Raycom Digitizes Sports History
By Jim Bask
From thebroadcastbridge.com
Founded in 1979, Raycom Sports has produced and distributed football and basketball games from the ACC and the NCAA as well as distributing games from the Southeastern, Big Eight, and Big Ten conferences.
Having already standardized their production throughput on Avid’s MediaCentral workflow management platform, Farmartino’s research soon revealed that it would be far cheaper to keep the digitizing workload in-house rather than farm it to an outside vendor.
“This facility has been an Avid-based house ever since I started here in 2004,” Farmartino told me. Raycom uses it’s Express edit systems and MediaCentral Production Management now to maintain the benefits of metadata indexing…read more