wTVision is a company specialising in real-time graphics and playout automation
solutions for TV broadcast. The quality of its service is ensured by the company’s
vast experience, totalling more than 25 000 live broadcast projects in more than 40
countries.
Prepared to cover events from small one-time broadcasts to whole season
championships, wTVision offers services to complement the live broadcast of a wide
range of events with realtime graphics.
Formed in 2001, wTVision is one of the foremost real-time on-air graphics and
playout automation players providing solutions for the broadcast industry. The
company’s solutions integrate with all major graphics engines on the market, touch
devices, virtual solutions, data sources and many other external technologies.
wTVision provides software, design and branding, consulting, HR outsourcing and
live operation services.
Today, the company has a solid footing in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the
Americas and counts more than 200 specialists around the globe. wTVision’s
products cover two major areas: real-time graphics and playout automation.
Regarding graphics, the company has solutions for sports coverage, live studio
programs, election coverage and entertainment programmes. For MCR workflows,
the company’s offering revolves around its playout automation system,
ChannelMaker, and a whole suite of applications to perform related activities such
as media management, trim, ingest, logging reporting for a complete solution to
produce a 24/7 broadcast channel.
Recently, one of the most successful projects for the company was the coverage of
the European Elections, which involved more than 40 members of wTVision’s staff in
six projects, in four countries. The solutions presented ranged from simple graphics
on screen to the most sophisticated multi-screen functionalities, with augmented
reality graphics controlled by iPads, and virtual graphics.
With offices in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, India and
USA, wTVision has plans to extend its international presence in several markets,
with a special focus in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
In Africa, wTVision has already developed projects in several countries: football
leagues in Gabon and Namibia, branding services and the introduction of its new
software HorseBetting CG for Phumelela TV channels in South Africa; several CAF
main events in the past few years and the All Africa Games coverage and branding
services for TVM in South Africa.
Regarding the company’s solutions, wTVision’s CTO Alex Fraser comments:
“wTVision is focusing on streamlining PCR and MCR workflows for reduced staff and
simplified operations. In the PCR, Studio CG has merged Clip Playout and CG
operations into a single operator interface.
In the MCR, ChannelMaker counts with many operational assistants to validate
media, manage media transfers, report on missing files, simplify playlist
management so that the task of the operator is much simplified than previous
generations. In Sports, wTVision is interfaced with the most advanced tracking and
enhancement technologies to provide state of the art broadcast that appeal to the
most demanding viewers.
Bridging the gap between television and social media, wTVision has built the tools
that allow the online world to seep into today’s shows, bringing feedback and
immediacy to conventional programmes and transforming them into powerful
communication tools.’
Finally, wTVision is constantly brainstorming with its partners and clients to re-
imagine today’s broadcasts and help them find the next innovative way to reach
their audiences worldwide. – Text supplied by wTVision.
