CTO Series: Bevan Gibson, ITN
A broadcast news organisation needs flexible reactions and infrastructure to deliver current affairs on time, but also forward planning and skills investment to guarantee continued success, according to ITN’s Bevan Gibson
As ITN Chief Technology Officer since 2014, Bevan Gibson is a key player at the television news and content giant which produces over 3000 hours a year of live, near-live, news and features content across an array of global sports. ITN (Independent Television News) also creates TV commercials and branded content and provides access to a significant portion of its news archive via Getty images.
Founded in the UK in 1955 as the news provider for ITV, Britain’s first commercial television network, ITN also began producing news for Channel 4 in 1982, and in 1997, it began providing news programming for the newly launched Channel 5. In recent years, it has expanded its scope beyond news to produce factual, entertainment, and multi-media content for a variety of global customers including the BBC, History, and Discovery.
“We have quite a broad business, and we spend time making sure…
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