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Nine Boosts News Management Team DARREN WICK, NINE NETWORK DIRECTOR of News and Current Affairs, has announced two major appointments within the management team at Nine News. Amanda Paterson is to become the Queensland News Director while Mike Dalton will move into a new position as the Head of Nine News Regional. Amanda Paterson began her television career as a 19-year-old reporter, recruited from the University of Southern Queensland to join the Extra program at the Nine Network in Brisbane. She subsequently moved to A Current Affair, working as an investigative reporter in Melbourne and Brisbane, before being appointed as the program’s Queensland Bureau Chief, a position she has held for the past eight years. Paterson has been a three-time Walkley Award finalist for her reporting and a multi-award winner at the prestigious Queensland Media Awards, including the Investigative Report of the Year, after revealing a high-flying business millionaire to be a sexual predator. Other acclaimed reports include an investigation into medical negligence at a major hospital, exposing the
Reuters TV Version 2.0 REUTERS HAS RELEASED version 2.0 of Reuters TV. This new version of the connected TV service introduces Featured Programs – thematic programs curated and hosted by Reuters journalists – alongside live feeds of global events and personalised video newscasts. The update includes a major redesign on both Apple TV and the web that seeks to set the standard for premium online video delivery. Reuters TV is available for iOS and tvOS devices on the Apple App Store, Android devices via Google Play, and on the web globally at Reuters.tv. Introduced in 2015, Reuters TV is aimed at ‘a growing segment of informed, on-the-go and globally curious consumers who value authenticity and personalisation and are too busy to watch traditional TV’. For these users, Reuters TV delivers a habitual new category of mid-form engagement that fits between the TV and the web. Session frequency on Reuters TV has doubled in the past year, as session length has grown 68% and the number of active users has grown by 22 times. Reuters TV 2.0 features three ways to watch for most users:
Ross Smartens Up the News THE ROSS VIDEO INCEPTION News system now offers a new Enterprise Edition designed to support over 1000 concurrent users in a truly fault tolerant, enterprise class environment. No single point of failure redundancy includes node-based job delegation and automatic failover in case of hardware failure.
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Inception version 10, the latest software release includes the Inception API and SDK. The API enables developers, partners, customers, and resellers the ability to add new core features and to create custom connections to a CMS, social platform, or other internal system.
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Horizon is an enterprise hub that connects multiple Inception systems to each other. Horizon provides content sharing and authoring, manages permissions and access, and federated search across all systems. Horizon also offers copying of information between systems and supports MOS redirection. Horizon is ideal for local news operations each with its own Inception News system that want to see and share content. The latest software version of the Streamline media asset management application introduces tight workflow integration with XPression Clips for seamless playback operation and automatic transcoding into the XPression codec, as well as integration with OverDrive automated production control systems. Streamline also has many improvements for graphics asset management, including folder structures, implicit metadata profiles and
national sporting coach who resigned after an improper relationship with a young athlete, and the killer who confessed to her on camera, forcing police to reopen a cold case and ending with him being jailed for 26 years. Following five years as Queensland News Director, Mike Dalton will be the Network’s first Head of Nine News Regional. In this new role, Dalton will build a regional television network for Nine News from the ground up. He will work closely with Nine’s affiliate partners, Southern Cross Austereo, to establish news bulletins and newsrooms in all major East Coast regional markets. Dalton has more than 30 years of television experience in metropolitan and regional markets across Australia. He has been Chief of Staff at Nine News in Sydney, working with the legendary newsreader Brian Henderson and the current team of Peter Overton and Ken Sutcliffe. In 2011, he took over the reins of Nine News Queensland. This year Dalton has overseen the relaunch of Nine News Gold Coast, with Bruce Paige and Wendy Kingston. Visit www.nine.com.au • Reuters Now – an algorithmically assembled but editorially curated news program that is on-demand, up-to-date, any duration (between 5 and 30 minutes), customised to each viewer’s interests and location, and downloadable for offline viewing. • Featured Programs - thematic, editorially-curated programs, on topics from Zika to Brexit to the battle to retake Mosul, hosted by a Reuters journalist to provide context around the topic, with multiple new programs added each week. • Live feeds - Real-time coverage of global events, from protests to Presidential speeches, unfiltered and uninterrupted, and available live and on-demand. Live feeds are currently available on all platforms except Android, with support for that platform coming soon. Editorial content from Reuters TV is produced exclusively for the service and draws upon Reuters reach from 2,500 journalists in over 160 countries. In order to deliver the service’s variable program lengths, all content is produced in multiple versions and organised by editorial teams in London, Hong Kong, New York and Washington DC, providing 24/7 coverage for viewers. Visit www.reuters.tv
support for Adobe XMP based metadata in assets. Furio RC, the remote control dolly system for live stage productions, is now available as a pan/tilt head only system, without the dolly. This package is ideal for remote control Pan Tilt head applications such as concert halls, houses of worship or sports venues where speed and responsiveness are critical. The SmartShell 4 robotic control and management application adds support for Grass Valley Ignite and Sony ELC automated production systems, in addition to Ross OverDrive and Viz Mosart. The number of video routing protocols has been greatly expanded, XY floor limits for the CamBot 700XY have been implemented, and robotic control and camera control of Hitachi and Panasonic box cameras is integrated through DashBoard to provide a single, consolidated control station. Lastly, the latest version of Ross’s Legislative Production System, LCS has a simplified user interface while adding significant new production capabilities. Control of any type of Ross XPression graphic is done directly in the system interface. In addition to providing additional graphics control, the latest software version now works with a variety of models of XPression Graphics hardware. Visit www.rossvideo.com