Belo Television Stations Deploy ILC's MaxView(R) to Automate Video-Over-IP News Distribution
Posted on: Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 06:00 CDT
ATLANTA, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Network control software developer ILC today announced that its MaxView(R) software with Scenario(TM) scheduling system was chosen by Fortune 1000 newspaper and television company Belo Corp. to automate the management and scheduling of a video-over-IP network for its nationwide television stations. Deploying MaxView to optimize video path utilization, Belo stations in Texas, DC, Seattle and Phoenix can send each other more breaking news segments - ultimately broadcast to more than 30 million viewers -- without requiring costly satellite time.
Belo first sought a vendor-independent management system when a new encoder/decoder vendor was selected to upgrade its video paths, interconnecting its six Texas stations (KVUE-TV Austin, KHOU-TV Houston, KENS- TV San Antonio, WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth, TXCN (Texas Cable News)), Belo Capitol Bureau in Washington, DC, KING-TV in Seattle/Tacoma, KTVK-TV Phoenix and KMSB-TV Tucson, Arizona.
The broadcaster chose MaxView -- a system open to different manufacturers -- to control its old and new video equipment plus easily integrate additional equipment as future hardware upgrades would necessitate.
While Belo operators already experience new efficiencies using MaxView's remote equipment monitor and control functionality, the software's scheduling feature caught the attention of TXCN Chief Engineer David Boyd.
"With MaxView we have reduced configuration and diagnostics operations to graphical point-and-click control," states Boyd. "More importantly, MaxView's integration of scheduling has the potential to reduce our operating expenses when our bandwidth requirements grow to the point that it is financially impractical to maintain dedicated video paths."
"The MaxView Scenario scheduling system will enable Belo to efficiently schedule feeds to optimally utilize bandwidth over its existing infrastructure," explains ILC Vice President Mark Krikorian. "Scenario accomplishes this by automatically allocating hardware and handling conflict resolution to automate the entire booking, scheduling and event launch process."
Going forward, MaxView also frees Belo to choose the equipment mix that best suits the network's requirements as it grows, because MaxView interfaces to all device types, including SNMP, without writing software code.
About Belo
Belo Corp. is one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. A Fortune 1000 company with approximately 7,900 employees and $1.4 billion in annual revenues, Belo operates news and information franchises in some of America's most dynamic markets and regions, including Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, Rhode Island, and the Mid- Atlantic region. Belo owns 19 television stations (six in the top 15 markets) reaching 13.8 percent of U.S. television households; owns or operates 10 cable news channels; and manages one television station through a local marketing agreement. Belo publishes four daily newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, TX). Belo Interactive's new media businesses include more than 30 Web sites, several interactive alliances, and a broad range of Internet-based products. For more information contact Carey Hendrickson, Belo's vice president of investor relations, at 214-977-6606. Additional information, including earnings releases, is available online at http://www.belo.com/ .
About ILC
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ILC develops network control software for commercial and government applications in the telecommunications, satellite and broadcast industries. Specializing in hybrid networks, ILC's MaxView Suite automates fault management; configures, schedules and allocates network resources; and provisions circuits for more than 400 worldwide clients, including PBS, NBC, DIRECTV, NETV, Telmex, France Telecom, EchoStar, Loral Skynet, Portugal Telecom, Iceland Telecom, and U.S. Department of Defense agencies. For more information, please visit http://www.ilc.com/ .
ILC
CONTACT: Media, Angela Renals, Communications Manager of ILC,+1-404-504-7434, or angela.renals@ilc.com
Web site: http://www.ilc.com/http://www.belo.com/
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