Australia's SBS goes into OverDrive

Iroquois, ON, Canada - Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has selected Ross OverDrive to automate production of SBS’s national newscasts. Ross' local business partner Techtel will design, supply and install a complete production system including Ross OverDrive, Vision Production Switcher and other third party equipment.

OverDrive will include new enhancements specially developed for SBS that provides a high level of dynamic system redundancy with mirrored systems, parallel signal paths and virtually instantaneous changeover to ensure uninterrupted operation.

“We are excited to work closely with SBS to provide enhancements that will benefit SBS as well as many of our other OverDrive clients.” Said David Ross, CEO Ross Video “Since acquiring Codan Broadcast last year, and adding R&D, manufacturing, sales and support in Australia it is gratifying to see a continued increase in our business down under.”