We are very aware that not every member of your flock will be able to make it to church for every service, so we want to help you make it easier for you to come to them. Yes, conventional methods such as CB radio are capable of delivering the message, but they cannot deliver an immersive & interactive experience.

Sapphire can offer:-

• Live audio streaming
• “Listen Again” facility derived from live services
• Live video streaming
• “Watch Again” facility derived from live services
• Tweet-along & Text-along services for those in your digital congregation – integrated with screens in church, either public or private
• Mobile Apps – bring your content, schedules etc to your congregation in a new way
• Audio-Visual system design & systems integration

The cost of our service is extremely competitive – our video services start from £100/month, our audio services from £70/month. If you already have a suitable computer which we can re-purpose to encode your services, we will set up our software on this. If you don’t quite have the right equipment, we can supply & install the right equipment at an extremely low cost, to get you worldcasting in no time.

The same great pricing applies to AV system design, upgrade & system integration – if you’d like to take your church to the next level & begin worldcasting your message, we can provide suitable sound & camera equipment to help.

Our service is within the financial reach of all churches, chapels & other religious venues. We’d be very happy to help you reach a wider, more interactive & inclusive audience

Whether you’re looking to supplement your existing operation, start something new or just need “something a bit special”, we’re there with you right through the process

In this section

• Radio
• TV
• Digital & Social Media
• Production
• Broadcast Technology, Studio & Transmission Engineering
• Streaming

Passionate about Radio

Sapphire & Radio go back a long way, you might even say we’re passionate about it. We’ve worked with some big names, on prestigious projects, including BBC, UTV & RTE.

Looking for talent? We have them. We also have the technical people to keep your station on air & the perfect people to run your outside broadcasts smoother than a military operation.

Our Event Radio offering is second to none & over the years we’ve worked with many major events to bring an added dimension & information channel to the mix. Most notably, we have worked with Truckfest to deliver Truckfest FM - a radio station broadcasting for 4 days to deliver music, information & additional entertainment to Europe’s biggest truck show.

Sapphire also offer “media weeks” for schools & colleges. Our work with Peterborough Regional College over the course of 6 years saw us deliver a 24\7 live radio station with content presented & produced by students, the entire production & technical operation was supported by Sapphire – it meant we worked 19 hour days, but thats how passionate we are about radio!

As seen on TV

Sapphire own & operate a number of modern Sony ENG cameras & audio equipment, meaning we produce great looking video too. Our work in this arena has taken us to some interesting & fun places – in fact, we’ve built up quite a specialism in the Equestrian circuit in Northern Ireland & Ireland.

Whether you’re producing a programme for broadcast, filming a corporate video, an event or just want to add a short video piece to your website, we can help you through the process from start to finish.

Digital & Social Media

The world is changing, media is changing faster than anything. No longer do we turn primarily to broadcast outlets for our news – Twitter & Facebook always get there first. The challenge in todays connected media world, where everyone is a journalist, is to work these emerging channels to your advantage.

Sapphire have been at the forefront of digital media, streaming & social media as they have emerged over the years. We broadcast our first internet radio stream in 1998 & haven’t stopped since. Since then, we’ve built a solid radio streaming platform Airstream to deliver audio, our Flash Media Server platform is ideal for delivering live video streams to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. We’ve even built our very own Content Delivery Network to take the hassle out of getting material out there – we even handle multiple devices & detect acceptable bandwidth on the fly, making sure your content is always delivered at its best.

We manage Social Media presences for a number of clients & we’d love to help you embrace the Social Media revolution. When you combine our video & audio experience with Social & Digital Media, we’re sure you’ll agree, together we can make people sit up & listen…

Production

Sapphire encompasses a full service production house for both TV & Radio – we produce station imaging, advertising & other elements for a number of commercial & community media clients.

