Broadcast Delivery

Here is how this works in practice. Broadcast delivery in Italy is anchored by the published technical specs of the country's major free-to-air and pay-TV operators — Rai Cinema and Rai Fiction, Mediaset/MFE, Sky Italia, La7, plus the streaming arms RaiPlay, NOW TV, and Discovery+. Each keeps its own ingest profile covering accepted codecs, MXF container structure, audio channel mapping, EBU R128 loudness targets, captioning workflow, and Italian DPP metadata schema. Our delivery team holds today's spec sheets for each network and prepares masters in lock-step with the published needs, so files clear technical acceptance on the first submission rather than cycling through rejection notes that put air dates and licensing windows at risk.

Here is the short of it. For global networks taking Italian content under licence — whether that is co-productions with French, German, or Spanish public TV networks, BBC or Channel 4 in the UK, or US cable and streaming buyers — we run dual-standard delivery covering both the domestic Italian master and the localised global version.

Here is the breakdown. PAL, NTSC, and HD frame-rate conversions are handled with motion-compensated processing through Snell Alchemist or Cinnafilm Tachyon rather than simple frame doubling, audio is remixed to the destination's loudness target (R128 for EBU territories, OP-59 for US networks), and closed-caption and subtitle files are reformatted to the receiving TV networks's preferred container. Automated Interra Baton and Venera Pulsar QC sits alongside manual operator review. Every package ships with a written compliance report documenting video levels, audio loudness, safe-area conformance, and metadata completeness so receiving TV networks can sign off without escalation.