CRA awards Kordia DAB+ project management contract

Kordia is assisting Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) in the project management of the much-anticipated digital radio rollout across Australia by 1 May 2009.

Kordia will work with the industry’s Digital Technical Advisory Committee to project manage the successful suppliers involved in transmitter supply, multiplexing, portal service delivery and integration of the equipment for the transition to digital radio.

AAP and Kordia take news-monitoring to new heights

After a two-year planning and development process with Kordia as its technology partner, Newscentre—a division of the Australian Associated Press (AAP)—has launched a new broadcast monitoring network that provides clients with fast access to video and audio news clips.

AAP’s Newscentre broadcast monitoring service complements its extensive newspaper, magazine and text monitoring service, providing an integrated solution to companies who wish to monitor the Australian news media online.

Kordia designed and built a customised network solution, leveraging its broadcast pedigree and IP networking skills. The outcome has delivered an on- time, on-budget solution to AAP.

Kordia has broken new ground by successfully integrating diverse technology streams into a customised network solution for the client.

TV to your mobile phone

Kordia has partnered with Nokia to launch its first mobile TV demo in New Zealand. Users can watch TV no matter where they are.

The DVB-H standard handsets receive clear, direct, broadcast-quality signals. This is a key difference to the usual streaming offered by other providers.

New medium frequency site for broadcast Australia

Floods, design and technical challenges didn’t stop Kordia engineers completing a new MF site in Australia.

The site, at Dundowran Wide Bay, Queensland, is for Broadcast Australia and involved installation of large infrastructure.

Site infrastructure and RF systems have been future-proofed. This allows for an additional 15kW service and includes Australia’s first tuned stub on one mast for narrowcast service.

Analogue transmission

Kordia engineers identified a serious and potentially costly problem during routine analogue transmitter maintenance checks.

The transmitters, owned by SKY TV Network, CanWest TV Works and TVNZ, were at the end of their 20-year lifespan.

If left unchecked they would have leaked a corrosive liquid, causing serious power supply damage.

Kordia engineers implemented a product recovery programme, extending the equipment’s lifespan by 10 years.

Investing in the future

Australian commercial radio will spend around $200m launching digital radio over coming years.

Federal Government has set the industry a 1 January 2009 launch date for six Australian capitals.

Major regional areas will roll out soon after. Kordia and Broadcast Australia are trialling Digital Radio Mondial (DRM) for short and medium wave radio in Canberra.

New and existing broadcasters will be able to deliver more diverse content through these trials. Kordia will be able to offer unique digital services to a wide customer base.

Kordia brings parliament to the people

Kordia is behind the public broadcast of parliamentary proceedings. Kordia’s staff will be behind the cameras, maintaining equipment and managing coverage.

Remote-controlled, fixed cameras will cover the Debating Chambers; more will be installed in Select Committee rooms.

Co-location solution for Australian radio network

Kordia is redesigning and upgrading the Australian Radio Network MF site in Wynnum, Queensland.

Another ARN service will also be relocated to this site from St Helena Island.

This concentration will benefit ARN with better coverage and long term lease and maintenance savings.

Kordia engineers have designed an aerial Dual Coupling Unit (DCU) and upgrades for existing mast array and site infrastructure.

Going digital

Kordia was instrumental in design, deployment and maintenance of Digital Terrestrial Television in Australia.

Now we are bringing digital broadcasting and direct-to-home (DTH or satellite) to New Zealand.

We have satellite services from Optus and upgraded terrestrial infrastructure to deliver digital capability in early 2008.

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) trials

Kordia was instrumental in convincing the New Zealand government to launch a digital TV platform.

We are currently running trials in West Auckland and Wellington. Trials are already underway in Sydney and Canberra.

This new technology will allow clearer sound and reception, greater interactivity, scrolling text, music downloads and more.

Kordia in UK digital TV switchover project

The UK’s analogue TV broadcasting network will switch to digital between 2008 and 2012.

More than 1100 existing broadcasting sites need to be rebuilt with digital equipment. Kordia has seconded engineers to provide specialist design expertise.

Our engineers will provide spectrum planning, propagation and coverage design, antenna and combiner system design, among other expertise.

Contact us

For further information about broadcast solutions, please contact:

New Zealand

> Merv Kelly

Australia

> Ian Gair