The Museum of Television & Radio Selects Nine Systems to Deliver Streaming Video Content for 'She Made It' Website

The Museum of Television & Radio Selects Nine Systems to Deliver Streaming Video Content for 'She Made It' Website

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine Systems, the leading provider of streaming media applications and content delivery solutions, will be used by The Museum of Television & Radio to support its streaming media efforts in launching the She Made It website (www.shemadeit.org), available on December 1, 2005. She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio is a three-year initiative celebrating the achievements of creative and business women in the television and radio industries. The Museum will honor great women writers, directors, producers, journalists, sportscasters and executives.

Using Stream OS, Nine Systems' suite of rich media management tools, Nine Systems will manage and deliver the streaming video content of the Museum seminar series and other related programming featuring the work of the 2005 She Made It honorees. The She Made It website will also include biographies of the first 50 women being honored, trivia, program information for screenings and seminars and online forums.

"We anticipate by the end of this three-year project, we will have 2000 hours of programming compiled from our existing collection of over 120,000 programs and other additional programming," said Ron Simon, television curator of The Museum of Television & Radio. "As our goal is to make this collection available to the public, we are pleased that we can offer our audiences outside of New York and Los Angeles a streaming media option allowing them to view the extraordinary work of our honorees."

The streamed She Made It seminar series and programming will be delivered through Nine Systems' Network of Networks, the industry first aggregated system that routes all types of rich media across multiple top-tier CDNs.

"We are excited to support the Museum's efforts in launching this website, highlighting and preserving the legacy of women who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in the television and radio industries," said Troy Snyder, CEO, Nine Systems. "Nine Systems' reliable and high-quality delivery solution ensures the Museum's audiences will enjoy an exceptional viewing experience when visiting the website and downloading the content."

About The Museum of Television & Radio

The Museum of Television & Radio, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, is a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio programs and advertisements and to make them available to the public. Since opening in 1976, the Museum has organized exhibitions, screening and listening series, seminars, and education classes to showcase its collection of over 120,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. Programs in the Museum's permanent collection are selected for their artistic, cultural, and historic significance.

About Nine Systems

Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nine Systems (www.ninesystems.com) helps today's best-known companies broadcast audio and video over the Internet and wireless easily, affordably and reliably. Nine Systems' Network of Networks is an industry-first system that routes all types of rich media through the company's own Content Delivery Network (CDN) and across other top-tier CDNs to guarantee robust and reliable delivery worldwide. Stream OS is the company's suite of configurable rich media management and delivery tools that enable audio and video streaming, live event broadcasting, web conferencing and the anytime sale of rich media content. Nine Systems serves more than 200 of today's most successful businesses including Universal Music Group, the NBA, CinemaNow, CBS SportsLine, and EMI Music.

Source: Nine Systems

CONTACT: Helen Tse of Nine Systems, +1-858-332-3973,
helent@ninesystems.com; or Loretta Ramos of The Museum of Television & Radio,
+1-212-621-6785, LRamos@mtr.org

Web site: http://www.ninesystems.com/
http://www.shemadeit.org/

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