Timeline awarded contract to manage ITV Sport Archive

Timeline Television has been awarded a five-year contract to provide a full digital archive service for ITV Sport. Timeline already provides post production and archive facilities for ITV Sport’s Racing production, including high-spec, bespoke suites based at Timeline’s base in Ealing Studios.

Timeline will supply and manage a Tedial Evolution media asset management solution that incorporates the migration of the existing ITV Sport archive. ITV Sport users will enjoy web access to all archive media and associated metadata from their offices and any outside broadcast event.

Daniel McDonnell, Managing Director commented: “We are delighted to have been awarded the five year contract to manage ITV Sport’s Media Archive and look forward to working with ITV Sport on this exciting project.”

Timeline has worked with all the major UK networks to deliver technical and creative facilities for programmes as diverse as live music and awards shows, political conferences, global and domestic sporting competitions, light entertainment and current affairs.

Timeline is an authority on shared server systems and specialises in the delivery of IP Director networks. Timeline designed, built and has managed services contracts with BT Sport and Racing UK. Timeline has installed systems on outside broadcasts and designed and built permanent installations for clients, such as studio builds for BT Sport and Racing UK.