Crispin is a leading supplier of master control automation and asset management solutions for broadcasters, cable operators and other television and media operations.

We make television and media operations run more efficiently by automating and optimizing everyday news, production and master control functions.

PROVEN PERFORMANCE are modular, giving you the choice to use managers will work with you to The Crispin solution was architected the Crispin tools you want without dictating understand the intricacies of your for reliability and performance. Since your workflow or restricting your use of unique operation. We’ll always stand 1997, Crispin has reliably automated the other favorite tools. Plus, we offer both a behind every promise we make. traditional capital purchase and software operations of hundreds of facilities, day §§ Commitment and Follow- licensing or a subscription model that and night. Top networks entrust Crispin through. From project management allows you to pay a fixed monthly fee that automation to deliver billions of dollars in and discovery, on-site commissioning, fits your budget without ever having to own commercial advertising each year. Our training, go-live support, to post go-live hardware or software. technology delivers the powerful features and remote support, we’ll deliver. needed to operate a modern television facility and provides true sleep-at-night CUSTOMER CARE §§ Live Support. We understand reliability that is unsurpassed in the industry. At Crispin we’re committed to building television never stops and our support lasting partnerships with our customers by covers you 24x7x365. Our live support MODULAR AND FLEXIBLE delivering the highest standard of quality engineers are TV experts and all Our driver-based device interface model and service. Our pledge is to always work at our headquarters in Research offers the greatest choice of interfaces faithfully deliver to you: Triangle Park, NC. During business hours, our staff of support engineers available on the market. This best-of- §§ Expertise and Honesty. Our will take your calls and emails directly. breed approach maximizes your current service starts from the first day we After hours, the same team will support investment and allows you to change your meet and discuss your project. Our every emergency. system in the future. Also, our applications sales team, engineers and project

2 www.crispincorp.com Hundreds of Customers and Channels in Operation

With hundreds of customers and channels in operation, Crispin is the choice of many top tier networks and station groups, including Newsy, TEGNA, Raycom, Public Media Management, Young, over 30 PBS stations and many more.

Crispin Solutions at a Glance WHY CHOOSE CRISPIN

Our software products are a true reflection of our existing customers. We continually enhance and adapt each of our products to ensure the most efficient workflow toolset for MASTER CONTROL AUTOMATION ASSET MANAGEMENT operating your facility. Multi-channel operations. Powerfully Master Control. End-to-end workfow simple and scalable from one to hundreds tools for capture, ingest, prep, transcoding, Experienced. Since 1997, Crispin of channels. transfer, archiving and purging material. has delivered a proven solution that Complete automation of content providers Sports and Live operations. High reliably automates the operation of performance that supports last-minute including: PitchBlue, Extreme Reach, hundreds of facilities day and night. Javelin and many more. edits, flawlessly and frame-accurately. Innovative. We are continuously NewsCat ties your newsroom Multi-site and Hub operations. News. innovating to solve problems that face Control and monitor any combination of together with unified digital workflow. television operations today. channels located anywhere, from anywhere, Production. Powerful software for Modular. All of our applications are scalable to hundreds of channels. managing complex metadata combined modular, giving you the choice to use with video storage. the Crispin tools you want without dictating your workflow or restricting your use of other favorite tools. Partners. We believe in phenomenal customer service. Our goal is simple: to make your operation more efcient and build a lasting partnership with NEWSROOM SOLUTIONS COMMUNITY our customers. Playback. Integrated with popular Scheduling, Playback and Asset newsroom computer systems, video Management. Master control servers and more. automation designed specifcally for community and government television. Asset Management. Sophisticated asset management with NewsCat, the Built-in traffic scheduling plus customized media hub for submission of video for on- media workflow editing and resource air and automatic archiving. scheduling for hundreds of independent producers.

www.crispincorp.com 3 Master Control Automation Crispin is the absolute leader in reliable, high performance master control automation.

MULTI-CHANNEL OPERATIONS SPORTS AND LIVE OPERATIONS Powerful and scalable from one to hundreds of channels. Sports, news and other live programming is the ultimate performance test of any automation system. The Crispin solution §§ Open and Modular. Crispin Device Server works with the latest broadcast devices and systems. sets the standard for flawless automation in live operations. §§ Fast Editing. Last-second edits are no problem with our §§ Scalable. You won’t have to scrap anything when you want to proprietary technology. expand. You get our same great core technology whether you have one or hundreds of channels. §§ Extended Device Capabilities. Our unique driver-based framework allows us to utilize TCP/IP protocols for on-air §§ Powerful Tools. Our RapidPlayX playlist management control of devices, delivering the highest performance. and scheduling tool was designed to bring the power of automation to your fingertips. §§ Tools Ideal for Sports and Live. Alternate breaks from traffic and digital Join-in-Progress are just a few of the tools §§ Focused Asset Management. Our comprehensive suite designed specifcally for live environments where the potential of tools enables complete automation of content delivery for schedule variances is the greatest. services like PitchBlue, Extreme Reach, Javelin and others. MULTI-SITE AND HUB OPERATIONS Whether it’s central casting, hub and spoke or remote monitor and control, Crispin is the technology leader for operating large, networked sites across multiple time zones, wide area networks and a variety of equipment and systems. Features designed specifically for multi-site operations include: §§ LoadingDock – consolidated spot transfer system allowing a user at one station to transfer and prep national spots for Sleep-at-Night Reliability all stations in the group. SOFTWARE §§ Realtime BXF in hub and spoke environment. Built-in failover and redundancy allow §§ A highly efficient protocol over TCP/IP that enables multi- you to shut down individual servers and channel control with network speeds as low as 56kbs. modules while the system still stays online.

