By Staff, April 18, 2006
Avid Technology, Inc. announced that it has acquired Sundance Digital, Inc. for approximately $12 million in cash. Sundance, which is based in the Dallas, TX area, is a developer of automation and device control software for broadcast video servers, tape transports, graphics systems and other broadcast station equipment
. The acquisition further widens Avid's worldwide leadership position as the provider of choice among broadcasters for digital systems to produce, manage, control, and play back television programming.
Sundance Digital has been providing solutions to public and commercial broadcasters since 1994. The company's products, which offer software for managing broadcast master control operations, include Titan, FastBreak NXT Automation and FastBreak
NXT XPress, Intelli-Sat, Digital Delivery Management System (DDMS), NewsLink, and Sundance Seeker. Sundance automation systems already integrate smoothly with a range of Avid broadcast solutions, including MediaStream, Avid iNEWS, Deko, DekoCast, Thunder, and AirSpeed.
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