{"id":87613,"date":"2010-01-23T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bfi-acquires-crawford-satellite-services-division\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:08:11","slug":"bfi-acquires-crawford-satellite-services-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bfi-acquires-crawford-satellite-services-division\/","title":{"rendered":"BFI Acquires Crawford Satellite Services Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-22-10] <strong>Broadcast Facilities Inc.<\/strong> (BFI), a media services company, has acquired <strong>Crawford Communications<\/strong>\u2019 satellite services division, BFI announced Jan. 21.  <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BFI\u2019s stock acquisition includes all of Crawford\u2019s television network origination, teleport, satellite uplink trucks, Internet, production and the government services portions of the business.  <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BFI will combine Crawford\u2019s Atlanta-based satellite business with BFI\u2019s primary asset, the <strong>Andrita Media Center<\/strong>, an independent HD\/SD network production facility on the West Coast. BFI\u2019s client base includes <strong>ABC, NBC Universal, DirecTV Sports Networks, Hallmark, NFL Network, Game Show Network, ESPN, NASCAR Media Group<\/strong> and <strong>MGM<\/strong> as well as government entities including the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense, NASA <\/strong>and the <strong>CDC<\/strong>.  <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Crawford Satellite Connects U.S. West Coast Clients to Pacific Rim Fiber Network<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 30, 2009<br \/>\n[09-30-09] Crawford Communications Satellite Services has added Pacific Television Center (Pac TV) in Los Angeles, to its full-time fiber connectivity network for television distribution, Crawford announced Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Crawford Expands U.S. Fiber Connectivity Supporting Live Broadcasting<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 11, 2009<br \/>\n[05-11-09] Crawford Satellite Services extended its fiber network, supporting Crawford Connect, with live connectivity via Studio-on-Main, in Columbia, S.C., the company announced.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Crawford Enters the Asian Broadcast Market<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 14, 2009<br \/>\n[04-14-09] Crawford Satellite Services has launched the All Sports Network (ASN), a live sports channel, in high definition (HD) to Asian audiences, marking its official entrance in the region, Crawford announced April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-22-10] Broadcast Facilities Inc. (BFI), a media services company, has acquired Crawford Communications\u2019 satellite services division, BFI announced Jan. 21. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BFI\u2019s stock acquisition includes all of Crawford\u2019s television network origination, teleport, satellite uplink trucks, Internet, production and the government services portions of the business. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BFI will combine Crawford\u2019s Atlanta-based satellite business with BFI\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}