NEPAL TELEVISION EXISTING FACILITIES:

1. Broadcasting Studio:

Thomson-broadcast of France equipped the studio under the grant aid from the government of France to Nepal, 1990/1991.The area cover by this studio is 150-sq. meters areas. This studio is link with Sagarmatha earth station of Balambu and production studio of Singh Durbar via optical fiber. This studio acts as a master control room for broadcasting NTV’s signal. Signal from this studio goes to Sagarmatha Earth Station via optical fiber where the signal is digitized and uplink to intelsat 704 at 66ºE

Equipment

• 2 camera
• camera control
• 2 teleprompter
• 5 VTRs (3 Betacam SP & 2 Umatic Sp)
• Video mixer-SEG 2550AP
• Audio console (Thomson)
• Character Generator (CG)
• Cassette Recorder
• Caption camera

2. Production Studio:

This studio is designed and equipped by NTV technical staffs procured by NTV with funding provided by the government of Nepal. The area covered by this production studio is 150 Sq.m. This is being used as programme production studio for producing Children program, talk-based program, cultural program, to record interviews, telefilm etc and also for live telecast. This studio is linked with master control room via optical fiber.

Video Equipment

• 3 camera SONY
• Camera control
• Production switcher (8 inputs)
• Digital chromakeyer DCK-500
• 2 VTRs
• Editing System (Non Linear)
• Character Generator (CG)
• Character Effect interface operation unit CE-100

Audio Equipment

• Audio Console (16 Channel, SONY0
• Monitoring system
• Cassette recorder
• Intercom system

3. Outside Broadcasting Van (OB van):

OB vans are designed to cover all production requirements such as sports, news or shows and other cultural events for live telecast as well as recording. NTV has two OB vans; the mini OB van and big OB van. (Rate list)

Big OB van

Video equipment

• 5 camera (Ikegami HL-59) chains (Seven camera options)
• Camera control
• 2 VTRs
• Hard Disk recorder
• Editing System
• Dynamic Motion Controller (LVS Tektronix)
• Ext. inputs (analogue and /or digital)
• Grass valley GVG 1200 production switcher
• DVE (DVE XTREME, Pinnacle)
• Character Generator (CG)
• Patch Panel

Audio Equipment

• Audio Console (16 Channel, DDA)
• Patch panel
• Monitoring system
• Cassette recorder
• CD-Player
• DAT Recorder
• Multi effect unit
• Compressor/Limiter
• Intercom system

Small OB van Equipment

• 3 camera SONY (with 1 more option)
• Camera control
• 1 Betacam Sp VTRs (with 1 more option)
• SEG 2550AP production Switcher
• Audio console (8 Channel, MXP-290, SONY)
• Monitoring system
• Intercom system

4. Satellite feed to Intel sat 704 at 60ºE.
Nepal Television has feed facility to intelsat 704 at 60ºE from its central office Singh Durbar, Kathamandu. Rate list

5. Kohalpur Regional Production & Transmitting Center:

NTV has regional transmitting center at Kohalpur, located at the western region of the country. It produces and transmits regional and cultural programs of one-hour duration daily at 5:00 PM to 6:00PM, which reflects the social, cultural and traditional background of that region.