The "sting"was required to be uniquely evocative of WNET.ORG`s media properties, modular,and able to expand from three seconds up to 60 seconds to accompany futureI.D.`s of various lengths. The theme written by Athens was chosen by a panel of executives from WNET.ORGand its companies. For having his work chosen to be used in the spots, Athenswas awarded an honorarium. "I was glad to have this opportunity because public television is such a goodcause," said Athens. "I learned a lot about how to communicate about music withpeople who are not musicians. Sometimes the words we use are the same but themeanings are completely different. It was a lot of fun." New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of televisionand web content.
The parent of THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and Creative News Group,WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Worldfocus,Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secretsof the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack,Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends, and Cyberchase to national and internationalaudiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves theentire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts andinnovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORGpursues a single, overarching goal - to create media experiences of lastingsignificance for New York, America and the world For more information, visit. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http:// Castruita Specter, Copyright Business Wire 2009.
SeaChange`s Introduction of the MSV 1000 Generates Praise from Press, Excitementamong Broadcasters at NAB2009ACTON, Mass.--(Business Wire)--SeaChange International`s (NASDAQ: SEAC) new MediaServer 1000 standalonemultichannel ingest and playout server was presented with the 2009 STAR(Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award by the editorial staff of TVTechnology magazine at NAB2009 in Las Vegas. Introduced on the opening day ofthe annual broadcast technology exhibition, the MSV 1000 delivers the renownedreliability of SeaChange`s storage servers with the flexibility of itssoftware-based codecs in a 2 RU footprint, lowering the point of entry forbroadcasters to begin realizing the efficiencies and power of file-basedworkflows. Now in its 10th year, TV Technology`s STAR Award is designed to celebrate andshowcase the outstanding technological innovations available to the broadcastindustry. A panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors and columnistsreviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and theiroverall contribution to the industry, and then submitted their award nominees. "Every year, the NAB Show serves as the launching pad for thousands of newproducts and services for audio and video professionals," said Tom Butts, TVTechnology Editor.
"Our panel of editors walks the show floor in search of themost innovative technologies. The products and services that we select for theSTAR Award make the cut - they demonstrate their ability to help advance theacquisition and distribution of entertainment and information across the mediaspectrum." The MSV 1000`s "stream-through" functionality means the unit operates not onlyas a standalone system for simple ingest and playout, but can also be combinedwith SeaChange`s Broadcast MediaLibrary (BML) and DataDirect Networks` (DDN) S2Ato expand into a shared storage system with no download. In such a case, the MSV1000`s built-in software codecs complement the greater storage capacity of theBML or DDN`s system. With up to 10 channels, the MSV 1000 provides the highest channel capacity onthe market today, all supported by up to 10TB of RAID6-protected SATA or 1TB ofRAID5-protected flash memory storage.
The integrated codecs can natively supporta broad range of popular tapeless formats, including Avid DNxHD, DV25, 50 or100, IMX and MPEG-2. "SeaChange`s receipt of the STAR Award for the MSV 1000 is not only an honor,but also an affirmation of the remarkable level of customer interest that thesystem created on the NAB show floor," said Chris West, vice president ofworldwide broadcast sales, SeaChange. "The MSV 1000 is the right product at theright time for the marketplace, enabling broadcasters to economically take thefirst steps toward tapeless workflows and later expand into large multichannelplatforms while continuing to leverage their initial investment." In addition, the versatile MSV 1000 can operate in a disaster recovery orbusiness continuity role, serving as an emergency backup to primary ingest andplayout systems in a broadcast operation. SeaChange`s range of proven contentstorage, streaming and management solutions, including the fault-resilientFML200 flash memory-based play-to-air server, and its latest BroadcastMediaClient server codecs, will be on display during BroadcastAsia, June 16-19in Singapore. Demonstrations will underscore why broadcasters of all sizes inall parts of the world continue to make SeaChange their digital videofoundation.