Mediaboss Marketing

BURLINGTON, MA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/27/12)- Signiant, a provider of intelligent file movement software for the media and entertainment industry, and Dalet, a leading developer of media asset management (MAM) and news solutions, today announced the API integration of their flagship products at leading sports, post-production and broadcast organizations in the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. Through this collaboration, the companies have optimized essence manipulation and media and metadata management across multi-site operations.

The Dalet/Signiant integration addresses a wide range of needs. In contribution workflows, content can be automatically imported into the system, saving time and resources. Transfers including conversions into different formats with associated metadata can also be automated for site-to-site or multi-site delivery. In all cases, Signiant leverages available bandwidth to accelerate the transfers and enhance workflows. Dalet Enterprise Edition creates a cross-system MAM with a centralized content catalog that manages media, essence files and metadata across systems, storing and tracking contextual sets of associated multimedia along with metadata. Assets are readily searchable and accessible across the organization using Dalet tools or other third-party broadcast or business systems.

"The Dalet/Signiant partnership is a definite win-win for our customers, making multi-site collaboration and access to content seamless, whether it is through a centralized content catalog or multiple independent databases that are communicating together," said Raoul Cospen, Director of Marketing at Dalet. "The Dalet workflow engine can seamlessly control the Signiant platform to trigger exchange workflows that move and copy video between multiple sites. It's transparent for the users, and exchanges are faster and optimized. It's the perfect combination of tools for multi-site management of news, sports, program management and production or contribution workflows or consolidating a multi-site archive."

Signiant's enterprise-scale software integrates seamlessly with complex IT infrastructure to enable fast, efficient workflows and media-aware networks. Signiant's Media Managers+Agents software provides powerful security, management and control of automated file exchanges between clients, speeding tasks such as the processing of raw content, adding metadata or formatting conversions for distribution in other countries. Signiant's Media Exchange software offers distributed media organizations a powerful tool for initiating desktop-to-desktop transfers. The unified suite features patented acceleration and security protocols, provides superior user experiences and supports a range of diverse applications.

"We understand the complexity of what our customers are trying to accomplish and know that as files move around the world, they must originate from and arrive into a tightly integrated technology ecosystem," said Rick Clarkson, Vice President of Product Management at Signiant. "Our partnership with Dalet addresses this level of technical integration for customers, and it is a logical step in both companies' ongoing strategies to deliver maximum end-to-end value in workflow automation."

About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to both traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet combines into a single system a robust and proven Asset Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities, a configurable workflow engine, and a comprehensive set of purpose-built creative and production tools. This integrated and open environment enables end-to-end management of the entire News and Sport and Program content chain, and allows users to significantly improve efficiency, and to maximize the use and value of their assets. Dalet's solutions are delivered through a dedicated Professional and Integration Services Department to ensure the highest possible standards.

Dalet systems are used around the world by many thousands of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France TV, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, Orange, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros., Sirius XM Radio) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

About SigniantUsed by the world's top content creators and distributors, Signiant is a leading global provider of intelligent file movement software for the media and entertainment industry. The company's powerful software suite optimizes existing enterprise network infrastructure and media technologies to ensure secure digital media exchanges, workflow efficiency and superior user experiences. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices around the world, today Signiant connects tens of thousands of media professionals in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit http://www.signiant.com.

Visit Signiant at NAB 2012, Booth SL4228 and Dalet, Booth SL4615

Read the rest here:
Signiant and Dalet Digital Media Systems Announce Technology Partnership

LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Post Media, Inc. (OTCQB:EMPM.PK - News) announced that the company's senior production executive Brian Trenchard Smith has commenced screenplay and pre-production work on a feature film version of "In Search of Yamashita's Gold," a true story about the exploits of modern day treasure hunters seeking to recover millions of ounces of gold buried by the Japanese as they retreated from the Philippines at the end of World War II.

Empire previously announced that, after a feasibility study, the company had entered into an agreement to option all rights to the underlying story, with the intention of developing the material across a number of platforms, including interactive e-book, feature film, documentary, television series and videogame.

Trenchard Smith, director of 42 feature films and over 40 television programs, plans to center the production in Australia, with locations in Fiji and the Philippines. He is currently writing the script and will direct the film.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which the company desires to take advantage of, provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include future plans, events, objectives, goals, strategies, underlying assumptions, and other statements, other than statements of historical facts.

The Company is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "plan," "potential," "will," "may," "should," "expect," "pending" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, our management's examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Further information about Empire can be obtained from the company's website, http://www.empirepostmedia.com.

Follow this link:
Empire Post Media Starts Screenplay Work and Pre-Production on World War II Treasure Hunter Story 'In Search of ...

LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Post Media Inc. (OTCQB:EMPM.PK - News) has decided to take, in house, the distribution chores previously contracted to The Fremantle Corporation with the addition of six-time Emmy nominee Stuart Schwartz to the production team of "Journey Beyond" as executive producer and showrunner.

Empire CEO Peter Dunn stated, "The addition of Stuart to the team, along with his great pedigree and connections in the television business, provides an opportunity to manage the distribution of our products in-house, thus eliminating third-party sales costs and commissions thereby increasing bottom line revenues to the company.

"Due to the global popularity of the 'Journey Beyond' genre, projected revenues, assuming a five year run, and based on current market data, are estimated at $35,000,000, with each episode in the first season expected to generate approximately $260,000, and growing to over $400,000 per episode in the fifth year, not including revenue from the 3D version, which could be substantial," Dunn added.

Empire has previously announced a $1,500,000 finance facility, in place, to produce the show.

Schwartz, a former top executive with Cosgrove/Meurer, has produced 174 episodes of perennial TV hit "Unsolved Mysteries."

"Journey Beyond," which was created by Ellen Fontana and Richard Mann, principals of Empire's wholly owned subsidiary Hybrid-Reality Entertainment, deals with paranormal and psychic events, based on the real stories of real people. The show is being produced in 3D for delivery in 2D HD and 3D.

Further information about Empire Post Media can be obtained from the company's web site, http://www.empirepostmedia.com.

http://www.hybridrealityentertainment.com.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements including statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, underlying assumptions, and other statements, other than statements of historical facts.

Continued here:
Empire Post Media Takes Worldwide Distribution of 'Journey Beyond' Television Series In House After Addition of ...

Despite President Saakashvili's record of reforms, Georgia consistently ranks low on press freedom indices. Similar news reports on the country's three main TV stations are the latest hint of a tightly controlled media.

Earlier this month, newscasters on Georgia's three main TV channels, Rustavi 2, Imedi TV and the public broadcaster Channel 1, read out very similar reports on a controversial death in police custody. The incident has renewed suspicion that the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili maintains firm control of its media, despite its publicly declared commitments to democratic reform.

The news story was about how opposition politicians, linked to Saakashvili's main political rival, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, had supposedly politicized the death of 46 year-old Solomon Kimeridze. Authorities maintain Kimeridze, a burglary suspect, tripped and fell three floors to his death while in police custody. The story focused on the opposition politicians' reactions, which journalists portrayed as inappropriate, and only briefly mentioned the fact that the politicians were questioning the suspicious circumstances of a man's death in police custody.

Each of the three TV stations used nearly identical video footage and news scripts.

Journalist Nino Zuriashvili wasn't surprised by the similar broadcasts

According to the watchdog group Transparency International, such "coordinated news coverage is a strong indication for a lack of editorial independence of the country's major broadcasters." For independent journalists and ordinary citizens in Georgia, that's not surprising.

"This is not the first time. It happens a lot that the sequence of news stories and the topics of these stories are the same on different channels," said Nino Zuriashvili, an investigative journalist who worked for Rustavi 2 until it dropped its popular investigative program when Saakashvili was elected president in 2004.

Little trust in information

The private owners of Rustavi 2 and Imedi TV have close ties to the Saakashvili administration, while Channel 1 is state-owned. These three are the only nation-wide channels that provide news programs. They never broadcast news negative to the government. Instead the president's ribbon-cutting ceremonies and speeches are covered extensively.

There have been protests calling for more balanced coverage by Georgia media

Read the original here:
Little media freedom in Saakashvili's Georgia

By KATHLEEN E. CAREY kcarey@delcotimes.com

MEDIA From branding ones self to extreme couponing, speakers and panelists presented a myriad of tips at the sixth annual Womenomics Forum on Saturday.

Womenomics was developed by the Business and Professional Womens Foundation to bring business, government and civic representatives to identify and talk about working women issues.

Saturdays session was sponsored by the Friends of the Delaware County Womens Commission, the Delaware County Business and Professional Women, the Delaware County Womens Commission, The Center Foundation, PathWays PA, Delaware County Council and the Womens Resource Center.

The keynote speaker, Polly Moore, director of human resources at the Centennial School District in Bucks County, shared her story while encouraging women to find and showcase their identity.

Ladies, Im here to tell you now is not the time to play small, she said. We have to play big.

Moore told them to identify their strongest attribute, their sense of worth, and encompass that in engaged morals to create their own unique brand.

Then, she quoted Stephen Covey as saying, On every level, in every relationship, your brand makes a difference.

Moore told of when she was director of compliance for a national financial services company where she was directed on a Friday shed have to lay off her entire staff.

She crafted a severance letter and emailed it to her boss and by 8:30 a.m. Monday, she was the one having it read to her.

Read the rest here:
Womenomics Forum in Media helps women take control