NetApp, eMAM and ASE will produce a joint webinar July 12 on cloud solutions for media environments using scalable, configurable components. David Miller, COO of eMAM will host the webinar. Jason Danielson, NetApp media and entertainment solutions manager, and Andrew Sjoquist, founder and CEO of ASE, will present, NetApp said. The webinar will provide an […]
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KSE NOC Acquires IPV MAM
KSE Network Operations Center (KNOC) in Centennial, Colo., has purchased a Curator MAM system from IPV, the company announced Wednesday. KNOC, the production and distribution facility for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) network properties, will use the system to manage media throughout its post-production processes, a press release from the company said. Deployment of the […]
Cantemo Releases Online Video of Portal 3.1
Cantemo today announced it has posted an in-depth online video explaining the new features of its Portal 3.1 media asset management system. The company has also announce the immediate availability of its Windows version of the Cantemo Agent Software, joining the Mac version of the software. The company will exhibit at BVE in London, Feb. […]
India’s ABP News Chooses Masstech MAMs
Indian news broadcaster ABP News Network has selected Masstech MAM solutions to update and streamline its workflows, the company announced today in a press release. The ABP order spans all of the broadcaster’s channels and represents Masstech’s largest sale to an India-based news organization to date, the company said. More information is available on the […]
Beach House Pictures Upgrades Workflow
Singapore-based Beach House Pictures has eliminated its content silos, bringing continuity across media production workflow, with a new media asset management, shared storage and tape-based archiving from EditShare, the company has announced. Beach House Pictures, which produces series such as the David Attenborough-narrated Wild City, has added the EditShare Flow MAM, 235TB EditShare EFS XStream […]
For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP
Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of television. At the core of the service offering is IP transport and virtualization of functions traditionally done with standalone black boxes running proprietary software in equipment racks. Shortly before IBC […]
New axle Pulse Promises More Feet On The Street
Does this sound familiar? “News is about content, and I need to get as many feet on the street as possible to drive up my station’s story count and attract more viewers.” One of the major drivers of IP newsgathering has been this type of thinking. Rather than limiting field newsgathering to crews assigned to expensive […]
Study Finds Media Execs Embrace MAMs
New research by market analyst Ovum conducted for Avid has found two-thirds of the executives surveyed said media asset management (MAM) technology has lowered the cost of multi-platform distribution. Overall the study reflects favorably on MAMs as a technology that can reduce costs, improve efficiency and help to drive new revenue and produce ROI for […]
Finding A Needle In A Haystack
A few weeks back, I spoke with Jim Casabella, director of advanced technology for the ABC Owned Television Stations group, about the progress that’s been made in a multi-year effort to preserve the videotape archives of the news departments at the group’s six largest market stations as digital media files on an extensive MAM system. […]
BBC Studios and Post Production Installs Front Porch Digital’s Archiving and MAM Technology
BBC Studios and Post Production’s Digital Media Services business — the commercial subsidiary of the BBC that preserves, remasters and manages content for private clients — is installing Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive CSM and DIVAdirector media asset management (MAM) systems. The systems will allow the BBE’s digital media services team to provide long-term storage for […]