Bloomington
Minnesota, March 20, 2007 – Digital asset
management software leader, Ancept, and JumpTV Inc., the world's
leading broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet sign an
agreement to deploy an enterprise solution to manage content for
JumpTV’s 270+ Internet TV channels.
The system will provide a means for JumpTV employees to manage
thousands of hours of programming in a structured and secure
environment while automating several tasks; such as content capture and
scheduling and allowing users who edit, process, and approve content to
collaborate on-line.
“The promise of IPTV and Internet Television is turning
traditional video broadcast models upside-down and JumpTV is leading
this trend globally,” says Ancept President Dave Bogie.
“This new model brings with it greater needs for structured,
secure and scalable content management capabilities, especially as
content owners and contributors proliferate. Ancept is committed to
providing such capabilities to companies like JumpTV to help them with
these very significant content management challenges.”
IPTV, or Internet ProtocolTelevision, is a method of distributing
television content over IP (Internet Protocol) that enables a more
customized and interactive user experience and more targeted and unique
programming. Programming is received over a user’s internet
connection, usually a broadband connection, and can be viewed on
personal computers, televisions or handheld devices.
“With more than 270 channels of programming in over 70
countries, we manage a significant amount of content. Managing that
content in an effective and efficient manner is a top
priority,” says Kriss Bush, Chief Financial Officer at
JumpTV. “We chose Ancept to help us with this because of
their track record with other media companies and key partnerships and
their long-standing relationship with IBM. The AMS product will be the
infrastructure that manages the business processes involved with
repurposing our content over a global network”
About Ancept
Originally founded
in 1997, Ancept, Inc. is an early pioneer
of digital asset management (DAM) solutions. Over the last eight years,
Ancept
Media Server has been established as one of very few DAM solutions
capable of
supporting the needs of large enterprises, while remaining flexible and
affordable enough to serve the needs of small to medium businesses.
Dozens of
Fortune 1000 companies, educators, small businesses and public sector
organizations have chosen Ancept to help meet their media production,
management and distribution needs.
About JumpTV
JumpTV (AIM, TSX:
JTV)
is the world's leading subscription-based broadcaster of ethnic
television over
the Internet. With over 270 channels from 70+ countries, JumpTV
delivers its
subscribers and media partners like Joost
full-screen news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis
from
all corners of the globe. JumpTV
has
subscribers from over 80 countries who view channels on the JumpTV
online
network via high-speed Internet connections on their home computers,
laptops,
Internet-enabled televisions and mobile phones.
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