Lithuanian commercial television group LNK Group has moved playout and media management for its five national television networks to Grass Valley's AMPP Media Operating System as part of a wider upgrade of its broadcast infrastructure.

The deployment covers LNK, BTV, TV1, InfoTV and 2TV, replacing the broadcaster's legacy playout environment with Playout X and Framelight X running on AMPP Local at its facility in Vilnius.

The project was delivered by Hannu Pro, Grass Valley's partner in the Baltic region and a certified AMPP Managed Service Partner. It combines an on-premises primary system with cloud-based disaster recovery.

LNK selected the Grass Valley solution following a competitive tender. The broadcaster was seeking to maintain the reliability and resilience required for national television playout while gaining greater flexibility to develop services and workflows.

LNK's five networks carry scheduled programming, advertising, live content, news and graphics. Redundant Playout X chains provide continuity across all five networks, with support for live inputs, secondary recordings, HTML5 graphics, advanced audio and SCTE insertion for downstream advertising on LNK's digital platform.

LNK and BTV also support SRT contribution feeds.

AMPP enables applications to run on shared computing infrastructure rather than dedicated broadcast hardware, allowing LNK to introduce or modify workflows more flexibly.

The deployment operates alongside the broadcaster's SMPTE ST 2110 infrastructure, connecting software-defined applications with its wider IP environment.

Framelight X provides media management, logging, editing, record scheduling and content review, with high-resolution and proxy media stored on central NAS storage.

The platform also supports quality control and preview of high-resolution content and connects LNK's active workflows with an archive of approximately 150.000 assets.

Framelight X replaces the archive browsing and selection functionality previously used by traffic, scheduling and promotional teams, providing access to content held within the existing Telestream DIVA archive.

Hannu Pro integrated DIVA and Vantage with the new environment to meet LNK's workflow requirements.

For LNK and BTV, disaster recovery is provided through a separate AMPP deployment on AWS, with Wasabi storage used for high-resolution and proxy media.

The project builds on a technology relationship between LNK and Hannu Pro dating back to 1993.

LNK's wider production environment includes Grass Valley LDX cameras, K-Frame vision mixers and GV STRATUS, alongside Octopus NRCS for news production.