HRT, the intricacy of long-term archiving

Croatian radio Hrvatska Radio Televizjia (HRT) has been equipped for several years now with a complete Radio-Assist acquisition-to-broadcast digital audio system.

This year, HRT decided to install an overall archiving system (history, assets and daily items) for the entire company, one that can be accessed by everyone in the best conditions. It decided on a synergy combining the skills of EMC², NOA and NETIA.

Digital audio systems are now indispensable for exchange and production in the broadcasting business. These systems, comprising numerous workstations, large amounts of data and transfer volumes, can reach awesome sizes. NETIA has designed two automatic middleware, Media Management and DBShare, to underpin the reliability of these systems by ensuring access to stored data. NETIA has also worked hard at making the Radio-Assist system compatible and easy to interface with other archiving systems.

Some examples are the perfect integration of Radio-Assist with the MSI Managed Storage Diva at Bel RTL in Belgium, and the ACS (Advanced Computer System) Electtra at the RAI in Italy...