| ENPS Live Under African Skies |
| Excerpt: CNBC Africa, the continent's first 24-hour international business channel, has installed ENPS - AP's electronic news production system - in an impressive and record-breaking six week period. |
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| TV One Pakistan Chooses ENPS For Dedicated News Channel |
| Excerpt: TV One Pakistan has selected ENPS - Associated Press' news production system - to expand its broadcasting operation with a new 24-hour news channel called News One. Based in Karachi, TV One is a popular entertainment channel that brings top-rated dramas, soaps and lifestyle programmes to the people of Pakistan, as well as to the Urdu-speaking community across the world. In the past, five-minute news bulletins every hour have kept its audience up-to-date with current affairs, but now a dedicated news channel will offer viewers greater choice. |
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| CNBC Africa Goes Live In Record Time With ENPS |
| Excerpt: CNBC Africa, the continent’s first 24-hour international business channel, has installed ENPS – AP’s electronic news production system – in a record-breaking six-weeks. The installation was handled by Inala Broadcast, the authorised distributor for ENPS in the region. Prompt completion was ensured by prioritising implementation of the entire MOS system, allowing staff to get to grips with a full end-to-end workflow at the earliest opportunity. CNBC also sourced experienced staff from CNBC Arabiya and Pakistan to assist the 37-strong Africa team with the "Go Live". |
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| WPSD-TV Chooses Chyron Workflow for Newsroom |
| Excerpt: Chyron Corp. announced that WPSD, an NBC affiliate based in Paducah, Ky., purchased a Chyron HyperX graphics platform, CAMIO news management system and iSQ remote monitoring and playout application. “The iSQ playout system was a strong factor in our decision to purchase Chyron,” said Mark Hall, WPSD operations director. “This is due to the simplicity of playlist operation and the tight integration with our ENPS news system and the HyperX equipment.” |
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| Breaking News... Disc at 11 |
| Excerpt: Raycom Media has 27 television stations that produce local newscasts, and while none produce news in native HD, 21 are the top-rated news stations in their markets. Bitcentral Oasis and the AP ENPS NRCS are used across the group for news production and management; 21 of the 27 use Bitcentral Précis; and six use various Avid systems. By first quarter 2008, all of Raycom Media’s stations will have transitioned to Panasonic P2, with nonlinear editing and server-based play-out. |
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| ENPS Mobile Links Journalists on the Go |
| Excerpt: ENPS Mobile, from Associated Press Broadcast Technology, allows users to search for wire or news content and exchange messages with newsroom journalists. |
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| Manorama News channel goes on air |
| Excerpt: Kochi, Aug. 17 (PTI): In a major diversification, the Malayala Manorama group, Kerala's leading media group, today launched its 24-hour news channel -- Manorama News. For Manorama, which has more than 40 publications, this is the biggest diversification effort, the group said in a release here. The channel would be using Electronic News Production System (ENPS) for news gathering and newscast. Only a few channels use this technology in India, it said. Another technological advancement, Beehive live Graphics would ensure further synergy for Manorama News. |
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| What's New in the Newsroom |
| Excerpt: Newsroom computer systems—which are used by producers to manage scripts, rundowns, assignments and teleprompters—are also steadily being adapted to control the file-based workflow of the modern newscast. Grass Valley's servers and editing products interface with newsroom computer systems through the Media Object Server (MOS) communications protocol, with Avid's iNews and Associated Press' ENPS (Electronic News Production System) systems representing the lion's share of the market. |
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| A Decade of Change in News Technology |
| Excerpt: “Ten years ago, the producer of the 6 p.m. newscast would have had to spend 30 to 45 minutes on the phone or physically walking around to editing stations to find out the status and content of videotapes planned for the rundown,” says Bill Burke, product manager for ENPS. “Today, with ENPS, as soon as the story is edited and saved on the server, you’re alerted by the system and you can click on that asset to use it. As a result, the process is easier and the newscast more polished.” |
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| News Technology |
| Excerpt: One news vendor has done a great job of looking at the newsgathering process and developed solutions to allow its users to more easily gather the news – ENPS. Look at SNAPfeed. This is a simple-to-use system that allows the user to edit a story on a laptop and transmit it to the newsroom over any type of wireless connection via a simple-to-use interface. |
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| Expanding News Coverage Beyond TV |
| Excerpt: This year AP plans to focus on upgrades to ENPS that allow the system to stretch further into the news organization. That means the latest iteration will include more advanced search capabilities so users can search for video or graphics, for instance, across long-term content management databases such as archives. "Not many stations have archives yet", acknowledged Bill Burke, product manager for ENPS. However, he added, "We are doing it now because eventually they are going to have them and this is a capability that is going to be key." |
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| Two Stations, One Newsroom |
| Excerpt: The stations and the facility are owned by Allbritton Communications. Pulling the operation together – the assignment desk, two control rooms, two studios, 12 edit bays and 200 journalists is ENPS, the news production system built by the Associated Press. Using the open standard MOS Protocol, ENPS controls the editorial workflow for both stations, giving access to media and content throughout the facility. |
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| Newsroom Workflow |
