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Incited Media to Provide Webcast and Streaming Production Services for Live Earth on MSN
Los Angeles, CA: Streaming media production leader Incited Media has announced today that it will provide online video and streaming production services for SOS on MSN to broadcast the forthcoming Live Earth concert events.
Incited provides production services for a number of online events, including regular programming for Control Room, the global producers of Live Earth. Control Room commissioned Incited to develop a state-of-the-art process that will enable MSN to broadcast around the world for the landmark multi-venue Live Earth concert live and on-demand via their computers.
"We're honored to be able to take part in this incredibly important event for the state of the world's environment," said Joe Einstein, co-founder of Incited Media. "Our production team will provide near instantaneous live streaming to MSN, as well as on-demand encoding of the event, so people around the world can catch any show at any time, and never miss a single moment of this landmark concert."
Incited's team of roughly 80 technicians will be streaming nine live feeds (eight stages plus a world feed) to liveearth.msn.com. Incited will have 7 EVS systems editing individual songs and 27 servers in a VOD encoding "farm" going at all times as well as 24 live encoders for the Windows Media and QuickTime streams.
As with all Live Earth's partnerships from vendors to sponsors to musical acts, all activities performed by Incited during the process will be green, including utilization of green hosting and biodiesel to fuel the process.
Los Angeles based Incited Media is a first-of-its-kind company that combines cutting-edge technical expertise in streaming media with full-scale production services that provides companies with the ability to deliver high quality streaming content to any size audience anywhere in the world. Clients include some of the biggest live events in the world, such as the Olympic Games, the Grammys, the MTV Video Music Awards, Live 8, the U.S. Democratic Convention, Farm Aid, and the Ansari X-Prize.
For more information on Incited Media please visit www.incitedmedia.com
