Botswana Television - Gaborone

Botswana Television (BTV) became Africa’s first fully digital TV station when it first went on air in 2000. Operating from a greenfield studio and playout centre in the country’s capital city, Gaborone, the centre was regarded as state-of-theart and an early adopter of a tapeless workflow. Since that time, the systems have been increasingly under pressure and repaired as they aged. BTV, which transmitted two channels, was also under pressure to migrate its digital transmission to HD. At the same time, the operational and engineering team had developed strong workflows and strong working practices and were reluctant to make too many changes. The requirement and decision, therefore, was toimplement new technology to provide additional functionality, renewed levels of reliability, and the agility to handle new requirements, while remaining familiar to operational staff.