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Czech TV plugs into the future with LiveU powered IP OB revolution
MUMBAI: When live TV goes off script, Czech Television has decided its OB vans should be the last things to drop the signal. In a sweeping tech overhaul that puts IP at the heart of its broadcast muscle, the national public broadcaster has rolled out one of Europe’s largest LiveU-powered live production deployments, turning 10 Outside Broadcast vans into fully connected, mobile studios capable of exchanging live feeds across cities.
For decades, Czech TV depended on satellite links and landlines reliable but costly, inflexible, and, increasingly, outpaced by modern live-production demands. Now equipped with LiveU’s LU810 fixed encoders and servers, each OB van gains bonded IP connectivity, enabling seamless live contribution, return video feeds, and inter-van connectivity, a capability rare at this scale in Europe.
What makes this project stand out is its multi-point connectivity architecture. The OB vans can now talk not only to the master control room (MCR) in Prague, but to each other swapping feeds on the fly from football pitches, ice hockey arenas, or even triathlon routes, wherever they are deployed. For lower-tier sports, breaking news and sprawling multi-location coverage, this creates a flexible, decentralised production grid.
“This project represents a major step forward for Czech Television,” said Czech TV head of the OB department Antonin Svach, noting that bonded IP frees them from the constraints of “costly satellite and not available landlines.” With the upgraded fleet, he added, the broadcaster can deliver live coverage of “any sport, at every level” with instant connectivity and fluid control-room routing.
LiveU, already a long-standing partner for Czech TV’s field newsgathering units, now becomes embedded deeper into the broadcaster’s production DNA. “Czech TV has achieved a new level of production agility,” said LiveU regional sales director Dariusz Grudzień calling the transformation “truly unique in size and scale.”
The project was engineered and implemented alongside Smart Informatics, which supported the workflow redesign from the 2023 proof-of-concept through to full deployment. “We worked side by side with Czech TV to create a future-ready solution,” said Tomas Vesely, noting the hybrid IP-first production model is built to adapt to virtually any scenario.
With this upgrade, Czech Television is signalling a clear shift: the future of broadcasting is mobile, IP-driven and unshackled from traditional infrastructure. And thanks to its new IP-powered OB fleet, that future is already rolling on the roads of the Czech Republic antenna down, signal rock-solid.
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EPIC Company unifies all brands under single EPIC identity
IN10 Media rebrand aligns TV, digital and films into one ecosystem
MUMBAI: The EPIC Company, formerly known as IN10 Media Network, has announced a sweeping brand consolidation, bringing its television channels, digital platforms and content IPs under a single identity, EPIC.
The move is aimed at simplifying the company’s structure while creating a more connected content ecosystem spanning television, digital and films. By aligning multiple verticals under one umbrella, the company is looking to present a sharper, more cohesive face to both audiences and partners.
As part of the transition, several channels have been rebranded to align with the EPIC identity. EPIC will now operate as EPIC TV, while Nazara becomes EPIC Bharat, Filamchi is now EPIC Bhojpuri, Gubbare transitions to EPIC Kids, and ShowBox is reintroduced as EPIC Music. Ishara will continue under the identity EPIC Parivaar, maintaining its core positioning.
The company has also refreshed EPICON, its streaming platform, to reflect a more unified and modern brand experience. The overhaul is designed to improve content discovery and create a seamless experience across platforms.
This consolidation follows the recent launch of EPIC Studio, a unified production arm that brings together Juggernaut Productions and MovieVerse Studio, as the company expands its footprint across films, OTT and television.
The EPIC Company managing director Aditya Pittie said, “As our scale has grown, it has become important to simplify how we operate and how we present ourselves to the ecosystem. This consolidation gives us a clearer, more future-ready structure to partner, invest, and build at scale, while ensuring that for viewers, the experience is more seamless and intuitive.”
With the rebrand, The EPIC Company is positioning itself as a platform-agnostic content network, focused on scale, simplicity and integrated storytelling. By bringing everything under one banner, it is aiming to make its content universe easier to navigate and harder to ignore.
