CBS's new Media Distribution Center (MDC) is a file-based, high-definition program-playout facility designed to carry CBS and its various distribution platforms into the digital-television future. The facility handles program playout for the East Coast, West Coast and regional-network feeds. It also links, via fiber and satellite, to CBS Television City in Los Angeles, as well as the network's live-news and sports operations in New York. We designed it from the ground up and I did much of my first survey work measuring out their previous facility.
