GlobeCast won a Product of the Year Award at the Cable & Satellite International awards at IBC in Amsterdam. The satellite service provider was handed the award for WING Content Exchange which was named Product of the Year in the category for Best Outside Broadcast Technology or Service GlobeCasts WING Content Exchange beat the BBC Outside Broadcasts Postcam and SISLinks uPod to win the award. GlobeCasts WING delivery system is an IP-based video exchange platform. It works in a very similar way to email and instant messaging, allowing a field journalist to send a video file simultaneously to many recipients over the internet, unlike most FTP-based Store & Forward solutions which are limited to point to point delivery. It can also be used to stream live footage and, because it runs through a main server (based in Paris), it is able to convert incoming signals on the fly to match each recipients requested format, whether that is a Word document or HD video file.
GlobeCast senior vice president marketing and product development David Justin said: It is a fantastic endorsement of WING to have won a Cable & Satellite Product of the Year award and only six months after launching the product. We are very grateful to the judges who have clearly seen the potential of this unique product.
E! Entertainment Television has partnered with GlobeCast to create a customized state of the industry Store & Broadcast channel delivery system designed to centralize and automate six E! International Network feeds across Europe and Asia Pacific. The partnership has allowed E! to tailor GlobeCast’s proprietary Store & Broadcast Content Management Delivery System by incorporating customer specifications necessary to complete an all new digital delivery solution for international channels. In order to meet E! Networks’ delivery specifications and to customize the GlobeCast Store & Broadcast system, E! engineered its own SCTE35 Decoder box. E! Networks’ Jeff Mayzurk, vice president of technology and David Gaudino, vice president of engineering collaborated to build their own proprietary hardware and software to allow the system to send cue triggers via the E! transport stream. By using GlobeCast Store & Broadcast, E! is able to deliver six distinct feeds in an extremely cost effective way. The E! International Network currently requires the ability to distribute six distinct program streams with separate language tracks and subtitling to multiple countries around the world. In the future, E! plans to add localized content to these feeds. E! now has the ability to manage these global transmissions digitally, without the cost of creating and
delivering six separate linear feeds.
GlobeCast will provide the technology and distribution in Europe, while E! will continue to manage and control its networks in real time from a remote location. The new system enables E! to respond to E! International Network’s need for new channels as quickly as it takes to
offer connectivity to new affiliates. GlobeCasts Store & Broadcast proprietary solution automates and significantly streamlines E! Networks international channel management
operations, by providing direct remote control of programming assets stored at GlobeCasts Paris hub. Store & Broadcast allows the channels to be customized and delivered separately
to six satellite bouquets across Europe and Asia (BSkyB, CanalSat, Foxtel Australia, Sky New Zealand, Sky Italia and Hot Bird for Pan-European distribution).