| Excerpt: News Production is the process of planning, gathering, producing and communicating news content. While this is primarily an editorial process these days, it is supported by sophisticated technical appliances and systems. As the speed and volume of news production has increased, so has the complexity and capabilities of these associated technical tools. For example, there are tools for shooting and editing video and audio, for graphic production, video production and for searching archives. There are so many tools, in fact, that journalists are in danger of spending more of their time working with a technical infrastructure than they do fashioning editorial content. |
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| AP attempts to make laptop newsgathering journalist-friendly |
| Excerpt: Simplicity is a virtue to non-technical television journalists in the field. The last thing they have time to do is worry about technical details when they’re on deadline and a story needs to get back to the station in a hurry. The Associated Press is attempting to simplify matters with the release of its SNAPfeed 3.0 software. Packaged with its ENPS, a new user interface directs journalists through a four-step, non-technical process to encode and transmit video. Using the Windows Media 9 codec and a variety of transmission options, such as DSL, cable, cellular, satellite phone and dial-up, SNAPfeed enables routine, quality field transmissions. The product works closely with Agility encoding and transcoding software from Anystream to achieve a seamless flow of video from field to production equipment. |
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| Inside CNBC Arabiya |
| Excerpt: Walk into the CNBC Arabiya offices in Dubai Media Center and you will know that the broadcaster means business. In just a little over a year, the 24-hour Arabic language channel has made a name for itself in the region with its coverage of the local financial and business news scene. At the heart of the CNBC Arabiya operations, however, is an ENPS newsroom system. Everything begins with the ENPS solution. The stories are written in ENPS, the show run downs are created in ENPS, the material that goes into the show, whether it is content on the server or titling or stills, also goes through ENPS. |
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| AP makes news with ENPS 4.5 |
| Excerpt: Associated Press has unveiled ENPS 4.5, the next version of its newsroom architecture with a variety of new features for international broadcasters. Improved communication tools, automated and locally produced ticker output, and sophisticated news gathering options are among the ENPS 4.5 features being introduced in order to provide a tighter and more efficient workflow for users both in the field and the newsroom. Key features include: Extended Briefing, an extension in briefing capability, designed to allow journalists to apply their search across a succession of ENPS servers and third-party systems at the click of a button; and My ENPS, a desktop summary page, providing the user with an overview of the day's fastest moving stories, the most recent urgent wires, and quick access to the day's planning grids and running orders. It will also automatically present a broadcast journalist with the stories he or she has been assigned. |
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| AP/AzEP Alliance Advances Live Field Reporting |
| Excerpt: Specialized hardware and newly-released software from Arizona Engineered Products (AzEP) works in concert with AP’s industry-leading ENPS newsroom computer system to bridge the information gap. Via AzEP’s MOS-compatible Central Receive and Remote Control software, ENPS monitors, coordinates and controls critical aspects of field microwave reports. Integration of AzEP and ENPS systems enables stations to remotely control many aspects of live shot set up, allowing field crews to concentrate on covering their stories. Field scripts can also be sent to the newsroom for editing, inclusion in the newscast’s script and closed-captioning. |
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| AP and Anystream Integrate ENPS SNAPfeed With Agility |
| Excerpt: Newsrooms using the Associated Press Electronic News Production System (AP ENPS) will be able to directly ingest newsfeeds submitted by remote journalists for on-air playback or editing based on integration of ENPS SNAPfeed with Anystream's Agility encoding technology, the companies announced today. SNAPfeed is a software application developed by AP's Broadcast Technology group that allows journalists to transmit news video back to their newsrooms from remote locations without requiring satellite video links or conventional MPEG-based store-and-forward systems. Anystream's powerful Agility encoding and transcoding software automatically ingests and converts the SNAPfeed files, and digitally delivers them to editing stations or production video servers for on-air playback, including Grass Valley, Leitch, Sony, Omneon, Pinnacle or SeaChange. The integration saves newsrooms precious time that would otherwise be required to manually play or transfer the video from the field into production or broadcast systems. |
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| Total Control of the News |
| Excerpt: News directors hear about it when reporters don't like the way their stories are edited. But, with changes in the newsroom environment, the reporters increasingly have the tools to craft their own stories from start to finish, even down to the graphics used. Newsroom systems are at the center of the change. AP's ENPS meshes the receiving of video content -- the process is called ingest -- with the assignment desk. Also helping reporters believe in newsroom automation is the ENPS "Follow Me" feature. Introduced earlier this year, it uses the newsroom system to automatically send messages from the assignment desk to the phone or PDA that station personnel have with them in the field. |
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| Proximity Streamlines Newsroom Graphics For Allbritton |
| Excerpt: Allbritton Communications' NewsChannel 8, a 24-hour local cable news channel, recently automated its entire news graphics production process with Proximity's Xenostore and Xenotrack media asset management software. The software works within the channel's AP/ENPS newsroom system, providing access to the station's full Xenostore catalog from within ENPS, greatly simplifying the graphics retrieval and request process. |
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| Five live at channel m |
