Tag: Media General

WRBL Goes Live with CORE:news™

Media General’s Columbus, GA station WRBL is now producing news with Bitcentral’s unified CORE:news platform.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – January 9, 2015– Today, Bitcentral is announcing the successful launch of Columbus, GA station WRBL. The station went live this morning on Bitcentral’s CORE:news – a complete news production, media management, media collaboration and archiving solution. WRBL stations join over 200 North American broadcasters and over 1000 facilities worldwide utilizing Bitcentral solutions.

CORE:news is a modular production tool that combines content capture, editing, play out, publishing, collaboration, asset management and archiving into a single unified workflow. “We are honored to launch another station with Media General. The team at WRBL, like other stations across the group, is dedicated to serving the local community with the best news and information across all platforms,” said Rick Young, VP & GM, Sales and Business Development at Bitcentral.

Bitcentral extends its congratulations and gratitude to the WRBL staff for their partnership throughout the implementation process.

Bitcentral Concludes Annual Advisory Board Meeting

Each Year Bitcentral hosts its board meeting to bring together some of the greatest minds in the broadcast world to discuss what is currently going on and what the future will bring for the ever changing newsroom workflow.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – October 3, 2013 – Bitcentral, a media technology innovator of news content production, distribution, aggregation and publishing solutions has concluded its annual Advisory Board meetings. The Bitcentral Advisory Board is comprised of senior level executives representing Bitcentral’s Broadcast and Network customers. The session was held for two days in Newport Beach, CA and covered topics related to the current broadcast landscape, recent changes, future opportunities and overall broadcast workflow efficiencies.

Bitcentral Advisory Board members represent many of the largest and most forward-looking Broadcasters and Networks in the world. Included on the Advisory Board are executives from Hearst Television, Gannett, Media General, Raycom Media, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Bonten Media Group, Meredith, CNN, and KSL-TV.

“We are fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with these industry visionaries on a regular basis,” said Fred Fourcher, CEO of Bitcentral. “Their guidance is invaluable when it comes to helping us define how best to enhance CORE:news and our other solutions to meet their evolving needs and meet the growing opportunities in today’s changing media landscape.”

Additional information on Bitcentral’s suite of products is available at sales@bitcentral.com or (949) 253-9000.

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