxi Driver – 46.33

To see CareerCast’s full report, and the top 10 least stressful job for 2016, click here.