Montreal-based MediaScrape, a global information network using Web technology to deliver free, all-video broadcast news clips, has been launched. MediaScrape is an Internet TV News Network digitizing analogue TV broadcasts in a format that is high-quality video, on-demand, translated on location, interactive, free, searchable and archived.
Updated every 30 minutes, MediaScrape gives users full control on the way they receive their news. The play-all function enables viewers to watch 10 to 12 minutes of world and regional story clips; play an hour and a half loop of daily news video clips; or use on-demand, where clips are drilled down by region and country.
MediaScrape has signed agreements with national and international video news agencies and wholesalers, including Associated Press, Canadian Press and Dogan News Agency (81 bureaus worldwide). MediaScrape has so far signed partnerships with local television broadcasters from Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia and has expressed its intention to sign on more than 100 countries over the next year. Currently subtitled in English, the news clips will soon be available in other languages.
