Computer software [ and computer hardware ] for television broadcast content processing, data extraction, formatting, content searching, storage and transmission, for data storage, content management and workflow management in the field of digital production, broadcast and transmission, for creating proxy files of digital audio and video content, and for recording, archiving and searchable storage of audio and visual broadcast content; computer software for dynamic load balancing, for distributed computing among computers and computer systems, for data transmission within a computer system, for providing fail-over and redundancy for computer systems and for audio and video editing and content preparation; computer software, namely, a software component that interfaces to non-linear editing software to provide archival and playback services [ ; computer software and computer hardware, namely, a stand-alone system for audio and video broadcasting and transmission comprising an integrated server, a broadcast automation and sequencing application, and content archive ]