| Excerpt: Gillespie knew he had to find a news production system that could handle the complexity of a single, technically integrated newsroom composing and airing these programmes in several multi-byte character languages. After examination of a number of news production systems, channel m chose ENPS, from the Associated Press. "ENPS met or exceeded out expectations." "The beauty of MOS is in it providing tight linkages between ENPS, Grass Valley, BDL and Pinnacle. Any time a story is floated, reordered, or even deleted, the running order of the item is changed in all the associated devices. This makes playback as easy as hitting a spacebar." |
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| Portuguese broadcasters use ENPS to cover Euro 2004 final |
| Excerpt: Four out of five Portuguese TV broadcasters used The Associated Press Electronic News Production System, ENPS, to follow their national team to the UEFA Euro 2004 final. Portugal's national state broadcaster, Radio e Televisão Portuguesa (RTP), private rivals, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC), and sister station, SIC Noticias, together with the specialist channel SPORT TV, all used the desktop ENPS system. The Associated Press is also launching ENPS 4.5, the latest version of the news production system. New features provide a tighter and more efficient workflow for both users in the field and the newsroom. |
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| WFLA Taps AP |
| Excerpt: Media General will use AP's ENPS news-production system at WFLA Tampa Bay, Fla., when the station moves to a convergent newsroom that also shares information with print and Web reporters. The newsroom will have new functionality, such as follow-me messaging, which allows assignment editors to use the newsroom system to send messages to reporters wherever they are. Says WFLA News Director Forest Carr, "We're impressed with the ENPS system and confident it will take care of our current and future needs in our converging news environment." |
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| Media General Taps AP for Newsroom Convergence |
| Excerpt: Media General has selected AP's ENPS news production system to digitize the newsroom workflow of Tampa, Fla. WFLA-TV. ENPS will be linked to NewsGate and NewsDesk applications built by CCI Europe to be used by the co-located Tampa Tribune's newspaper journalists. ENPS is already used by 20 Media General newsrooms. |
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| Video over IP Gains Traction |
| Excerpt: Use of Internet Protocol (IP) to send video over the Internet, once just a dream, is now being adapted in many parts of the broadcast industry. TV Technology surveyed an array of vendors about the challenges of video over IP. At Associated Press, video over IP is used to aid journalists in the field relay their video back to their stations. Much of the effort has gone into simplifying that task for non-technical people on deadline. Using AP's SnapFeed, "all the journalist has to say is, 'my deadline is X'...and then SnapFeed does all the calculations and makes sure that the piece makes it back," Palmer said. |
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| Tracking and Tracing Content |
| Excerpt: Associated Press Product Manager Bill Burke said asset management cataloging begins at the assignment desk. "It really finds its roots before the actual media in many cases gets made," Burke said. "It is driven by the content that's created and the planning that's done through the assignment process." The protocol solution was MOS, Media Object Server protocol. |
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| John Moores at cutting edge |
| Excerpt: John Moores University in Liverpool has become the first university in the UK to be installed with the same industry-standard broadcasting software used by professional newsrooms such as the BBC. The new Electronic News Production Service allows journalits access to text, audio and video from all over the world at any time. |
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| State of-the-art newsroom at Sahara TV |
| Excerpt: The facility integrated 10 edit suites utilising Leitch's NewsFlash craft editor, 10 ingest channels and 18 playout channels with ENPS newsroom computer system ... |
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| Product Review: Automation |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press launched ENPS 4.5 with enhancements that include multilanguage features, extended search capabilities, automated national and local content integration, and new newsgathering options. Other new solutions as part of ENPS 4.5 include SNAPfeed 2.0, the latest version of the store-and-forward technology that allows users to feed stories to multiple newsrooms and servers simultaneously, and On-Air Ticker System Integration, which automatically merges and updates local, state and national content for viewers. |
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| Razzle Dazzle: New ESPN digital center scores with HD |
| Excerpt: ESPN redefined sports TV. And June 7, it makes history. That's when it begins broadcasting 13 hours of SportsCenter daily in HDTV. SportsCenter will be the first program to broadcast from ESPN's new 120,000-square foot digital facility -- a state-of-the-art plant that is arguably the most advanced in the world. Each room has two six-channel Quantel servers, a Thomson Grass Valley Kalypso production switcher, and access to AP's ENPS newsroom system to handle switching and tracking of on-air events. |
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| Ten Sydney Powers News With Omnibus, Omneon |
| Excerpt: The Omnibus Automation System will manage media ingest, mirroring and dubbing processors on the Omneon Content server. Omnibus's new G3 Series Headline Browse Editor will be integrated within TEN's ENPS Newsroom System providing desktop editing. |
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| Proximity, Sundance Automate News Graphics |
| Excerpt: Proximity Corporation and Sundance Digital recently announced a graphics system that harnesses the specialties of both companies to automate the creation and recall of news graphics. The combined Proximity/Sundance system works with most playout servers and graphics creation systems, using the MOS protocol and template-based architecture to automate the process. The combined system is compatible with Avid's iNEWS and the AP/ENPS newsroom systems. |
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| AP Unveils ENPS Features |
| Excerpt: Calling it "the shortest route from assignment to air," The Associated Press introduced version 4.5 of its Electronic News Production System at NAB 2004. It has also been referred to as "the HOV lane for news production." |
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| A Tapeless Revolution |
