Benchmark Broadcast was chosen to provide system installation, commissioning and training services for a pioneer business channel in Mongolia launched by Bloomberg Television in partnership with The Trade & Development Bank of Mongolia (TDB). For Bloomberg TV Mongolia, the country’s first international broadcast news organization, Benchmark Broadcast put in place Vector3 video servers for ingest and playout, Octopus NRCS, a SAN-based storage solution, Adobe NLEs, an MCR with live VO translation facility, and an in-house HD studio with Ross Switchers. Full frame ticker graphics for stock market information achieved seamless transmission with a VizRT broadcast graphics solution integrated with the Benchmark PIPE|Bridge middleware to connect with the Bloomberg B-PIPE.
As part of an ongoing relationship with Bloomberg Television, Benchmark Broadcast also launched a 24×7, high definition business and financial news channel, IDEA (Bloomberg) in Jakarta, Indonesia.