Monroe Electronics Contact:
Jim Heminway
Vice President, General Manager
Tel: +1 (585) 765-2254
E-mail: jfheminway@monroe-electronics.com
Digital Alert Systems Contact:
Bill Robertson
Business Development Manager
Tel: +1 (941) 224-6944
E-mail: bill@digitalalertsystems.com
Agency Contact:
Michael Kroll
Wall Street Communications
Tel: +1 (919) 803-3770
E-mail: michael@wallstcom.com
WideOrbit Contact:
Jessica Patrice
Executive Assistant
Tel: +1 (415) 675-6736
E-mail: jpatrice@wideorbit.com
Photo Link: www.wallstcom.com/DAS/DASDEC-II.zip
For Immediate Release
Digital Alert Systems Partners With WideOrbit for
Streamlined EAS Automation in Radio Broadcasting
LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — June 15, 2010 — Digital Alert Systems (DAS), a division of
Monroe Electronics and provider of enhanced emergency alert systems (EAS), has
partnered with WideOrbit, the leading provider of business management software for
media companies. Together, the two companies have tightly integrated Digital Alert
Systems’ flagship DASDEC™-II EAS platform with WideOrbit’s WO Automation for
Radio™.
The pairing of the two systems is designed to streamline operations, prevent emergency
alert “step-on” insertion over advertiser material and produce a more polished and
sophisticated on-air product. The software integration between DASDEC-II and WO
Automation for Radio allows for better deployment of emergency alerts, with streamlined
communication between the systems that allow radio broadcasters to automatically
schedule alerts to play to air at an appropriate time.
“This integration clearly demonstrates the benefit of WO Automation for Radio’s open
widget-based architecture,” said Eric R. Mathewson, founder and CEO of WideOrbit. “By
making it easy for companies like Digital Alert Systems to integrate their EAS technology
with WideOrbit’s radio automation system, together we’re delivering a greater benefit
and product to our clients, ensuring that their spots and content are airing without
interruption while observing all FCC regulations.”
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“With our partnership with WideOrbit, two great products are now even better. This is the
industry’s first complete integration of an EAS with an automation system capable of
supporting a number of different stations. Radio broadcasters will benefit from a
cohesive system that can automate simultaneous EAS alerts over many channels airing
diverse content at different times,” said Bill Robertson, business development manager
for Digital Alert Systems. “With such a refined integration between WideOrbit’s
sophisticated automation system and our DASDEC platform, the negative and often
costly consequences of forced switching and advertising step-ons are eliminated. We’re
able to ensure a better on-air product for the broadcaster.”
WideOrbit’s WO Automation for Radio, formerly Google Radio Automation, is the
industry’s most modern and powerful radio automation system. WO Automation for
Radio 2.0 now has Leader and Follower functionality, which allows two or more radio
stations to share common programming like music, but break apart for independent
commercial breaks or longer segments. All stations can be run from one computer,
separate computers, or computers in different time zones, delivering flexibility and
scalability for broadcasters running multiple stations from a single location. WO
Automation for Radio 2.0 also delivers seamless integration with WideOrbit’s WO Traffic
for an unequaled end-to-end radio solution.
Ready to go straight from the box, the DASDEC-II emergency messaging platform is an
IP-based, CAP-compatible digital EAS encoder/decoder. The system includes a
standard browser-based interface for remote monitoring and control, up to four Ethernet
ports for multiple access points within a station, integrated support for MPEG-2 or
MPEG-4 output, and support for a broad range of interface protocols and third-party
products, as well as complete FCC-compliance logging within the system’s non-volatile
memory or network storage. DASDEC-II is available in a variety of configurations,
ranging from low-cost, decoder-only set-ups, to sophisticated multichannel
centralcasting messaging requirements.
More about Digital Alert Systems’ EAS products is available by calling +1 (585) 7651155 or by visiting www.digitalalertsystems.com.
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About WideOrbit
WideOrbit is the leading provider of business management software for media companies.
WideOrbit provides innovative, proven solutions for managing the business of broadcast and
cable operations — from proposal to order and scheduling to automation, billing, and aging.
WideOrbit has been helping clients since 1999, delivering high ROI, greater efficiencies, and
revenue optimization. WideOrbit is used by more than 4,000 television stations, radio stations,
and cable networks around the globe, managing more than $14 billion in advertising revenue.
WideOrbit’s clients include: Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, Entercom Communications,
Gannett Co., Hearst Television, Meredith Corporation, Midwest Communications, NBC Universal,
Qualcomm/MediaFLO, Scripps Television Group, and Tribune. WideOrbit is headquartered in
San Francisco, with offices in Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Melbourne, and New Delhi. More
information is available at www.wideorbit.com.
About Digital Alert Systems
Digital Alert Systems, LLC was formed in October 2003 when the founders, involved in EAS/EBS
since 1990, determined that IP-based technologies could lower the cost of EAS
encoders/decoders, improve operations, and offer more avenues to increase the effectiveness of
emergency communications in the future. The DASDEC™ emergency messaging platform was
the result of this critical thinking and development.
In October 2009, six years from its inception and with more than 1,000 systems in broadcast,
cable, IPTV, and emergency operation centers around the U.S., Digital Alert Systems merged
with Monroe Electronics to further extend its product offerings and better serve their collective
customers well into the future.
Based in Lyndonville, N.Y., Monroe Electronics provides R&D, manufacturing, sales, and
customer service for the Digital Alert Systems brand. The company extends its hard-earned
reputation for quality, reliability, innovation, and service to valued customers around the world.
More information is available at www.digitalalertsystems.com.
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