| Excerpt: Associated Press' ENPS newsroom computer system includes some new functionality, such as enabling stations to add local content yp any of the 12 AP tickers, said Bill Burke, AP product manager. In addition, assignment managers can sent messages directly from ENPS to a reporter in the field via a wireless phone or personal digital assistant. |
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| Product Preview. Automation |
| Excerpt: "Broadcasters are always on the lookout for efficient, cost-effective ways to trim expenses and maximize revenues. In anticipation of this trend, Associared Press will showcase new features to its ENPS news production system at NAB2004. The newest version, 4.0, supports a wider variety of languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Greek. Other solutions on display include SNAPfeed, a software application that allows a field journalist to transmit video from remote locations to the newsroom using a laptop". |
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| Road to NAB. New and Improved Newsrooms |
| Excerpt: "The AP's ENPS includes that functionality in the form of 'follow-me messaging,'" says Bill Burke, AP product manager. "The key is, the person sending the message doesn't have to know where the user is or keep track of them", says Mike Palmer, director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy. Reporters also have greater need to stay on top of developing stories. That has led AP to develop "My ENPS", which allows newsroom staff to create a personalized wire service. "They can search across multiple locations," says Burke. The MOS protocol has helped news organizations tie the editing, graphics, and newsroom systems more closely together. |
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| NY1 Noticias se convierte en noticia con la automatización OmniBus |
| Excerpt: La nueva estación neoyorquina de 24 horas de noticias en español convive con su hermana de noticias en inglés. Cuando el canal NY1, de Time Warner Cable, que transmite noticias 24 horas, salió al aire en su nuevo formato en enero de 2002, fue anunciado como el nuevo modelo para cubrimiento continuo de noticias locales. Del mismo modo que ha incorporado el poder de branding de NY1 News, Noticias ha aprovechado también la moderna base tecnológica de este canal, que cuenta con los servicios de automatización de broadcast y manejo de medios de OmniBus Systems para integrar los sistemas gráficos, los servidores, la robótica y su sistema de sala de noticias ENPS en un solo sistema, con una interfaz única para los usuarios, el OmniBus Desktop Control. El sistema de automatización OmniBus se integra con ENPS a través del protocolo MOS para permitir el control de la totalidad del proceso de producción, incluidas las aplicaciones de gráficas y edición, desde el desktop. Cada noticia del programa editorial del día se marca con una ficha que ENPS utiliza para reservar espacio. |
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| Conspectus Part Two: News |
| Excerpt: Journalists at nearly 500 locations worldwide work on ENPS systems, giving rise to the claim by AP Broadcast Technology that it is the world's most popular newsroom. AP is also the driving force behind the MOS protocol which has become widely recognised as the way to provide systems level interconnection. |
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| RTB implementing latest information system |
| Excerpt: As e-government projects are being implemented in all government agencies, Radio Television Brunei (RTB) is also taking advantage of the latest technology. The new system is known as electronic network production system (ENPS), are used by some 400 radio and television stations throughout the world. Among the bigger networks that have implemented the system include BBC and ESPN. Under news section, 40 computers have been installed for scripting and editing. Such system provides links to news agencies, AFP and Reuters. By acquiring such system, the news centre hopes to attract more viewers as well as enhance its production. |
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| High-Tech Home in Works for WCPO |
| Excerpt: In early 2002, New York's 24-hour cable channel NY1 News moved into an entirely digital facility with Pinnacle servers, AP's ENPS newsroom computer system and Omnibus for automation. The new site cost less than $30 million. |
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| Building a multivision television station |
| Excerpt: Basef on Channel M's proposed model and format decisions, a content/platform sharing plan was developed and approved. A video server code (the bit bucket) services on-air and news needs. As a multicultural broadcaster, the news system had to be able to script in multiple languages which narrowed the field down to one vendor, ENPS. Due to a tight coupling ENPS has with Grass Valley, GVG Vibrint editing systems were chosen for the news back-end. |
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| Raycom Chooses Avid for Second-Generation Gear |
| Excerpt: The Raycom Media television-station group has signed a deal with Avid that will bring second-generation server and newsroom technologies to KHNL(TV) Honolulu and WOIO(TV) Cleveland. It's the first step in converting the group's 22 newsrooms to facilities that rely less on mechanical moving parts and more on moving data. The Unity system at KHNL will hold a little more than 130 hours of material at 25 Mbps while WOIO's system will hold up to 220 hours. The server and editing systems interact with AP's ENPS newsroom system at the stations. Raycom has been pleased with how the two company's products interact. AP's ENPS works with the MOS standard, whereby audio, video and associated metadata are handled as one object. That approach, Folsom says, is an improvement over previous methods that relied on the user's remembering the name of the file as well as where the source files were located. |
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| KOMO-TV Makes Most of Digital Digs |
| Excerpt: To do something well, you need to concentrate on it. In the case of Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, that kind of concentration resulted in the station being awarded the Edward R Murrow large station Newscast of the Year award for 2002. Unlike the enclosed bunker design that typifies most control rooms, KOMO's control room is spacious and open both ends. That luxury is allowed by the unique monitoring: Large, bright plasma screens. Another piece of technology in KOMO's plan has caused a similar change in workflow: The centralized video server and nonlinear editing. This is achieved through two Quantel Clipbox Power servers with 12 attached Edit Seats and a single Cachebox. This is integrated with the OmniBus broadcast automation and video asset management system, and AP's ENPS newsroom computer system. The station's Pinnacle Deko character generator interfaces, via MOS protocol, with the ENPS newsroom computer. |
