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ORF opens the new million center: Tech Revolution at Küniglberg!
On September 8, 2025, the ORF opens an innovative content management center in Vienna, which revolutionizes broadcasting technology.
ORF opens the new million center: Tech Revolution at Küniglberg!
On September 8, 2025, the ORF opened a new content management center (CMC) on Küniglberg, which is supposed to act as the technical heart of the station. With an investment volume of around 20 million euros, which was financed from the current budget, the new CMC aims to make the spread of TV, radio and online content more efficient. Loud Exxpress.at the ORF technology director Harald Krter describes this center as a European pioneer.
As part of the CMC project, the SMPTE-2110 technology was implemented, which enables broadcast signals to be transmitted via an IP Realtime network. This innovative system, which is widely unique in Europe, replaces the conventional structure in which each video signal needed its own cable. Now the transmission via a network is done, which increases the flexibility and adaptability of the transmission processing.
Technological innovations and increase in efficiency
The CMC combines the control of online, TV and radio content at a single location and includes the transmission processing of ORF III in parish throwing, which is now being centralized in Vienna. ORF general director Roland Weißmann emphasizes the efficiency and flexibility of the new system and promises increasing broadcasting. The new jobs enable that all channels can be controlled from any CMC workstation, which is significant for the quick response to changes, so ots.at.
Another advantage of the CMC is the automation of work processes, which enables an increase in the output by up to 50 percent. The new fully automated small studios support increasing live shares and new playback paths to operate efficiently. The integration of technology into a multiple redundant network also ensures high cyber security, a crucial criterion for the ORF as part of the critical infrastructure.
Transformation and outlook
The switch to the new content management center is largely completed; The last adjustments are to be made by the end of the year. In the course of this transformation, broadcasting technicians in ORF are trained into flexible CMC operators who are able to monitor over 300 server-integrated systems. The requirements for the qualifications of the employees increase significantly because knowledge in complex IP networks and software systems are required to master the new standards in the radio industry. The activity of the technicians is thus fundamentally redefined and represents a challenge how kurier.at reported.
The CMC not only marks a technical upheaval for the ORF, but also a strategic realignment of the company from a traditional broadcaster to a modern platform, which also uses cloud services. Harald Kraubter sees a multimedia linchpin in this center that prepares the ORF on the way to a new era of broadcasting.