Utah Scientific announced that ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), Germany’s national public television broadcaster, has deployed the company’s UTAH-400 digital routing switcher at the core of a new studio facility in Mainz dedicated to 24/7 news broadcasting. The routing system was sold and installed through Utah Scientific’s German distributor and systems integrator SHM Broadcast, GMBH. The facility uses virtual studio technology and a highly flexible routing architecture to allow production crews to switch quickly between sets for ZDF’s flagship news programs, including “Heute News,” “Heute-Journal,” “Mittagsmagazin,” “Wochenjournal,” “Logo,” and “Blickpunkt.” Read on in the Briefing Room…

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