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| Newsgathering: smaller, faster, cheaper, easier |
| Excerpt: Newsgathering from the field is probably one of the most difficult things that broadcasters have to tackle on a daily basis. In fact, it's an area where IP networking is really starting to gain a foothold, and according to Mike Palmer, director of technology development for AP Broadcast, the result is that store-and-forward technologies will be the way of the future. At IBC, the AP's ENPS division was showing its new SNAPfeed system -- a store-and-forward encoder that journalists can use to transmit footage back to headquarters over whatever networking options are available. "Store-and-forward is an area that is going to be key to broadcasters in the next few years," says Palmer. "It's really going to explode as the accessibility of additional bandwidth and more access points become available." |
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| Content and backhaul control |
| Excerpt: The most significant challenge in newsroom integration today is not the technical integration of equipment, which is becoming commonplace, but the tight integration of workflow. SNAPfeed, an ENPS tool for transmitting video and other media from the field to base using a minimum amount of time, equipment and bandwidth, provided an example of next-generation workflow management and integration. |
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| New age newsrooms counting big on technology |
| Excerpt: A recent conference-Newsrooms Tech India 2003-showcased some of the latest technologies being used all over the world in the area of news, which is all about speed and accuracy. According to Mr Anthony Prangley of Associated Press (AP), who was among the speakers at the conference, rapid technology changes are making way for new machines all the time. Mr Prangley spoke about the many advantages of AP’s ENPS (Electronic News Production System). The essence of it all was that “ENPS facilitates the creation and management of live and scripted content for TV, radio and Internet”. The core functions of ENPS include news gathering assignment system, newswire management, script creation and editing, running order creation and manipulation, editorial approval and revision control, broadcast equipment control, and archiving. |
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| Getting snappy in remote places |
| Excerpt: SNAPfeed is a software application from Associated Press that enables journalists operating remotely to transmit live video feeds or digitised media files to their newsrooms using a range of available connections including standard dial-up telephone lines, ISDN, DSL, cable modems or satellite phone. SNAPfeed updates the status of the transmitted files in the ENPS news production system, allowing the newsroom production staff to review the content upon arrival. Patent pending technology developed by Associated Press helps journalists beat deadlines by automatically computing compression settings based on deadline time, laptop computing power, file sizes and connection bandwidth. Operating on a PC-based laptop, SNAPfeed manages video compression and transmission of the video content to a companion SNAPfeed server. Using ENPS in conjunction with SNAPfeed, field staff can use a single laptop and data connection to submit stories, read news wires, and exchange messages with other ENPS users while simultaneously compressing and transmitting video. |
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| In the hands of journalists |
| Excerpt: Building on core strengths that have made ENPS one of the world's most popular new news production system, the Associated Press has put even more power, control and flexibility in the hands of tens of thousands of journalists with the feature-rich release of ENPS 4.0. Leading the pack of new and refined functionality is the most advanced newsroom technology for simultaneously creating and publishing content to multiple platforms. Journalists armed with ENPS can now automatically send versions of their television and radio material directly to the web, wireless PDAs, mobile phones and print systems. Text and media output are customisable for public access as well as for internal users and reporters in the field. Other important ENPS changes include simplified workflow for the assignment desk; more efficient news wire browsing; instant access to AP GraphicsBank images and AP PrimeCuts sound bites, and improvements to ENPS Stats, which provides superior power, flexibility, and speed in aggregating and reporting election results - both on air and online. |
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| ENPS news is a Snap |
| Excerpt: Associated Press has installed its ENPS news production system in more than 400 newsrooms across 43 countries. This year it introduces ENPS 4.0, with major new capabilities that are particularly relevant to international broadcasters. The new release supports a wider variety of languages and journalists can access ENPS newsgathering assignments and programme running-orders remotely with WAP-enabled mobile phones and PDAs. SNAPfeed - first demonstrated last year - is a new software application that allows journalists to transmit video into their newsrooms from remote locations via a wide variety of connections including dial-up, broadband and satellite. It was field tested in the Iraq War. Other improvements include new navigational features, an enhanced newsgathering assignment system and improved wire reader functionality. A new publishing system enables the re-purposing of news story scripts to media organisations' web sites. With video servers becoming more popular, ENPS and its MOS (Media Object Server) interface have become an integrated, streamlined solution. Important extensions to the MOS protocol provide improved work flows in the newsroom. Because MOS is an open standard, broadcasters have the added advantage of being able to choose video servers and other media devices. |
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| Newsroom tech assuming relevance in India |
