MediaXtreme Keeps Midwest Residents Up to Date

The eastern Kansas town relies on the Keywest Technology MediaXtreme media server to keep Lansing Government Television Channel 2 on the air and relevant.

It wouldn’t be unusual to find members of the community of Lansing, KS, walking a little taller with their heads up and chests out these days.

After all, since Lansing Government Television Channel 2 launched operations in 2004, the city channel has promoted civic activities and community festivals, aired state and local governmental forums, highlighted the happenings at nearby Ft. Leavenworth and even given aspiring high school video producers access to the community’s 10,000 residents.

At the center of Lansing’s city channel are two Keywest Technology MediaXtremes used in tandem. With the MediaXtreme MediaCreator software, city staff create slides, graphics and crawls related to community events. Using the forerunner to the Media POD interfaced with the MediaXtreme via an RS232 serial connection, the city can play back MPEG video files of Lansing city council meetings, the monthly contributions of Lansing High School student video producers and many other community-related videos.

Keeping Channel 2 on-air and on track is the job of the MediaXtreme. City staff builds playback schedules, inputs changes and manages the entire process right from the MediaCreator CG program.

Those running Channel 2 via the MediaXtreme never feel overburdened despite having a wide variety of programs to schedule largely due to the ease of using Keywest Technology’s Editor software. For a town like Lansing, such control and management of playback schedules keeps the community channel responsive to the changing informational needs of residents.