§§ Simultaneous command and control. Operators can view HARDWARE any channel from anywhere in the system, allowing for the Crispin-built high performance rack servers seamless change of control during the broadcast day. feature our own customized Windows 7 §§ Ability to control devices over many protocols, including Embedded Standard operating system. serial-based devices, GPIOs and native TCP/IP based APIs. §§ Advanced functions such as Network Break-in, designed specifically for multi-node operations.

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www.crispincorp.com 5 Media Asset Management From ingest and management to archive and storage, our media asset management suite automates every task without dictating your workflow.

INGEST, PREP AND QC MANAGEMENT AND WORKFLOW Our tools are designed for the modern master control room Track and manage your assets from anywhere using Crispin’s that routinely mixes baseband, live and file-based sources sophisticated suite of web-based tools. simultaneously. §§ AssetBase combines a powerful relational database with §§ LoadingDock automatically transfers national spots and extensive media management functions like continuous streamlines the transfer process. It is an all-in-one tool for monitoring, mirroring and promo management. content management. §§ ClipCopX automatically syncs AssetBase with all copies §§ Dubber quickly and frame accurately records tape and live of video. Available features include copying and deleting sources to your air server. between servers, auto-archive and auto-restore.

§§ DigiPrep streamlines media preparation in a modern file- based facility so you can time, segment and QC material without using a port.

ARCHIVING AND STORAGE Since 2000, Crispin has been safeguarding the digital assets for master control rooms, newsrooms and production teams. ACQUIRE ARCHIVE §§ Products for Master Control, News and Production. For the MCR, we’ll automatically restore content from the archive that’s needed on-air with the original timings and metadata.

§§ Flexible Storage Options. Built-in Hierarchical Storage Management manages nearline RAID storage, fexible storage STORE PLAY options and cloud storage. MANAGE §§ Open and Modular. We interface to popular third party archiving, MAM systems, video servers, editing workstations and network file shares.

§§ Format Independent. Seamless interfaces to industry COPY SCHEDULE leading transcoders preserve your digital investments.

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6 www.crispincorp.com Newsroom Crispin newsroom applications work with your existing technology and protect your investment by operating openly with other systems going forward.

NEWSPLAYX NEWSWHEEL §§ Easy and Powerful. With our web- Built from the same technology that drives NewsWheel provides an automated and based NewsCat, editors can submit our on-air master control automation, unattended 24-hour news channel with full their stories to the air server, correctly NewsPlayX provides news element integration to ENPS and iNews. named, story-linked and in the correct playback for live news operation. video format. Searching, browsing, NEWSCAT restoring, annotating and transcoding §§ Real-time interfaces to iNews and are all point-and-click. ENPS, continuously updating clip NewsCat ties your newsroom together, listing. creating a unified digital workflow from the §§ Designed for Scale. We support rundown to the editing and playback to dozens of simultaneous newsroom §§ Supports video servers, switchers and archive. users and millions of video assets and other on-air devices. §§ Complete Archiving. All iNews and archived rundowns. ENPS content is tied to video server STUDIO CONTROL §§ Modular and Open. Compatible content to create a complete digital The newsroom can view with most editing suites and video news archive which includes automatic the MCR playlist, roll breaks and monitor servers, NewsCat works with Crispin archiving and storage management. MCR countdown timers. and third party storage.

Community Crispin Community is a suite of master control and asset management applications built specifically for the needs of government and community television.

§§ Advanced Scheduling and Resource Management. §§ Producer-focused. Independent producers can manage Community automatically handles gaps and overruns on their own content using a set of permission-based utilities multiple channels, ensuring you never go black and that to edit, submit and assign their shows and episodes to evergreen material is aired according to rules you defne. available slots.

www.crispincorp.com 7 SUPPORT Customer Support We’re so convinced that our system will perform as promised that we offer a few programs that are unheard of in the industry.

CRISPIN4LIFE software, service and support. There are 5/5 PLAN Every new system purchase includes a no upfront capital costs for the purchase Interested in keeping operational costs 4-year service and warranty plan at no of hardware or software and just like all of down? Crispin now ofers the 5/5 Plan! charge. Crispin4Life covers phone and our solutions, your system can be easily Sign up for your next hardware upgrade email service and support, corrective expanded, enhanced and modifed as your in year 5 and Crispin will waive all annual fxes and hardware for 4 years. While operational needs change. costs for this 5-year period. Crispin4Life is a great value for our customers, the belief that you shouldn’t ANNUAL SUPPORT PUBLIC MEDIA MANAGEMENT have to pay extra to get what we promised All customers may renew support on an Crispin is always available to support is just one of the principles that defnes us annual basis, following the Crispin4Life any and all customers in the event of an as a company. initial support. This support includes emergency. PMM customers are typically other perks like 8 hours of mapper rule routed through WGBH’s support line as VERANDA AND CAMEO changes, updates to the latest versions of the frst call for support, but you know we SUBSCRIPTION PLANS software and much, much more! Annual will always pick up the phone! Our subscription plans ofer our automation support is based on the list price of the and asset management solutions for software total for the system and Crispin’s an afordable monthly subscription fee. standard support rate is signifcantly less The subscription includes all hardware, than the industry standard.

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