Myers Installs 50th ProTrack MAM At KOCE

Myers Information Systems, a long-standing developer of broadcast traffic, business, and content management software, today announced the commissioning of its 50th media asset management (MAM) module for the company’s flagship ProTrack TV at noncommercial KOCE Los Angeles, which offers a full schedule of PBS and local interest programming.

“Myers was an easy choice: it saves us money and maintenance time, plus it integrates well within our highly automated master control infrastructure,” said the station’s director of engineering and technology, Gordon Smith. “ProTrack MAM is easy-to-expand and uses standard, rather than proprietary archive file structures; it’s an integral part of Myers’ traffic environment and it ‘plays well’ with our Avid Automation, plus it costs us just a third of the previous system’s license and support fees.”

“Adding MAM to their existing ProTrack configuration helped KOCE tackle the challenges of becoming Los Angeles’s primary PBS station last year,” said Crist Myers, the company’s CEO-president. “It lets them repurpose content and automate file-based transfers between archive and playout servers based on the actual ProTrack schedule.”

The solution provides real-time insight to scheduling, noting whether content is in-house, within rights to be aired, and compliant with predefined business rules; it helps clear the on-air server with purge orders after confirming a copy is securely in archive.

“And ProTrack MAM works equally well with existing middleware solutions or as a standalone within a spinning disk environment,” added Myers.

Myers’ flagship suite, ProTrack, is available in both radio and television editions. It offers comprehensive scheduling and business management for individual, multichannel and multi-station facilities and is used by more than 226 media outlets, supporting more than 1,300 channels.