(Good Canadian success story here..)

[Via Radio World]

Software developer Arctic Palm Technology Inc. is in the business spotlight because of its acquisition by DTS Inc., announced last week. Founder Stu Buck will make the transition to DTS in a product development role but relocate to the Columbia, Md., office of DTS. We contacted Buck to ask a few questions that arose in the wake of the announcement; he replied via email.

Radio World: What prompted the creation of Arctic Palm 19 years ago; and what was your background prior?

Stu Buck: At the time I was a senior systems analyst with The Blackburn Group Inc., a multimedia company in London, Ontario. BGI owned The London Free Press, a major daily paper in Southwestern Ontario, CFPL Broadcasting (CFPL-AM/FM/TV) and CKNX Broadcasting (CKNX-FM/AM/TV). I started with the company in 1971 and was on the development team computerizing the newspaper operations. By 1978 we had computerized the newspaper and I was assigned the broadcasting project.

My introduction to broadcasting was the development of a traffic system for both radio and television, and I was hooked. These were all mainframe systems, and PCs were just coming into the workplace. As the “mainframe” developer, we did not have PCs in the office, but I did have one at home and found areas in broadcasting where PC applications were needed. At that point I developed my first PC application, which is now our CS Copy Management package. Today’s version is a lot different than the original but it’s where we started.

In the mid-90s BGI started selling the broadcasting companies and I received all rights to the software along with the right to continue development, sales and marketing. In 1997, I received the Canadian and U.S. copyrights, and Arctic Palm was born.

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