Background: Since the advent of the satellite television delivery in the UK, Sass Jahani, a former BBC broadcast engineer, has understood the need for client services that, in his words, “take the technical headache away from television channels and content owners, leaving them to focus on their core business: monetizing their content.” Jahani founded London-based ABS Broadcast in 1992 with the idea that by offering state-of-the-art technology to support fully managed, high-quality digitization and playout services, it would allow clients to launch new channels quickly with no CapEx investment…
Solution: Today, ABS services its clients with one of the world’s largest media asset management (MAM) systems and the latest K2 Edge™ integrated media server technology from Grass Valley™. The K2 Edge system provides a full suite of channel branding, audio and video file management and scheduling, commercial insertion, and program playout features in a single box.Each K2 Edge system includes two features: the Grass Valley K2 TX/MAM™asset management system, with a central database and Grass Valley Cobalt™ playout automation software…
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