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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Michael Atkin, president, BroadView Software

IF YOU WANT TO LUMP 21-year-old BroadView Software in with other "tech" companies, it would be a greybeard. Like greybeards, however, it has the experience and perspective gained from evolving from an all-analog, all-tape broadcast environment to a fully digital, Windows-based, IT-powered world. President Michael Atkin remains at the head of the company he founded right out of Ryerson University whose first customer was First Choice Canada and has seen the changes in the broadcast world from the inside as a key software vendor. For those unfamiliar with the Toronto-based company, BroadView makes specialized, flexible, broadcast information-management software that manages...