Friday, October 15, 2010

WideOrbit Acquires VCI Solutions

Oct 15, 2010 8:00 AM, By Michael Grotticelli

WideOrbit, a provider of business administration program for media companies that began business a decade ago, has acquired contestant VCI Solutions to turn the tip business program businessman for radio stations, with over 1100 clients.

The San Francisco-based WideOrbit voiced its vigilant to pick up all the properties and egghead skill related with VCI's Orion Business System, a sales and traffic program system. No financial sum or buy cost was disclosed. Since no bureaucratic consent is required, the treat is approaching to shut by the finish of the month.

The VCI brand will be phased out and WideOrbit mentioned it would encouragement stream Orion Business network customers is to length of their contract. After that, the firm hopes the VCI customer bottom will quit to its own product.

"We apply oneself the work that VCI has completed over the past 3 decades, and it's our vigilant to supply existing VCI customers with the same well-developed consideration and customer encouragement that WideOrbit customers are experiencing today," mentioned Eric R. Mathewson, owner and CEO of WideOrbit.

VCI has been in business for 26 years and was led by Lowell Putnam, the company's owner and a colonize in business program for broadcasters. Son of UHF radio colonize Bill Putnam, Lowell was hired by his parent out of college to rise a new traffic administration network for Springfield Television, the owner of a few radio stations. That pioneering work in traffic administration program led to Putnam's first of VCI in 1984.

Putnam will not be entangled with WideOrbit, nor will be any of VCI's executives. WideOrbit mentioned it would keep a tiny organisation of VCI employees for service and program encouragement of existing VCI customers.

WideOrbit is used by more than 4000 radio stations, radio stations, line networks, line interconnects and digital out-of-home networks worldwide, handling more than $14 billion in annual promotion revenue.

Its leading outstanding contestant is Harris, that in 2004 purchased Encoda Systems, a creator of business program for broadcasters.

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