The BBC has chosen Quantel's generationQ news system to form the basis of its landmark Jupiter project which will centralise the content of its entire London-based news operation, writes Barbara Marshall
The BBC has chosen Quantel's generationQ news system to form the basis of its landmark Jupiter project which will centralise the content of its entire London-based news operation, writes Barbara Marshall.

Quantel worked with BBC Technology to design and implement the system which will combine the operations of the BBC's national television news programming, BBC news online and BBC World. In what Quantel chairman Richard Taylor described as the 'world's largest digital integrated news production system', more than 600 journalists will have access via their PCs to 142 journalist desktop editors using QCut and QView. There will also be 20 craft edit stations. The system will give 1,400 hours of broadcast resolution storage and 1,300 hours of browse quality storage.

Deliveries to the BBC start later this month and the system is due to pilot in late spring.

The deal is of strategic significance to both Quantel and BBC Technology, both of which hope it will pave the way for similar projects in the US.

BBC Technology head of partnerships and alliances Michael Holton said: 'The relationship with Quantel gives us a very solid foundation to take this concept jointly to a broader market.'

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