MUMBAI: The biggest film awards show the Academy Awards are just a few days away. BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) has announced that it will provide its technical expertise for the live webcast of the event for Oscar.com for the second year in a row.

In India the event will air live on Star Movies on 1 March early in the morning. During the live event, BTBS will provide the signal acquisition and encoding for the online pressroom interviews, the backstage interviews with the winners of each Oscar category, as well as the red carpet interviews and the Governors Ball. Prior to the awards, BTBS will encode all movie trailers for the films that are nominated with the final nominations appearing on www.oscar.com for users to watch.

BTBS will provide the signal acquisition from the back stage of the Kodak Theatre to BTBS' Los Angeles and Washington, DC Media Centers for monitoring purposes. The signal will then be digitally encoded in Windows Media format at the Washington, DC media center for delivery to the Akamai network for distribution on the Oscar.com web site. The viewers will also be able to view the Academy Awards coverage on-demand.

BTBS supplies global broadcast solutions. It provides a range of terrestrial and satellite based multimedia transmission solutions as well as content and customer management services. The group offers flexible, cost effective tailor-made services to an international client base including broadcasters, news agencies, production companies, special event organisers, and large corporations.