Broadcast Services

PBL’s state of the art Central London playout facilities in Russell Square and Grays Inn Road offer a wide and diverse set of integrated facilities to its clients. Many new features, for example remote functions, have been incorporated into the company’s services offering by having its own in-house software development team. These fully managed playout facilities benefit from full connectivity to satellite, cable and terrestrial platforms.

PBL services are provided by professional friendly personnel who are fully-trained to operate in this technically-advanced environment.

PBL’s Playout technology and software solutions are hardware-independent, developed on open platforms and are thus able to take advantage of cost efficient yet proven technology, contributing hugely to the development and implementation of new services for clients in the single channel or multi-channel environment. The company has the technical expertise, system integration and development capability to produce a highly reliable, fully redundant playout offering.

PBL offer a flexible control system specifically designed to manage the operation of multiple interactive services in a complex, multi-channel, multi-platform environment. PBL deliver sophisticated management services a high level of reliability and availability to support continuous live operation in the broadcast environment. This is possible because the system is based on a robust and highly configurable model. The system has been designed from the outset to support multiple users operating concurrently in multiple locations with updates delivered in real-time.

Additional playout services are planned in the next six months to expand the archiving, library management, remote scheduling, remote ingest, interactivity and advertising client options.

PBL and partners are able to provide full interactive channel management facilities. These services range from air time sales through to full programme scheduling and interactivity, features increasingly required by advertisers and product placement specialists.