Graham Media Group

Graham Media Group (GMG) owns and operates six TV stations in the Midwest, South Texas, and Detroit areas. However, their stations have been operating independently and using different media management solutions. Many of them rely on Nexio for short-term storage, and all have some form of tape archives, but there was no standardized organization, making it difficult to find and retrieve previously aired news stories. GMG has taken on the challenge of improving the situation by standardizing the stations' operations, making content easily searchable and shareable across their stations, and reducing operational costs.

To achieve these goals, GMG transitioned to the Nomad Platform hosted on the AWS Cloud. The objective was to create a central archive of all news stories that all stations can access, with easy search and retrieval features, enabling better sharing of content across all stations.

The powerful capabilities of Amazon Web Services delivered with the Nomad Platform proved to be the ideal solution, with Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier providing scalable storage, Amazon OpenSearch delivering powerful deep searching capabilities, and the Nomad Platform serving as the main control center for GMG's operational needs.

The move helped GMG reduce costs by reducing on-premises hardware dependencies, long-term tape storage, and on-premises software management, while integrating with the current NRCS systems such as ENPS and INews, playout using GrassValley, and media management with EditShare. This integration did not sacrifice their current investments, and it also created new opportunities for monetizing content.

Newsrooms can easily download assets directly from their central Amazon S3 repository

GMG newsrooms can directly download a news story, either the original or autogenerated proxies, including audio only versions.

Use Filters to Refine Search

Detail views of each news story, including rich metadata, can be reviewed directly in Nomad Media's integrated player for fast discovery of the exact story. Newsrooms can also perform "Local Restore" which initiates a direct connection with playout systems to retrieve the original file for playout.

Search and Discover Across Entire Library

GMG newsrooms can now use Amazon OpenSearch for near-real time news stories that are being generated at each station, across stations. Powerful AI automatically uncovers hidden detail such as labels and scene information, along with autogenerated transcripts. All searchable using full Boolean search capabilities.

Use Filters to Refine Search

GMG newsrooms use Nomad Media’s filters to refine their search and discovery across stations, all within the central archive library.

The Challenge

• On-prem equipment costs

• Scattered silos of live streams and content

• Speed to bring live streams online

• Burdensome video production methods

• Valuable content hidden within assets

• Websites unsuitable for stream and video distribution

Solutions

• Centralized Cloud-based Live Stream and Content Management

• Enterprise Scalability On- Demand

• AI-Powered Content Discovery and Deep Search

• Integrated Security

• White-label Virtual Experience web portal

• Adobe Creative Suite Integration

Benefits

• Offload live and video-on-demand support labor and costs

• One interface for all live video management

• Serve audiences with a secure and branded web portal

• Save and distribute any live recording stream

• Discovery and deep search of all usable content

Key Nomad Media Features

LIVE DASHBOARD AND SCHEDULER

The Live Dashboard of Nomad Media automatically recognizes new inputs to your AWS account. Channels can be quickly set up for “One Click to Broadcast” control, making transcoding and packaging video for distribution a time-saving task instead of a time-consuming one. With the Live Scheduler, media can be set up to channel playlists and scheduled for distribution.

POST-STREAMING VIDEO MANAGEMENT

Live stream to VOD asset conversion is handled automatically within Nomad Media. Once converted, the Nomad Media Video Clipper feature makes it easy to clip sections of videos and create new files for future use. The built-in Adobe Creative Suite connector allows Nomad Media users to search for and utilize their assets directly in their Adobe CS applications.

INTEGRATED AI SERVICES

Automatic transcription and translation functions make your media instantly accessible to international audiences, with dozens of languages and thousands of language pairs available. Nomad Media also automatically captions videos and selects regional languages for viewers, with options for audiences to select the language of their choice.

BRANDABLE VIRTUAL VIDEO PORTAL

Audiences can engage with Nomad Media’s pre-built Virtual Experience Portal (VEP) to view any live or video-on-demand content made available in channels. VEP is a white-label application which can be customized to the needs of the company and audiences or integrated into existing company sites.

AWS Elemental Link Support

ONE CLICK TO BROADCAST: AWS Elemental Link support is streamlined within the Nomad Platform. The AWS infrastructure setup is simplified in an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that allows for live video transmissions to be set up within minutes. Simply plug-in the AWS Elemental Link device and it shows up automatically in the Nomad Media dashboard, ready to broadcast. Additional features like multiple-output profiles and automatic saving of the broadcasts for later viewing or editing are out-of-the box with the Nomad Platform.

Power of Nomad Media: All existing video and content are also available for broadcast. Any video stream (live of recorded) can be transmitted along with the AWS Elemental Link broadcast to create rich live video experiences. Nomad Media uses Amazon CloudFront and AWS Elemental Media Services to broadcast the streams using the best-in-class streaming capabilities of AWS. As the demand for the streaming grows, Nomad Media scales accordingly.

The Nomad Platform: AWS-Based Solution for the Very Best in Live Streaming Video Management