BT Media & Broadcast (M&B) is the digital media and broadcast services arm of BT. All of the UK\'s digital terrestrial TV is underpinned by BT M&B\'s specialist media network, whilst it is also responsible for delivering outside broadcast services from over 150 sports and news locations around the UK. BT M&B\'s global media network links every major location around the world where broadcast or film content is created or distributed.
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British Telecom
Interactive Audience Services
The technology behind public voting for TV and audience interaction.
Interactive Audience Services
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As audience participation media experts, we help the UK media industry create an active TV experience. We use Europe’s largest in-network call termination system to answer up to a quarter of a million televote calls a minute. Our mass call technology and tailored programmes (capped entries, loyalty points, etc) enable media companies and content owners to generate more revenue through spontaneous campaigns and exciting ‘paid for’ interactions with their audience.
Supporting your campaigns
Whether it’s by mobile voice short code, SMS or MMS, our Agilemedia service provides the platform and APIs you need to support your mobile campaigns.
Organising your voting
Our self-service online tools help you to plan, manage and launch your competition and voting events in a secure and compliant way.
As audience participation media experts, we help the UK media industry create an active TV experience. We use Europe’s largest in-network call termination system to answer up to a quarter of a million televote calls a minute. Our mass call technology and tailored programmes (capped entries, loyalty points, etc) enable media companies and content owners to generate more revenue through spontaneous campaigns and exciting ‘paid for’ interactions with their audience.
Supporting your campaigns
Whether it’s by mobile voice short code, SMS or MMS, our Agilemedia service provides the platform and APIs you need to support your mobile campaigns.
Organising your voting
Our self-service online tools help you to plan, manage and launch your competition and voting events in a secure and compliant way.
Live TV Outside Broadcasting
Your live broadcast connectivity – outside, on-demand and nationwide
Live TV Outside Broadcasting
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Our TV Outside Broadcast service has the largest fibre footprint at venues around the UK, including large capacity sports stadiums, entertainment venues and exhibition centres. With more than 60 years’ experience, combined with our high specification fibre, satellite and microwave connectivity, we can help you broadcast from anywhere, anytime.
Our resilient network can deliver your content in UHD/4K, HDR or HD, compressed or uncompressed and with minimal latency. We can support multiple JPEG2000 or MPEG4 visions at once, or send your feeds over digital microwave, satellite or as a data feed. This means we can get your pictures seamlessly from the venue and send them back in high quality to a designated point. You can feel safe in the knowledge that your content is secure on a network that is safe from piracy with our market leading BISS-CA encryption.
Our record speaks for itself, having successfully transmitted footage for the IAAF Athletic Championships in London, UEFA Champions League Finals, Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Royal Wedding. By continually innovating, we are helping our customers in their shift to remote production by delivering multiple HD visions across our high capacity contribution network, and of course, we helped to make ‘Project Restart’ a reality. For lower tier events, we’ve launched our Flightcase solution. Using our portfolio, we can help you customise the right solution for your needs, bringing your audience the uninterrupted, high-quality live programmes they have come to expect and love.
Our TV Outside Broadcast service has the largest fibre footprint at venues around the UK, including large capacity sports stadiums, entertainment venues and exhibition centres. With more than 60 years’ experience, combined with our high specification fibre, satellite and microwave connectivity, we can help you broadcast from anywhere, anytime.
Our resilient network can deliver your content in UHD/4K, HDR or HD, compressed or uncompressed and with minimal latency. We can support multiple JPEG2000 or MPEG4 visions at once, or send your feeds over digital microwave, satellite or as a data feed. This means we can get your pictures seamlessly from the venue and send them back in high quality to a designated point. You can feel safe in the knowledge that your content is secure on a network that is safe from piracy with our market leading BISS-CA encryption.
Our record speaks for itself, having successfully transmitted footage for the IAAF Athletic Championships in London, UEFA Champions League Finals, Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Royal Wedding. By continually innovating, we are helping our customers in their shift to remote production by delivering multiple HD visions across our high capacity contribution network, and of course, we helped to make ‘Project Restart’ a reality. For lower tier events, we’ve launched our Flightcase solution. Using our portfolio, we can help you customise the right solution for your needs, bringing your audience the uninterrupted, high-quality live programmes they have come to expect and love.
Media Networks
Transmit live TV around the world with our Global Media Network.
Media Networks
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Our network makes it easy to distribute your content across the Globe. We link major media hubs in Amsterdam to Sydney and on every continent in between. Through our pre-connected gateways, you can start sending video and large media files straight away. Hundreds of potential customers are within reach, with broadcasters, platforms operators, sports venue studios and satellite teleports joining our connected family. We’ve delivered high profile events across the globe, from the World Cup and the Olympics to the UEFA Champions League Final and IAAF World Championships.
We constantly monitor our Global Media Network, providing you with an industry-leading 99.999% availability. You’ll be protected from high latency, jitter and downtime and if there’s any trouble, you’ll instantly switch to a second video path to ensure your content is always delivered. When you become part of our large connected broadcast community, you can enjoy new markets for your video channels as well as sending UHD video.
Our network makes it easy to distribute your content across the Globe. We link major media hubs in Amsterdam to Sydney and on every continent in between. Through our pre-connected gateways, you can start sending video and large media files straight away. Hundreds of potential customers are within reach, with broadcasters, platforms operators, sports venue studios and satellite teleports joining our connected family. We’ve delivered high profile events across the globe, from the World Cup and the Olympics to the UEFA Champions League Final and IAAF World Championships.
We constantly monitor our Global Media Network, providing you with an industry-leading 99.999% availability. You’ll be protected from high latency, jitter and downtime and if there’s any trouble, you’ll instantly switch to a second video path to ensure your content is always delivered. When you become part of our large connected broadcast community, you can enjoy new markets for your video channels as well as sending UHD video.
