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Cinegy and Dogan TV Holding: Shortlisted for the IBC2008 Innovation Awards, for Content Management

 Cinegy is delighted to announce their successful inclusion in the shortlist for the 2008 IBC Awards for Innovation, in the category for Content Management category, for their innovative digital production workflow at Dogan TV in Turkey.Cinegy was selected from a pool of over 50 entries from more 20 countries demonstrating some of the most exciting and innovative technology in the industry. Dogan TV Holding is Turkey’s largest media group, and all of its over 40 TV channels use Cinegy from end-to-end of the ingest, archive, production, as well as broadcast automation and playout processes.

cinegy workflow comprises of ingest, asset management and non-linear editors for the realization of a tapeless, collaborative management of metadata and archival of digital content.  It is a fully integrated, end-to-end production solution that uses non-proprietary IT hardware and standard software.The innovative technology behind cinegy workflow enables flexibility and scalability for broadcast stations leading to more efficient TV production, enhanced return on investments, and enables greater competitive advantage to operations.

The scale and scope of the cinegy workflow  solution at Dogan TV is one of the largest, if not largest, tapeless production workflow systems in the world, with over 500 concurrent seats of production and editing clients, with dozens of tapeless ingest and playout channels, and  constitutes the backbone of Dogan TV's technical infrastructure.

The IBC Awards for Innovations were first introduced in 2006 and since then have proved to be an exciting and closely fought competition.

About Dogan Yayin Holding (DYH) and Dogan TV
Dogan Yayin Holding (DYH) is Turkey’s leading diversifi ed media-entertainment conglomerate, with operations in newspapers, magazine and book publishing, distribution, television and radio broadcasting, printing and new media. With 7063 employees, DYH is uniquely positioned in different segments of media, with an estimated advertising market share of 42% in Turkey. DYH activities include eight national newspapers, 24 magazines, books, six printing facilities in Turkey, and one in Frankfurt, distribution, broadcasting (Dogan TV), online, music, retail (music & book stores) and alternative telecom.

Dogan TV is the leading broadcasting company in Turkey, with 24% audience share, estimated and market share of 36%, and 1248 employees as of 1H06. Dogan TV operations include three FTA national TV stations, the leading entertainment channel Kanal D, recently acquired Star TV (Turkey) and CNN Turk (a JV with Time Warner), 15 thematic channels and 2 channels broadcasting in Europe, namely EuroD and EuroStar, three radio stations, production, home video and a teleshopping JV with TF1.

For more information visit www.dyh.com.tr

About Cinegy
Cinegy is a world-leading R&D company, developing and engineering video, broadcast and OEM solutions for international broadcasters and equipment vendors. Cinegy is fully committed to the advancement of IT technology in video, broadcast and cinema. The Company's name signifies the dedication towards finding synergies in high-end digital image processing and digital workflow. Cinegy LLC has offices in the United States and is headquartered in Washington, DC. Cinegy GmbH has offices in Germany and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information visit www.cinegy.com
 
Cinegy’s Application Areas: Media workflow, Media Asset Management, Broadcast Automation, Newsroom Integration, Nonlinear Editing, Compositing & Effects, MPEG Technology / Encoders/Decoders

Press contact for Cinegy:
                                    
Anthea Kirk - Klenzestr.14 -80469 Munich - Germany
Phone: +49 89 23885360  Fax: +49 89 23885369
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Visit Cinegy at IBC 2008, booth 7.A43