Oregon Community Broadcaster
TVCTV Selects UTAH-400 Router
July 16, 2008
Source: Utah Scientific
Utah Scientific today announced that Tualatin
Valley Community Television (TVCTV) has selected a UTAH-400/64
routing switcher, the Utah SC-4 control system, and associated
controllers and control panels to support sophisticated local
access community programming for about 450,000 viewers in
14 communities in the Washington County, Ore. area.
A new Utah customer, TVCTV's router (video frame-loaded 40x24
SDI and 24x24 analog; audio frame-loaded 24x16 AES and 40x16
analog) will be installed by integrator Advanced Broadcast
Systems to replace an outmoded, 12-year-old analog router
from another vendor.
"At a previous job, I worked with a Utah router that
was purchased in 1992," said Jordan Beisel, TVCTV chief
engineer. "That router was durable, flexible, and reliable
— very impressive. Even more impressive is the fact that
it is still in use and still supported by Utah. When other
companies stop manufacturing equipment, they say to their
customers, 'Good luck figuring out how to make it work in
the future.' But Utah never does that. I did my research when
deciding what to buy this time, but in the end, the best choice
was Utah Scientific."
TVCTV's programming includes local government meeting coverage,
community productions, and call-in shows. The broadcaster
has three production studios, seven remote "civic"
studios located in local government meeting rooms, two small
mobile units, and one fully digital mobile production truck.
TVCTV broadcasts via Verizon in SDI digital format, and via
Comcast in analog format, so that the UTAH-400's ability to
route analog and digital signals simultaneously without external
equipment will make for a simpler, more streamlined and efficient
operation.
More UTAH-400 features prized by TVCTV are signal-presence
detection to enable automated reporting, conservative power
consumption, and redundant power supplies for enhanced reliability.
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