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May 11, 2004
Dear Program Directors and Chief Engineers:
Paramount, King World, and Viacom Video Services
are pleased to inform you that they have reached
an agreement with Pathfire for the delivery of their
syndicated programming via the Pathfire DMG system.
Programs such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Frasier,
Everybody Loves Raymond, Montel Williams, Judge
Judy, Dr. Phil and many more are scheduled to begin
arriving via the Pathfire DMG system in your facility
beginning the Fall of 2004.
The benefits of Pathfire delivered content within
your station include:
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Operational
savings in manpower needed to move dishes,
setup routers, load tapes, prepare programs,
and maintain tape machines.
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Long-term capital savings
in tape machine replacements, router capacity
and satellite dishes.
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Metadata associated with
the digital content, such as frame-accurate
timing information, is automatically delivered
with the content and is available to any desktop
within the station.
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High quality digital delivery of programming
– removal of the analog satellite transmission
step. The content can now remain in digital
form without interruption from the content
provider all the way to your transmitter. |
In order to ensure that we configure the Pathfire
equipment at your station correctly, promptly, and
with minimal disruption to you and your daily operation,
we need your input. You will be receiving, via e-mail,
a Web link to a Station Survey. It is important
that you complete this Web-based survey as soon
as possible to ensure that your station is ready
for the transition to Pathfire. You will also be
receiving an IRD which will be used as the redundant
option for the Pathfire DMG content and to accommodate
live and day-and-date programming.
We look forward to serving your station’s
digital content delivery needs. If you have technical
questions about the upcoming configuration activities
for the Pathfire system in your facility, please
call Pathfire's support hotline at 1-888-345-0489,
press option 6, send an email to deployment@pathfire.com,
visit the Pathfire support website http://support.pathfire.com
or call Myra Cole, Viacom Video Services’
Director of Technical Operations at 1-212-975-2728.
If you have any general (non-technical) questions
about the transition to Pathfire, you can contact
the appropriate syndicator as follows:
Paramount Broadcast Services: 1-323-956-4470
King World/Viacom Video Services: 1-212-975-3995
Sincerely,
Jaime Rockman
Jaime Rockman
Vice President, Distribution and Operations
CBS Broadcasting Inc., Viacom Video Services
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
jarockman@cbs.com
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