The multi-platform video specialists

“By using Switch Media, the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) has been able to simplify and speed up the process for delivering content via iView. Because we can rely on them to provide a significant amount of the content for the News, Catch-Up, and Arts channels, we are able to focus our attention on making iView a compelling program experience for Australians.” 

Ian Carroll  Director of Innovation, the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC)

The Client

The Austalian Braodcast Corporation's (ABC) iView was the next phase of television broadcasting in Australia.  An innovative new online TV service, iView features six channels that allow viewers to watch a variety of the ABC’s TV programs streaming online.  It includes a children’s channel, documentaries, ABC shop, a news channel, arts and “Catch-Up” where people can view popular shows from the last few weeks.  

The Brief

The ABC required Switch Media to capture daily broadcasts, like Lateline, together with the run sheet from iNews, and provide to the ABC an encoded full length file which included individual encoded story segments, by 4am the following day, for use within the ABC Playback Flash player.
 

The Results

Switch Media continues to deliver to ABC iView a capture, encode, closed captioning service within short time constraints.  Each show broadcast on the ABC is recorded and archived on the Switch Media servers for 30 days this provides 100hours of available content to ABC iView viewers.  Switch Media’s custom built encoding system integrates with the ABC’s CDM providers and allows content viewing on the Ipad, Iphone and Playstation.