TORONTO – Corus Entertainment announced Wednesday the company is expanding the technology service offerings of its broadcast business with the creation of Quay Media Services. As part of this expansion, Corus also announced today the acquisition of Canadian-based closed captioning company, FastFile Media Services, one of the largest entertainment accessibility providers in Canada.
Leveraging the advanced technological capabilities of Corus' media and broadcast facility (pictured is the interior of Corus Quay), Quay Media Services offers a robust suite of services that include linear television broadcast, signal origination and master control play out and delivery, production facilities, media asset management and encoding/transcoding for both domestic and international customers, reads the press release.
The acquisition of FastFile bolsters Quay Media Services' offerings with closed captioning, described video and subtitling capabilities.
"Corus Quay has been built for scale with a fully-integrated digital infrastructure and the technical architecture to significantly expand our footprint in the media technology and distribution space," said Scott Dyer, executive vice president, chief technology officer and president, Nelvana, in the release. "Our acquisition of FastFile is a great complement to our business and capitalizes on the growing demand for closed captioning and described video both domestically and abroad."
