Occupying a premiere location at the heart of Winnipeg's downtown is a new 15,000-seat, sports and entertainment facility, the MTS Centre.
The ice surface converts from standard North American professional hockey dimensions (85 ft. by 200 ft.) to international hockey dimensions (100 ft. by 200 ft.). The rinkboards and first six rows of seating are easily removed to create 30,000 square feet of exhibition floor space.
It is also flexible. It can accommodate up to 17,000 concert-goers, but can just as easily be curtained to create an intimate concert entertainment setting for audiences as small as 2,500.
In the heart of this exciting new entertainment center is the video production control room, and at the heart of this is a Ross Synergy. The room is configured for dual aspect; 16:9 feeds the big screen and 4:3 for the concourse monitors. The system is equipped with for 2 CCU cameras and 2 roving cameras, with an expansion route to 2 more CCUs and 2 remote controlled grid cameras.
Working
in collaboration with Advance Pro of Winnipeg, SII provided detailed design
/ documentation and installation personnel. We are please to have been a team
member in this exciting and important project.
TVOntario is a provincially-funded educational communications authority, whose motto is “It’s all about learning!” It provides educational programming via its in English and French television networks and the Independent Learning Centre distance education programs.
In the Summer of 2000, TVOntario began work on a three phase plan to rebuild the core technical infrastructure of its Toronto headquarters. Adding to the complexity of this project, was the fact that the complete demolition and reconstruction of the facilities was to take place within a fully operational broadcast/distance learning facility. The plan called for consolidation of all broadcast technical facilities, except the studios, into the same area and supported on a common 100KVA UPS system
In the Fall of 2001, Standard Integration started the process of removing and relocating facilities in order to clear space for Phase 1. One section of the building was cleared of offices and an old linear edit suite, a graphics facility was temporarily relocated to another floor, and a non-linear edit suite was moved. By the Spring of 2002 the Phase I space had been demolished and re-built ready for the technical installation of Master Control, the Central Equipment Room, VTR/Server Ingest and a Multi-Format Dubbing facility. In early August of 2002 these facilities were commissioned and put on line.
In the fall of 2002, with the new Phase I facilities on line, Standard Integration began work on Phase 2, with the decommissioning of the former Central Equipment and Master Control areas, ready for demolition and reconstruction. This space was rebuilt into a new Post Facility and Graphics area. In preparation for the move all but one of the remaining linear edit suites were taken down and temporary NLE suites were set up in available spaces. By the end of the year the Phase 2 space housed the new, fully operational, post-production facility. This included a new four-workstation graphics production suite, a Chyron composition room, a web encoding suite, a post-audio facility and seven Avid Non-Linear Edit suites. The Avid suites and the post-audio suite were all linked by fibre-optic cables to a large Storage Area Network.
On
completion of the Post facility all remaining obsolete equipment was decommissioned
making space for the third and final phase of the reconstruction project. This
new area was finished in early 2004 and included a new maintenance workshop,
IT Server Room, and staff lounge. This concluded Phase 3 of TVOntario’s
complex, but highly successful, reconstruction and consolidation plan.
Please visit Broadcast Dialogue's July/August 2004 Article on TVO's new facility.
September 1, 2003 Sportsnet began distribution of their first HD program stream.
This project comprised of a new HD master, central router expansion, replacement of play-out servers, upgrades to the automation system and a new HD NLE.
For this project Standard Integration provided project management, installation personnel and materials supply.
We routinely provide installation personnel for CBC projects across Canada. Locations to date include the Broadcasting Centre here in Toronto, facilities in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Yellowknife, Fredericton and in Vancouver.
Craig Broadcasting has entered the Toronto market with it’s new conventional television service. We at Standard Integration are pleased to have had the opportunity to assist Craig’s engineering team in providing facility integration.
Contracted through Sony of Canada we provided installation personnel to Canwest for the integration of Global’s specialty channel “Prime” into their Winnipeg facility.
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