Broadcast Delivery

Here is how the work lines up. Broadcast delivery in New York is anchored by the published tech specs of the networks and cable ops whose programming starts in the city. HBO at Hudson Yards, NBCUniversal at 30 Rock, the Bloomberg, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News HQs in Manhattan, Showtime/Paramount, plus Discovery and AMC Networks. Each keeps its own ingest profile covering accepted codecs, MXF container structure, audio channel mapping to ATSC A/85 -24 LKFS, captioning workflow and CEA-608/708 sidecar deliverables, and the metadata schema feeding the network's traffic and as-run systems.

Here is what we have to work with. Our delivery team holds today's spec sheets for each network and prepares masters in lock-step with the published needs at PostWorks New York, Technicolor PostWorks NY, Light Iron NY, and Goldcrest Soho, so files clear tech acceptance on the first submission rather than cycling through rejection notes that put air dates and licensing windows at risk.

Here is the layout. For global networks taking New York content under licence — co-productions with the BBC, Channel 4, or ZDF, Latin American buyers at Globo or TelevisaUnivision, Asian licensees taking HBO and Showtime catalogue — we run dual-standard delivery covering both the home NTSC 29.97 master and the localised EBU 25fps version.

Here is how the work shapes up. Motion-compensated frame-rate conversion is handled through Snell Alchemist or Cinnafilm Tachyon rather than simple frame doubling, audio is remixed to each destination's loudness target (ATSC A/85 and OP-59 for US delivery, EBU R128 and ITU-R BS.1770 for European areas), and closed-caption and subtitle files are reformatted to the receiving TV networks's preferred container. TTML, WebVTT, STL, or EBU-TT-D. Automated Interra Baton and Venera Pulsar QC sits alongside manual op review. Each package ships with a written compliance report logging video levels, audio loudness, safe-area conformance, and metadata completeness so receiving TV networks can sign off without escalation.