Our facilities include:-

• Adobe Audition 3
• ProTools HD9
• Final Cut Pro 7
• Apple Motion 3
• Adobe Premiere CS5
• Adobe After Effects CS5
• Adobe Flash CS5
• Adobe Illustrator CS5
• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Cinema 4D
• Zaxworks
• Voicebooth with Oktava MK2500 mic & TFPro P3 mic channel
• Portable portrait photo studio, including 4 light set

We can deliver projects in any digital format through online delivery, on DVD or either HDV or DVCAM tape stock. Audio projects can be delivered as required via e-delivery in any format or on CD/DVD. We have made the conscious decision to not offer DAT or Minidisc delivery, however we do accept MiniDisc for ingest.

Broadcast Technology, Studio & Transmission Engineering

Technology is at the heart of everything we do – nowhere moreso than at the heart of a modern broadcast operation. Sapphire have extensive project management, design & build experience of Studio Complexes & transmission chains for both TV & Radio. We provide a full-service solution to any requirement no matter on what scale that may be, including working with you to design a specification, systems integration, training your team & ongoing support – because we’re broadcast professionals, we’re sensitive to the way you work & your deadlines too. If you’re considering an upgrade, newbuild or just require ongoing support, we should talk.

Streaming

We’ve invested in a state of the art audio & video streaming, digital delivery & content management system, designed fully  in house by Sapphire & built on common standards. This makes us the ideal choice to deliver your radio station, TV broadcast or event online. Our system provides full management & control for both live & on demand services, plus smart on-the-fly re-encoding to suit end user devices & connections.

We have special rate cards for community radio & church streaming – you can click here to read more about our church services.

We are available as an outsource IT service provider to all industries with a specialism in broadcast & travel technology – the good news is, it costs less than you may think.

In this section

• Our Experience
• How we can help
• Why managed services cost less than you think

Our Experience

We’ve been fortunate to work with some massive names in our past, both within the IT sector & beyond

This blue-chip major corporate experience places us ideally to consult on projects of any size, whether you’re a small business & just want to concentrate on doing business whilst someone else looks after your technology, or a major corporate embarking on a project.

Our team bring to the table over 15 years experience each of technology across Banking, ISPs, Hosting, Travel, Managed Services, Government, Pharma & a wide range of other fields. We are able to supply consultants who are cleared to ‘SC’ level for high-security projects.

The team also each have a number of niche skills, including but not limited to:-

• PCI DSS
• Digital Security & Penetration Testing
• E-Commerce & Fulfilment
• IP Telephony
• ISP Network Design & Build
• WiMax Network Design & Build (including RF Planning, Coverage Plots etc)

How We Can Help

Sapphire have chosen to take a very flexible approach to how our services fit into your business. We offer a wide range of options, from light touch to fully managed IT services where we become your virtual IT department. We believe that you should be able to get on with what you do best – running your business, whilst someone else takes care of the core technical infrastructure of the business. We work with you to determine the exact mix which will work for your unique requirements, providing where necessary all management & reporting tools to ensure services remain at a high standard. We include protective & proactive monitoring of all systems as standard & all of our operations comply fully with ITIL best practice.

Why Managed Services Cost Less Than You Think

There is a common misconception that Managed Services or outsourced support costs the earth – this is simply untrue. Our most basic service level, aimed at small business, begins at £300 per month – a small price to pay for the peace of mind of knowing that your technology is in safe & secure hands, with the ability to proactively monitor & prevent problems before they become service affecting. We believe that each requirement is unique & as such, we offer a free initial consultation in order that we can determine the exact package of services & management which is best for your business.

Sapphire also specialise in running media operations for events, corporate video & internal communications, podcasting, vodcasting & photography.

In this section:-

• Training
• Event Radio
• Video (Corporate & Events)
• Photography (Corporate & Events)
• Event Management
• Corporate Media & PR

Training

Sapphire has the benefit of many years experience & expertise in a wide range of creative, technical & specialist disciplines, backed up by 1st class people. We’d like to share that with you. Our team all have previous educational experience as tutors in various environments, deliving training to individuals from 16 upwards.

