Year-end 2021, witnessed the remote production implementation of WASP3D’s Election Graphics & Broadcast Services for Malaysia State Elections, at Astro Awani

Keen to achieve the highest ratings by being first and getting it right, Astro Awani entrusted the task of managing the Malaysian State Elections 2021 to WASP3D in November. Astro Awani is a Malaysian pay television news channel with programs consisting of news, current affairs, lifestyle, documentaries, and interview programs. The channel has been associated with us since the year 2015.

Since the on struck of covid19 pandemic, remote production has become an integral part of on-air broadcast. With a team of 6 WASP3D product specialists from graphics, support & development departments & in mere 15 days, the end-to-end remote production integration of nominations and election data to custom graphics was completed.

Today, the viewer’s consume news information from sources other than television, so providing a comprehensive analysis & insights is extremely important. Keeping the above factors in mind, the custom election graphics package was designed and integrated to live data feeds for Astro Awani.

The Showcase Comprised of

Live Data integrated Election CG Graphics – One of the key tasks in a dynamic live production scenario like an election broadcast in this case, was to handle multiple data sources simultaneously & integrating them into 3D graphics. With zero coding, WASP3D seamlessly integrated live election data in sync with the real-time MySQL database.

Social Media Integration (SMT) – Social Media Integration enabled engagement with audiences for collation of opinion polls about the Malaysian Election’s trending campaigns results, contests, and other live interactions with the viewing public. The module enabled broadcasters with intelligence gathering to assist them to monitor “trends” in Social Media and accordingly develop their program content.