Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales: Next-gen EPG with Icareus Playout

Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), part of the Telefónica Group, has replaced its legacy broadcast data system with Icareus Playout, delivered together with QinMedia in Spain.

As one of Spain’s key audiovisual service providers, Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA) manages hundreds of TV and radio channels. To maintain reliable operations and meet evolving requirements, the company decided to modernize its outdated EPG and PSI/SI solution.

Summary

The new Icareus Playout platform provides TSA with a reliable, flexible, and scalable system for broadcast data management. The project, carried out with QinMedia, improves operational efficiency and ensures TSA can continue to deliver high-quality services to its customers.

Product

Partner

Challenge

TSA’s previous EPG and PSI/SI platform had reached the end of its lifecycle. This created an urgent need for a modern system that could:

  • Support continuous 24/7 broadcast operations
  • Handle complex workflows across multiple channels and networks
  • Provide flexibility for future growth and customer demands
"Partnering Icareus in this project has been a pleasure. TSA is a key customer for QinMedia and we had no other choice than offering them the undisputed leader solution in the EPG servers market. It has been proved to be the right choice."
Mr Roberto Martínez Morán
CTO at QinMedia

Solution

Together with QinMedia, TSA implemented Icareus Playout to handle its EPG and PSI/SI workflows. The system enables automated data generation, real-time monitoring, and customizable configurations, while providing a modular structure that can grow with TSA’s needs.

Results

With Icareus Playout, TSA now operates on a stable and efficient platform that:

  • Guarantees reliable, uninterrupted broadcasting
  • Streamlines daily operations for its teams
  • Adapts to new requirements through its modular design
"Icareus Playout has streamlined the process of creating services in a tree structure, as well as the customized configuration of other services such as text encoding, individual time setting or TTL for each transport, amongst others. This project has granted us greater flexibility, as well as an important personalized attention and professionalism from Qin Media team”.
Mr Julio López Pérez
Internal Support and Implementation Department at TSA