We are able to offer training the following in-house designed courses:-

• An introduction to broadcast & digital media
• Producing for Radio
• Producing for TV
• Editing for Radio & TV
• Presenter Training & Showreels
• Studio Technical Introduction – What everyone should know
• Code in a Day (Learn how to write your own web application in a day – ideal for agency execs who need to understand the tech stuff)

Sapphire also offer security industry SIA training – please see our Security page for more information

Event Radio

Sapphire’s broadcast & information radio background places us ideally to provide informing, entertaining & engaging short term radio services to events across the UK.

We’re very aware that you’ve got your hands full with running the event & that you don’t need even more people to worry about, that’s why we have developed methods to operate as a self contained unit at any event. We organise everything for you, from the ground up – all you need to do is provide a space for our studio.

You’ll have heard our subcontract work in 2008 & 2009 on the extremely successful Truckfest FM at the East of England showground in Peterborough & at many other prestigious events up & down the country.

Alongside being experienced in information radio & providing stunning broadcast output for your event, our team have various specialisms, such as Equestrian Eventing & Commentary which have been much in demand from our clients over recent times.

Event radio can be a great information tool & revenue stream too.

Broadcasting the latest travel, weather & event news updates lets your visitors keep in touch with what’s happening whether they’re en-route or already at the event. Hourly international news completes the picture keeping people who like to be up-to-date with the latest hard news happy too.

Corporate & Event Video
At Sapphire, we’re proud of our background in broadcast & we’d like to make you proud of what you’re doing too. Whether you’re launching a new product, delivering coverage of an event of any size, want to promote your business in an eyecatching way, or would like to just record a weekly “state of the nation address” to your team, Sapphire have the people, kit & experience to deliver stunning results every time.

We manage & produce a number of digital TV channels, from content & production, through to playout & delivery, so as you’d expect, we know a thing or two about getting results.

Why not invite us along to capture your event in stunning HD?

Corporate & Event Photography
As you’d expect with our broadcast expereience, we’re pretty good with a camera. Sapphire use Nikon equipment & the latest technology to capture your event & deliver stunning images both online & in print. We work with you to decided on a shooting style & delivery type which suits your requirements.

Sapphire are also prolific Corporate Headshot & Equestrian photographers

Event Management
Our experience has seen us managing and organising events for a wide portfolio of clients across a range of industry sectors. We provide a complete service from venue finding, complete delegate management and audio/visual through to the design and development of exhibition stands. We are unique in that we are the only events management company on the island of Ireland who are able to encompass everything, up to & including broadcasting your conference online…even acting as host broadcaster for major events, delivering the live feed to TV stations worldwide.

We make your event our business and pride ourselves on our ability to understand you, your business, its objectives and your event and exhibition requirements and most importantly draw on our experience and flair for event management to achieve maximum results for you.

Corporate Media, PR & Reputation Management

Its true, image is everything. Sapphire have worked with some major brands to deliver internal & external communications strategies & projects. We provide a full service, PR & Reputation Management solution to your brand when you need it most. Unlike the other agencies, we don’t believe in fancy, brightly coloured offices – we think our work speaks for itself. We even have connections out to broadcast partners via ISDN & Fibre, in order to provide a timely service when our people are acting as figureheads on behalf of your brand.

Our Reputation Management team are experts in both online & broadcast media, they are backed up by investigators & analysts using advanced analytics & search systems – no longer do you need to worry about a disaffected ex-employee causing havoc online, thanks to our experience & technology, you will know about it & be able to take action long before it becomes damaging.

This new addition also offers specialised investigation, surveillance & digital forensics.

In this section:-

• Investigations, Intelligence & Surveillance
• CCTV, Access Control, Alarms & Physical Security
• Digital Defence, Security & Forensics

Investigations, Intelligence & Surveillance