EVS will launch the new Tactiq modular control room interface at IBC2025, helping broadcasters to scale, automate and customise their workflows, and reassign workstations.
EVS is launching a new modular control room interface named Tactiq at IBC2025. Its introduction at the show will be the first public display of EVS’s wider Flexible Control Room (FCR) solution, a software-defined approach to live production that broadcasters can use to scale, automate and customise their workflows.
RTBF, Belgium’s French-language public broadcaster will be the first to fully deploy FCR and Tactiq at its new Media Square facility, an all-IP production hub in Brussels due to open in 2026.
Reassigning Workstations for Scalable Live Production
With Tactiq, production workspaces are no longer confined to task-specific hardware. By detaching the user interface from backend systems, Tactiq abstracts complexity and unifies control of all key production elements—including video, audio, graphics and lighting—into one straightforward, modular interface. Abstraction expresses complex systems engineering components in more manageable, human-understandable terms, and allows developers to focus on details and functions that users need to deal with at a higher level.
EVS believes this software-defined approach gives production teams greater operational flexibility. For example, any workstation can be assigned any task, operated via touchscreen or physical controller. Each operator position becomes multifunctional as well, improving collaboration and team efficiency, and widening the scope of workflows.
Designed with interoperability as a primary feature, Tactiq integrates with EVS’s live production systems and supports many different third-party tools. The result is a consistent, unified experience across the production pipeline.
Optimising Operations
Tactiq also supports rapid scalability to ease such processes as onboarding new operators, reassigning responsibilities or adapting control room layouts to meet live production demands as they change. In these ways, as well as its interface functionality, Tactiq serves as the access point to the dynamic, adaptable EVS Flexible Control Room.
RTBF Media Square, to be launched in 2026.
The Tactiq interface is built for operators of all experience levels, who can transition smoothly between roles to manage either live or pre-recorded shows. To further optimise operations, Tactiq allows rundown-based automation of repetitive tasks, while preserving options for manual intervention. This hybrid model reduces operational errors and ensures consistent output in the background, even when operators are under pressure to respond to live production issues.
Managing System Resources
Another key component of FCR is the Production Resource Manager, used to identify and , operator roles and equipment configurations during live production. Once in place, this capability simplifies setup and coordination, making future productions more efficient for engineers and operators.
Built to support both IP and legacy workflows, FCR aligns with EBU’s own Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) vision of software-defined production infrastructures in the media industry. The DMF promotes flexible, interconnected systems and, like FCR, is also characterised by a software-based approach, interoperability, unified media exchange and an affinity for cloud infrastructure.
“We are excited about what FCR represents, and we also understand the importance of protecting prior investments,” said Dieter Backx, VP Control & Orchestration at EVS. “For that reason, FCR is designed to integrate with existing infrastructure, resulting in continuity and compatibility across the live production environment.”
FCR deployment at RTBF
Belgium’s public broadcaster RTBF is pioneering the new approach. Following their successful Control Room 42 initiative, RTBF partnered with EVS to develop and deploy the first full-scale FCR at its upcoming Media Square facility, in Brussels. Control Room 42 equips users to configure their workstations for multitasking in appropriate ways to suit television, radio or digital content, as required.
On the front end, traditional equipment is replaced with a unified, universal user interface. On the back end, all the processing is done by real-time software cores running on IT servers. This facility will support hundreds of trained users, operating within a fully software-defined, reconfigurable environment.
Jean-Paul Philippot, CEO of RTBF said, “Tactiq and the Flexible Control Room mean that we can design control environments around how we want to work, not the way a software or hardware manufacturer wants us to work.
“With Tactiq and the wider FCR solution, we can make more flexibility and scalability available to broadcasters than has been possible before, while creating new opportunities for production staff to take on different operational roles. Our partnership with RTBF has been instrumental in validating the FCR vision. Their forward-looking approach shows what’s possible when innovation and collaboration are applied to live production.”
EVS will showcase Tactiq and the Flexible Control Room solution at IBC2025 in Amsterdam, 12-15 September. https://evs.com/
