AZCAR Digital Media Solutions

Azcar has outstanding, experienced professionals, the right industry experience, and the highest levels of enthusiasm and ability to meet your needs. From the start AZCAR focuses on understanding your long-term needs and providing a comprehensive quality service offering. Following are examples of AZCAR’s previous projects. These projects represent a broad range of solutions to illustrate the depth of expertise within AZCAR.

Broadcasters, Media & Entertainment (Network origination, Multiple station owners, Production facilities, Transmission/Distribution)

NFL Network

NFL Network’s expanded schedule and migration from SD to HD required additional multi-format production facilities at its Culver City, CA studios. Two additional audio and video production control rooms utilized Sony MVS switchers and Wheatstone audio systems. In addition, Sony HD studio cameras, editing and graphics systems were designed and built by AZCAR.

The central core facilities included large N-Vision wideband audio and video routers. NFL Network challenged AZCAR’s team to quickly design and build these additional facilities in time for live coverage of the NFL regular season games that began on Thanksgiving, 2006. NFL Network is home to live regular season games and NFL game re-airs, with exclusive NFL Films footage of the top games from the week.

Public Broadcasting

Penn State Public Broadcasting

Penn State Public Broadcasting (PSPB) selected AZCAR to help them design and move its PBS television and NPR radio facilities, WPSX and WPSU, from the Wagner Annex on Penn State University’s Main Campus to the brand new Outreach Innovation Building several miles away.

During the move, PSPB also wanted to upgrade its core infrastructure from analog to digital to be ready for a future move to a full high definition broadcast facility. The new PSPB facility includes new digital video and audio routing switchers, digital SD and HD multi-stream master control with multiimage monitor wall, new digital terminal gear, digital intercom and a range of conversion equipment for maintaining the use of critical analog legacy hardware.

Additionally, the move required the relocation of STL/TSL microwave systems serving two transmitter sites, several satellite antennas including the station’s primary 6.1m PBS dish, the installation of 3 new steerable 4.8m antennas along with a new digital production switcher and character generator for the PSPB production suite.

University of North Carolina (UNC-TV)

AZCAR was awarded a major contract to design and integrate all-new digital HDTV production control rooms, transmission and studio facilities by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television (UNC-TV). The facility includes a total of two 256 x 256 wideband digital routers, four 256 x 256 AES routers, two HD video production control rooms with accompanying multi-channel audio production control rooms, HD studio camera systems, HD format converters, HD tape area, HD graphics and a RTS ADAM intercom.

This large Network Operations Center (NOC) project represents a continuation of our many successes in Public Broadcasting. Projects such as AETN in Arkansas, PPTN in Pennsylvania, WQPT in Illinois, and WPSX in Pennsylvania are just a few. AZCAR has demonstrated our expertise in High Definition TV production and transmission facilities at commercial and public broadcast facilities for over 6 years. UNC-TV is North Carolina's statewide digital public television network, made possible by a unique partnership of public investment and private support.

Broadband & Network Operators (Cable/Telco/Satellite DTH)

Turner Entertainment Network

Azcar was please to be commissioned by Turner Entertainment Network to assist with the conceptual detailed system design & installation of their HDTV Network MC Facility.
This 193,000-square- foot facility handles 19 cable network channels for US domestic, Latin and SA markets, as well as an additional infrastructure capacity for well over 60 more future channels. The project required a sophisticated and ultra reliable dual path router with redundant control infrastructure,

News Gathering and Transmitting Vehicles and Mobile Production Facilities

Arab Radio and Television Corporation

Megahertz Broadcast Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of AZCAR Technologies Incorporated, was chosen by the Arab Radio and Television Corporation (ART) for a project that involved coach-building two Satellite News Gathering (SNG) vehicles. The new long wheel-base vehicles are equipped with Advent NewsSwift 150cm satellite dishes and feature two Xicom XTRD-400k HPA, Tandberg encoders/receivers and fiber links to and from external sources. The SNG vehicles are based in Saudi Arabia and are used on a roving basis to cover live sports events throughout the Middle East.

