Big Rtl Thrill
Channel Name: Big
Rtl Thrill
Launched:
5 November 2012
Owned by:
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Country:
India
Network:
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Headquarters:
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Sister channels:
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Language: English
Website:
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RTL Group’s first joint venture TV
channel for the Indian market, Big RTL Thrill, was launched on 5 November 2012.
Big
RTL Thrill, the joint venture channel of RTL Group and Reliance Broadcast
Network, is using the turnkey TV solution over Internet from BCE, taking all
the advantages of professional broadcasting with the flexibility of cloud-based
services. Working as a self-service platform, it includes all the necessary
software and hardware to run a fully file-based television channel.
“BCE’s
Integrated TV Services are a breakthrough in modern television; it is the
perfect combination between Internet with its cost-effective and flexible
workflow and the TV world with its high-quality needs and complex tasks. For
Big RTL Thrill, BCE took the best of both worlds, creating a unique platform
requiring little human resources and achieving over the top results,” commented
Tun Van Rijswijck, Chief Operating Officer at BCE.
BCE’s
Integrated TV Services cover the complete media value chain from strategic
planning to final playout. They monitor, manage and trigger automatically tasks
like electronic quality check, creation of commercial breaks, creation and
delivery of low resolution files for subtitling and full dubbing, audio
lay-back to master files, sending of transmissions files and long-term and
short-term storage.
It
includes the traffic software with the programme and rights management, the
organisation of programme grids and their related costs and finally the
creation of the running order with the secondary events for the automation.
“All
the traffic software is cloud-based and located in Luxembourg. Besides reducing
the costs it also gives the channel the opportunity to use only the modules
needed,” added Alex Seca, Broadcast IT Manager at BCE.
In
addition, BCE’s Integrated TV Services include a decentralised playout server
with a full automation and file delivery intelligence to retrieve the content
from the archive via Internet.
“BCE’s
Integrated TV Services are the broadcaster’s solution for professional services
combined with innovative and high-end technology. BCE continues to provide the
infrastructures to cost-efficiently run new channels in standard and high
definition,” concludes Alain Flammang, Chief Executive Officer at BCE.
About Big RTL Thrill
Big
RTL Thrill is the first joint venture channel of RTL Group and Reliance
Broadcast Network – and RTL Group’s first channel outside of Europe. It is
positioned as an action entertainment channel targeted at male viewers aged 15
to 44, with the tag line “Action ka Baap” (Ultimate Action Destination). On 5
November 2012, Big RTL Thrill went on air in the Indian province Uttar Pradesh,
featuring international content from producers like FremantleMedia, Endemol and
Red Bull among others, with key formats such as Fear Factor, Cobra 11, Criss
Angel, Wipe Out and Baywatch – all dubbed in Hindi.
About RTL Group
RTL
Group is the leading European entertainment network, with interests in 53
television channels and 29 radio stations in ten countries and content
production throughout the world. The television portfolio of Europe’s largest
broadcaster includes RTL Television in Germany, M6 in France, the RTL channels
in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, Hungary and Antena 3 in Spain
– the company also operates the joint venture channel Big RTL Thrill in India
and has interests in National Media Group in Russia. RTL Group’s flagship radio
station is RTL in France, and it also owns or has interests in other stations
in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Luxembourg. RTL Group’s
content production arm, FremantleMedia, is one of the largest international
producers outside the US. Each year, it produces 9,200 hours of programming
across 58 countries........More
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