At IBC in Amsterdam from September 10 to 14, Masstech, a leading provider of media asset management (MAM) solutions, will introduce a powerful new software suite designed to optimize media workflow systems by integrating and managing the entire production process from ingesting, editing, and archiving through to transmission for broadcast facilities of all sizes.
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Toronto – July 14, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast workflow solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of James Leighton to the position of Director of Global Support and Professional Services. A leading expert in broadcast market solutions, communications and client service with more than thirty years of experience in the industry, Jim will lead a team of highly trained engineers providing Masstech’s customers with global engineering and programming support and development of advanced broadcast workflows.
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Singapore – June 2, 2010 Masstech Group Inc., the first company to provide an all-in-one Media Asset Management (MAM), is presenting its latest solutions at Broadcast Asia, 15th-18th June 2010, at the Singapore Expo. The company is spotlighting their latest product range including INDIGO™, TOPAZ™, SAPPHIRE™, COBALT™ and IRIS™ on Techtel’s booth #7C4-05. Leading the market in performance and value, Masstech have built on their experience providing workflow solutions, automated ingest, format conversions, archiving, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.
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Toronto – May 12, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast workflow solutions announced today that CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster has deployed the company’s MassTrans-it® transcode solution in order to meet its content transformation needs. This is the first installation of MassTrans-it® as a standalone transcoding product deployed outside of Masstech’s TOPAZ™ and INDIGO™ digital asset management (DAM) solutions, highlighting Masstech Group’s commitment to integrate with already existing media asset management systems. Integration is based on Masstech’s powerful XML-based XMTI transcode protocol.
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Toronto, CANADA — March 24, 2010 Masstech Group Inc., the leading provider of all-in-one Media Asset Management solutions is pleased to announce the industry leading CatchBLUE™ , MassStore® TOPAZ™ and MassStore® INDIGO™ systems now support the Pulsar-MXL file based QC verification solution by Venera Technologies. The new plug-in, exclusively available for the new CatchBLUE platform, is designed to verify that files received over satellite are valid, within specification and air-able without visual quality control.
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Toronto – March 20, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast content management solutions, announced today the release of CatchBLUE™, a new comprehensive management solution for all file-based content delivery service integration.
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Toronto – March 11, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast content management solutions, announced today the release of a new product line - a revolutionary offering of highly integrated features and tools that easily accommodates the wide needs of the broadcast market and virtually every broadcast workflow. Building on the power of its firmly established MassStore® product, the new product line is comprised of CatchBLUE™, TOPAZ™, INDIGO™, COBALT™, XT – Edit™, XT- Ingest/PTT™, SAPPHIRE™ and IRIS™.
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Sydney, Australia — March 03, 2010. WIN Television, Australia’s leading regional broadcaster, has selected Masstech’s MassStore® system to include ingest, archiving and digital asset management (DAM). The Broadcast Operations Centre in Wollongong will install a MassStore® DAM system with Masstech’s XT-Ingest CUB-2000 and MassStore® COBALT™ - real time system monitoring - with all applicable equipment and professional services being provided by Masstech and a local dealer, Techtel.
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Toronto – February 25, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast content management solutions, announced today the release of new software to seamlessly convert any Avalon site to its MassStore® Media Asset Management (MAM) solution. This breakthrough approach minimizes the time required for the migration process to less than one day compared to others that could take months, depending on the size of the legacy content library. It has now been installed in several sites resulting in a rapid and smooth transition with minimal impact on existing operations.
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Toronto – February 18, 2010 Masstech Group announced today that Bob Barnshaw has joined the organization as Northeast Region Sales Manager reporting directly to Doug Hinahara, VP of Sales and Marketing.
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Toronto – February 10, 2010 Masstech Group, a global leader in file-based workflow and media asset management solutions for broadcasters, has promoted Mr. Luis Lopez to the position of Latin America/Caribbean Region Sales Manager. His area of coverage also includes the greater Miami area; and he will report directly to Doug Hinahara, VP Sales and Marketing.
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Masstech Group announced today that ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, the Philippine’s leading media and entertainment company, has selected Masstech Group’s MassStore® news archiving solution. Less than a year since installing their first MassStore®, ABS-CBN has invested in a second Masstech system. Dedicated to their busy news department, the new MassStore® interfaces with Avid iNEWS and Interplay ISIS production, for sophisticated archiving and federated asset management.
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Toronto – January 26, 2010 Masstech Group, the global leader in broadcast content management, announced today record growth for its fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2009. It is notable that this growth occurred in the face of a worldwide broadcast market that has experienced a significant downturn in capital expenditures.
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Mumbai – January 19, 2010 Masstech Group Inc., the leader in digital archiving and file based workflow technology, is presenting its latest solutions at BES Expo 2010 in Delhi on January 29-31, 2010. The company is spotlighting the MassStore® TOPAZ all-in-one asset management system. Leading the market in performance and value, MassStore® TOPAZ is built on Masstech’s experience providing workflow solutions, automated ingest, format conversions, archiving, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.
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