January 8, 2007
ENPS appoints distributor for Southern Africa
Inala Broadcast has been appointed as an authorised distributor for ENPS, AP’s News Production System, across the whole of Southern Africa. Based in Johannesburg, Inala Broadcast will represent ENPS in 13 countries - South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Swaziland, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles and Nigeria.
ENPS has a long-standing relationship with Inala Broadcast who provides integrated solutions to the broadcast and professional television and video markets. These include on-air and live events, news broadcasting, audio/video routing and networking, media management, virtual studios and digital effects solutions.
Inala has a very strong track record in representing some of ENPS’ key broadcast partners in South Africa, including Omneon, Grass Valley and Miranda, and has sold into some of the biggest broadcasters in the region, including the state broadcaster, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and recently have been awarded the turnkey system integration project for CNBC Africa who will be using ENPS.
The Associated Press developed ENPS in 1997 for the BBC’s global broadcasting operation. Ten years on, ENPS is used by more than 50,000 people in more than 640 newsrooms in 53 countries
Speaking about the new partnership, Colin Wainer, VP, Inala Broadcast commented: "ENPS has the tools to help journalists and the broadcasters to efficiently broadcast news. Inala Broadcast is very proud to be associated with ENPS who are highly regarded in the world of news broadcasting."
"Inala Broadcast is very well respected within the professional broadcast community in South Africa, and we are delighted to be joining forces with them," said Eric Bowman, AP’s Director of International Business Development, Newsroom Systems. "We are looking forward to working together to introduce ENPS to broadcasters all over the southern African region."
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