| Excerpt: Speaking on electronic news production systems (ENPS), Anthony Prangley of the Associated Press, UK, said: "This is a newsroom system designed for journalists, by journalists. It includes newsgathering assignment systems, newswire management and ingest, script creation and editing, editorial approval and revision, and control of the broadcasting equipment and archiving." Sahara TV is its first customer in India. Prangley added that the Media Object Server (MOS) from Associated Press could handle a high volume of news traffic and support multiple newsrooms. It facilitates dragging and dropping stories across running orders as well. The latest version, the ENPS-4, integrates Web and WAP, is MOS compatible, supports browser favourites as well as embedded clips and graphics. |
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| Keeping Track of Content |
| Excerpt: The components of a basic asset management system, according to Mike Palmer, director of technology development for ENPS, the Associated Press newsroom computer system, "are often found in the combined tools of newsroom computer systems, nonlinear editors, digital servers, and digital archives devices. Depending on the amount of functionality an organization needs, a separate asset management system may be required. If the complexity of work practice and/or volume is such that an external asset management tool is needed, care should be taken to ensure that the asset management system chosen is capable of seamless interface with other elements of production workflow, including the newsroom computer system, onlne-nearline-offline storage, edit and ingest systems. Do not first look at the user interface ... Look first at the interfaces [the asset management system] has to your production system, and make sure those interfaces are established and proven." Palmer also pointed out that the MOS version 2.8 protocol ... includes seven implementation profiles that make it easier to identify equipment that supports functionality required for interoperability with asset management systems. |
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| Doing More With Less |
| Excerpt: With nearly every corporation in the industry consumed with cutting costs and headcounts, it comes as little surprise that automation technologies continue to gain presence in local, network and cable TV newsrooms. Much of that performance demand falls on the newsroom computer system and its ability to integrate with other components. Mike Palmer, AP director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy, says that legacy editing and other craft-related products require companies to embrace integration and interoperability. At AP, that means MOS, or Media Object Server, protocol. "MOS is the behind-the-scenes mechanism which allows us to efficiently work with the entire large and diverse group of MOS vendors to provide seamless editorial and production workflow," Palmer says. The recently released version of ENPS 4.0 and ENPS DNA (Dynamic News Architecture) program, he points out, are designed to help make newsrooms more efficient in getting news content to air. "Even with the system running automatically, a producer can easily pause the system from his or her desktop so that breaking news can be covered live. And, since everything other than the breaking news is automated, everyone can then work on the breaking news as it happens, knowing that, when the live reporting is done, the system goes right back into automation mode." |
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| Improving Life in The Newsroom |
| Excerpt: AP's ENPS Project Manager Ken Ericson says broadcast news organisations are moving to a new set of expectations. "The newsroom system is now the operational 'core' connecting to and driving other production devices to create a streamlined workflow and faster 'to air' process," Ericson said. "Editorially, a newsroom system is now expected to send content to a growing number of devices in a common format," he said. Interest in managing assets within the newsroom environment is also growing, according to Ericson. "Broadcasters have struggled for years to efficiently track assets. With ENPS, journalists can find any text in the system no matter where it was last saved," said Ericson. "In addition, the MOS protocol gives broadcasters the ability to maintain a link to the near-line or deep archives, giving them the ability to recall video or audio files." |
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| Weapons of Mass Production |
| Excerpt: ITN's Steve Smith found himself in the Gulf as part of a seven-man crew supporting journalist Mark Austin in daily bulletins from the heart of the action. The crew took a mixture of hired and owned kit into the desert, including the now ubiquitous satellite phone. They also took a BDL-Autoscript teleprompter and laptop computer. Communication was normally established with London via an M4 satellite phone passing data at 64k until the normal satellite links were established providing sound, vision and data transfer. The laptop carrying the linked scripting from the ENPS news system in London could then be fed directly to the prompter via the USB connected X-box unit. In total four systems were used across the theatre during the conflict, including the one used by Trevor McDonald, ITN's main anchor presenting the flagship ITV News at Ten live from Kuwait City. All the systems used the same communication systems and at all times were completely in harmony with the core ENPS news computers in London. |
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| Hands-On Automation at ITN |
| Excerpt: In 1998, ITN decided to upgrade its London newsroom operation. And that was when things really became interesting. Looking into the future, ITN is currently considering the implementation of MOS -- a two-way communication between OmniBus and the ENPS newsroom system -- which it now considers rich enough to satisfy its requirements. This will inevitably lead to improvements in workflow as it negates the current need to cut and paste clip names -- and the associated potential for error -- and will speed up the ability to view changes in clip status and make any necessary changes to the ENPS rundown. |
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| Automation from the sharp end |
| Excerpt: In an industry where sales targets and honesty of approach sometimes make uneasy bedfellows, Leitch can take pride in its integrity in adopting the 'best fit' doctrine. Another fine example of such collaboration is seen in Sahara India's choice of Leitch to provide a state-of-the-art digital newsroom facility for its broadcast news operation, one of the most sophisticated in India. The facility integrated ten edit suites utilising Leitch's NewsFlash craft editor, ten ingest channels and 18 playout channels, with the ENPS newsroom computer system and OmniBus automation. Evidence of swift and sure execution of complex projects can be seen at ERTU, the Egyptian state broadcaster. The system specification called for a video server system with ingest, editing and playout interfacing Leitch server modules, OmniBus automation control software and the ENPS newsroom system. In addition, two Compaq Proliant servers provided journalists with client workstation access to the ENPS newsroom system via a MOS gateway connection to the OmniBus control system. |
