Rights to OMN technology to be given to public TV - Current.org
On behalf of public TV, stations in New York and San Francisco plan to accept the gift of Kontiki, an economical online video distribution technology used by the BBC iPlayer, AOL and Open Media Network.
Two years ago, Mike Homer, a onetime Netscape exec who developed the system, sold Kontiki Inc. to VeriSign for $62 million but donated perpetual public-service rights for Kontiki to the nonprofit OMN so it could be used for public media, said OMN Executive Director Linda Lawrence.
Public broadcasting “is coming perilously close to losing” Homer’s gift, said Dennis Haarsager of Washington State University, an OMN fan who said he has toned down his advocacy in his new role as NPR chairman.
Homer began beta-testing OMN’s online video portal (www.omn.org) in 2005 and planned to keep it going until he could put the technology in the hands of the public broadcasting system, Lawrence said.
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