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Comcast Media Center Does More VoD

January 28, 2013 |
NEW YORK -- Vme Media Inc. announced today that it has selected Comcast Media Center’s (CMC) Content Solutions unit to manage and deliver video on demand (VOD) programming for its Spanish-language television network. Vme’s on demand programming delivered via the CMC’s VOD distribution platform includes Peep, Dibo, Bruno and the Banana Bunch, Wild Animal Baby Explorers, and Rosie’s World. CMC’s VOD footprint encompasses cable systems across multiple MSOs serving more than 56 million VOD –enabled households in the U.S. and Canada.

Vme’s smart, engaging and empowering entertainment uniquely serves the Latino community with extraordinary programming that encourages learning, imagination and originality. Its 24-hour digital broadcast service is already carried on basic digital cable in major markets across the country and nationally via satellite.

“Distribution of Vme’s one-of-a-kind entertainment and educational programming through CMC’s platform will complement both carriage of our linear channel in markets serving more than 10 million U.S. Latino households and introduce us to new markets as free VOD content for digital video customers,” said Alvaro Garnica, Vme’s General Manager.

Comcast Corp.



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