Masstech powers FOX SPORTS file-based workflow

Masstech powers FOX SPORTS file-based workflow

Fox Network Center - Houston Revamps File-Based Workflow

Toronto – September 23, 2009

Masstech announced today that in conjunction with National TeleConsultants (NTC) of
Glendale, California, it has completed the commissioning of a large scale file-based
workflow solution for the Fox Network Center – Houston (FNC-H) located in The
Woodlands, Texas.

The Masstech solution, based on the company’s flagship MassStore product, provides the
core file-based infrastructure that enables file-based content movement between diverse
storage devices including Grass Valley Group (GVG) K2 video servers, Isilon nearline
disk and an IBM LTO4 data tape library.

A key operational requirement was satisfied by MassStore’s ability to scale to meet the
file transfer demands generated by the aggregated content requests from fifty-four
channels of Harris ADC automation playlists and related ingest activity. Also critical to
the success of the implementation is MassStore’s native workflow engine that delivers
automatic detection, movement, storage, transcoding and related content processing,
independent of the Harris ADC system.

“With the continuing evolution of our embedded workflow processing, we are seeing
very exciting new opportunities to engage in projects that require dynamic and
sophisticated workflows” said Joe French, President and CEO of Masstech Group. “The
FNC-H project is a good example of that. The timeline was very aggressive, and the
flexible nature of MassStore and its workflows allowed us to support a massive
transcoding process that was necessary to migrate a huge amount of existing content to
the K2 video servers, and then to reconfigure for the final implementation.”
French added, “The NTC and FNC-H teams were great to work with. The overall
collaborative effort really helped us to be able to design and deploy such a large system
in an extremely short time. We are very gratified that they turned to Masstech to be a
part of this effort.”

MassStore’s signature embedded workflow capabilities are bolstered by more than 150
native broadcast device interfaces and 50 transcode paths, and validated in over 300
installations worldwide.

MassStore, along with the entire complement of Masstech Group’s solutions, can be seen
at Broadcast India, October 29-31.

About the Fox Network Center – Houston

FNC-H is a regional cable sports network that covers sports and is also the cable home
for the Houston Rockets (NBA), Houston Aeros (AHL), Houston Astros (MLB), Houston
Dynamo (MLS) plus Houston Cougars (NCAA) and Rice Owls (NCAA) coverage of the
Conference USA athletic conference. In addition to producing Rockets, Astros, and
Comets games for co-owned KTXH, FNC-H also features local Houston-area high school
sports.

About National TeleConsultants (NTC)

Since 1981 NTC has provided mission critical services – strategic, technical and
operational advice, design, engineering, integration and deployment – to the global media
and entertainment industry. These services cover hardware and software systems and the
physical facilities in which they are built.

About Masstech Group

Masstech Group is the global leader in providing a comprehensive solution that bridges
advanced file-based workflows of broadcast transmission and production, media format
transformation and flexible storage integration. Driven by innovation and dedicated to
customer success, today Masstech helps more than 300 clients worldwide optimize
production and distribution processes, capitalize on business opportunities and grow cost
effectively without limits. Masstech Group. Experience Matters.

For more information visit http://www.masstech.com