Oklahoma City Hire Deploys TVUPack To Encouragement Vital Programming Shift

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Nov 4, 2011 12:14 PM

KSBI-TV, an eccentric hire in Oklahoma City, has deployed the TVU Networks TVUPack to supply viewers with live local entertainment.

In late 2010, KSBI practiced its programming plan to concentration on providing local live entertainment churned with syndicated programming. According to Jerry Hart, VP of operations for KSBI, the preference to concentration on live local entertainment was a vital pierce to keep the hire viable in a aggressive marketplace.

"KSBI is a of the final eccentric TV stations in the region," says Hart. "Our entire role is to be a local station. We do not do news. We wish to do local entertainment churned with syndicated programming. No way you can do this type of TV without live capabilities."

By deploying TVUPack, KSBI was able to pick out ways to announce local events, inclusive high college sports and the Oklahoma State Fair. KSBI's coverage of local high college football has turn a of its flagship programs.

"TVUPack enables us to announce live from 6 not similar high schools any night. If you can obtain a cameraperson to the game, you can obtain a live feed. It's so elementary to set up, nobody has to run line or configure the fill up to broadcast," explains Hart.

TVUPack moreover enabled KSBI to discard substantial costs that would outcome from upgrading the station's heavenly body and x-ray ENG infrastructure. According to Hart, the hire has saved more than $200,000 in functional costs by deploying TVUPack.

"Sat trucks are traditionally expensive," explains Hart. "In add-on to the cost of the equipment, they moreover require an operative to run them and a motorist with a CDL to expostulate them. On tip of that, you must be purchase airtime, and you can't skip your announce windows."

TVUPack is powered by TVU's Inverse StatMux technology, that boldly segments a live video vigilance and transmits the segments by multi-part eccentric 3G/4G/Wi-Fi/WiMax connections.