Ericsson Snags BBC Creative Post-Production Contract

Multi-year contract to deliver post-production and media management services

Author:: Michael Balderston
Publish date:: Mar 17, 2017
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STOCKHOLM—Ericsson and BBC Creative are going to be partners for the next couple of years, as the two have entered into a multi-year contract that will see Ericsson provide post-production and media management services to the England-based broadcaster.

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Among the services that will be provided by Ericsson include craft editing, desktop editing and design, sound and captioning, and storage, which includes browse functionality and archive facilities from Ericsson’s cloud-based media processing platform. All of these services will be based in Ericsson’s London facility, with craft edit, audio and captioning suites available exclusively for BBC.

BBC Creative is responsible for producing content for a multitude of campaigns across all of BBC’s platforms.

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Ericsson signed a pair of contracts with Australian public service broadcasters ABC and SBS for multi-year captioning services.

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Ericsson will continue to provide playout services to ITV’s portfolio of channels.

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Ericsson and UKTV have reaffirmed their relationship, as the companies announced a multi-year extension for Ericsson to provide its playout, video on-demand, and access services to the U.K. broadcaster.

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Ericsson is partnering with Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service once again, as it has signed an exclusive media delivery services contract with the public service broadcaster.

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Seven-year deal includes playout and media management services for U.K. channels and BBC World News.

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While still subject to customary closing conditions, Ericsson has announced that it has acquired FYI Television, an entertainment metadata and rich media content supplier based in Grand Prairie, Texas.

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Ericsson and BBC R&D recently collaborated on new technology that is designed to address the latency of live captioning for television.

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Ericsson is taking measures that it says is in line with its “ongoing cost and efficiency program,” reducing a total of 3,000 positions across the company’s Sweden locations.