At a Glance: Ascent Media

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Ascent Media

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Ascent Media - London, UK

Across the globe Ascent Media’s networks team delivers over 35,000 hours of media content each week and playout over 100,000 clock accurate elements every day across more than 300 linear channels. We offer technical and operational expertise that contributes to the quality of your product through technical innovation and scalable operations.

Our networks team can demonstrate proven success in building dedicated, fully-staffed media facilities: such as for the Discovery Network in Chiswick Park, which now plays out over 50 channels. In addition to these large-scale solutions, we offer shared-environment single-channel packages that can bring your media content to air within weeks.

Let us handle the technical details and staffing of network playout while you reap the benefits of greater efficiency and cost control. With a wide range of post production services and studios to support your channel needs, we can provide you with a fully-managed solution and the opportunity to link across network infrastructure and digital assets for distribution into new platforms like VOD and Broadband.

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

  • Content Distribution
  • File-Based Digital Workflows
  • Teleport Services
  • Digital Asset Management
  • File-Based Network Origination / Playout
  • Video Peering

Learn more about Ascent's global service offerings

Key Contacts

  • Margaret Davies

    Director of Sales

    tel +44 (0)20 7131 6131

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