Ampex DST Archive System Helps Pegasus Broadcast Television Implement Regional Central Casting Operation.Business Editors/High Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Three Stations in Mississippi and Alabama to Deploy Integrated Video Storage Solution Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ampex Corporation (Amex:AXC AXC Chief Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician (Naval Rating) AXC Add Cross-Connect Card ), today announced that its DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. video archive system will be integrated into a regional central casting operation for three stations owned or operated by Pegasus Broadcast Television, Inc., a subsidiary of Pegasus Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:PGTV PGTV Pulse-Gated Television ). Expected to go live on September 1, the Jackson, Mississippi-based digital broadcast management system will also include Sundance Digital automation software, a Leitch Technology video server, Insight Communications fiber optic link and Philips routers and output switches. The new central casting operation will support WDBD-TV and WXMS-LP in Jackson, Mississippi and WGMP-TV in Gulf Shores, Alabama Gulf Shores is a coastal city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 5,044. However, since the year 2000, Baldwin County, Alabama as a whole, has experienced the fastest rate of population growth in the state, second only to Shelby . WDBD is a Fox affiliate while WXMS and WGMP are affiliates of the WB Network and secondary affiliates of the United Paramount Network (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation ). The three stations are currently operated by Pegasus from offices and studios located in Jackson. WGMP will be based in Gulf Shores and clustered with its sister stations via fiber optic network. According to Lee Carpenter, vice president of engineering for Pegasus Broadcast Television, central casting will allow the three stations to consolidate several business operations, including traffic, programming and accounting, while improving the quality of each station's video signal. Once it is operational, the 44-terabyte DST 714 automated archive library will store up to 5,000 active hours of programming and the video server will store up to 200 hours with each station having 12 hours on the server at any given time. Ampex DST(R) automated cartridge libraries are high-performance, reliable digital archives with unlimited expansion capabilities to accommodate a facility's growing video storage requirements. The DST library reduces the overall time required to archive and restore program elements to a network of video servers. For the large number of broadcast and video houses currently using video servers, Ampex offers a bundled solution specifically designed for the broadcasting environment that meets all requirements for a compatible near-line archive to achieve complete automation. For more information, please e-mail Ampex Data Systems at sales@ampex.com or call toll-free at (800) 752-7590. About Pegasus Pegasus Communications Corporation (www.pgtv.com) is the 10th largest cable or satellite provider in the United States and the only publicly traded cable, satellite TV or Internet services company exclusively focused on providing service to rural and underserved areas. As one of the fastest growing media companies in the United States, Pegasus currently serves approximately 1.5 million digital broadcast satellite (DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. ) customers in 41 states. Pegasus is expanding the array of advanced digital products and services it offers through the thousands of independent retailers in the Pegasus Retail Network to include broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a for both consumers (Pegasus Express(SM) powered by DirecPC(R)) and for enterprises (Pegasus Express Pro(SM)). Pegasus is also a broadcaster operating and/or programming 10 TV stations affiliated with FOX, UPN and The WB networks, serving over 2 million TV households in smaller markets. About Ampex Data Systems Ampex Data Systems Corporation (www.ampexdata.com), headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , is one of the world's leading providers of technologies for the acquisition, storage and processing of visual information. Ampex Data Systems designs and delivers extremely high-capacity, high-performance digital image storage solutions for large-scale corporate, government, network, entertainment and telecommunications applications. Ampex Data Systems customers include such leading organizations as AT&T, the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control , Fox Television, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , Netcom and TV Guide Channel. |
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