CBS Television Network
Cross Country Collaborative Review with High-Quality Video Streaming over Enterprise Networks


The Background:
CBS Television Network is the No. 1 most-watched network with more than 200 affiliated stations providing viewers with some of the nation’s best entertainment, news & sports programming.


The Challenge:
Replace a legacy tape-based distribution system used for collaborative review of CBS promotional spots with a state of the art video streaming system that eliminates the costly and time consuming process of shipping physical tapes.

The InfoValue Solution:
Promotional spots in rough-cut form are immediately encoded onto the InfoValue video-on-demand server. Production professionals across the country can then instantly and independently watch the footage with high-quality streaming video from their laptops and desktop PCs over the company’s enterprise network. There is no need to wait for a tape delivery or a lengthy file download.

InfoValue’s system dramatically shortened the overhead time of the spots review process, leaving more time for collaboration and improvement.

The Epilogue:
The system was originally deployed on the West Coast and soon after was rolled out to the East Coast, including New York. The value of the video-on-demand system became even greater as shipping times across the country grew longer because of increased security screening of packages.