Multi-Format Video Exchange
Bring your HD video and audio content to the world
Multi-Format Video Exchange
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FacilityLine Plus is a high-capacity, multi-format video exchange service that lets you share standard definition, high definition and now ultra-high definition video, directly with your collaborators and customers. Our London-based, uncompressed video network connects broadcasters with a global community at BT Tower – it's perfect if you operate within a 35km radius of the tower. We can connect you directly with over 100 media partners via our digital switch infrastructure, and over 600 media production and distribution customers. As a dedicated service that bypasses the open internet, there’s no chance of video stream degradation due to a congested network so you can deliver the highest quality video.
FacilityLine Plus is a high-capacity, multi-format video exchange service that lets you share standard definition, high definition and now ultra-high definition video, directly with your collaborators and customers. Our London-based, uncompressed video network connects broadcasters with a global community at BT Tower – it's perfect if you operate within a 35km radius of the tower. We can connect you directly with over 100 media partners via our digital switch infrastructure, and over 600 media production and distribution customers. As a dedicated service that bypasses the open internet, there’s no chance of video stream degradation due to a congested network so you can deliver the highest quality video.
Online Broadcasting
Send your content to the internet – from anywhere
Online Broadcasting
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Route your live content to the internet so you can distribute it through any platform. You can live stream to a single platform, or to multiple online locations and offline networks. We offer Media Stream as a standalone service or as a bolt-on to linear TV channels. Use Media Stream to complement your programming on TV. Or reach people who can’t receive terrestrial television.
We’re certified for streaming copyrighted footage and we work with all major broadcast platforms on the internet. We host the service from the BT Tower, using:
Route your live content to the internet so you can distribute it through any platform. You can live stream to a single platform, or to multiple online locations and offline networks. We offer Media Stream as a standalone service or as a bolt-on to linear TV channels. Use Media Stream to complement your programming on TV. Or reach people who can’t receive terrestrial television.
We’re certified for streaming copyrighted footage and we work with all major broadcast platforms on the internet. We host the service from the BT Tower, using:
- Vision mix facilities
- Live encoding hardware
- Satellite and IP stream receivers
- Switch connectivity
Satellite Services
Satellite services that extend your reach and keep you connected, no matter what.
Satellite Services
Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Content & Workflow Management » End-to-end supply chain solutions »
For over 55 years we’ve been providing satellite services for governments and multinational businesses. We offer satellite product across BT for managed services through our carrier-class and broadcast-grade Madley earth station in the UK, and with partner teleports around the world.
Our capabilities include:
For over 55 years we’ve been providing satellite services for governments and multinational businesses. We offer satellite product across BT for managed services through our carrier-class and broadcast-grade Madley earth station in the UK, and with partner teleports around the world.
Our capabilities include:
- Satellite Broadband Pro.
- Satellite IP carrier grade services.
- Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN).
- Custom solutions.
- Broadcast satellite uplinks.
Tailored Network Design
You give us the specifications and we’ll do the rest, designing your network for you
Tailored Network Design
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It can be difficult to put together a new network. Even adding extra features to your existing one can prove a challenge. So that’s where our Bespoke Broadcast Network Design solution comes in.
With decades of experience behind them, our network design team excels in bringing broadcast networks to life. So if you need to design and launch one that meets your need, we can help.
Broadcast networks don’t benefit from a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why we can create a bespoke one for you bespoke, to meet your requirements for now and the future. We’re already the network provider for some of the UK’s major broadcasters, maybe we can help you too?
It can be difficult to put together a new network. Even adding extra features to your existing one can prove a challenge. So that’s where our Bespoke Broadcast Network Design solution comes in.
With decades of experience behind them, our network design team excels in bringing broadcast networks to life. So if you need to design and launch one that meets your need, we can help.
Broadcast networks don’t benefit from a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why we can create a bespoke one for you bespoke, to meet your requirements for now and the future. We’re already the network provider for some of the UK’s major broadcasters, maybe we can help you too?
Vena
Vena - smart broadcast network
Vena
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Get ready to be ...
Vena, our smart broadcast network, is set to transform your business by intelligently connecting your media supply chain. From contribution to distribution, Vena gives you control and visibility. Any-time changes, real-time tracking, unrivalled availability, and 24/7 access, all making it quicker and easier to deliver your content.
Get ready to be ...
More versatile
You can select, configure and book temporary on-demand and permanent services quickly. Adding and removing services as you need them for greater control.
More efficient
Enjoy complete, end-to-end control at your fingertips, automate your workflows, and create role-based rules.
More in control
You can see your network usage and capacity across real-world maps in order to schedule bookings and make business decisions in real-time.
Wireless Media Transfer
The easy way to get footage to your studio direct from the camera
Wireless Media Transfer
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It can be difficult to gather live news, especially when broadcasting on location in places like central London. But you can avoid the logistical nightmare with Media Live. It’s the simple way to get footage to your studio. Your camera team can send footage using wireless transmitters on their cameras and get back to your studio in a flash.
With Media Live, you can:
It can be difficult to gather live news, especially when broadcasting on location in places like central London. But you can avoid the logistical nightmare with Media Live. It’s the simple way to get footage to your studio. Your camera team can send footage using wireless transmitters on their cameras and get back to your studio in a flash.
With Media Live, you can:
- Start straight away with no need to book satellite space or use trucks
- Send footage over your radio channel, uncontested with no reduction in speed
- Use your own equipment as it works with any camera transmitter
- Use it for occasional use with dedicated radio frequencies booked for you
- Connect directly to our BT Tower Network Switch.
