The 5G-MAG Steering Group has recently approved the membership of TRedess About TRedess TRedess is a leading company in professional telecommunications solutions, specialized in the design, development and manufacturing of competitive, reliable and innovative AIR COOLED UHF & VHF Transmitters & Gap Fillers for Digital Terrestrial TV and Radio broadcasting networks. The growth of TRedess is based in our highly qualified team, a group of enthusiastic and dedicated professionals, who work to give a quick response to our market needs. TRedess is composed today by a team of highly qualified people, approximately 40% of them being engineers. TRedess is year after year doing a solid and constant investment in R&D, so we are able to develop competitive, reliable and innovative solutions responding to these markets in technological evolution. Our young and talented R&D engineers develop innovative products with the latest technology, anticipating the new technological challenges in the telecommunications sector. Further information is available at http://www.tredess.com/en/about-us Learn more about our members and how to join 5G-MAG

5G-MAG has recently participated at events dealing with 5G Media technologies UHD and 5G Presenting: Jordi J. Gimenez (5G-MAG Head of Technology) EVENT: Encuentro UHD Spain DATE: Monday 28th November 2022 TIME: From 17:00 to 18:00 CET LOCATION: On-line INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT (Press release from the event organizer) Bringing 5G Media into Action Presenting: Jordi J. Gimenez (5G-MAG Head of Technology) EVENT: International Cooperation Seminar on 5G Multi Media and 5G Broadcasting DATE: Wednesday 28th December 2022 TIME: From 9:00 CST / 2:00 CET LOCATION: On-line INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT (Press release from the event organizer)

Find 5G-MAG presentations at different events in November. An Update from 5G-MAG to the SMPTE+ Progress Report Presenting: Jordi J. Gimenez (5G-MAG Head of Technology) EVENT: SMPTE+ Progress Report DATE: Tuesday 15th November 2022 TIME: From 11:00 AM ET / 17:00 CET LOCATION: On-line INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION 5G-MAG Reference Tools - Deep Dive Presenting: Daniel Silhavy (5G-MAG Reference Tools Development Coordinator) EVENT: HORIZONS 2022 DATE: Wednesday 16th November 2022 TIME: From 15:50 CET LOCATION: On-line INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Latest news on 5G-MAG activities Presenting: Roland Beutler (5G-MAG Vice-Chair) EVENT: 5G Vertical User Workshop DATE: Thursday 24th November 2022 TIME: From 10:30 CET LOCATION: On-line INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

5G-MAG held its fifth General Assembly at the premises of the EBU in Geneva last week. The meeting was an opportunity for members to meet in person and for chairs to explain the work carried out by members within their workgroups during last year. In addition, demonstrators brought by HUAWEI and ATEME were deployed showing immersive experiences with spatial video and the delivery of VVC streams over multicast in mobile networks. Recently elected WG Chairs The General Assembly was also informed about the new 5G-MAG structure and welcomed the recently elected chairs: WG Use Cases, Requirements and Opportunities, co-chaired by Roland Beutler (SWR) and Simon T. Jones (BT) WG Content Production - Standards and Architectures, chaired by Thibaud Biatek (ATEME) WG Content Distribution - Standards and Architectures, chaired by David Vargas (BBC) WG Development and Implementation, coordinated by the Project Office WG Ecosystem and Regulation, chaired by Prakash Moorut (SHURE) WG Promotion and Communication, chaired by Victor Kueh (HUAWEI) More information about our Workgroups can be found here: https://www.5g-mag.com/workgroups 5G Media Demonstrations: Volumetric Video and VVC over Multicast The 5G-MAG members present in Geneva could also enjoy demonstrations on: Volumetric Video and immersive experiences for viewers, brought by HUAWEI. VVC (Versatile Video Coding) DASH streams over a multicast service running on a mobile network, brought by ATEME

