It’s all about Focus for Maori TV

July 2011

MSA Focus is proud to announce the continuation of its relationship with New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster and valued customer, Maori Television.

Having successfully completed an upgrade from Perspective, MSA Focus’ legacy Broadcast Management System, Maori Television went live with ForeTV, the current leading edge solution from MSA Focus, in June 2011.

This move to ForeTV provides Maori TV the ability to fully leverage the opportunities offered by the modern broadcast environment enabling them to take their business forward, launch new services and further fulfil their remit to promote and revitalise the Maori language, culture and heritage of New Zealand.

Mark Evans, Managing Director of MSA Focus commented “This project means a great deal to us; Maori Television is a long standing and valued customer, having been with us since 2003, ForeTV is the third generation of BMS solution we have implemented with them. This underlines the strength of our customer service and support packages as well as the ability of ForeTV to deliver the functionality that broadcasters need.

The upgrade went extremely smoothly, with our skilled regional team, headed by Phua Lik Chin in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, providing a fast development and QA turnaround along with quality management and implementation skills, while also conducting the data take on and providing full training.”

Built on the Microsoft® .NET® framework and using industry standard Windows® native technologies, ForeTV provides an end-to-end, enterprise-wide, integrated broadcast management solution, dealing with all aspects of the transmission timeline; from media, rights and asset management, acquisitions, scheduling, ad-sales and playlist generation to inventory and performance analysis, reporting and post-tx reconciliation.