NTC's Tom Michales Presents NAB2011 Paper on Design Considerations for Station Group Centralization
GLENDALE CA, April 4, 2011—Tom Michales, NTC Senior Project Director, is participating in
the Operational Efficiencies for Television session Tuesday afternoon, April 12, as a part of the
Broadcast Engineering Conference at NAB 2011. He will present a paper, authored by NTC
Vice President–Engineering, Rich Hill, and him, titled "Design Considerations for Station Group
Centralization."
National TeleConsultants to Offer Integration Services for Xytech Systems’ MediaPulse - NAB 2010
GLENDALE CA, April 9, 2010—National TeleConsultants, Inc. (NTC) has announced that it will offer integration services specific to the Xytech Systems’ MediaPulse platform within media enterprises. The powerful MediaPulse application suite offers unparalleled integration capabilities, working smoothly with customers' existing media technologies. NTC has five years of software integration experience coupled with targeted MediaPulse expertise, allowing them to seamlessly integrate the platform with Xytech customers' existing workflows and technology systems and deploy purpose-built user interfaces and portals.
NTC's Chuck Phelan to Chair Day-long Session on Television Infrastructure at NAB 2009
GLENDALE CA, April 8, 2009—National TeleConsultants (NTC) Managing Partner Chuck Phelan will chair a day-long session on Television Infrastructure during the Broadcast Engineering Conference at this year's NAB in Las Vegas, NV. The sessions take place on Thursday, April 23, from 9 AM until 3 PM and consist of ten individual paper presentations by industry experts. Phelan was tapped for this role due to NTC's premier position in providing technology consulting, design and integration services to the media and entertainment industry. NTC has provided infrastructure design for major broadcasters, studios, satellite and cable providers for nearly 30 years. The five-day Broadcast Engineering Conference features a broad range of sessions relating to television and radio engineering.
"So You Want to Build a File-based Production" to be presented by NTC Software Solutions Group Consultant Joey Faust at NAB 2009
GLENDALE CA, April 6, 2009—Joey Faust, a Consultant in NTC's Software Solutions Group, will present an important paper during the NAB 2009 Broadcast Engineering Conference, running Sunday through Thursday in Las Vegas, NV. The title of his paper is "So You Want to Build a File-based Production." During the past two years, NTC has been a leading provider of large, enterprise-grade file-based production systems to leading media and entertainment organizations. Faust's paper will be presented Thursday afternoon, during the Storage, Archiving, and Asset Management for Television session of the conference.
NTC Software Solutions Group Vice President John Footen to Discuss Service Oriented Architecture at
NAB 2009
GLENDALE CA, April 2, 2009—John Footen, Vice President for National TeleConsultants' (NTC's) Software Solutions Group, will present an important paper during the NAB 2009 Broadcast Engineering Conference, running Sunday through Thursday in Las Vegas, NV. The title of the paper is "Service Oriented Architecture in Media Systems." NTC has been an early adopter and leading advocate for the use of Service Oriented Architecture by media and entertainment organizations.
NTC Thought Leadership Provided in Five Papers for
Presentation at the SMPTE 2008 Technical Conference
GLENDALE CA, October 6, 2008—NTC, announces that five of its technology experts have been selected by the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers to present technical papers at the SMPTE 2008 Technical
Conference and Exhibition, scheduled for October 27-30, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel,
in Los Angeles.
NTC Software Systems Group VP John Footen to Address
Major Latin American DTV Conference
GLENDALE CA, September 23, 2008—As part of its renowned thought leadership, NTC's John Footen, the VP responsible for its Software Solutions Group, will present vital
information at a major South American DTV conference, in Bogotá Colombia on September
25 and 26.
NTC Presents Briefing on Emerging and Turbulent Technologies
at NAB2008
GLENDALE CA, April 15, 2008—National TeleConsultants (NTC), presented an exclusive "State of the Industry 2008" briefing this
morning at the 2008 NAB Conference on a series of critical topics facing today’s media
professionals. Presented by NTC Chief Technology Officer Eric Pohl, NTC Consultants
Michael Sterling and Joey Faust, and Senior VP of Strategy Peter Ickes, the "State of the
Industry 2008" briefing examined seven specific areas, including: the transition to
digital cinema, the challenge of metadata collection and usage, the importance of social
networking, professional open source media software, the rise of mobile television in
the United States, the explosion of digital content distribution formats and methods,
and recent advances in high-resolution consumer display technologies.
NTC Chief Technology Officer Eric Pohl to Discuss
Workflow Details of NBC Olympics Highlights Factory
at NAB/SVG Beijing Olympics Workshop on April 16
GLENDALE CA, March 27, 2008—NTC Chief Technology Officer Eric Pohl joins fellow
industry experts in revealing the details of a ground-breaking initiative known as the
NBC Olympics Highlights Factory, at the joint SVG (Sports Video Group)/NAB
(National Association of Broadcasters) Beijing Olympics Workshop, Wednesday April
16, in Las Vegas.
New Book by NTC Experts John Footen and Joey Faust
Reveals New Approach in Systems Design and
Operations for Television and Media Professionals
GLENDALE CA, March 11, 2008—A new book titled The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise: SOA, BPM, and Web
Services in Professional Media Systems (published by Focal Press) is available that clarifies
IT challenges and solutions for television and media technology professionals.
Written by John Footen, NTC Vice President in charge of the company’s Software
Solutions Group, and Joey Faust, an NTC Consultant, the book provides essential
information for improving current media enterprise technologies and operations.
NTC Mourns Passing of Edward P. Hobson II
GLENDALE CA, January 31, 2008—National TeleConsultants is saddened to announce that Edward P. Hobson II, a Vice President at the company since 2002, passed away on
Monday, January 28 in Nevada City, CA.
Born in Trenton NJ, Hobson was an accomplished executive in the television industry for more than three decades and a Past President, Governor, and Fellow of the Society
of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He served as a member of the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) board of directors and in 2006, was named
a Fellow in the BKSTS.
National TeleConsultants Raises Awareness of New Media Architectures and File-Based Workflow Benefits
GLENDALE CA, October 22, 2007—Four upcoming digital media and broadcast technology conferences have invited National TeleConsultants (NTC) to deliver presentations on new IT-based media architectures and file-based workflow solutions. John Footen, an NTC Vice President responsible for the company’s Software Solutions Group, will present tutorials on these topics at the upcoming Digital Hollywood conference (Oct. 29-Nov. 1, in Hollywood), the Advanced Media Workflow Association/Digital TV Group MXF Summit (Nov. 13, in London), the AMWA/European Broadcast Union SOA Training and Users Meeting (Nov. 14, in London), and the Broadcast Engineering Conference at NAB 2008 (April 12, in Las Vegas).
National TeleConsultants to Chair and Present at IBC Session on IT-Based Production Systems
GLENDALE CA, August 22, 2007—National TeleConsultants will once again provide expertise regarding the latest IT-based networking, storage, and workflow advances at IBC 2007, the International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, Holland from September 7 to 11.
Chaired by NTC Managing Partner Chuck Phelan, an expert technical papers session on IT-Based Production Systems will be presented on Sunday, September 9th as part of IBC 2007’s Content Production Theme Day.
National TeleConsultants to Explore the Crucial Topics of SOA’s, BPM, and Web Services in Professional Media Systems at NAB 2007
GLENDALE CA, January 8, 2007—John Footen, NTC's Director of Software Systems Engineering, will present a groundbreaking paper exploring the crucial topics of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Web services in Professional Media Systems during the technical sessions of the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference, scheduled for April 14-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
