Control Room 6

In the fall of 2008, Mediatec Broadcast were approached by Viasat with an inquiry to set up a new sports channel. Since 2005, we already had SportN up and running from Bjerke. The new channel was to be a sister channel with the name Viasat Sport. Could we look into this?

We could. It soon became clear that it would be difficult, or even impossible, to reach a satisfactory solution using the same control room as SportN. It also became clear that Viasat wanted a higher degree of automation for the new channel, thus reducing the need for crew.

The solution was Control Room 6, which is a compact two-channel playout room with one large broadcast position, one smaller and one technical control position. Both broadcast positions are needed for situations when, for example, two Champions League games are played at the same time. The automation is indeed high, with obvious facilities for manual controlling. Control Room 6 is also well prepared for upgraded technology in the future.