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Televisa, Mexico's Largest Media Company, Selects MediaSite
Software
- Application to Enhance Productivity and Distribution of
World's Leading Spanish Language TV Programmer -
San Jose, CA, Dec. 13, 2000 - MediaSite, Inc., the global
pioneer in the development of software and applications for converting
video into an interactive medium, today announced that Televisa,
the world's leading producer and broadcaster of Spanish language
television programming, has selected MediaSite products and services
to help manage its video assets.
Televisa, Mexico's largest media company, will use MediaSite's
Publisher application to automate the cataloging and indexing
of its entertainment video content. Televisa has also purchased
MediaSite's WebFinder video search engine and applications
to search, retrieve and summarize its video footage. The products
are included in a video asset management solution being provided
by IBM.
"We're happy to be building the solution for Televisa," said Luis
E. Estrada, IBM's Global Solutions Manager. "We're confident that
the combination of our content management and MediaSite's solutions
will help prepare Televisa for the digital era and poise the company
for worldwide distribution."
"We're rapidly becoming the global pioneer in digital video management,"
said MediaSite Chief Executive Officer Vinay Mehra. "After launching
in the United States, then expanding overseas to Japan and Korea,
and now bringing our products to Mexico, our goal of making our
technology available worldwide is continually being realized. Along
the way, we're also finding more and more compelling uses of our
technology."
MediaSite's Publisher and WebFinder products provide comprehensive
solutions for managing large archives of video assets. Publisher
features real-time encoding, indexing and publishing, while WebFinder
offers a video search and navigation engine that can easily be integrated
into custom applications.
About Televisa, Inc
Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world,
and a major player in the international entertainment business.
It has interests in television production and broadcasting, programming
for pay television, international distribution of television programming,
direct-to-home satellite services, publishing and publishing distribution,
music recording, cable television, radio production and broadcasting,
professional sports and show business promotions, paging services,
feature film production and distribution, dubbing and the operation
of a horizontal Internet portal. Grupo Televisa also has an unconsolidated
equity stake in Univision, the leading Spanish-language television
company in the United States.
About MediaSite, Inc.
MediaSite is the pioneer of enhanced streaming technology tools
that transform video into an interactive medium for the Web. Headquartered
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, MediaSite is a fast- growing international
company with offices throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. Founded
in 1997, MediaSite derived its core technology from a Carnegie Mellon
University research effort funded by leading government agencies
and private corporations, including Bell Atlantic, Boeing, CNN,
Intel and Microsoft. Today, MediaSite has over 100 customers in
the media and entertainment, financial services, consumer products,
government and advertising industries in the U.S. and abroad. For
more information, visit www.mediasite.com.
Or come see us Dec. 12-14 in Booth #1624 at Streaming Media West
2000!
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