Avid Technology Inc. has purchased Sundance Digital Inc. in a cash deal worth about $12 million. Avid, a leader in media production management technology for broadcast and post, said the acquisition broadens its broadcast workflow systems with automation capabilities. Based in Irving, Texas, Sundance Digital deve

Avid Technology, Inc. announced that it has acquired Sundance Digital, Inc. for approximately $12 million in cash. Sundance, which is based in the Dallas, TX area, is a leading developer of automation and device control software for broadcast video servers, tape transports, graphics systems and other broadcast station

Avid Technology has acquired the assets and technology of the automation and device control software provider for approximately $12 million in cash

Sundance automation systems already integrate with a range of Avid broadcast solutions

Meredith Broadcasting station, KVVU, has purchased and installed a Sundance Digital NewsLink system. The Las Vegas-based Fox affiliate will use the system with its Avid Unity NLE news production system and to control two Avid AirSpeed multipurpose media platform servers for play-to-air. The combined configuration

'Automation Technology Update' spoke to Rick Stora, formerly with Sundance Digital, but now with Avid, to find out how the automation business is changing.

NY1 News has recently purchased Avid news systems for its several of its bureaus. Two Avid Unity LANshare EX for News systems will provide a digital end-to-end workflow that the three locations in New York City, Staten Island and also in Bergen County, N.J. NY1 News is currently editing content with the Avid N

Sundance Digital is planning to open an office in Singapore during the company's third fiscal quarter in 2005. Adrian Smith, regional sales engineer, will relocate from the United Kingdom to oversee the new location, which will anchor its growing presence in the Asia/Pacific region. Prior to joining Sundance, Smi