This is the age of multi-tasking and multi-production. Behind the scenes of every news, sport and live broadcast channel is a team of people who make the content come to life, and here in 2022, almost every aspect is driven by computer technology. These live production environments rely on multi-server, multi-PC and multimonitor infrastructure, where people take control through our default peripherals; the keyboard and mouse.
What Can Newsrooms Gain from the Cloud?
Today’s newsrooms are facing unprecedented challenges. While newsroom workflows are always in a state of flux, competing to adapt to new and emerging technology and storytelling practices, the COVID-19 pandemic took one aspect of the evolution in an unexpected direction. Faced with social distancing mandates, many newsrooms instructed staff to work from home.
Avrotros chooses Octopus X
Octopus and Avrotros started their relationship several years ago when the Dutch broadcaster was searching for a new newsroom system for their news programs.
CGI OpenMedia Newsroom Solutions
The enterprise newsroom system OpenMedia provides journalists with all the functionality they need to accomplish their jobs. The core system includes searching agency wires, scheduling broadcasts, managing video and audio clips and writing and distributing news stories. OpenMedia means collaboration. From innovative research and planning tools and scripting, to multi-platform output, OpenMedia manages the complete journalistic workflow.
AI in News – “the best Assistant Producer you ever had”
In 2019, the Associated Press (AP) – the world’s largest international news agency – instigated a project to leverage AI technology to shorten its production process so that its customers could receive content more quickly, while significantly reducing manual input, freeing its own staff for more creative purposes. AP turned to Limecraft to enable the transformation, using Vidrovr for scene description, facial recognition and gesture detection alongside Trint for audio description, which together deliver a single, coherent and frame-accurate description of every individual shot.
Cloud-based technology taking weather by storm
For decades television stations, news channels and streaming services have had no choice but to rely on limited technologies to deliver the graphics that support the weather story. Finally, there’s a solution that removes the complex technical and logistical difficulties and eases workflow; future-proofing the weather forecasting industry against rapidly changing technology and unexpected global events.
News: cloud native is the way forward
Was it Roy Thompson of Scottish Television who saw the dawning of commercial television in the UK as “a license to print money” - or was it Lew Grade at ATV ? It’s been contested, but it doesn’t really matter, because they and the lucky winners of the other, early tv licenses, were all right – back then.
In Conversation with Karthavya
In this IABM TV interview, Sunil Gangappa (Director - Sales, Karthavya) discusses what Karthavya bring to the playout automation market, and what differentiates them from other solutions.
In Conversation with Dalet
Bea Alonso (Chief Market Officer, Dalet) talks about the latest newsroom solution launched by Dalet. Bea also discusses some of the key trends Dalet are seeing in the industry.
Azimuth Soft Provides Kultura TV Channel with Broadcast Automation Solutions
In October 2021 the Russian nationwide Kultura channel started broadcasting from the new Azimuth Soft playout system in the Shabolovka facility in Moscow. This important milestone concluded the broadcaster’s transition from legacy systems to Azimuth Soft solutions in all sections of their production workflows.