CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, together with its Malaysian partner, Cedar Broadcast & Communications, today announced the deployment of a centralised radio asset and archive management system for Radio Television Malaysia (RTM). As part of the company’s media solutions portfolio, the system is built on the CGI dira broadcast media platform, replacing RTM’s legacy archive infrastructure and support RTM Radio’s national and regional production operations from its Angkasapuri broadcast complex.
The system provides a disk-based archive with 1+1 hardware redundancy, supporting broadcast audio formats including MPEG, AAC, BWF, and WAV. Supporting RTM Radio, RTM Radio News, and RTM’s regional stations, it enables centralised management and exchange of assets across departments and production facilities, covering music library, news material, show recordings, and historical programme content.
A key capability is seamless multi-site integration with RTM’s existing dira radio production and news production clusters, enabling automated and manual archive and restore workflows. CGI dira is a fully integrated software suite for professional radio broadcast operations, supporting workflows from content creation, editing, and scheduling through playout and archiving.
“In addition to supporting day-to-day workflows, the new centralised radio asset and archive management system introduces an offline archive tier, in which high-resolution media is migrated to a deep archive Media Asset Manager (MAM) while low-resolution browse copies and metadata remain immediately accessible,” said Ahmad Mahmood, MCDSB’s Project Director. “This allows RTM to balance storage costs with operational accessibility.”
The platform also serves as RTM’s central music and radio library, providing a shared repository accessible to all Angkasapuri departments and regional stations nationwide. Monthly archive volumes are expected to exceed 200 hours of content, with music and radio library export activity alone projected at 500 hours per month.
“RTM is one of Southeast Asia’s most significant public broadcasters, and this project reflects our commitment to delivering scalable archive infrastructure for national media organisations. CGI dira provides a platform that can grow with operational demands while protecting the long-term integrity of RTM’s broadcast heritage,” said Michael Thielen, Vice-President, Media Solutions at CGI.
“Cedar has worked closely with the RTM and CGI teams, as well as Media City Development Sdn Bhd (MCDSB) as the service company for RTM’s archive, to ensure this deployment addresses the real operational requirements of a busy national radio environment. The result is a powerful integrated archive system that will serve RTM’s production teams for many years to come,” said Peter Lim, Cedar’s Solution Architect.
