TVS, a regional TV broadcaster based in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has selected cloud and broadcast systems integration company Ideal Systems to design and build its next generation News Studios and Newsroom Computer Systems (NRCS).

In a first of its kind, the state-of-the-art news studios and master control room will run on a redundant hybrid SDI/NDI (IP) infrastructure designed by Ideal Systems as part of a larger system that will deliver TVS’ vision of creating a new digital media hub in Sarawak.

The cloud-enabled NDI infrastructure includes NewtekTM TC1 and TC2 Elite NDI integrated switchers for the news studio and multi-purpose studio, with Kiloview NDI converters.

The baseband infrastructure, signal processing and routing will utilise the latest state of art software defined Ultrix routing and multi-viewing solution from Ross Video.

TVS is the first Sarawak state-owned TV channel. Launched in October 2020, it provides news and programming from Sarawak to the state itself and to other parts of Malaysia. It is owned by the Sarawak Media Group (SMG).

The Director of Technology at Ideal Systems, Updesh Singh, said: “Our robust hybrid system architecture has an NDI signal for every signal baseband path. All signals are active, and TVS can use any signal they want when they want it.”

The Chief Executive Officer of TVS, Suhaimi Sulaiman, said: “For TVS, the most important thing is the quality of our production. Of course, we also want glitch free broadcast and a reliable system.”