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Ascent Media DMDC - Northvale, NJ

Our Digital Media Distribution Center (DMDC) in Northvale also provides a complete range of digital media services in one state-of-the-art facility. Bridging the workflows and requirements of both the physical and file-based worlds, the DMDC helps studios, cable operators, broadcasters and advertisers to efficiently manage and deliver their content to consumers.

We offer broad expertise and exceed all international standards of quality in comprehensive post production services, digital asset management and broadcast syndication to media content owners around the world, including studios, program distributors, cable networks, corporate and independent producers.

This facility also has the capacity to move media content from across town to around the world. We provide full-time and occasional transmission services to the greater New York metropolitan television marketplace, combining an extensive earth station in Northvale, NJ, with additional facilities in Tappan, NY. Over two dozen antennas and diverse fiber interconnections tie Northvale to the Ascent Media switching centers in New York, our Stamford earth station and other Ascent Media facilities globally.

Ascent. Serving every stage of your media life cycle.

We're part of Ascent Media's world-leading network of media facilities, which offers fully integrated, end-to-end services for every stage of the media life cycle. We can channel the talent, technology and resources to bring you the best in media services wherever your needs take you. Belonging to the Ascent family allows us to offer more diverse, more advanced media capabilities, so that no matter what your media needs may be, our facilities can solve them.

Facility Expertise

  • Aspect ratio conversions
  • Encoding, compression
  • New media platforms
  • Audio post production (layback, synchronization, voiceover, M&E, rebuilding)
  • Evaluation/QC – film, video/audio
  • Quality control
  • Audio restoration
  • Fiber transmits and receives
  • Satellite uplink and downlink capabilities
  • Closed captioning encoding
  • File delivery – international and domestic
  • Subtitling – SD and HD
  • Courier service to and from the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT)
  • Film-to-tape transfers: standard (scene-to-scene & one light)
  • Syndication
  • Digital asset management/digital repository (Viia)
  • Film-to-tape transfers: standard (scene-to-scene & one light)
  • Tape-to-tape color correction (standard and high definition)
  • Digital cloning
  • High-definition cloning
  • Video on demand
  • Duplication – video and audio
  • High-definition down conversion and format conversion
  • Video restoration
  • Editorial
  • High-definition film-to-tape transfers

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Key Contacts

  • Andre Macaluso

    Senior VP, East Coast Operations

    tel +1 201.784.5220

  • Beth Simon

    Vice President

    tel +1 201.784.2132

  • James Pagliaro

    Director, East Coast Sales

    tel +1 201.784.2813

  • Lenny Schwartz

    Syndication Inquiries

    tel +1 201.784.2129

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