Case Study

ABC

The American Broadcasting Company Owned and Operated Station Group engaged Grass Valley and SAMMA Systems to migrate their libraries of U-matic and BetaCam analog videotape cassettes to digital files.

The first installation of SAMMA products for the Group was at WPVI-TV, the ABC O&O station in Philadelphia. Several SAMMA robotic converters were installed by systems integrator and SAMMA partner Grass Valley.

The migration process at WPVI-TV started October of 2007 and is expected to be completed in early 2008. When the work is finished at WPVI, the SAMMA-Grass Valley team will move to the next ABC O&O station to continue the project. The intention is to do each station sequentially until migration is complete at all or most O&O stations in the group.