When broadcast specialist, Elvia-Pro, was formed in 1993, it was as the first system integrator in the country. “Everyone knew us as Sony because Elvia-Pro brought Sony Professional to the Czech Republic,” reflects sales product specialist, Tomáš Kocáb. Shortly afterwards, private commercial station TV NOVA was born and Elvia-Pro has been working with the broadcaster since its inception; today they are their top key customer.

But when TV NOVA placed an order for some BroaMan devices they little realised it would trigger a process that would culminate in the integration company taking on distributorship of the brand for the Czech Republic.

“The equipment was for a studio upgrade,” reports Tomáš. “They produce their live morning show from the roof of the news building, and now use a Mux22 as an easy 4SDI connection and Intercom connection between the roof and the main studio.” In addition, the studio is used for short commercial news and sports news.

TV-Nova
TV Nova’s morning show news studio

“TV Nova's engineers have the best technical knowledge I've ever seen,” the Elvia-Pro man continued. “They chose BroaMan themselves and simply asked me to sell the device. Although they were familiar with [associate company] Optocore, it was their first-time encounter with BroaMan.”

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