FANA Broadcasting Corporate New TV Station
Client:
Fana
Solution:
Broadcast
Industry:
Media & Entertainment
Country:
Ethiopia
Project Summary
Between 2016 and 2017, Telmaco delivered a turn-key broadcast project for FANA Broadcasting Corporate, Ethiopia’s first private broadcaster. The project included a tapeless production, playout and archive system, newsroom automation, video walls, and graphics integration—supporting full HD operations and enabling FANA to expand into modern TV broadcasting.
2
Studios
12
Editing Suites
8
Ingest Channels
2017
Completion Year
The Outcome
Gallery
Overview
Founded in 1990 as Radio Fana, FANA Broadcasting Corporate has grown into a national and international media presence, adding FANA TV in 2017. Telmaco was awarded LOT-2 of an international tender to design and implement the new broadcast system. The project introduced tapeless workflows, newsroom automation, studio playout, and digital archiving, all based on Avid technology, with training for technical and operational teams.
The Challenge
Bringing Ethiopia’s first private broadcaster into the HD era.
Implement a complete tapeless workflow for production and playout.
Provide scalable shared storage and asset management.
Introduce a digital archive with secure retrieval.
Deliver newsroom automation for fast editorial work.
Enable graphics for studios and video walls.
Ensure seamless live ingest, transcoding, and playout.
Support training and knowledge transfer for technical and operational staff.
The Solution
End-to-end broadcast system with integrated workflows.
System Design
End-to-end workflows, connectivity, and training.
Shared Storage
Avid ISIS7500 with clustered Interplay PAM for asset management.
Ingest Automation
8 SD/HD channels managed by Avid Interplay Capture, plus Telestream Vantage for file ingest and transcoding.
Newsroom
Avid iNews NRCS with MediaCentral UX for journalist browsing, editing, and rundowns.
Editing
12 Avid Media Composer + NewsCutter suites integrated with iNews.
Studio Playout
8 channels via twin Avid Airspeed 5500 servers with iNews Command automation.
Master Control Playout
Aveco Astra automation with Grass Valley K2 mirrored servers, router, mixer, logo, and CG.
Digital Archive
DAC ALTO disk-based archive with SGL Flashnet management (150TB mirrored storage).
Graphics & VideoWall
Studio and wall graphics playback, with 16 x 70” cubes across 2 studios.
Streaming
Live encoder for web and social media news production.
Tailored Services
Newsroom automation with Avid iNews and MediaCentral UX.
150TB mirrored disk archive with SGL Flashnet.
Master control via Aveco Astra and Grass Valley K2 servers.
Studio and video wall graphics integration.
2 broadcast studios equipped for live playout.
Tapeless HD workflows with automated playout.
Video wall system with 16 cubes across 2 studios.
On-site technical and operational training.
