Pathfire Teams Up with D S Simon to Distribute Broadcast News Footage

Pathfire, an Atlanta-based provider of digital content distribution and management technology, is partnering with D S Simon Productions to distribute video news releases, b-roll footage and other short-form content to newsroom desktops throughout the U.S. D S Simon, a New York-based distributor of news media to the br

Author:: TVTechnology
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Nov 5, 2003

Pathfire, an Atlanta-based provider of digital content distribution and management technology, is partnering with D S Simon Productions to distribute video news releases, b-roll footage and other short-form content to newsroom desktops throughout the U.S.

D S Simon, a New York-based distributor of news media to the broadcast industry, will deliver video content through the Pathfire Digital Media Gateway (DMG), an automated IP-multicast distribution platform with servers located in broadcast facilities. Michael J. Eckert, Pathfire CEO, notes that newsrooms will have immediate access to video content from D S Simon without manually processing materials and satellite feed schedules.

News producers will now be able to receive video content directly on their desktops.

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