[SatNews] Bringing video file based workflow to a leading satellite broadcaster, and offering LO/LA cloud services...

TelVue Corporation (otcqb:TEVE) (pinksheets:TEVE), a leader in Digital and IP Broadcast Servers, has revealed that Revenue Frontier of Santa Monica, CA, has selected TelVue's B3000-Pro Digital Broadcaster to originate their three (3) national satellite feeds of direct response programming to hundreds of affiliates. Revenue Frontier selected TelVue's 1:1 redundant SD / HD capable broadcast system with automatic fail-over protection and full support for remote operation via the Internet.

"With this digital broadcast system upgrade, Revenue Frontier continues to demonstrate its leadership and innovation in the direct response media industry. The decision to upgrade from a tape based broadcast system to 100 percent video file based workflow will improve broadcast quality, lower costs and allow the company to be more responsive to scheduling changes on its three satellite feeds," said Paul Andrews, Senior VP at TelVue Corporation. "TelVue's unique web-based server management interface enables Revenue Frontier to operate and monitor the entire broadcast system remotely from their offices in Santa Monica even though the equipment is co-located at the satellite uplink facility in Colorado."

Additionally, TelVue has launched a new platform to slash cable/telco local origination and leased access (LO/LA) servicing costs and dramatically improve workflow. Believed to be a first in professional broadcasting, TelVue Connect™ migrates what has always been an onpremise equipment and software service entirely to the cloud. TelVue now uses the cloud to handle large media file uploads, content management, transcoding for different destination networks or devices, and scheduling, requiring only a broadband connection and browser. TelVue Connect™ continues a trend of cloud-based processing that eliminates high customer capital costs, maintenance management, feature upgrade logistics, equipment networking and compatibility issues. LO/LA channels can be costly and time consuming to operate because content comes from many different contributors and sources. Currently, operators have to designate a facility for media drop-off and real-time encoding – one hour of encoding for each hour of programming. Additionally, because of its fluid nature, LO/LA scheduling demands on cable/telco personnel have been a burden.

TelVue Connect™ solves these issues by allowing contributors to submit content directly to the cloud using any web browser via simple drag-and-drop. In the cloud, content is automatically converted to the proper format and delivered to the operator’s broadcast server. The cable/telco operator can schedule LO/LA contributor series into pre-assigned time slots using flexible rules and recurring patterns such as “once a week at 8PM”. This allows contributors to self-manage their episodes within a series, effectively distributing the channel scheduling task amongst the contributors. TelVue Connect™ includes a number of convenience features such as automatic email alerts, dashboards, and streaming previews of contributed files. Using TelVue Connect™ an operator can assign entire channels on their broadcast servers to be managed securely and remotely. This opens the door for new commercial services. TelVue Connect™ also simplifies management of a multi-site edge broadcast network, leveraging the Internet as a low-cost alternative to existing media delivery platforms.