Broadcast Solutions establishes a Centre of Excellence for nxtedition newsrooms

This strategic initiative underscores Broadcast Solutions' commitment to innovation and excellence in delivering cutting-edge newsroom technology to media organisations worldwide.

The new Centre of Excellence will focus on enhancing the deployment, integration, and optimisation of nxtedition newsrooms for both linear broadcasters and digital publishers.

“nxtedition represents a true paradigm shift for news organisations,” says Rainer Kampe, CTO of Broadcast Solutions. “Initially developed as an automation system for live studio productions, nxtedition has evolved into a full-fledged end-to-end news and program production platform. It transcends the conventional separation between Newsroom Computer Systems (NRCS) and News Production Systems (NPS) rooted in the MOS era. This innovation enables more agile, efficient workflows, perfectly suited to the demands of modern breaking news coverage.”

“We’re excited to kick off this partnership with Broadcast Solutions, says Roger Persson, CEO of nxtedition. Deploying our next-generation newsroom platform at scale requires partners with the resources and the expertise to help our customers implement new workflows that can unleash the productivity gains nxtedition was designed for.”

Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the nxtedition Centre of Excellence will focus on designing and deploying turnkey solutions for both on-premises and hybrid deployments in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It will offer comprehensive training programs for media professionals, ensuring they are well-equipped to leverage the full potential of nxtedition capabilities. An integrated support centre will complement the nxtedition hotline based in Malmö, Sweden.

Caption (l.t.r.); Stefan Breder, CEO Broadcast Solutions; Roger Persson, Sales Marketing Director & Partner, nxtedition; Nicolas Hans, Partner Broadcast Solutions Middle East

About nxtedition
Founded in 2012, nxtedition has revolutionised video production as one of the world’s most creative software products in the broadcasting industry. nxtedition was one of the first to approach the simplification of the broadcast process by virtualising microservices to replace legacy systems. The existing paradigm of appliance-based products from multiple manufacturers creates layers of complexity that are expensive to purchase, difficult to maintain, hard to integrate, and need specialist staff to operate.

The frustrations of these inefficient workflows brought nxtedition into being, taking a rather unconventional route which uses the latest in web technologies and re-purposes them within a broadcast environment. nxtedition virtualises appliance products (prompters, newsroom control systems, automation, media asset management, transcoding, video servers, graphics systems) and creates microservices to provide virtual instances of their functionality. 

The core ethos of nxtedition is to plan, write, edit, play out and archive productions within a single consolidated system where the focus is purely on storytelling and not the underlying technology.