Six Additional Network Groups Join Total Digital Solution from Comcast Media Center and SES AMERICOM; Combined Total Digital and HITS Platform Provides Cable Operators over 200 High Quality Digital Video and Audio Services.DENVER & PRINCETON, N.J. -- Six additional television network groups representing ten East and West Coast feeds have signed up for network transport aboard the Comcast Media Center (CMC (Common Messaging Calls) A programming interface specified by the XAPIA as the standard messaging API for X.400 and other messaging systems. CMC is intended to provide a common API for applications that want to become mail enabled. 1. ) and SES AMERICOM Total Digital Solution, the two companies announced today. The Total Digital Solution combines the CMC's content management capabilities with SES AMERICOM's 50-state AMC-4 satellite to provide networks with greater potential for additional penetration in cable systems deploying digital simulcast or all digital service. The CMC's all-digital platform features secured authorization, optimized DPI triggers and high-quality video and audio. The newly added channels include television networks operated by A&E Television Networks (A&E(R) Network, The History Channel(R)), Hallmark (Hallmark Channel), Jewelry Television, ION Media Networks ION Media Networks (formerly known as Paxson Communications) is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol ION. (Pax TV), Oxygen Media (Oxygen), and WGN WGN Wellington WGN White Gaussian Noise WGN World's Greatest Newspaper (Chicago, IL, USA) WGN World Gastroenterology News WGN We Got Nomar WGN World's Greatest Network WGN Wireless Network Gateway WGN Wagon (Superstation WGN). Television networks that have previously signed up for transport aboard the Total Digital Solution include Comcast's content networks and investments (AZN Television, E! Entertainment Television, G4, The Golf Channel, PBS KIDS Sprout PBS KIDS Sprout (sometimes referred to as PBS Sprout, KIDS Sprout, or just Sprout) is a US digital cable television channel, video-on-demand (VOD) service, and website providing PBS KIDS shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families. , The Style Network, TV One), and channels operated by C-SPAN (C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2), EWTN EWTN Eternal Word Television Network Global Catholic Network, The Inspiration Network, Lifetime Networks (Lifetime Television, LMN LMN lower motor neuron. ), Scripps Networks (HGTV HGTV Home and Garden Television , Food Network and Great American Country To meet Wikipedia's and comply with our neutral point of view policy, this article or section may require cleanup. The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. "GAC GAC Great American Country GAC Global Assembly Cache (Microsoft .NET) GAC Global Assembly Cache GAC Granular Activated Carbon GAC Gustavus Adolphus College (St. "), and TBN - Trinity Broadcasting Network The Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, is the largest Christian religious television network in the world and is headquartered near Los Angeles in Costa Mesa, California with studios near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Irving, Texas and near Nashville in . "The expansion of channels available via the Total Digital Solution provides numerous benefits to both the participating networks and their cable system affiliates," said Gary Traver, COO of Comcast Media Center. "For the industry's programming networks, Total Digital represents a cost-effective and complementary distribution method for reaching their affiliates. For cable operators, our Total Digital Solution offers a highly efficient means for launching all-digital service in their markets by shifting much of the investment, maintenance and quality assurance for digital compression to a company that's been providing this service to the industry for over 12 years." "SES AMERICOM is proud to be working with the Comcast Media Center to deliver the innovative Total Digital Solution platform," said Bryan McGuirk, president of media solutions for SES AMERICOM. "Our joint commitment to the ongoing digital channel expansion aboard the Total Digital Solution continues to make it a very compelling solution for the programming community and cable operators." When fully deployed, the basic and expanded basic channels aboard the CMC/SES AMERICOM Total Digital Solution will combine with more than 150 digital video and audio services offered via the CMC's HITS (Headend In The Sky The Headend in the Sky was founded in 1994 and its namesake product is commonly recognized as the pioneer of digital television in the United States. It is a product created by and offered from the National Digital Television Center; as a now wholly-owned subsidiary of Comcast ) digital overlay platform to provide a choice of over 200 video and audio services encompassing the majority of programming services currently offered by cable system operators. ABOUT COMCAST MEDIA CENTER Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, continues a 12-year-tradition of developing and launching digital content services for the industry. CMC currently serves more than 400 MSOs operating over 3,000 regional and standalone cable headends, originates 79 TV channels and provides video transmission for 445 full-time services. The CMC's Total Content Solution includes a Total Digital Solution (TDS TDS total dissolved solids. ) that combines digital feeds of basic and expanded basic programming services with its Headend In The Sky (HITS) lineup of over 150 digital video and audio channels; a national Video On Demand (VOD) platform; an Advertising Distribution Network (ADN) for centrally managing cross channel promotions and advertising; and a rich media streaming service for delivering IP video to PC's and portable media devices. The CMC's content management capabilities include channel and live event origination services in HD and standard definition; studio and post-production; encoding; and content hosting and storage services. More information is available at http://www.comcastmediacenter.com ABOUT COMCAST Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.7 million cable customers, 9.3 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.7 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content. The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Comcast Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively. About SES AMERICOM The largest supplier of satellite services in the U.S., SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG SESG Systems Engineering Steering Group SESG Software Engineering Support Group SESG System Engineering Sub-Group ), is recognized as a pioneer of global satellite communications services. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the launch of its first satellite, the company today operates a fleet of 18 spacecraft in orbital positions predominantly providing service throughout the Americas. As a member of the SES GLOBAL family, SES AMERICOM is able to provide end-to-end telecommunications solutions to any region of the world via a fleet of more than 40 satellites. In addition, AMERICOM Government Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary, is dedicated to providing satellite-based communications solutions to both civilian and defense agencies of the U.S. government. With its combined operations, SES AMERICOM serves broadcasters, cable programmers, aeronautical and maritime communications integrators, Internet service providers, mobile communications networks, government agencies, educational institutions, carriers and secure global data networks with efficient communication and content distribution solutions. |
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