Beijing TV (BTV) is now producing its sports and interview programmes in HD from its new Studio HD 2 production facility for broadcast to more than 800m viewers across the People’s Republic of China.

BTV offers 12 standard-definition and three high-definition broadcast channels, as well as delivering internet and mobile television services. Central to the audio production is a A Solid State Logic C100 HDS digital mixing console.

‘When we were building this new facility, we wanted to have an advanced digital audio console to facilitate our move into an HD production workflow,’ says YinZhuang Yao, audio section chief of BTV’s Production Department. ‘Because this studio is primarily devoted to the production of sports programming, covering everything from live events in China to high-level international competitions as well as talking-head type pre- and post-show interview programmes, we have a multitude of audio streams coming in from all over the world. The logical, intuitive layout of the C100 makes easy work of each production, giving us the power to easily move through every programming type.’

Produced daily at BTV using the C100, BTV Matches focuses on both recorded and live sporting events. The coverage of BTV Matches spans La Liga, FA football (soccer) and NBA basketball on the international side and domestic matches that include CBA basketball, CTTSL table tennis and CVA/WCVA volleyball. Programming also includes CWQL Chinese chess matches.

‘The C100 HDS provides an easy way to manage the many sources and destinations for our HD programme production through SSL’s Morse Stagebox, Alpha-Link Live-R and GPIO support elements,’ Yao says. ‘We also have a 600-sq-m arts studio that is linked to the C100 to maximise the scheduling flexibilities of the facility. The C100 celebrates the excellent legacy of SSL, while moving us into the future. We like working with SSL.’