BROADCAST INTELLIGENCE
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your content BROADCAST ready
Broadcast Intelligence Ltd empowers content owners, broadcasters, and service providers to excel in content processing and distribution through our business intelligence tool, RADAR.
We are a commanding force of broadcast and media professionals bringing you business management experience, technical expertise and passion alongside a common sense approach to the wider industry of broadcast and media. We offer broadcast business consultancy, media processing, subtitling for film and television, and audio description services.
Our teams bring an impressive knowledge of current and future technologies to support, advise and work alongside your operational teams enabling you to achieve the maximum benefits from your working environment. We invest a huge amount of effort to source and recruit the very best UK talent and with bases in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales we create new regional media jobs and opportunities.
OUR ETHOS
We only recruit people we’d want to work with, so we know you’ll like working with them too! Our team ensures all communication is coherent, rapid, honest, and professional.
Did you know we are a remote-based company? This means we are always available to you, and because of our reduced operating costs, our fees are lower. It also means our ability to respond to urgent enquiries and quick turnarounds is extremely flexible. We have been remote-based since inception and believe that remote working empowers a good work-life balance, leading to a happy and highly productive environment where we can create truly outstanding work.
- We collaborate. You get the whole team’s experience and know-how.
- We’re UK based. You get skilled professionals and no misunderstandings.
- Our overheads are low. You pay for people, not office space.
- Our people are trusted and happy. You get creative hard workers.
Our permanent in-house team are carefully selected for their skills to ensure you get excellent results and our unique and dynamic working environment means happier, widely-experienced colleagues which, in turn, leads to happier, well-satisfied clients.
CONSULTANCY
“I have worked with Broadcast Intelligence for a number of years. I hugely value their expert opinion, impartial view and deep expertise in Broadcast technology and Media Management. They always adopt the most pragmatic and cost effective approach to solving business problems, having a wide range of knowledge of what the market has to offer. They are a great partner to work with and have onboard.”
TIM GOFF
MEDIA SERVICES
“The team at Broadcast Intelligence Ltd consistently delivers exceptional operational media services for our FAST and UHD channels. They ensure that we meet all regulatory compliance with Ofcom guidelines while also expertly handling subtitling, editing, and scheduling. Their reliability and swift responsiveness to our evolving needs make them an invaluable partner in our operations.”
DAVID TWALLIN
HEAD OF PROGRAMMING
VIRGIN MEDIA
ACCESS SERVICES
“Barbara and team are great to work with, always on top of everything, great at communicating and all subtitles delivered in plenty of time for TX. Very smooth service, I would not hesitate to recommend. “
KATIE COOK
HEAD OF PROGRAMMING, INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS
PBS AMERICA
RADAR business intelligence tool
“Broadcasting and streaming is hard enough, it arrives already complex, RADAR helps simplicity look simple and we use it every day to make better sense of our operation. “
MATTHEW WESTRUP
CTO
HEARST NETWORKS EMEA
WE WORK WITH SOME BRILLIANT BUSINESSES
OUR SERVICES
AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Audio description, (AD) a spoken description of visual elements not represented in the original audio benefits those with loss of vision. Our audio description provision includes: scripts, scripts and voice, synth voice and audio mix.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Assist with change to enhance both operational and financial performance.
CLOSED CAPTIONS
Closed captions (CC) are intended for audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing. We provide additional text for all audible information such as sound effects and music.
COMPLIANCE EDITING
Our edit facility can create any type of content file specification. For compliance editing our editors work closely with our viewing team to create the best content for the regulatory territory you are supplying.
CONTENT SERVICES
Ingest, QC, transcode, PSE checks, frame rate conversion, delivery and streaming all serviced within our cloud infrastructure.
DUE DILIGENCE
Identify, evaluate and verify all available information on a company or entity.
ENGINEERING & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
We are quite at ease either working with your in-house teams or providing engineering and tech support if you don’t have a team in the same time zone.
FACILITY & STUDIO BUILDS
We design and build studios and facilities across the globe.
INTERIM MANAGEMENT
We provide dedicated senior level management during transitional periods.
LOCALISATION
A combinaton of AI/MT and native speakers enables us to provide localisation at scale.
METADATA MANAGEMENT & ENTRY
Create and transform content metadata into your required format/schema
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Experienced project management for any size venture.
RADAR
our business intelligence tool can manage all your operational and management data processing
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
Our team of experts can provide regulatory compliance services (OFCOM, FCC etc) and classification for multiple territories for Linear, VOD , S-VOD, FAST.
RESTRUCTURING
Advice on technical and operational efficiencies.
SCHEDULING & MEDIA PLANNING
We provide scheduling and planning services using a range of software and products depending on your requirements for both linear and FAST channels.