The 5G-MAG Steering Group has recently approved the membership of Dolby Laboratories. About Dolby Laboratories Dolby Laboratories creates audio and imaging technologies that transform entertainment and communications for content playback in movies, TV, music and gaming. Founded in 1965, our strengths stem from expertise in analog and digital signal processing and digital compression technologies that have transformed the ability of artists to convey entertainment experiences to their audiences through recorded media. Such technologies led to the development of our noise-reduction systems for analog tape recordings, and have since evolved into multiple offerings that enable more immersive sound for cinema, DTV transmissions and devices, mobile devices, OTT video and music services, and home entertainment devices. Today, we derive the majority of our revenue from licensing our audio technologies. We also derive revenue from licensing our consumer imaging and communication technologies, as well as audio and imaging technologies for premium cinema offerings in collaboration with exhibitors. In addition, we provide products and services for a variety of applications in the cinema, broadcast, and communications markets, and offer media processing and interactivity APIs through our developer platform, Dolby.io. Further information is available at https://www.dolby.com/ Learn more about our members and how to join 5G-MAG

The fifth 5G-MAG General Assembly is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland on the 3rd November 2022. This time members will also have an opportunity to see and discuss about the following demos: Volumetric Video, brought to the GA by HUAWEI Live Streaming with 5G Multicast, brought to the GA by ATEME 5G-MAG Reference Tools, showcasing the latest development of the Open Software Development Programme established by 5G-MAG. This is an event open to 5G-MAG member delegates only. Members can find all the details in the Members' Area. EVENT: 5th 5G-MAG General Assembly DATE: Thursday 3rd November 2022 TIME: 14:00 - 17:00 CET LOCATION: Geneva, Switzerland REGISTER NOW !

Radio 3 (RTVE) relies on 5G and Cloud production for streaming multi-camera live concerts Learn More... https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/programa/td1_5g_190619/5287355/ https://www.caribroadcastunion.org/2022/01/10/using-5g-network-slicing-to-create-new-public-service-opportunities/

Trial at the Parliament of Castilla La-Mancha Participants: RTVE Innovation, Castilla-La Mancha Territorial Center Technical and Production staff, Instituto RTVE. CM Telecom Aviwest Services Live contribution to news programme (Canal 24h TVE)​ Duration July 2020 Location Parliament of Castilla La-Mancha, Toledo (Spain) ​Technologies 5G-NSA​ Equipment and Infrastructure Professional camera (RTMP 5 MHz) to Aviwest decoder placed in Torrespaña (Madrid) ​Main goals Testing contribution of live events from the Castilla La-Mancha Parliament through a 5G small cell. Testing live contribution to the RTVE´s 24H news national channel. Trial at FITUR Participants: RTVE Innovation, Castilla-La Mancha Territorial Center Technical and Production staff, Instituto RTVE. Vodafone Watchity Aviwest Services: Live contribution​ ​Duration January 2020 Location FITUR and Puerta del Sol, Madrid (Spain) ​​Technologies 5G-NSA ​​Equipment and Infrastructure Professional camera (HD with RTMP) 5 MHz. Samsung smartphone used as modem ​​Spectrum / Frequencies 750-755 MHz (5 MHz) Main Goals Testing possibilities of 5G connectivity in crowded areas such as FITUR (Madrid) for live contribution. Learn More... https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/programa/td1_5g_190619/5287355/ https://www.caribroadcastunion.org/2022/01/10/using-5g-network-slicing-to-create-new-public-service-opportunities/ Trial at the European Parliament Participants: RTVE Innovation, Castilla-La Mancha Territorial Center Technical and Production staff, Instituto RTVE. Vodafone Watchity European Parliament's technical staff Services Multi-camera live production Duration December 2019 Location European Parliament Office, Madrid (Spain) Technologies 5G-NSA Equipment and Infrastructure Professional camera (HD with RTMP) 5 MHz. Huawei CPE lent by Vodafone. Production mixed in the cloud. Main goals Test multi-camera live production with cloud mixing for live Twitter interviews. Test possibilities for fast and low cost deployment without OB Van, no flyaway, no radio links, no backpack. Trial at EuCNC'19 Participants: RTVE Innovation, Comunitat Valenciana and Castilla-La Mancha Territorial Center Technical and Production staff Universitat Politècnica de València Orange Palacio de Congresos de Valencia Watchity Cellnex Fenitel Services Live contribution to news programmes from RTVE (Canal 24h, L'Informatiu Comunitat Valenciana, Noticias Castilla La-Mancha) Duration June 2019 Location EuCNC 2019 y 7th Global 5G Event, Valencia (Spain) ​Technologies 5G-S Equipment and Infrastructure Professional camera (RTMP 5 MHz) to Orange 5G network switch Main goals Deliver the first live connection through 5G SA network. Test low latency setup to start a live contribution to news programme.

