Cancom - virtual classrooms in seven cities linked by satellite to Canada's first robotic television studio now available.TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Cancom (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). , ME:SAT.) Cancom Business Television (BTV (Business TV) Using television to deliver company information and training to employees in remote branches. BTV uses satellite-based video to regular TV sets or IP-based video over the LAN/WAN to desktop computers and room monitors. ) and Insight Information Inc. (Insight) have turned on Canada's first fully automated television studio dedicated to the production and delivery of specialized professional development content via satellite. This studio is linked to a network of easily accessible classrooms for public use in the downtown cores of Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Mississauga, Toronto and Montreal. The production studio, built and operated by BTV, resides in the heart of Toronto's financial and communications district at Insight's offices situated at top of 55 University Avenue in Toronto. The studio, which is the front-end production facility of a Satellite Interactive Distance Learning (SIDL SIDL System Identification Data List SIDL Secure Interactive Distance Learning ) network, is software controlled and features a One Touch host computer which enables an instructor in the studio to make voice contact with a limitless number of participants or students in a limitless number of remote sites. The instructor/presenter can control all camera functions, inserts such as VTR (VideoTape Recorder) A videotape recording and playback machine. VTR may refer to consumer MiniDV and DV recorders or to professional machines such as Betacam, DVCPRO and DVCAM. , Power Point, character generator (1) Circuitry that converts data characters into dot patterns for a display screen. (2) A device that creates text characters that are superimposed onto video frames. etc., by simply pressing icons on a touch screen. In the alternative, a Cancom production technician in the control room will do so, thus enabling the presenters to simply concentrate on their presentation. The One Touch host computer, in addition to enabling voice contact with all participants, receives and tabulates keypad responses from all attendees at remote satellite sites. In this way, the system automatically "marks" tests and can issue certificates that may be necessary for professional associations and the like. "Downstream", BTV and Insight built seven classrooms equipped with satellite receive devices and One Touch response keypads and, on March 24, successfully made the first broadcast of a satellite delivered course from the studio to the sites across the country. When not in use by Insight, Cancom will rent the facilities to other outside users on an hourly basis. On January 6, 1997, the day the studio opened, the Federal Department of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. was first to use it to originate training curriculum to some of its 200 site training network. HRDC HRDC Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club HRDC Human Resources and Development Canada HRDC Human Resources Development Council (Montana) HRDC Human Resources Development Center HRDC Hollister Ranch Design Committee HRDC Handheld Remote Controlled Device rented the facilities for ten days in January. Insight Information is 50 percent owned by Cancom, Founded in 1979, Insight enjoys a stellar reputation amongst the thousands of law, accounting, marketing and human resource management, as well as the specific information needs of industries such as energy, telecommunications, health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , forestry, real estate, and environmental services. Cancom is the foremost provider of digital satellite services in Canada. Cancom's Broadcast Division offers digital TV and radio signals in English and French to 2,525 small cable systems reaching 3.7 million homes across the country. Cancom's Business Division provides customized integrated satellite and terrestrial mobile, data and Internet networks and Cancom's Business Television is the country's primary provider of permanent and on request multi-point private broadcasting networks as well as the One Touch interactive distant learning systems. Cancom is the exclusive distributor of QUALCOMM's mobile geostationary Aligned with the earth. Refers to satellites (GEOs) that travel at the same rotational speed as the earth (they are geosynchronous) and are always the same distance from the earth. See GEO. OmniTRACS system in Canada. EDITOR'S NOTE: There is an "at" symbol after "gtough", "pdumas" and "carol" in the E-mail addresses below. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Cancom Gord Tough, 905/272-6031 905/272-6059 (fax) gtough@cancom.ca or Cancom Patricia Dumas, 905/272-6603 613/232-4814 (fax) pdumas@cancom.ca or Insight Rachelle Redford, 416/777-2020 ext. 167 416/777-2177 (fax) carol@insightinfo.com |
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