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Primestream Expands Global Market and Technology Reach with Building4Media Acquisition

Combined operation redefines standards for Integrated Broadcast Automation Workflows.

Miami – July 14, 2010 – Primestream Corp.™, the leader in advanced broadcast and IT solutions, announces the acquisition of Building4Media™, creator of FORK™, the state-of-the-art software for broadcast asset management, playout automation, metadata driven production and publishing. This acquisition allows Primestream to continue to provide and expand an established platform that already serves more than 300 sports, news, and entertainment broadcast channels across over 40 countries.

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Welcome to Building4Media

Building4Media is the pioneer of professional IT-based (playout) systems, using the Apple platform (also for HD!), and we probably have the biggest IT-based installations in the world. But we also support virtually any high-end equipment.

The largest customers in the industry buy our software, because we provide the most advanced features, like: advanced media asset management (fully integrated with ingest, proxies, playout and archiving), versatile workflow management, editing during ingest, proxies with a delay of just one frame, proxy editing (also in Final Cut Pro), the most advanced integration for Apple Final Cut Pro, advanced integration of all editors for video, audio and graphics in one integrated digitised workflow, cross-platform support for Mac OS and Windows (and also the full integration between for instance the ‘Windows world’ of the newsroom and the ‘Mac world’ of editing), automatic transcoding and delivery for new media (Internet and 3G GSM phones), etc., etc. For more information on our features please see our Products section.

In addition to this, our solutions are scalable without limits, future-proof due to open standards and state-of-the-art software technologies, and of course ready for all new developments. All this illustrates that we offer an unrivalled feature set and an unique price/performance, especially on the Apple platform.

Building4Media currently has over 300 TV channels on-air and installations (which range from the largest customers to the smallest), and has offices in The Netherlands (HQ), New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, New Delhi and Mumbai.

Building4Media offers the broadest range of solutions for:

Production (sport, news, etc.).
Post-production (with an fully integrated workflow for Apple Final Cut Pro, and virtually any video, audio and graphics editor).
Master control playout automation (high-end and entry-level).
New media (Internet/mobile phone transcoding & delivery).

For more information on our solutions please see our Solutions section.