Nakolos is a joint project initiated by Austrian Broadcasting Services (ORS) and bitstem GmbH to support Content Providers and Broadcaster with their content delivery over OTT. By utilizing 5G Broadcast, the Nakolos solution significantly lowers their distribution and high, unpredictable CDN costs are a thing of the past. Both, Austrian Broadcasting Services (ORS) and Bitstem, have been active in the 5G Media Action Group since 2019. The solution is made possible by using the advantages of 5G Broadcast, which allows to directly receive any IP-based stream (DASH, HLS, CMAF, …) from terrestrial high-power-high-tower transmitters over 60 km on end-user devices such as mobiles or tablets. 5G Broadcast can take the load off mobile communication networks during large live broadcasts and offer a high level of reliability. The 3GPP-based solution consists of a lightweight, single-line integrable software solution for apps on mobile phones and tablets. It handles the logic of combining different distribution channels. A cloud-based control system monitors the current load of content in specific areas, in case of a large amount of concurrent users provisions the 5G Broadcast system and redirects the user devices to an unlimited source of CDN capacity. First time integration in a commercial OTT App As part of a showcase at IBC 2022 in Amsterdam the Nakolos solution was integrated in the simpliTV App, which is commercially operated in Austria. The demo showed the seamless switching between CDN and 5GBC on 5GBC enabled smartphones during a football game after a certain threshold of users were watching the same content. In addition to the technology switch the Nakolos dashboard also shows the reduction in the bandwith used and thereafter the reduction of the CDN costs. The content provider has two options for integrating the Nakolos solution. It can be installed as a standalone App, which means no integration in the Ott App is needed. For professional use it can easily be integrated in the OTT app library. The Nakolos solution by ORS Group and Bitstem GmbH is supported Insys Video Technologies and based on 3GPP and 5G-MAG Reference Tools. More information: www.nakolos.com

