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Production The TV2 Fyn newsroom
The automated newsroom Producing news programmes is expensive, and this genre, like all others, is looking to save money while still being creative. One solution is automating newsroom systems. TVBEurope asked several suppliers to offer their perspectives based on their systems
Going all-IT for speed and efficiency By Sören Kjellin, chief technology officer, ChyronHego; Reinout Lempers, commercial director, VidiGo
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ith automation in the radio industry
Acquisition
as the trailblazing example, TV
At ChyronHego, we had these attributes in
broadcasters everywhere are
mind when we acquired VidiGo earlier this
migrating away from proprietary, hardware-
year. VidiGo Live, is a multi-camera production
based workflows and towards all-IT, software-
environment that provides camera SDI inputs/
based production environments. Since these
outputs, video playback, graphics, audio, and
solutions run on commodity hardware, they
automation capabilities. The technology extends
open the door to new workflow efficiencies,
the BlueNet graphics creation and playout
reduced OPEX and CAPEX, less dependence on
workflow system and provides our joint customers
specialised technical staff, and the flexibility to
with an IT-based production solution. Euro Media
deliver more powerful and scalable production
Sören Kjellin
environments. These benefits are especially
Group (EMG) deployed VidiGo Live software in four live multi-camera production galleries, and
compelling in a TV newsroom, where every
any location and any time using a web browser.
saw it as a way to reinvent live broadcasting
second counts in the drive to deliver breaking
The software enables a repeatable, reliable
by separating equipment from the physical
news to viewers before the competition.
environment for packaging and presenting
location of the production. In this configuration,
the content with fewer touch points. And by
cameras and a production server are the only
workflow, broadcasters can build a ‘virtual
automating all essential production functions,
equipment required at the remote galleries, with
control room’ for managing switchers,
the newsroom is able to deliver the news to air
production controlled over an IP network from
automation, graphics, and video playout from
quicker and with greater accuracy.
a centralised studio. n
With a software-based live production
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