Showmgr.com goin’ to Kansas City via Metro Sports
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ShowMgr.com has been chosen by KC Metro Sports, to provide workflow management software to manage the business elements of their production
process. KC Metro Sports, a department of Time Warner Cable in Kansas
City, will be using ShowMgr.com’s management software to automate their
operational process and acquire a comprehensive view of their Remote,
Studio and Mobile Unit production environment.
“ShowMgr will provide us with a tool to manage our production process from
top to bottom, through budgeting, planning, travel, production, accounts
payable and receivable,” said John Denison, General Manager, KC Metro
Sports. “With ShowMgr.com’s ability to streamline our workflow process and
provide tighter integration of our budget, operations, inventory management
and travel information, we will be able to build our business more
efficiently. Now, the ability to manage our process will equal our ability
to produce award-winning programming.”
Metro Sports — the nation’s first (and still only) sports station of its
kind — is the national leader in local sports coverage. Unique in the
United States, Metro Sports covers every professional franchise, college
and high school within its area, produces daily sportscasts for local CBS
affiliate KCTV, produces and airs on Metro Sports a 60-minute sports talk
show weekdays and 30-minute nightly sports news show, and provides
nationwide production services.
“ShowMgr.com is extremely proud to be chosen by KC Metro Sports,” explains
Kevin M. Rosen, CEO of ShowMgr.com. “As the provider of KC Metro Sports
production management software, we look forward to the opportunity to
provide workflow tools to the Time Warner regions that will enable their
production environment to grow effectively.”
With a powerful suite of software tools built on a scalable Web
architecture, ShowMgr.com’s Operations View pre-packages important core
technologies critical to the automation of field, studio and post
production operations — i.e. finance, production, resources, assets,
network traffic, vendors, credentials, and venues.