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| AP's news-feed software is war-tested |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press (AP) is introducing ENPS 4.0 with major advances relevant to international broadcasters. ENPS 4.0 ... supports a variety of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Greek. Journalists can remotely access ENPS newsgathering assignments and the running order of programmes with WAP-enabled mobile phones and PDA. The software application SNAPfeed, which was tested in the Iraq war, allows journalists to transmit video to their newsrooms from remote locations via several connections including dial-up, broadband and satellite. Other improvements in ENPS 4.0 include new navigational features, an enhanced newsgathering assignment system and improved wire-reader functionality. A new publishing system allows news scripts to be reproduced onto the media organisation's websites. |
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| It's not about MOS but integrated workflow ... |
| Excerpt: Most people think about MOS (the media object server communications protocol) in its most basic context as enabling a newsroom computer system to build sequences of video or audio clips for on-air playback. But this versatile and mature protocol is now taking fragmented work practices such as assignment planning, communication with field crews, production and archive, and tying them in a logical, intuitive way. |
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| MOS thrives on partnership |
| Excerpt: It is widely known that the Electronic News Production System (ENPS) owned by Associated Press (AP) relies heavily on a generic data transport protocol known as Media Object Server (MOS). However, it is not always realised that MOS is the product of an ever-widening collaborative partnership of users and equipment vendors and is not an AP driven protocol. |
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| Closing the Acquisition to Air Gap |
| Excerpt: Version 4.0 of AP's ENPS software is now available. It includes enhancements to the publishing components, for automatic feeds to Web sites, PDAs and printing processes. Lee Perryman released a flurry of new releases announcing sales that included a national all-news channel for India; RTP, the Portuguese state broadcaster; and Canal Once in Mexico City. |
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| Stations Seek Solutions in Automation |
| Excerpt: AP rolled out v. 4.0 of its ENPS news production system now offering users the ability to publish to the Internet and wireless and mobile systems for public or internal access. Enhancements also include tighter integration among the assignment desk, news ingest and field crews, more efficient wire browsing, instant access to AP's GraphicsBank images and AP PrimeCuts sound bites via embedded story links, and dozens of other improvements. |
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| Sahara TV sets up 6-channel newsroom |
| Excerpt: Sahara TV [India] has constructed a sophisticated broadcast newsroom for the launch of its six new channels. The facility is a fully digital server-based newsroom. "There is total integration between the ENPS newsroom, which takes feeds from The Associated Press and other news agencies, via the server and craft-editing infrastructure, which is provided by Leitch and OmniBus," said PR Suresh, sales director of Mumbai-based Shaf Broadcast, the project's systems integrator. "It is very sophisticated, and a step ahead anything that has been done in Asia before." |
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| AP's ENPS Spans the Globe |
| Excerpt: Associated Press' ENPS news production system, which will debut in a 4.0 version this spring, is being installed by Canal Once, Latin America's first public service broadcaster, and Sahara Samay Rashtriya, India's national 24-hour news channel. New ENPS features to be released on the 4.0 version enable publishing to the Internet, wireless PDA's, mobile phones and print systems. |
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| Avid Gives Adrenaline Rush |
| Excerpt: Avid has introduced three Digital Nonlinear Accelerators (DNAs) designed to increase the processing power of editing systems. The Adrenaline DNA is intended for NewsCutter; Mojo, for portable and field systems; and Nitris, for its high-end DS editing suite. Other new features for NewsCutter include a Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) tool that allows reporters and editors to link from iNews or ENPS to the NewsCutter environment so editors can edit to words in a script. |
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| Cutting Edge: ENPS Goes Global |
| Excerpt: Several international broadcasters have selected AP's ENPS newsroom system for use in their facilities. Mexico's Canal Once, Panama's Corporacion Medcom, Canada's Citytv, Portugal's RTP, India's Sahara TV, Denmark's TV2 Lorry and Indonesia's TVRI are all using the system. Russia's RTV International is using it in its New York City bureau. |
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| Windows Media Makes Hollywood Play |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press demonstrated a new video transmission application, SnapFeed, that incorporates WM9. Used internally by AP and available for sale to other organizations, SnapFeed is an add-on to AP's Electronic News Production System that helps automate--and make more efficient--retrieving video footage from laptop-equipped remote workers. The software evaluates factors such as the available bandwidth and a video's resolution and duration, then adjusts to optimize compression quality and transmission speed. |
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| Canal 11 de México instala ENPS |
| Excerpt: Perteneciente al Instituto Politécnico Nacional con base en Ciudad de México, el Canal 11 es la televisora pública más antigua de América Latina. La implementación del sistema ENPS de AP en su sala de noticias es la fase inicial de un ambicioso proyecto para producción electrónica de noticias, en el cual ENPS controlará varios dispositivos compatibles con MOS. El sistema le permitió al canal pasar —casi de la noche a la mañana— de una operación manual a una altamente automatizada, flexible y digital. El ENPS manda listas de emisión sincronizadas a un servidor Profile XP de Thomson Grass Valley y, simultáneamente, alimenta la base de datos de scripts del sistema de prompting WinPlus, de BDL |
