Azcar Wins $6 Million Contract to Design TV System for D.C. Production Facility

Azcar of Markham, Ontario, Canada, was awarded a $6 million turnkey contract to design and install a production facility for Washington, D.C.-based Peninsula Production Co., which hopes to have the project complete in time for the election. The facility will include control and translation rooms, nonlinear news editing

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Publish date:: May 26, 2004
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Azcar of Markham, Ontario, Canada, was awarded a $6 million turnkey contract to design and install a production facility for Washington, D.C.-based Peninsula Production Co., which hopes to have the project complete in time for the election. The facility will include control and translation rooms, nonlinear news editing, a newsroom automation system, and archive and media asset management components.

"Our engineering committee closely evaluated several leading System Integration companies and concluded that Azcar provided the most comprehensive solution for building our new facility in time for the U.S. presidential elections in the fall," said Charles Bellman, Peninsula's chief engineer.

Peninsula's new facility includes control and translation rooms, nonlinear news editing, and a full newsroom automation system.

Technology integrator AZCAR Technologies was recently awarded a $6 million contract for the television systems design and installation of a large new production facility for Peninsula Production Company in Washington, D.C. "Our engineering committee closely evaluated several leading System Integration companies and co

(October 8, 2003) Markham, Ontario-AZCAR Technologies has been awarded a contract by Turner Entertainment Networks (TEN) to complete design studies and engineering documentation for the creation of an HDTV network originating from the TEN Headquarters in Atlanta. AZCAR completed the conceptual and detailed design of the facility in 1999-2001, which now originates all Turner Entertainment Networks (Cartoon, Boomerang, Turner Classic Movies, TBS Superstation, Turner South, TNT, including overseas networks for Latin America), as well as WTBS. The highly automated facility is based on video servers for all program and commercial playback.

The news facility is scheduled to be operational in time for the elections this November.

AZCAR Technologies has agreed to design the European Broadcast Union's (EBU) networked computer news editing and playout for its Washington, DC and Singapore news bureaus. AZCAR recently built the new EBU facilities in Washington and the Singapore EBU facility in 1997. The EBU represents 45 broadcasters in 25 countrie

The new digital facility will include studio production and master control operations.

AZCAR is designing a new network for the European Broadcasting Union.

AZCAR Technologies will serve as a systems integrator for Crown Castle’s broadcast center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.