Magna upgrades Channel 7’s archive

Sydney — Magna Systems and Engineering today announced that it has upgraded the Channel 7 broadcast library and archive at their Melbourne Docklands Broadcast Centre site.

Magna Systems Technical Sales Engineer Dave Alderton explained, “Channel 7 approached Magna Systems with a requirement to increase the capacity and efficiency of their archive in conjunction with some other upgrades that were taking place within their broadcasting and operations departments. Part of our brief was to ensure the archive worked with their playout automation system and other third party equipment.”

Magna’s approach was to look at the latest version of Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive to manage Channel 7’s assets reliably and efficiently, while distributing content throughout the organisation’s key systems and platforms.

Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive is widely used for content storage management in broadcast, production, education, government, and historical archiving. DIVArchive is suitable for broadcast and large scale operations as it employs a scalable architecture and the option to operate over multiple sites.