MUMBAI: Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading developer of Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, software and services for content producers, has said that Fox has selected Dalet Sports Factory as the end-to-end production and Media Asset Management system for the company’s brand new, national, multisport cable network -Fox Sports 1 (FS1).

The new channel will launch in mid-August with an impressive roster of live sports including college basketball and football, NASCAR, soccer and UFC. Dalet Sports Factory will provide the essential MAM underlayer that will manage the channel’s workflows and content-from ingest through production to on-air broadcast and archiving. Dalet Brio servers will be used for nearly a hundred channels of video ingest.

"Weneed the kind of robust and flexible MAM that Dalet Sports Factory provides to handle the scale and complexity of FS1," says Fox Sports Senior Vice President, Media Services Andrea Berry. "We’ll be producing huge volumes of content for this new channel and Dalet’s metadata management capability will be very important."

Dalet Sports Factory is an open system and provides seamless integrations with broadcast and IT systems, including industry-standard NLEs with exchanges of both media and metadata (including parent/child relationships of assets).