(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.

Turner Entertainment Group has built a 193,000-square-foot broadcast facility to house its’ nineteen television networks distributed to cable television operators throughout North and South America.

AZCAR has been contracted by Turner Entertainment Networks (TEN) to design a new HDTV network that will launch in the first half of 2004 and originate from TEN's Atlanta headquarters. AZCAR completed the conceptual design of the automated, video server-based facility in 1999-2001, which now originates all Turner Enter

The facility houses 20 Turner-owned domestic and Latin American television networks that occupy 11 control rooms, or broadcast operations centers (BOCs), centralized on the first floor.

Tom Kenny, editorial director of Broadcast Engineering sister publications Mix, EM and Remix recently talked with Tom Sahara, senior director of remote operations and IT at Turner Networks. The two discussed how the Turner Network handles ...

Untitled Document Turner Entertainment Network's 193,000-square-foot facility — part of the Turner Broadcasting System — handles 19 cable networks (channels)

Turner Entertainment has standardized on the Snell & Wilcox Memphis as the mastering encoder for all content played out on its HD networks. Turner has purchased 22 encoder systems, which are being used in its Atlanta facility to provide MPEG-2 encoding of HD content prior to play-out and archiving. Turner used the