AZA Group Management and BlaCon Media leverage ViewNexa to launch Politics in Color as first installment of content offering

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 15, 2024 — Bitcentral, the leading provider of professional media solutions for broadcast and digital video, today announces that AZA Group Management, a specialist in broadcast engineering,  and video production; and broadcast engineering firm BlaCon Media will launch a new streaming channel, Politics In Color, dedicated to election news and political analysis on the ViewNexa platform. ViewNexa enables clients to quickly and efficiently build live and linear FAST channels powered by innovative server-side ad insertion (SSAI) technology to maximize media monetization through targeted ad delivery, intelligent dynamic categorization, and playlisting features.

The Politics in Color platform will cover the US Election campaign trail from Presidential candidate debates to the RNC and DNC Conventions, election, inauguration, and the first 100 days. Covering significant political events, Politics in Color will be able to reach diverse domestic and international audiences.

ViewNexa will give AZA Group Management the channel capabilities to manage the digital streams from party conventions, debates, and election campaigns. AZA Group Management can now bring together feeds from multiple endpoints, schedule content, and add transitions and commercial breaks. ViewNexa assembles all video content for FAST distribution to AZA Group Management’s content partners. “Audiences will benefit from a 24/7 digital news experience with live broadcasting from inside the party conventions to on-the-ground interviews, and breaking news, all easily accessible from a variety of services that deliver FAST channels.

“The FAST market is continuing to grow, and content creators are looking for a platform to help them reach audiences as effectively as possible,” said Sam Kamel, CEO of Bitcentral. “ViewNexa levels the playing field for content creators of all sizes. It has never been easier for them to reap the rewards of a best-in-class suite of services that puts their content distribution in the FAST lane. With integrated Live and FAST linear channel creation, small businesses like AZA Group Management and Blacon Media can reach audiences in truly engaging ways and raise monetization to entirely new levels.”

“Since its inception, AZA Group Management has been continuously looking at ways to empower viewers to find their voice in the FAST landscape and evolve their content offering across multiple platforms,” said Steven Bacon, Co-Founder of AZA Group. “ViewNexa unlocks unparalleled opportunities for smaller players like us to reach more audiences, grow revenue streams, and ultimately make an impact on people’s lives. This is the beginning of an exciting partnership that will help us bring more compelling and impactful content to more audiences across the US.”

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About ViewNexa™

ViewNexa™ provides a unified workflow that simplifies video management, streaming, the consumer application experience, and distribution for media companies and content owners. It empowers media companies and content owners to diversify their offerings to reach, engage, and monetize new audiences via a single, trusted partner. It improves time to market, increases audience reach and monetization options, and lowers engineering integration and content hosting costs — which all lead to increased ROI.

ViewNexa operates in the dedicated streaming media group

within Bitcentral, that has the dynamism and agility of a start-up, while being grounded in Bitcentral’s rich history and depth of experience in media workflows, which is built upon 20+ years’ experience serving leading media companies in the industry.

Learn more at: www.viewnexa.com

AZA Group Management

AZA Group Management is a Management & Consultancy Agency, specializing in Broadcast, Engineering, B/IT and Production: serving Sports, Media, Entertainment and Education. Based out of Atlanta, GA, and co-founded by Steven Bacon, CEO of BlaCon Media, and Zeron Turlington, CEO of Full Circle Group saw a need to provide clients with a consultative approach around broadcast engineering, IT, production and operations.

AZA Group Management’s focal point is around three primary areas: a technical and broadcasting ecosystem of content. To advise, consult and design platforms and networks for distribution and lastly, script to screen of creating and producing content for distribution.

BlaCon Media

BlaCon Media offers turnkey full service creative, production, engineering, operations and distribution firm. BlaCon Media consists of seasoned professionals with backgrounds in video production, advertising, interactive multimedia, graphic design and all aspects of post-production and broadcast engineering.

BlaCon Media has worked extensively creating corporate image, marketing, training and promotional projects as well as informational and educational campaigns. They have also provided sports, news and political coverage. The BlaCon Media team has produced major television network programming, network branding campaigns and nationally broadcast commercials. With headquarters in Atlanta, with a professional network that has allowed them to manage and produce projects in 49 of the 50 U.S states as well as globally in Cape Town, South Africa, Paris, France, London, England, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, Osaka, Japan, Istanbul, Turkey, Havana, Cuba, St. Petersburg, Russia, Melbourne, Australia and Tangier, Morocco.