SDH SUBTITLES
Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) combine the benefits of both closed captions and subtitles for an audience that is both deaf or hard of hearing and does not understand the original language of the video.
STREAMING
Advise on and provide global and localised streaming solutions.
SUBTITLE CREATION
At the heart of our localisation service is English language subtitling, both authored and from script. We use AI/speech recognition to create titles which are then QC'd and corrected as required by our experienced team.
SYSTEM APPRAISAL
Assess current technology deployment and advise on any improvements.
SYSTEM INTEGRATION
On-site design, build and technical services.
TECH STACK DESIGN
Review your current technology and in-house skill sets and put together a stack of technology that will fit your needs. Whether a transition to cloud based playout and transmission library, OTT distribution or adding services such as SVOD or FAST we will help guide you in the right direction and can also help with contract negotiations.
TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
Advice and migration to new technologies.
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES
Objectives, principles and tactics for use of technologies within your company.
WORKFLOW DESIGN
Experts in traditional, hybrid and cloud based media workflows.
RADAR
RADAR is our Business Intelligence platform tailored specifically for Broadcast and Media. Developed to enable in depth analysis of the Broadcast Ecosystem and Infrastructure, it provides glue between all relevant systems, managing and transforming your data into usable useful information to manage your world. Integrating with your current systems and any service providers to provide an accurate overview of your entire ecosystem answering the questions you struggle to.
RADAR provides
Real time overview of your entire ecosystem or just the elements you want to focus on
Build in workflows and business priorities
Integrate with 3rd party suppliers to get the full picture of your media lifecycle
Manage storage and infrastructure
Throughput reporting
Management Reporting
Peak, trough and hotspot analysis
KPI generation for clients, internal operations or suppliers
Visualise content priorities and locations
Archive overview and management reporting
System use and optimisation
Financial analysis
Why is RADAR different
No restriction on data volumes or frequency
Any data source and API connectivity
All data stored within the platform in highly indexed data cubes –, reducing the strain on existing systems
True Business Intelligence- a collaborative platform encouraging the sharing of insights
Powered by the market leading BI engine
Cloud or on-premise
Highly secure – all stored data and data transport is encrypted within the platform
Low cost and low TCO – subscription based licencing
Highly intuitive UI and data visualisations
Other BI tools use a query based approach to analysis. This limits you to predefined, linear exploration within subsets of data and antiquated SQL analytics solutions
Radar is powered by an associative engine bringing together all your data so you can explore it without limits. Giving you a powerful competitive advantage in this data-driven world.
OUR EXPERTS
Our expertise in Media Service provision has enabled us to put together a remote cloud based solution for any Operational Media Services Requirements you may have.
John Wallace
Co-Founder
John is an experienced and respected consultant, with a background in broadcast engineering and operations. BBC trained and qualified, a good portion of his career has been spent across News and Entertainment channels, with responsibility for distribution services, locating and building studios for BBC World News. John also managed technical operations and media preparation facilities for BBC Worldwide channels. Having designed and built post production and playout facilities he has been instrumental in improving and updating the operations and media workflows of many national and international broadcasters and broadcast facility providers based in the UK and across the globe.
“John has the rare quality that he completely understands the technical issues involved in any broadcast environment whilst also having a deep understanding the viewpoint and constraints of the client. I would have no hesitation in recommending him very highly to any company other than that he might not be available to TVT the next time we need him!”
KIM THESIGER
CO FOUNDER & GROUP DIRECTOR
TVT ASIA PACIFIC,
Jake Robbins
Co-Founder
Jake is an experienced broadcast consultant, focusing on Media Service provision with a broad range of skills and disciplines gained through years of work within the television and broadcast industry. Jake specialises in broadcast workflow and solutions for media services, post production, localisation and broadcast compliance; recommending and implementing operational efficiencies to bring about improvement for clients. Jake focuses on digital, cloud and file-based workflows for the global market. Expert in communicating workflow and process at all levels enabling management and team decisions to be made appropriately. International experience and contacts having set up offices and managed contracts in Europe, South East Asia, Australia and the USA.
“I worked with Jake when he was Operations Manager at Red Bee Media. He is a great manager and is always able to get his team to deliver to the highest standards. I worked with him to help implement streamlining of workflow processes in the media management area of Red Bee to deliver automated processes for the high profile broadcast clients that Red Bee services.”
CHRIS COLLIER
ENGINEERING MANAGER
BBC WORLD NEWS PART OF BBC GLOBAL NEWS LTD
OUR TEAM
Anneliese
Barbara
Claire
David
Emma
Geoff
Jake
Jerry
Mick
Neasa
Nick
Parmvir
Paul
Phoebe
Stew
LET US GET YOU BROADCAST READY