New 主播大秀 Academy website unveils the College of Technology
Andy Wilson
Head of College of Technology
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Although some of these developments may need approval from the 主播大秀 Trust, they represent huge steps in the development of new services and content for all 主播大秀 audiences, but to deliver these innovations as well as continuing to evolve existing services like the , and websites, we have to ensure that 主播大秀 staff have cutting edge engineering skills.
The 主播大秀 Academy is the 主播大秀's centre of training and development. It exists to ensure 主播大秀 staff, have the skills, knowledge and ability to develop the best content and services. It delivers these skills via four Colleges; Leadership, Technology, Production and Journalism. In addition to this, it shares our skills and experience and offers training to the wider media industry.
I run the y, the newest of the 主播大秀鈥檚 training and development endeavours. My team鈥檚 role is to ensure that we have high quality software engineering, broadcast technology and I.T. skills training available to staff.
Since the Academy was created over three years ago, we have been working to ensure that new state-of-the-art broadcast facilities in MediaCity in Salford, and at New Broadcasting House in London, are well supported. We have provided in-depth training on a range of new technologies including robotic cameras, new systems for displaying the weather, new sound desks for television and radio, a new networked radio production system, new vision mixers, in addition to automation technologies for use in 主播大秀 News TV galleries.
This has resulted in one of the largest training programmes听the 主播大秀 has ever seen. In total over 5,500 staff moved into New Broadcasting House earlier this year, with a team of around 300 engineers supporting both Broadcasting House and MediaCity, ensuring that all our output stays on-air and is of the highest possible quality.
The College of Technology also helped in the development of software engineering skills for the 主播大秀鈥檚 Olympics coverage. In doing so, we鈥檝e helped grow a culture of 鈥�, working to ensure that we follow the industry鈥檚 best practices in software development techniques and craftsmanship. We鈥檝e also helped introduce 鈥樷�� as a new discipline into online development. This has supported the 主播大秀鈥檚 commitment to rationalise its online presence into 10 distinct offerings. We believe that being part of the community is vitally important for our staff, so we regularly host industry seminars to learn from other organisations experiences of Product Management
Until recently the College of Technology was an internal- department, working within the organisation to build skills, and working with partners to run events. Today marks a change in direction to open up our approach to sharing skills and experience in technology and engineering.
The new Technology section of the Academy site launches with a focus on Archive Digitisation (see video above), Linked Data, a new approach to sound measurement for programmes via Loudness meters and Unmanned Aircraft Systems. We want to share how the 主播大秀 is approaching technology challenges, what we do, as well as how other organisations across the wider industry are developing services. Working with partners across the industry is still central to our work, however. For instance, our current work in has been developed in partnership with the . Bringing together insights from Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and the 主播大秀.
The aim is to make broadcast and software engineering subjects accessible and to explain key technology topics that are developing across the media sector. But additionally, we want to encourage more people to think about careers in technology and broadcast engineering. For example, we鈥檝e recently launched the and schemes which we hope will increase the amount of talent across the industry. The new College of Technology website will help to highlight job profiles from a range of engineering roles across the 主播大秀, illustrating what it鈥檚 like to work at the 主播大秀 and providing an overview of some of the challenges we are exploring.
Where next for the College of Technology? If there is a certainty, it is that technologies will continue to evolve and that standards will change. We are already looking towards and how production and technical workflows will evolve as a result of the new file-based delivery format. In addition we are focusing on , examining the use of fast connections to remote networked production systems.
In the coming months, we will grow our resources and help to represent cutting edge engineering topics. But at this point, what we鈥檇 really like to make sure is that we are a place for the industry to share it鈥檚 skills and that the new College of Technology website acts as a hub where some of those discussions and developments can originate.
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