Arab Radio Television

Arab Radio Television Corporation (ART) is one of the leading Arabic pay TV and entertainment content providers. With headquarters in Saudi Arabia and major transmission facilities in Jordan and Italy, ART produces Arabic family dramas, documentaries, and live sports programs for a global audience. In 2006, ART won an exclusive contract to broadcast Saudi Arabian football championship matches, which required the speedy expansion of its existing fleet of outside broadcast vehicles together with more trained staff to operate them.  The vehicles had to be suitable for use in the arid Saudi climate and also affordably upgradable to HD-delivery in the near future.

KIT digital understood ART’s urgent need for a swiftly deployed solution, & quickly delivered plans for two future-proof ‘HD-ready’ SD uplink vehicles, designed to operate in high temperatures & resistant to airborne sand & dust. The plans included HD-capable components for all of the most important aspects of the vehicles’ infrastructure, including Leitch HD/SD 8×8 routers, BES 2×24 HD video jackfields, Marshall HD-capable TFT video monitors & high-definition Evertz distribution amplifiers & cabling, in order that the any future HD upgrade would be cost-effectively implemented. The KIT digital team manufactured the vehicles in-house & trained ART’s engineers within the available timescale of ten weeks, ensuring that they were ready to begin transmission of the championship matches on time.