--Archive of American Television Portal Will Feature 600+ Video Interviews with Major TV Figures
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, the Television Academy's charitable arm, has selected Mochila--a company which provides a content syndication technology platform and network and whose clients include the AP, Reuters, AFP, Getty, Gannett, Tribune Company, Media General, MSNBC and CNET, among others--to redesign and relaunch EmmyTVLegends.com, the Web portal of the Foundation's Archive of American Television.
The redesigned portal will be centered around approximately 600 rare videotaped interviews with major television stars and other industry figures that the Archive has collected. It is slated to launch in early September and will be updated continuously, the Television Academy says. "Mochila has illustrated the creative and technical know-how we so diligently searched for when choosing a Web developer to design our site," the Archive's director, Karen Herman, who oversaw the vendor selection process, explained. "We are impressed with the company's high level of understanding of the importance of searchability within our long-form interviews."
According to the Television Academy, Mochila is providing all the Web site design and development for the EmmyTVLegends.com relaunch, including custom CMS components, extensive search capabilities, video transcoding, editing and hosting. The Academy says that one of the site's key features will be the ability to clip indexed segments from the Archive's thousands of hours of interview content, which it promises will create "a more interactive experience."
