Ericsson inks media management services deal with BBC Creative

Ericsson mediaTelecom equipment and software major Ericsson has bagged a multi-year contract to deliver post-production and media management services for BBC Creative, the BBC’s in-house creative agency.

Ericsson has started focusing on media business recently and generated SEK 9.7 billion revenue in 2016 from media business.

As part of the media managed services deal, Ericsson will provide these services from its post-production services facility in London. Ericsson’s media services include desktop facilities, edit and audio suites and storage including browse functionality and archive delivered through Ericsson’s cloud-based media processing platform.

“Our storage and archive facilities will enable us to meet the BBC’s content management and delivery needs,” said Thorsten Sauer, head of Broadcast and Media Services at Ericsson.

Ericsson every year distributes more than 4 million hours of programming in more than 60 languages for more than 500 TV channels. Every day, people on all continents watch television programs prepared, managed and broadcast by Ericsson staff based in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the US.