May 09, 2008

DENVER - The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today announced ShadowTV, Inc. has been named the Official Video Monitoring Service Provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, to be held August 25-28, in Denver, Colo.

"With an estimated 15,000 members of the media attending the 2008 Democratic National Convention, it is incredibly important that we have the ability to track the enormous amount of broadcast coverage resulting from the event," said Jenni Engebretsen, Deputy CEO for Public Affairs of the DNCC. "Shadow TV's video monitoring technology will play an integral role in allowing us to know what the media are saying and when they say it, both in the lead-up to and during Convention week."

As Official Video Monitoring Service Provider, ShadowTV will provide the DNCC with all-digital, continuous access to live and archived television content via their patent-pending, web-based service.  ShadowTV's system allows users to search the closed captioning text in news clips and receive real-time alerts when keywords are mentioned in television programming.  Using this technology, the DNCC will be able to instantly retrieve footage from more than 250 television stations across the country.

ShadowTV is pleased to provide our internet-based broadcast monitoring services to the DNCC.  With the ability to search live broadcasts and years of archives from around the country, ShadowTV will give the DNCC instant access to the research and information they need to help tell the story of this historic Convention to people around the world," said ShadowTV President Joachim Kim.  "We are proud the DNCC selected us as the official video monitoring service for this high profile event, a recognition of our leadership and long history of providing high quality, high value services to both business leaders and government agencies."

The company's online process for monitoring and archiving clips will also contribute to making the 2008 Democratic National Convention the most sustainably-produced Democratic Convention in history by substantially reducing the need to record broadcasts on non-recyclable videotapes.

The 2008 Democratic National Convention is expected to pump an estimated $160 million into the Denver area's economy and draw up to 50,000 visitors to the region.