Datos Media Technologies – Canarias TV: The Integration of a Unified, Collaborative And Scalable News Platform In The Future
David Martínez del Cerro
COO Datos Media Technologies
Miguel Angel Rodrigo Alonso (PhD)
Marketing & Broadcast System Engineer Datos Media Technologies
The Canarias TV Project
CanariaTV, the public television of the Canary Islands, has completed an ambitious global technological renovation that marks the end of its definitive transition to HD. Datos Media has been key in the design and implementation of the news infrastructure, covering both production sets and news systems. Recognized with the award for Best Infrastructure Renovation Project in the 2025 edition of the TM BROADCAST Awards, the initiative responded to the obsolescence of old equipment and the need for modernization to improve broadcast quality.
The Challenge
The deployment took place coinciding with a anniversary of the Public TV, with tight deadlines and minimal operational disruption. Inter-island distance and limited connectivity were solved with lightweight web clients and transfer accelerators such as FileCatalyst, allowing remote work from any island. The SD-HD transition required extensive training of staff. The onair was staggered: one location first, followed by the other in 48 hours, always with the old system in parallel.
For this end-to-end renovation of the news production systems, it was decided to integrate the Avid MediaCentral Cloud UX platform. Both headquarters now operate as a unified newsroom, despite their technical independence to ensure redundancy and availability. A private cloud was implemented with two data centers (one per island), virtualized on Dell hardware, VmWare and Cisco network. This covers ingest (via Telestream Content Agent and MediaCentral Acquire), transcoding, editing (85 web clients and 10 Avid Media Composer rooms), redaction (100 iNEWS/MediaCentral clients), graphics (Avid Maestro), and playout (Avid Command). Avid Nexis F4 shared storage offers up to 3.6 PB of scalable capacity.
A Unified, Collaborative, and Scalable Platform.
This project represents a milestone in the evolution of Televisión Canaria, providing it with a robust, scalable infrastructure focused on remote collaboration, which improves operational efficiency and quality for viewers. The abstraction of hardware and the use of cloud solutions not only solve past limitations, but also prepare the channel for future innovations, such as the integration of AI or 4K content. Datos Media has stood out for its technical solvency, demonstrating that in complex environments such as islands and their inter-island distances, it is possible to achieve modernization without interrupting production. This whole process has positively influenced editors, technicians and audiences by raising the standards of public production in the Canary Islands, since access to inter-island information and its production is significantly reduced, providing an immediate public information service.
