Chellomedia Moves National Geographic to OmniBus Colossus
Extra Channels Installed in Continuing Playout Expansion
DENVER — July 2, 2008 — OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive broadcast automation and content management solutions, today announced that Chellomedia's Netherlands-based broadcast facilities provider, Digital Media Centre (DMC), has expanded its OmniBus Colossus installation with another eight channels, ready for the imminent transfer of its National Geographic TV playout operations.
Chellomedia provides European playout for National Geographic TV in Benelux, Scandinavia, Romania, Poland and central Europe. This latest installation of eight new SD Colossus channels brings the total to 18 channels installed since the launch of Chellomedia's new server-based playout platform two years ago. Chellomedia also broadcasts two HD National Geographic channels and provides playout for The History Channel, Universal and MGM on the Colossus platform.
"This block of new channels is part of our planned program of expansion for the new platform," said Jon Try, Chellomedia's vice president of broadcast operations and engineering. "We are continuously upgrading the operation to offer our customers the best and most innovative services, and OmniBus has been instrumental in this expansion by providing us with the versatile and scalable technology we need."
Chellomedia's Colossus installation is integrated with equipment from Omneon, Miranda and Screen Subtitling.
More information about OmniBus Systems' digital asset management, automation and transmission technology is available online at www.omnibus.tv.
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About Chellomedia
Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global, Inc., is a leading international media company and distributor of channels, content and video services. The division's operating companies and business units currently own and operate 26 branded TV channels and run a suite of digital, on demand and broadband services in Europe. The aggregate subscriber base of the channels and its feeds reach 216 million homes*. Chellomedia focuses its TV channel business globally through its 100% owned and operating company, Chellozone, via channels such as JimJam, the leading international pre-school channel, Zone Reality, Zone Horror and the Extreme Sports Channel and regionally in Iberia through Chello Multicanal, in the Benelux, where Chello Benelux operates the premium sports and movie channels Sport1 & Film1, and in Chello Central Europe where the bouquet includes Sport 1&2, the leading children's channel, Minimax, and the joint venture channel, MGM.
*Consolidated (182 million) and nonconsolidated (34 million) channels, multiplexes and feeds.
About OmniBus Systems
OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable and satellite organizations with comprehensive automation and media content management solutions that address every area of television-related operations. Its newsroom, content and workflow automation solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, low-resolution editing, media asset management and playout. OmniBus is a global company with headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in the United States and Singapore. More information is available at www.omnibus.tv.
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