MONTREAL – Internet TV news network MediaScrape launched today in Montreal.
Billing itself as "the first global information network using web technology to deliver free, all-video broadcast news clips, MediaScrape is the first Internet TV News Network to digitize analog TV broadcasts in a format that is 100 percent high quality video, on-demand, translated on location, interactive, free, searchable and archived," says the release.
"This is a breakthrough in news information as MediaScrape delivers all foreign clips from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific in their original format and language, providing a virtual platform for multi perspectives on single issues and unbiased top world and regional stories," said Tyler Cavell, founder and chief operating officer.
Content is updated every 30 minutes, 24-hours a day. It’s business model is ad-supported so content, from multiple sources, is free to viewers.
"MediaScrape strives to improve information flow between people, catering to the young cyber population, immigrant populations as well as the Bloomberg generation interested in live foreign investment breaking news, interactivity and global trade," added Cavell.
MediaScrape features three interactive capabilities — message boards, blogs and user-submitted content, including video, photos, text and audio.
The company has signed agreements with video news agencies and wholesalers such as Associated Press, Canadian Press and Dogan News Agency (81 bureaus worldwide). It has so far signed partnerships with local television broadcasters from Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia and expects to sign on more than a hundred countries over the next year. Presently subtitled in English, the news clips will soon be available in other languages.
Headquartered in Montreal with bureaus in Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, MediaScrape was developed by Cavell, "who felt that there was an information deficit in current broadcast and developed www.mediascrape.com to meet the needs for a global high-quality Internet information network," adds the release.
