WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZiXi, the award-winning leading provider of solutions and services that deliver flawless broadcast-quality HDTV globally via the Internet, today announced that Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), a leading developer of high-profile, lifestyle-oriented content with a media portfolio including popular brands HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country (GAC), has selected ZiXi to monitor its international channels via the Internet from the company’s headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. Scripps is now able to affordably and reliably monitor its international channels, which broadcast across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
When Scripps was looking for a reliable and inexpensive way to monitor its international channels and ensure that its international programming was transmitted smoothly over the core satellite and fiber, most solutions they tested did not fit the requirement to monitor continuous, broadcast-quality video. Only ZiXi’s Video Transport Platform™ had the capabilities to ensure the highest standards of video performance, reliability and quality. Now, with ZiXi, Scripps is able to stream broadcast-quality video feeds of its international programming via the Internet, allowing its U.S. business units to observe the quality of these broadcasts in real-time. Since deploying ZiXi, Scripps has been monitoring its U.K. and Asian Food Network channels on its in-house IPTV system, and plans to add more feeds from other International channels in the coming months.
“Our international programming is a huge growth area for us, so it’s very important that we are able to monitor our international broadcasts cost-effectively, and also share them with our U.S. employees. With ZiXi, we now have a way to do just that,” said Mike Donovan, senior vice president of engineering and distribution technologies, Scripps Networks Interactive. “I look forward to exploring other ways to leverage ZiXi’s technology at Scripps.”
“We are thrilled that Scripps has selected ZiXi to monitor its international video feeds and improve its overall video operations, and we look forward to working with them to help them achieve even greater business benefits in the near future,” said Israel Drori, CEO and founder of ZiXi. “Our unique video transport platform enables content to be viewable on any device – from PCs to mobile devices – and lends itself to many applications that companies like Scripps can take advantage of, to improve employee communications between geographies, gain productivity, streamline costs, deliver new services, and improve user experience.”
ZiXi’s patented software and services deliver live, on-demand, interactive and playout HD video over the Internet and mobile networks at the highest quality, with low latency, and no jitter or packet loss. ZiXi’s solutions work seamlessly with existing encoder/decoders and network infrastructure, can accept any encoded content format, retain existing processes and workflow, and deliver content to the mobile display device, Internet set-top box or decoder in its original form. Additionally, ZiXi’s video monitoring and management capabilities optimize available bandwidth, making it easy for companies like Scripps to remotely monitor video streams and observe quality for staging and testing via a web browser, obtain statistical information for every feed, and stream video on demand from virtually any location to any destination.
About ZiXi
Founded in 2006, ZiXi has pioneered a proven, award-winning Video Transport Platform™ that enables the delivery of flawless, broadcast-quality HD video over the Internet. ZiXi’s patented technology dynamically resolves the problems inherent to the Internet to deliver low-latency video of unprecedented quality with no jitter, packet loss or frame freeze, regardless of network conditions -- transforming the Internet into a broadcast-quality, global HD video delivery network. Broadcasters, enterprises and Over-the-Top video and mobile service providers around the world use ZiXi’s on-premise and cloud-based solutions and services to enrich user experience, create new services and significantly reduce costs. For more information, visit www.zixi.com.
About Scripps Networks Interactive
Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) is a leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television, the Internet and emerging platforms, where on-air programming complements online video, social media areas and e-commerce components on companion Web sites and broadband vertical channels. The company's lifestyle media portfolio comprises popular lifestyle television and Internet brands HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and country music network Great American Country. Scripps Networks Interactive is based in Knoxville, Tenn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Nashville, Tenn. and Chevy Chase, Md.