Swiss Broadcasting Integrated Media
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)
Collect once, share across four language regions.
A group-wide, distributed integrated media system spanning multiple data centers — giving a national public broadcaster's four regional stations seamless content sharing and 24/7 collaborative news and sports production.
Overview
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), founded in 1931, is Switzerland's national public broadcaster, producing radio and television in four official languages. Sobey delivered a group-wide integrated media system built on a distributed, multi-data-center architecture, covering seamless content sharing and production for its regional stations and the parliamentary channel.
Challenge
A national broadcaster spread across language regions needed to collect content once and share it everywhere, with agile 24/7 news and sports production. Independent, region-bound systems made group-wide collaboration slow and inflexible.
Cross-regional collaboration
Four regional stations and a parliamentary channel needed to share content and work together seamlessly, without the friction of separate infrastructures.
Always-on news and sports
Round-the-clock news and live sports demanded fast, flexible production that legacy per-station workflows struggled to sustain.
Multi-platform publishing
The same stories had to reach broadcast, web, mobile, social, and apps — each with its own delivery requirements.
Solution
Sobey built a new distributed media data center and layered Media Hive across it, creating one cross-regional integrated production and broadcasting system for the whole group. The distributed data-center architecture enables collect-once, share-across-locations production, with rich tooling for news and sports, and fast, flexible publishing to the internet, mobile, social platforms, and broadcast apps. As the broadcaster's CTO put it, the platform makes production more efficient and operations more agile.
Delivered with
The Sobey solutions and products behind this deployment — each built to work together as one chain.
Result
The group's stations now share content seamlessly and collaborate remotely on one distributed system — collecting once and producing across regions, around the clock.
Language regions served on one platform — German, French, Italian, and Romansh.
Broadcast stations unified — four regional plus the parliamentary channel.
Public broadcaster serving Switzerland since.