The European Broadcasting Union Selects Virage to Share Video Content Across Europe
EBU Will Use Virage's Internet Video Infrastructure to Enhance Its Content-Sharing Service for Local European Broadcasters
IBC 2000 CONFERENCE, AMSTERDAM - September 9, 2000 - Virage, Inc., a leading provider of software products and application services that enable video for the Internet, today announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world, will be using Virage software and application services to create on online searchable video solution for its member broadcasters. The Virage platform will allow the EBU to provide indexed streaming video as part of its news exchange service.
"Ever since the first live multi-national broadcast - Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in 1953 - most news and sports that appears on television screens in Europe has been distributed via the Eurovision network," said Henri Perez, Director of Operations at the EBU. "Every day a dozen multi-item exchanges provide material for national news bulletins. Each year around 25,000 news items and 7,700 hours of sports and cultural programmes are transmitted. Currently we have to notify our members of available material by text, but using Virage's technology we can create video storyboards and a searchable index of the shots. Operating in so many different languages can be difficult when just working in text, but with video a news story is instantly recognisable. In the future we look forward to working with Virage to provide all our footage by streaming it across the Internet."
"The EBU is one of the most important players in European and world broadcasting. From the Eurovision Song Contest to a library of European music programme rights they have brought broadcasters together to develop and share entertainment, education and information," said Mark Rattley, VP and General Manager of Virage Europe. "We are pleased to have been selected by them to make their services more accessible and more available on the Internet."
About European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world. Headquartered in Geneva, and working on behalf of its members in the European area, the EBU negotiates broadcasting rights for major sports events and operates the Eurovision and Euroradio networks.
About Virage
Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Virage is a leading provider of software products and application services that enable owners of video content to publish, manage and distribute their video assets over the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage application services provide content owners with the complete infrastructure for seamlessly integrating Internet-compliant video into their web sites. Virage VideoLogger® and Video Application Server™ software set the standard for real-time indexing, publishing and distribution of video across the Internet and corporate intranets. From ABCNews to Yahoo!, Virage has over 150 customers worldwide in a range of markets including media and entertainment, large enterprise, education, government and Internet destinations. Contact Virage at http://www.virage.com/ or (650) 573-3210.
This press release contains "forward looking" statements about the products and services of Virage and The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), as that term is used in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Phrases such as "will use" and "will allow" denote forward-looking statements. These types of statements address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially. In addition, our forward-looking statements should be considered in the context of other risk factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, available for viewing on our web site. (To access this, please click on "Investor Relations,""SEC Filings").
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