Turkuvaz Media Group, a Turkish media company with TV, radio, newspaper and magazine assets, updated its media center facility in Istanbul with equipment and technology from Lawo. Radikal Elektronik Ltd. Sti, Lawo’s partner in Turkey, handled the installation.
The Turkuvaz Media Center comprises a plaza, a printing area and a broadcast space with 160,000 square meters of production space. The company operates nine TV channels and four radio channels.
In addition to renovating the broadcast studios, a new OB van equipped with Lawo IP networking was rolled out in November 2020. The overall project was completed in December.
Lawo equipment installed during the upgrade included eight new 48-position mc²56 mixing consoles fitted with the Dual-Fader option to provide 80 total faders, giving Turkuvaz operators direct surface access to large numbers of audio channels.
Dallis stageboxes manage audio connectivity and a central routing matrix with 8,192×8,192 mono crosspoints was built using a Nova73 HD Router. In addition to a mc²36 console, the audio setup includes six radio studios with Lawo crystal mixing consoles and companion Compact engines.
According to Lawo, the media center’s video and audio processing is handled with eight V__pro8 video processing units and Lawo’s V__matrix software-defined IP Core routing, processing and multi-viewing platform, fitted with two C100 processing blades to perform SDI IP encapsulation and de-encapsulation. The networking fabric of the new Turkuvaz facilities connects the Dallis units to the Nova73 central router via MADI, with Ravenna linking router and console cores. AES67/ST2110 networking with video devices between console cores and router are also implemented.
“We are very impressed with our new IP infrastructure. It enables us to apply radical new workflows inside the studios, as well as the capability for remote production,” said Mustafa Yavuz, assistant technical manager of Turkuvaz.
“We had been wanting to upgrade for a while but now the pandemic has confirmed that remote production is the best solution for maintaining up-to-date and reliable broadcast production.”