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AccuWeather Selects Microspace
for Satellite Delivery of
Real-Time
Weather Information
VELOCITY® Service Supports
Leading National
Weather Services
Raleigh, NC -
February
6, 2006 – Microspace
Communications
Corporation
(Microspace), the leading provider of point-to-multipoint
satellite
services,
today
announced that its award-winning VELOCITY® service has been selected to deliver AccuWeather’s
weather information to hundreds of sites nationwide. The
addition of AccuWeather, the world's leading commercial weather
service with over 250,000 paying clients, solidifies Microspace’s
existing leadership in broadcasting secure and reliable data
for the industry’s leading forecasters.
“Reporting accurate weather updates in real time can
be the difference between life and death in some cases,“ said
Michael A. Steinberg, senior vice president of AccuWeather. “Microspace’s
long-standing
industry
reputation for reliably and cost-effectively delivering such
mission-critical information made them the
logical
provider
to support our content delivery needs.”
AccuWeather has served clients in the media, government,
industrial and educational fields since 1962. More than 200
television stations, over 10,000websites, and 850 newspaper
outlets, including WABC-TV and WPVI-TV, The Wall Street Journal.
NewYorkTimes.com, and WashingtonPost.com, depend on forecasts
from AccuWeather for timely notification of severe weather.
Almost 200 million Americans identify AccuWeather as the
most accurate and recognized name among commercial weather
forecasting services.
“After years of providing satellite content delivery
service to leading weather information providers, VELOCITY
has become the de facto standard for the industry, reliably
delivering crucial weather information to meteorologists,
T.V. and radio stations, air traffic controllers, newspapers
and other news services,” said Vice President and General
Manager of Microspace Joe Amor. “We’re now pleased
to support AccuWeather, given their prominence in the industry
as a leader in providing reliable weather information around
the clock. This addition is a testament to VELOCITY’s
proven
ability
to meets the stringent demands of providing accurate, real-time
weather information to individuals and
organizations
that
need it most.”
VELOCITY, Microspace’s high-speed
video,
data and audio broadcasting service, provides an optimum
solution
for
businesses
requiring economical and reliable content delivery from one
to multiple locations. Compared to terrestrial
solutions,
VELOCITY
is quicker and easier to implement and offers
significant
cost savings. The service is available as either a dedicated
solution or on-demand service, enabling
customers
to
easily and affordably expand bandwidth as their content delivery
needs change.
About
AccuWeather
AccuWeather,
The
World's Weather Authority®, provides a portfolio
of
products and services through the airwaves, via the
Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit
hundreds of
millions
of people worldwide. AccuWeather.com serves more than
250,000 paying customers in media, business, government
and
institutions, and millions more through its free website.
AccuWeather.com
also provides content onto more than 10,000
Internet
sites including CNN Interactive, ABC's owned and operated
stations, The Washington Post, and The New York
Times.
About
Microspace
Microspace
Communications
Corporation (Microspace) is the leading provider of
satellite services for video, data and audio content
distribution
and
operates the largest global business satellite broadcasting
network,
with over 320,000 remote links worldwide. A variety
of both businesses and government organizations rely
upon
Microspace’s VELOCITY® for high-quality, cost-effective
and
secure content distribution at savings of up to 98% over
terrestrial services. VELOCITY supports customers such as
Morgan
Stanley, LodgeNet, John Deere, Muzak and the Christian
Radio
Consortium via a wide range of IP broadband applications
such as business TV, distance learning, digital signage and
digital
cinema, among many others. The service is available
as
either a dedicated solution or as an on-demand service, enabling
customers to easily and affordably expand their
bandwidth
as their needs change. Founded in 1988 with headquarters
in the U.S and a presence in Europe and Latin America, Microspace
is
a subsidiary of Capitol Broadcasting Company. For more
information,
visit www.microspace.com.
Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a
diversified communications company which owns and/or operates
WRAL-TV, WRAL Digital,
WRAL-FM,
WRAL-HD2, WCMC-FM, Microspace, the North Carolina News
Network, CBC New Media Group and Wolfpack Sports Marketing
in
Raleigh, NC; WJZY-TV and WWWB-TV in Charlotte, NC; WILM-TV
in
Wilmington, NC; WRAZ-TV and The Durham Bulls in Durham,
NC;
the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Baseball Club in Myrtle Beach,
SC;
and real estate interests including the American Tobacco
Project
and Diamond iew office building in Durham, NC.
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