MusiquePlus, Canada’s hip French-language music station, has installed DIVArchive™ from Front Porch Digital to support automated workflow of digitized video content across a complex web of ingest, storage, and delivery platforms. At MusiquePlus, DIVArchive is the key to a complete transformation from tape-based to tapeless workflow that will dramatically improve efficiency and broadcast consistency at the station, as well as enabling it to more readily take advantage of new delivery options.

Systems integrator Applied Electronics collaborated with MusiquePlus to devise an innovative workflow in which DIVArchive is directed by ProConsultant’s LOUISE integrated traffic scheduler. Working in the background, DIVArchive identifies content by its metadata and handles it according to customized rules developed by MusiquePlus — making copies for archives or for browsing, and/or transcoding the content for streaming to the Web, to mobile phones, or even via FTP to the Montreal airport’s TV monitors that entertain passengers in the gate area with music programming.