FTP Server

Normal station procedures for commercial production shipping was for the commercial production house to pay for a shipping company to send the physical tape from the production house to the station, then for the station's commerical production department to convert the analog video into a digital format that can then be sent to the on-air servers for playback.  I changed the procedure by implementing an FTP server, using IpSwitch WS_FTP, that allowed the production house to upload a copy of the original digital commercial file to a server, local to the station, where then the production department could download the uploaded file, make any necessary changes to the file, and immediately send it to the on-air servers for playback.  This reduced the time between the commercial being completed and the time it is delivered for the station's production department, as well as saving the shipping costs.