From the 9th to the 12th September, the 5G Media Action Group is at IBC2022, the biggest media technology event in Europe. We wish to meet everybody in-person again. Join us at Hall 10 Stand D21 (10.D21 - EBU booth). We have several activities to highlight, including 5G-MAG Reference Tools demos! Get your Visitor Pass: https://show.ibc.org/registration 5G-MAG REFERENCE TOOLS 5G-MAG is showing its initial demos built using the 5G-MAG Reference Tools, the Open Software Toolbox for Connected Media Applications. Join us at 10.D21 and learn about our open software development programme (www.5g-mag.com/reference-tools), know what's next in 5G-MAG work or simply meet us at the booth, ask questions and discuss about any topic! Which demos at IBC2022 are using 5G-MAG Reference Tools? Bridging OTT and broadcasting with 5G-MAG Reference Tools Learn about our first implementation steps, the developer community, enabled use cases and next steps with Target 2023 (by 5G Media Action Group at EBU (Stand 10.D21). Unlimited CDN capacity at fixed price powered by 5G-MAG Reference Tools “Nakolos – Unlimited CDN Capacity at a Fixed Price”, presents the first integration of 5G Broadcast-on-Demand into a commercial OTT app using the 5G-MAG Reference Tool transmitter prototype (by Nakolos: a joint project of ORS Group and Bitstem) at Nakolos (Stand 7.P04). Seamless switching between broadcast & OTT with 5G-MAG Reference Tools Implementation of service continuity without interruption between broadcast and OTT streaming content for OTT media players (by Fraunhofer Fokus) at Fraunhofer (Stand 8B.80). TARGET 2023 5G-MAG Reference Tools developers are getting ready for 2023. Learn more about the software development for the upcoming year right after our meetup on Saturday morning! www.5g-mag.com/target2023 5G-MAG MEETUP ON SATURDAY MORNING Join our Meetup on Saturday morning with coffee and croissants for members and partners! Scheduled from 10:00 to 11:30 at 10.D21. Learn more: https://www.5g-mag.com/post/5g-mag-meetup-at-ibc-2022 CONFERENCE SESSION Join the session on "5G - Tools, trials and media production" were we also got a paper accepted to be presented. Friday 9th September - 13:30 to 14:15 Session: 5G - Tools, trials and media production IBC Conference - E102 Presented by Daniel Silhavy - 5G-MAG's Reference Tools development coordinator Title: 5G-MAG Reference Tools: Dynamic content delivery switching between 5G broadcast and OTT streaming Authors: Johann Mika, Klaus Kuehnhammer, Daniel Silhavy, Romain Bouqueau, Christophe Burdinat, Jordi J. Gimenez Abstract: 5G media streaming is a sophisticated infrastructure designed to robustly support the increasing consumption of high-quality video from content providers. To aid understanding and adoption of its capabilities, a suite of open-source tools (5G-MAG) have been developed. Our first paper, describes those tools using three relevant use-cases: TV and Radio services over LTE-based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast, Broadband-Broadcast seamless switching and Broadcast-on-Demand. Learn more: https://show.ibc.org/content-programmes

CCMA created a Mobile Journalism (MOJO) work group to study the possibilities and start exploiting the power of this radically changed way of capturing breaking news and entertainment content. This work group started in 2021 a project pilot to test and study the advantages of using smartphones for different production typologies for any platform distribution. The project uses 6 IPhone 11 Pro Max and 6 IPhone 12 Pro Max, all equipped with 4G or 5G connection. Together with the main smartphone device, the end user is equipped also with several gadgets like handheld tripod, focus lights and microphones, with the aim of empowering the user with all the tools required to get de best results with extremely light equipment. It was also necessary to design the different workflows for ingest contribution, postproduction, and documentation. Meanwhile a Mobile Device Management (MDM) guaranties that all smartphones are always correctly configured and ready to be used. One of the most important points for a successful project was to develop a training plan for all users. A complete video training course was designed and deployed, which introduce every single user to the world of MOJO, explaining the basic notions, the most interesting app’s, the tools, and gadgets that can help journalists to get the best results and the full workflows for both, pre-recorded and live breaking news. This training course includes a questionnaire at the end to evaluate the knowledge of the user, although the best evaluation is done once the user has to put their knowledge into practice in a real case. Tests have been done from several locations with 5G coverage using app’s like Larix (SRT streaming), VMIXcall, AVIWEST or, more recently, TVU Networks. The results were excellent, although they were also excellent when using 4G networks. But the aim of this tests is to study how 5G networks can help to achieve better performance once new characteristics like low latency or stand alone are added to existing networks, without requiring the bonding of several networks.

