CGI and Malaysian partner Cedar Broadcast & Communications have deployed a centralized radio asset and archive management system for Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), Malaysia’s national public broadcaster.
Built on the CGI dira broadcast media platform, the system replaces RTM’s legacy archive infrastructure and supports national and regional radio operations from its Angkasapuri broadcast complex. It provides a disk-based archive with 1+1 hardware redundancy and supports MPEG, AAC, BWF and WAV audio formats.
The archive serves RTM Radio, RTM Radio News and regional stations. It provides a shared repository for music, news material, show recordings and historical programs, with content available across departments and production facilities. Monthly archive volumes are expected to exceed 200 hours, while music and radio library exports are projected to reach 500 hours per month.
The system integrates with RTM’s existing dira radio and news production clusters, supporting both automated and manual archive and restore workflows. It also adds an offline archive tier, moving high-resolution media to a deep archive media asset management system while keeping lower-resolution browsing copies and metadata accessible. “This allows RTM to balance storage costs with operational accessibility,” said Ahmad Mahmood, project director at Media City Development Sdn Bhd, the service company for RTM’s archive.
“RTM is one of Southeast Asia’s most significant public broadcasters, and this project reflects our commitment to delivering scalable archive infrastructure for national media organizations,” said Michael Thielen, vice president of media solutions at CGI. “CGI dira provides a platform that can grow with operational demands while protecting the long-term integrity of RTM’s broadcast heritage.”
Cedar solution architect Peter Lim said the company worked with RTM, CGI and MCDSB to address the operational requirements of a national radio service. “The result is a powerful integrated archive system that will serve RTM’s production teams for many years to come,” he said.
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