Known as Broadcast Cloud

"Television Everywhere Broadcasting"

By Peter Neumann

"Television Everywhere Broadcasting"

February 15, 2012 Updated Feb 15, 2012 at 5:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK AND LONDON (Indiana's NewsCenter) --- Granite Broadcasting, a leader innovator in local media and parent company of Indiana's NewsCenter, has announced it's partnership with Motive Television of England to test Motive's mobile service that would deliver signals and datacasting services directly to smartphones, tablets and other portable devices.

Granite and Motive will soon begin testing the technology at independent KOFY San Francisco and other Granite stations.

The announcement was made by Granite CEO Peter Markham and Leonard M. Fertig, CEO of Motive Television.

The joint project, known as "Broadcast Cloud," will utilize the newest technologies and software to enable digital broadcasters and pay television operators to offer enhanced broadcasting services directly to the mobile user. This means that mobile device users will be able to see live news, movies, specialized content such as video on demand, and basically do everything you do on your home TV and computer. Mobile users would only need an special antenna and proprietary software.

To read the press release and announcement regarding "Broadcast Cloud" click here




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