LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AEG Digital Media, the leading provider of complete webcast management and media services for live streaming events and online video, today announced its strategic alliance with Pacific Television Center (PacTV), a Los Angeles-based independent global transmission and production company.
This alliance allows AEG Digital Media to expand its global footprint and cut costs for customers while still allowing them to get the benefit of the webcast expert’s fully equipped center and knowledgeable staff. This alliance also provides new revenue opportunities to customers through AEG Digital Media’s enlarged reach.
“This strategic alliance prevents customers from having to pay for high transmission rates to get their signal back to our center in Los Angeles and provides them with more revenue options and opportunities across the globe,” said Joe Einstein, vice president of Production Services for AEG Digital Media. “Now, we can extend a near local transmission rate, and customers maintain access to our facility and experts.”
AEG Digital Media will utilize The Switch Los Angeles, which is a broadcast hub that provides access to an extensive variety of content resources and is hosted by Pacific Television Center. This hub allows access to any broadcaster, production house or fiber network that maintains a port at The Switch, including PacTV’s global fiber network. With access to The Switch at PacTV, AEG Digital Media is able to provide affordable local connectivity and enhanced customer-controlled switching at a moment’s notice.
“This strategy allows high-quality webcasts and video streams to be delivered all over the world via our far-reaching network,” said Jakob Nielsen, Pacific Television Center’s project coordinator. “AEG Digital Media produces webcasts for some of the world’s most well-known events, and through PacTV’s services, we can help them distribute these streams to a larger, global audience.”
About AEG Digital Media
AEG Digital Media is the leading provider of complete webcast management, technical media services and video optimization solutions in the digital media industry. We take a broadcast approach to streaming/digital media and enable the world’s largest, innovative webcasts and live events. AEG Digital Media is regarded as the definitive turnkey service provider in the market today with a 12 year track record of empowering and enabling the defining moments in Internet broadcasting and live streaming media including Live Earth, The Democratic National Convention, the MTV Video Music Awards, TED Conference, FarmAid, The Grammys, the People’s Choice Awards, Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards, the American Music Awards, Bonnaroo, FIFA World Cup Kickoff concert, the Royal Wedding and Coachella. AEG Digital Media’s select customer base also includes VEVO, American Express, HP, Turner, Nokia, Fox, Coca-Cola, Ernst and Young, and Viacom. Based in Los Angeles, we maintain the industry’s leading technologies and broadcast operation centers to enable seamless, TV quality live events and on demand media services.
About Pacific Television Center
For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based Pacific Television Center has been a leading transmission and live production provider to the global broadcast industry offering its clients around-the-clock support and services in fiber connectivity, satellite coordination, receive and records, multi-format tape play outs, live shots, satellite media tours and voiceovers. On a local level, its broadcast facility in Los Angeles connects to the ATT/PacBell Hollywood Hub and The Switch Los Angeles; in New York, it connects to Ascent Media Waterfront, The Switch New York and Azzurro; and in London, its facility has multiple circuits to and from BT Tower. Additional services include the PacTV Pools in Los Angeles and New York, remote location production via Western Pacific Mobile Microwave in Los Angeles, and a fiber network to several countries including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and France. The company’s solid reputation has led to successful relationships with major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, ESPN, CNN, BSkyB and BBC in the UK, Network TEN in Australia and Sky in New Zealand as well as top carriers including Level 3/Vyvx, SingTel, Intelsat, SES World Skies, BT, Nexion and XO Communications.