Idaho Public TV ‘Bursts’ Into HD

The new HD digital control rooms are the first phase of a multi-year project that will impact equipment and facilities statewide.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: May 20, 2008
Updated on: Feb 23, 2018

Denver-based systems integrator Burst will lead the upgrade of two HD production control rooms for Idaho Public Television. Burst will be involved with equipment procurement and integration at two university campus studios: KUID at the University of Idaho in Moscow, serving northern Idaho; and KISU at Idaho State University in Pocatello, serving the eastern reaches of the Wilderness State.

The new HD digital control rooms are the first phase of a multi-year project that will impact equipment and facilities statewide—including field and editing, studio production facilities, Internet content and delivery, transmitters and repeaters and network operations upgrades.

The project will begin this summer.

Denver-based systems integrator Burst will lead the upgrade of two HD production control rooms for Idaho Public Television.

Idaho Public Television stations KUID and KISU will get new production control rooms.

Burst to upgrade two Idaho PBS stations to HDTV promo image

The veteran systems integrator will install new equipment at two separate university campus environments

This is the final phase of a nearly year-long project to convert a translator facility to a low-power television station KAZ-TV in Phoenix, Ariz.

Idaho Public Television’s KAID-DT promo image

The goals of IDPTV’s KAID-DT facility were to be up and on the air with DTV in a timely fashion and not have to fully rebuild its MC facility at the same time as it built its transmitter plant. Being a PBS affiliate, it knew that it could provide a pass-thru of the satellite-fed “pre-encoded” transport streams, but it wanted its own PSIP, logo and control of those streams.

The station has completely upgraded its facilities to HD

Idaho Public Television’s KAID-DT promo image

The goals of IDPTV’s KAID-DT facility were to be up and on the air with DTV in a timely fashion and not have to fully rebuild its MC facility at the same time as it built its transmitter plant.

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