Between November 16 and 18, 2021, it was held in Barcelona (within the Smart City Expo 2021) a new edition of the Autonomous Driving Challenge, organized by Seat (Volkswagen Group), and by the Institute of Industrial Robotics and Informatics (IRI-UPC). The Autonomous Driving Challenge is an annual competition aimed at students with a technical background in robotics who are interested in developing the automotive technology of the future. Participants program fully automated driving functions and the necessary software architectures. They work with 1:8 scale vehicles, developed exclusively for the competition. The cars are equipped with a LIDAR sensor, ultrasound, cameras, a high-performance NVIDIA graphics card, a CPU and ROS libraries. Thanks to in-house developed software, the models should be able to drive themselves according to all rules and avoid obstacles. This development is applicable and scalable to algorithms of real-life autonomous driving and provides students with the ability to form part of the creation of that future concept of mobility. The project began in February 2021, when the selected teams received the model vehicle. The organization provided teaching materials, training sessions and technical talks by robotics experts to ensure that all participants have a common starting point. The student teams spent nine months developing their software, which finally allowed cars to move autonomously. On November 17 and 18, the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CCMA) made a special 360º multi-camera live broadcast of the Autonomous Driving Challenge, which allowed users to move inside the circuit in a virtual way and see the tests in first person. In addition, users were able to enjoy a unique TV production carried out by the CCMA together with students from the Thau School in Barcelona, who acted as a team of production and were responsible for narrating and broadcasting the tests. ViVIM Project This CCMA production was framed in the activities of ViVIM project (computer Vision for Multiplatform Immersive Video), which aims to create a new audiovisual format based on omnidirectional video that can be seen in virtual reality devices and also in tablets, smartphones or SmartTV. The ViVIM project focuses on creating a new audiovisual format based on omnidirectional video. This new format will offer end users a consistent audiovisual experience across virtual reality devices, smartphones, tablets and SmartTV. The project works on live and pre-recorded video production and consists of adapt both, technology, and storytelling to deploy all the possibilities of immersive screens. The project aims to impact in the ecosystem of content creators, distributors, and consumers. The project consortium partners are i2Cat, as coordinator, the Vision Center for Computer (CVC), the CCMA, Visyon and Eurecat. CCMA participation in the project, through TV3, focuses on the contribution of the technical and artistic requirements, as well as the definition of the tools that will enhance the creation, distribution, and consumption of content immersive and interactive audiovisuals. Likewise, TV3 collaborates in the coordination, deployment, and execution of the pilots of the project, open to public consumption, which help to analyze and measure the results with the objective of maximizing the impact in the audiovisual sector. 5G Technologies The contribution and broadcast of the event was done using 5G network, with the collaboration of Vodafone, which provided the communication equipment and 5G coverage in the pavilion of the Smart City Expo where the competition took place. This coverage made it possible to make the contribution from three smartphones that acted as mobile cameras. Likewise, the distribution of the content produced, as well as the 360º cameras, was also carried out through the 5G network to access the cloud, from where it was live broadcast to all users. The technical deployment For the realization of the 360º multi-camera live of the Autonomous Car Competition in the Smart City, a technical deployment was designed based on the technology used in remote productions and in mobile journalism (MOJO). The deployment had a total of 8 cameras: 3 smartphones equipped to broadcast via the 5G network. 2 Panasonic robotic cameras connected with the TV realization area. 1 overhead camera broadcasting through the 5G network. 2 360º cameras connected to broadcast server. Capturing ambient audio was planned, as well as microphones for the interviews on mobile phones. All the audiovisual capture was centered on a production system using software based on vMIX that received the different audio and video signals through the 5G network and, in the case of robotic cameras, by direct video connection. Likewise, from the vMIX production system, the reception of the different data and accessory content required to always offer the textual and graphical information on the screen. The stream signal was sent from vMIX to the central server system, from where, along with the stream signals from the two 360º cameras, the content was produced and streamed to the multi-camera endpoint in the cloud thanks to Vodafone's 5G network. Users were able to access these contents through the portal that the CCMA deployed in Internet. All of this is possible thanks to the fact that, in the last two years, the evolution of audiovisual production for external broadcasting has undergone very important in the way of producing live content, displacing the old systems from mobile production and broadcasting to new, much lighter production systems, flexible and quick to deploy, without compromising broadcast quality. 5G technologies are essential for the success of these remote productions and transmissions, where connectivity is a key parameter.