VSM provides broadcast control for Universiade Gwangju 2015
Published: ASIA
KOREA: Taking care of all broadcast technology, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) relied on L-S-B’s VSM Broadcast Control and Monitoring System for Universiade Gwangju 2015. The system was used to manage all workflows and signals within the International Broadcast Center (IBC) and for several OBs at the venues.
Universiade Gwangju 2015 welcomed university students from all over the world to compete in 21 sporting events. With a total of 20,000 participants from 170 countries, the competition was one of the biggest international sporting events taking place in 2015. The VSM system by L-S-B provided a means for KBS to combine the control and monitoring requirements of the various production areas into a ‘single, seamless’ workflow.
VSM’s main task was to provide all router control requirements at the IBC as well offering monitoring and control of essential equipment and signal feeds in the transmission path. Further workflow streamlining was provided with VSM’s built-in scheduler, which was reportedly utilised to automate the daily distribution and transmission routing tasks for simplicity and speed. A combination of hardware and software control panels provided the operations and engineering staff with user interfaces focussed to their different work tasks.
Within the IBC several rooms were established for dedicated tasks. In each room, several L-S-B hardware and software panels were reportedly used.