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Television Studios at the Rogers Communications Centre  The Rogers Communications Centre is home to - Canada's largest installation of Television Studios in the countries educational system. Stemming from Canada's first Television Studio assembled in 1949, Ryerson has been the leader in Media education establishing its first permanent TV studio in 1953 when an act of British Parliament freed up two military use television camera's to be placed at Ryerson for training and development purposes. On there way to Ryerson those cameras were used to cover Harry Truman's first address to the United Nations and were used to launch the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952.Today Ryerson operates three Television Studios and one multipurpose studio that supports a variety of transmedia production needs.These studios have been designed to accommodate different curriculum from a variety of programs and interconnect to a number of other facilities. These television studios include; Television Studio A - Canada's First High Definition Television Studio Studio B - supports the production needs of students in the School of Radio and Television Arts to accomodate videoshoots, multimedia projects, presentation media installations and transmedia production. Television Studio C - Multi purposed for use by the Schools of Theatre, Fashion, Radio and Television Arts, Image Arts and Journalism Television Studio D - Operated by the School of Journalism  The Production Trunkline System – also referred to internally as the PTL, is accessible through 9 locations throughout the Rogers Centre connected by optical fiber and CAT 6. It ties into the Trilogy Mercury IP intercom system and Axia audio over IP system and the HDSDI video is converted to optical signal for distribution to any of the three TV Studios in the Rogers Communications Centre. This allows for teaching and learning in the area of remote production as it applies to TV Studio production and allows for live remote reporting to be integrated into Journalistic newscasts. The HD-SDI Patching Network - In more recent years the Rogers Communications Centre has been building an HD-SDI patching network that allows for all Rogers Communications Centre HD-SDI cameras to be patched to any of the Centre's television switchers. Optical HDSDI signal is converted to copper coaxial by means of two Evertz HD2020 Video PassPort conversion and frame synchronization units. HDSDI on copper coaxial is routed by means of Aja Kumo 16X16 video routers and standard patching.
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