Leading media and entertainment technology provider Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) has extended its agreement with long-time customer and global media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN), with a deal that will transition the network’s production operation towards a cloud-based subscription service, together with multi-site collaboration and remote production.
Al Jazeera selected Avid to completely upgrade and expand its news and programming creation workflows and connect teams distributed across its regional hubs – in Qatar, London, and Washington, DC – and its global network of news bureaus and other sites.
Al Jazeera is one of the largest and most influential international news networks in the world. Launched in 1996, it was the first independent news channel in the Arab region, and now broadcasts to more than 450 million homes across 150 countries.
The new multi-year comprehensive agreement will convert Al Jazeera onto an Avid MediaCentral® | Flex subscription model, giving them access to the latest platform tools and Avid NEXIS® storage. It will also include a transition path in the near future from its existing hardware servers onto Avid’s next-generation software-based and cloud-enabled media ingest and playout platform, Avid | Stream IO™.