ITV News—a staple in London since its first broadcast in 1955—requires reliable trusted technology to manage the many dozens of video sources being fed into the newsroom throughout the day. Working alongside broadcast technology specialists Densitron, Lee Sanders, technical director at ITN, has designed a system powered by Datapath and Densitron that serves a multitude of purposes, from greeting displays for visitors that automatically change to ‘On Air’ notifications, to multi video walls in the newsroom that can switch sources both automatically and manually when circumstances dictate.
ITN, headquartered at Gray’s Inn Road, has long been respected in the news industry, providing news services to ITV1, ITV London region, Channel 4, and Channel 5 as well as its multiple other non-news production divisions. With three ITV News broadcasts a day—lunchtime, evening, and News at 10—the organization has a multitude of sources including multiple external broadcasts, displaying internal messages and useful crewing information, other televised news feeds from broadcasters across the world, in-house content and much more. The recent upgrade with Datapath and Densitron solutions solve these challenges.