Emerging Technologies Telecommunications/Cable/Mobile

Modeo

Mobile TV — television, radio, and podcast services delivering compelling content to mobile devices — is the latest market phenomenon to hit the iPod generation. MobileTV technology is here today and AZCAR is at the forefront. We were delighted to work with Modeo, a subsidiary of Crown Castle International, to develop a state-of-the-art DVB-H based broadcast center that meets the challenge of delivering high quality content to mobile devices. Modeo’s goal was to deploy a national mobile TV broadcast network based on the DVB-H international standards. AZCAR provided systems design and technology integration services for the Modeo Mobile Media Broadcast Center, as well as the demonstration system. AZCAR was appointed as the independent systems integrator, to bring together a “best in class” DVB-H facility. Suppliers include Microsoft, Thales/Thomson, Evertz, Motorola, Omneon, Scientific Atlanta, Hewlett-Packard, Harmonic, Newtec, Patriot and ATCI.

Performance Venues and Production Facilities

Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church

AZCAR was chosen to help define, engineer and deploy the technologies necessary to support a new 94,000- foot performance venue and production facility for Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church. The scope of the project included video and sound systems for the 5,300-seat performance auditorium, 1,500-seat general activities auditorium and instructional technology enabled classrooms and media outreach center. From a technology standpoint, the production values in the performance venue and production facility are equally important to both the live event and the program broadcast stream. The media staff is small and mostly volunteer. AZCAR’s challenge was to develop audio, video and graphics systems that are capable of elegant production values even when operated by a small number of non-professionals. The solution employed by AZCAR, executed within a tight project budget, is ideally suited to the challenges posed by a project of this size and complexity solution.

LDS - New Assembly Building

AZCAR completed systems integration of a two-year project for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. AZCAR designed, built, and commissioned the broadcast facilities in the Church’s New Assembly Building, a magnificent and modern 22,000-seat theater fully supported with both SDTV and HDTV televisions capability and separate sound reinforcement and program audio systems. These broadcast facilities include two video and audio production control rooms along with editing, videotape and master control facilities. Unique to this project were the two SDI and HDSDI output streams that broadcast events with simultaneous presentation, initially in over 60 languages and in up to 100 languages today. This four-phase project included consulting and engineering phases for implementation of the projects.

Education

Drexel University

Paul Peck Alumni Center Main Boardroom
Originally designed for alumni conferences, the administration approached AZCAR to develop a comprehensive study and needs analysis to add state-of-the-art presentation capabilities to the Paul Peck Alumni Center Main Boardroom while maintaining the integrity of this historically certified structure. The features include a 100” diagonal 3500 ANSI lumen rear screen projection system concealed behind finished millwork. The sound system includes wireless microphone systems with DSP filtering system. Presentation tools include a document camera, VHS and DVD players. Control is provided via a color wireless touch panel, operable from anywhere within the Boardroom.

Sports and Entertainment

Turner Field, Atlanta Braves

Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, contracted AZCAR to assist in the design and system integration of their state-of-the art facility. At all times, fans are entertained and informed of Turner Field activities through superior sound systems, the BravesVision video board in center field, the PlazaVision board in the Fan Plaza and over 500 television monitors situated throughout Turner Field. The BravesVision video board is 29 feet by 38 feet. The PlazaVision board is 17 feet by 22 feet. These two huge boards make Turner Field unique among all sports facilities as two completely different shows can be produced - one for the seating bowl and one for the Plaza.

Technical Training

Nextel Corporation

AZCAR is pleased to provide Sprint Nextel with specialized training services related to the 2GHz TV BAS relocation project to more than 900 U.S. TV stations throughout 2007 and 2008. The FCC has charged Sprint Nextel and incumbent licensees in the 1.9GHz-2.1GHz range with transitioning that spectrum to new uses under a new band plan. Based in Pittsburgh, AZCAR will help broadcasters navigate the complexities of the spectrum relocation and to understand the new equipment that is currently being installed around the country.