Sky News has signed a contract with tapeless technology specialist EVS to provide a server solution for its launch of Sky News HD in Spring 2010. Sky News and EVS will work together to introduce the new technology at Sky News West London headquarters, with HD upgrades at its Central London studio, the regions, as well as internationally.

Replacing current equipment and introducing a single tapeless solution through EVS, with Apple’s Final Cut Studio as the craft edit solution, will lead to significant enhancement across Sky News, including improving its day-to-day newsgathering operation and output abilities on TV, as well as online and radio. The benefits of a new tapeless solution operating across ingest, edit, and playout include being able to get Sky’s news output onto multiple platforms quicker and improved integration between Sky News’ bureaux and field teams and its headquarters at Osterley, West London. The use of EVS Instant Tapeless Technology, including the XS and XT[2] production servers, XStore[2] SAN server, IPDirector, as well as XEDIO, with Final Cut studio across the board, means teams back at HQ will be capable of last minute tweaks to any news package sent in, whether it has come from London, Liverpool or Lahore – something not currently possible under the existing arrangements.