HOT, one of Israel’s leading telecommunications and cable companies, has installed Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive system and DIVAdirector at the core of its new transmission system. The HOT master head-end, based in Petach Tikva, supports a channel lineup that includes HOT’s house and community channels, each customized for five different zones of the country, as well as children’s programming and movie, science, student-oriented, cultural, music, and entertainment channels.

DIVArchive and DIVAdirector provide content storage management for HOT’s 20 channels, integrating with a Harris automation system and Omneon video servers. The new system was brought on-air without disrupting HOT’s 24/7 program schedule of 20 original channels and 16 promo channels and is designed for future scaling up to HD broadcast.