BBC Technology Announces New Deal with NPR's Public Radio Satellite System -PRSS- Division.AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Technology's Consulting Practice to Implement Technology Recommendations; New Digital Distribution System to Be Created for U.S. Public Radio BBC Technology, provider of products and services to global media-driven organisations, today announced that it has been appointed by the distribution division of NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. (R) (National Public Radio(R)) to implement a new digital distribution system for the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS PRSS Passive Ranging Subsystem ) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . This system consists of more than 400 interconnected U.S. public radio stations and is managed by NPR Distribution. The new distribution system, called the PRSS ContentDepot, will facilitate the distribution of content from producers to interconnected stations by streamlining how these stations select, send, acquire and automate programming. The system is due for completion by Summer 2005. BBC Technology's Consulting Practice devised a technology roadmap The context of product management The existence of product managers in the product software industry indicates that software is becoming more and more commercialized as a standard product. for ContentDepot earlier this year, including extensive research and plans. In addition, BBC Technology delivered operational models for the ContentDepot's delivery system, which detailed what the system will do, how it will do it, and what underlying mechanisms are required to operate the system. After successfully completing necessary tests of digital audio transmission over a private IP satellite network, NPR Distribution has now engaged BBC Technology to implement a robust and flexible system for both stations and producers. The ContentDepot will allow PRSS to increase its efficiencies by shifting the management of content back into the hands of radio producers and stations. Producers will be able to upload their own content to the ContentDepot without having to mail hard media to PRSS. Stations will be able to manage their own content subscriptions via the ContentDepot web portal See portal. . ContentDepot also automates much of the process between the intake of content and its distribution to stations. "We are pleased to be working with BBC Technology on the systems integration stage of the project. BBC Technology has the combination of IT expertise and sensitivity to broadcast operations that we need to build the ContentDepot," said Marty Bloss, director of technology, NPR Distribution. "It is great that we are now delivering the fully integrated system based on the strategic technology roadmap we initially developed for NPR. The implementation will effect more efficient communication between its customers and audiences," said Mitchell Linden Linden, city, United States Linden, city (1990 pop. 36,701), Union co., NE N.J., in the New York metropolitan area; inc. 1925. During the first half of the 20th cent. , senior vice president, BBC Technology North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . |
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