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News
Date	Description	Type
01.22.08	The Switch Says Goodbye to One of its Finest--Edgar East Retires Surrounded by his wife Elma and fellow co-workers, Edgar East celebrated a prolific career in the broadcast industry that began with radio and transitioned to television as the industry itself grew.	Press Releases
04.03.08	Sony Pictures Entertainment Uses The LA Switch To Work With AV Squad on Sony Pictures Entertainment, a top-grossing studio based in Culver City, CA, which recently joined The Los Angeles Switch in a non-exclusive agreement in February 2008 has been working with editors at AV Squad on the television spots for “21” and “Vantage	Press Releases
04.22.08	Broadcasters Utilize The Switch for Coverage of Pope Benedict XVI Historic U.S. Visit While all eyes were focused on Pope Benedict XVI during his first trip to the United States, behind the scenes, The Switch® played a key role in providing the pool feeds, allowing local broadcasters and members of the New York pool in	Press Releases
06.04.08	The Switch Adds State Department Service Last month The Switch introduced on the touch-screen terminals of its Washington D.C. customers, a "State Department" button that will allow users of both The D.C. Switch and The NY Switch, via ICOD (Inter-City On Demand).	Press Releases
09.29.08	The Switch Helps ET and The Insider Move to HD In a breakthrough for the television broadcasting, ‘day and date nationally syndicated show, Entertainment Tonight and its spin-off The Insider recently signed a new multi-year agreement with The Switch for HD transmission services.	Press Releases
11.14.08	The Switch Adds SDI Paths Between NY and DC Just in time for the most anticipated election in recent history, The Switch opened eight additional SDI paths between New York and Washington, D.C., adding to the two 8 Mbps MPEG2, 4:2:0 and two 20 Mbps MPEG2 4:2:2 paths already in use by customers of Th	Press Releases
02.09.09	CV Network chooses The Switch to aid in expansion of its network CV Network, a Spanish-language, general entertainment channel, targeting Caribbean Hispanics in the U.S., has contracted with The SwitchTM to deliver content for its growing network.	Announcements
03.25.09	The Switch team expands to include David Shearer Beers Enterprises Inc. has announced that David Shearer, formerly of Globecast, will join The SwitchTM team in New York as Vice President, focusing on key markets both foreign and domestic, as well as special events. Shearer will be based at The Switch’s c	Press Releases
04.01.09	The Switch expands to offer 270 Mbps circuits between all cities of its network Scott Beers, president and CEO of Beers Enterprises, Inc. (BEI), owner and operator of The SwitchTM announced today that the company has increased its network between The NY Switch and The Miami Switch.	Announcements
04.13.09	The LA Switch celebrates five years 2009 marks the five-year anniversary of The LA Switch TM, a service offering of Beers Enterprises Inc. The Switch was started in NY in 1991 as a television routing service exclusive to the New York metropolitan area and today has grown to provide routing s	Press Releases
07.09.09	The SwitchTM Helps Jackson Public Memorial Service Reach Fans Around the Globe AEG Network LIVE Turns to The Switch for Distribution Via Fiber Pool	Announcements
08.24.09	The Switch expands network capacity to offer Uncompressed HD-SDI paths between NY and Los Angeles Scott Beers, president and CEO of Beers Enterprises, Inc. (BEI), owner and operator of The SwitchTM announced today that the company has increased its network capacity between The NY Switch and The Los Angeles Switch to include uncompressed HD-SDI between	Announcements
01.12.10	The Switch Inks Deal with AT&T to Expand Delivery of Live and On-Demand High-Definition Programming AT&T announced today a multi-year contract with The Switch to deliver broadcast video with live and on-demand high definition programming across more than 20 states.	Press Releases
07.20.10	Beers Enterprises Inc. Hires Seven New Account Executives to Pursue HD-SDI Circuit Sales	Press Releases
09.10.10	The SwitchTM Contributes Native HD Fiber Distribution for Stand Up To Cancer Telecast The Switch made an Uncompressed High Definition feed available of the Stand Up To Cancer telecast to all domestic and Canadian customers of The Switch via The Switch’s Inter City On Demand (ICOD) service.	Press Releases
11.01.10	The SwitchTM Expands to Include Howard Miller Howard Miller to join The Switch as Executive Vice President, Operations	Press Releases
12.01.10	The SwitchTM Signs New Agreement with Verizon to Expand Digital Metro Fiber Service Beers Enterprises, Inc. (BEI), owner and operator of The SwitchTM, has entered into an agreement with Verizon that will expand its ability to offer high definition video services to the broadcast television marketplace on the East Coast.	Announcements
01.13.11	BFCA Utilizes The Switch to Transmit Critics Choice Movie Awards for First International Distributio Broadcast Film Critics' Association retains Content Film International Ltd. to handle all international rights clearances, with The Switch providing live transmission services to Europe and Australia.	Announcements
01.25.11	83rd Academy Awards Nominations Annoucement At approximately 5:00 a.m., bars and tone will be fed for approximately 10 minutes. At approximately 5:10 a.m., picture and tone will be fed, and at approximately 5:30 a.m., there will be a sound check.	Announcements
02.01.11	The Switch Celebrates 20 Years Looking back at two decades of unparalleled connectivity, quality, and reliability.	Announcements
02.11.11	Linda Hannan Joins The Switch as Western Regional Sales Director The Switch has announced that Linda Hannan will join The Switch team as Western Regional Sales Director and will join The Switch's LA office.	Announcements
02.23.11	The Switch Becomes Sports Video Group's Newest Sponsor The Switch has become a sponsor of Sports Video Group. To view the most recent sports related news of The Switch, please visit any of the following Sports Video Group links:	Press Releases
04.13.11	The Switch Announces 50 City Expansion The Switch has formally announced plans to expand into 44 additional locations across North America. Existing six-city network will also be upgraded, as part of a 50 city, 10 Gbps mesh network capable of transmitting in Uncompressed 3G, HD, JPEG 2000 and	Announcements
05.10.11	The Switch Purchases Snell Alchemist Converters as Part of 50-City Expansion The Switch has purchased two Alchemist Ph.C-HD motion compensated high definition standards converters from Snell. The company plans to integrate the Alchemist converters as part of the 50-city expansion plan that The Switch announced at this years 2011	Press Releases
08.04.11	Miranda Technologies to Supply The Switch 3G Video Routing Switchers & Centralized Control Solutions Miranda Technologies has been awarded a contract by The Switch, the video and fiber switching services business, to supply 3G video routing switchers and centralized control solutions for a 50-city fiber transmission expansion project.	Press Releases