AccuWeather signs multi-year agreement to use CTS to acquire, prepare, produce, package and distribute linear TV and OTT channels
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Canada, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) today announced that AccuWeather® has selected CTS' managed channel origination (MCO) services to create, manage and deliver linear TV, on-demand and OTT video channels to audiences around the world.
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CTS Managed Channel Origination provides a fully managed, 24/7 service designed to improve operational efficiencies, reduce capital expenditures, and future-proof customers' ability to monetize world-class viewing experiences at scale. Managed Channel Origination provides media companies and broadcasters with a platform for integrated video workflows from content acquisition to distribution.
With AccuWeather's trademark Superior Accuracy™ forecasts, AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® provide viewers with up-to-the-minute weather forecasts and videos, stories that highlight the potential impacts of forecasted weather on sports, health, travel and other daily activities, engaging social weather content from popular platforms, and long-form storytelling on major weather phenomena and environmental wonders around the world. For more than 60 years, AccuWeather has been refining the art and science of weather forecasting to help people save lives, protect property and make the best weather-related decisions.
“AccuWeather is synonymous with delivering timely, accurate and enlightening weather information that impacts the lives of millions of viewers,” said
Bert Spreester
“We are incredibly proud that MCO has adopted our managed channel origination services to economically streamline their ability to reach audiences and drive revenue at scale,” said David Gregg, senior vice president and general manager, streaming, broadcast and advertising, Comcast Technology Solutions. “Our partnership with MCO is about helping companies reduce capital costs and improve operational efficiencies through a unique combination of capabilities that only Comcast Technology Solutions can deliver.”
“At AccuWeather, we depend on having the right back-end infrastructure in place to provide real-time, continuous information to our viewers, which is why we turned to Comcast Technology Solutions,” he said.
Helen Swenson
“We chose CTS because they are a trusted leader in managed channel origination, with a long history of delivering superior quality and reliability,” said Mike, Chief Content Officer at AccuWeather. “Focusing our efforts on CTS will give us unified access to a variety of linear TV and OTT distributors. Their state-of-the-art facilities and advanced capabilities will help us streamline operations, automate tasks and free up valuable resources so we can focus more energy on creating and monetizing content at scale.”
Comcast Technology Solutions is an established market leader that has been providing managed channel origination of hundreds of channels from U.S. facilities to serve North American audiences for decades. Last year, the company expanded its MCO capabilities into EMEA, leveraging the combination of Sky's Master Control video and metadata platform and Comcast Technology Solutions' product solutions portfolio.
Managed Channel Origination provides media companies with an integrated workflow from content acquisition to distribution, with 24/7 service level agreements (SLAs). It provides the capabilities required to acquire, prepare, produce, package and deliver linear TV and OTT channels. Content is acquired over satellite, fiber or secure IP as live video or file-based acquisition. Channels are then prepared using Comcast Technology Solutions' rendering operations, cloud-based content supply chain implementation, media asset management, traffic and metadata services. Channels are then created using capabilities such as channel automation playout (SCTE triggers, advanced graphics, closed captioning, etc.), Master Control and VideoAI™. From there, channels are prepared with the required encoding, encryption and authorization policies and delivered to any screen across MVPDs, vMVPDs and OTTs over satellite uplink, fiber, secure internet or CDN. Managed Channel Origination's redundant and diverse IP routing infrastructure provides a secure global playout solution that accelerates delivery.
Managed Channel Origination is part of Comcast Technology Solutions' comprehensive Live Linear Suite and can also be integrated with additional services from Comcast Technology Solutions' broad portfolio, including Cloud TV Suite, AdFusion and more.
To learn more about Comcast Technology Solutions' entire portfolio, visit https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/our-products. To learn more about AccuWeather, visit https://www.accuweather.com/.
About Comcast Technology Solutions
Comcast Technology Solutions is a division of a leading global media and technology company, delivering Comcast Corporation's proven technology to a variety of industries around the world. Comcast Technology Solutions offers a broad portfolio of solutions that provide flexibility at scale for global video, media, communications, data applications, and cyber security and compliance. Customers include leading content and streaming video providers, pay TV operators and MVPDs, advertisers, communications providers, financial services providers, retailers and more. For more information, please visit:
https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/
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About AccuWeather
AccuWeather® is recognized as the world's most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings and has saved more than 10,000 lives, prevented more than 100,000 injuries and saved businesses tens of billions of dollars through improved planning and decision-making.
Billions of people around the world trust AccuWeather's proven Superior Accuracy™ across its consumer digital platforms: AccuWeather.com is the leading weather forecast site, ranked among the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and the award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed, real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.
AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, 700 print newspapers, more than 400 radio stations and 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach more than 125 million viewers on cable and streaming platforms, including DirecTV, Charter Communications – Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Fubo, Frndly TV, Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku and Xumo.
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For the most accurate hyperlocal forecasts, weather news and information, visit accuweather.com and download the free AccuWeather app for Android or iOS.
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