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| Novedades de los NCSs |
| Excerpt: AP, por su parte, liberó una actualización de su Guía de Asociados de ENPS que incluye ahora productos de 32 empresas que trabajan sobre el protocolo MOS. AP destacó a las siguientes empresas durante NAB 2003, dentro de la lista de asociados: AEM Technology, Avid, BDL Autoscript, Chyron, Crispin, D.A.V.I.D., Dalet, DNF Controls, ENCO, Harris, Inscriber, Leitch, Netia, OmniBus, Orad, ParkerVision, Pinnacle, Proximity, Quantel, Sony, Sundance Digital, Thomson Grass Valley, VertigoXmedia y Vizrt. |
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| Faubell Drives News Tech |
| Excerpt: For example, Hearst-Argyle, which had three different newsroom systems running among its stations, has moved to implement AP's ENPS newsroom automation software across the group. Another shift to a common technology platform is the selection of Sony digital production switchers to move Hearst-Argyle stations to full SDI news production. Hearst-Argyle is also being "aggressive" with graphics automation in order to share content, working with Pinnacle to integrate graphics automation with both the ENPS system and proprietary software. "Making the newsroom more efficient is the key to productivity and survival going forward," Faubell explains. |
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| High-Tech Gear Getting NAB Debuts |
| Excerpt: To help TV stations round out their digital newsrooms, the industry's largest equipment suppliers are introducing a host of new products at the National Asoociation of Broadcasters convention this week in Las Vegas. Among the highlights of this week's show: AP Broadcast plans to rebrand the suite of products it makes for use with its newsroom computer system ENPS. The product line will be called DNA -- for dynamic newsroom architecture -- and includes SNAPfeed, a software program that helps journallists transmit files remotely at the appropriate bandwidth; AP's election system; its Web publishing system; and its school closing system, which will be introduced in the fall, said Lee Perryman, AP's director of broadcast technology. |
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| Avid News Systems Gain Worldwide Notice |
| Excerpt: An example of the products' interoperability and flexibility is the ability to interface AP's ENPS newsroom system directly with the Avid NewsCutter NLE, which TVB Hong Kong will be the first to do, Schleifer noted. |
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| Improving Life in The Newsroom |
| Excerpt: AP's ENPS Project Manager Ken Ericson says broadcast news organizations are moving to a new set of expectations, with the new word "interoperability." "The newsroom system is now the operational 'core' connecting to and driving other production devices to create a streamlined workflow and faster 'to-air' process," Ericson said. "Broadcasters have struggled for years to efficiently track assets. With ENPS, journalists can find any text in the system no matter where it was last saved. In addition, the MOS protocol gives broadcasters the ability to maintain a link to the near-line or deep archives, giving them the ability to recall video or audio files." |
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| Pro Broadcast Vendors Embrace Windows Media 9 Series |
Excerpt: The Associated Press is unveiling a new solution called SNAPfeed, a software application that allows journalists in the field to transmit news video via satellite phone or the Internet in a fraction of the usual time through use of Windows Media Video 9 and a laptop-based application that simplifies and automates encoding based on the journalists' deadline. The solution integrates with AP's ENPS application, which is used to create news content in more than 400 newsrooms in 40 countries.
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| It's not about MOS; it's about integrated workflow |
| Excerpt: Most people think about MOS (or the Media Object Server Communications Protocol) in its most basic content: enabling a newsroom computer system to build sequences of video or audio clips for on-air playback. But this versatile and mature protocol is now taking fragmented work practices such as assignment planning, communication with field crews, production and archive, and tying them together in a logical and intuitive way. |
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| Simplifying Graphics Production |
Excerpt: Goal is to give artists more time to use their creative skills
Manufacturers of graphics systems continue to make products designed to enable artists to spend more time creating and less time replicating. One example: Giving operators an editing and preview interface in the ActiveX window on an AP ENPS workstation. Browsers linked directly to the Chyron system present thumbnail displays of various assets, including bitmap graphics and pages, all fully data-based and searchable. Template data can then be edited, previewed and scheduled in the MOS rundown. Components include the Service Broker (the central gateway that allows the various CAMIO components to speak to each other); the Lyric Universal Control Interface (LUCI); a Web-based ActiveX client interface; an asset-management interface, distributor and manager; and a MOS protocol adapter. "The user finds the asset and drags it onto their server, where they can use it as if it was native to their system," says Hendler. |
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| New options for 24 hour news |
| Excerpt: Like many news organisations around the world, international broadcasters are today looking for technical innovations to help them create more content and to manage it more efficiently. For most, this means digital media storage and non-linear editing, and links between news editorial and productions systems allowing playlist construction, ordering and control by producers, working from a news rundown. John Conway is an editorial system manager for the BBC. He points out the scale of the BBC project is immense, with more than 7500 PCs accessing the news system worldwide and more than 300 hours of video coming into BBC each day. |
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| Leitch Selected for Digital Newsroom Facility in Panama |
| Excerpt: Corporacion Medcom, Panama's leading private broadcaster, has chosen Leitch's VR platform for its new digital newsroom facility. The system will be running news operations for Medcom's Channel 4 and Channel 13, both of which will feature four hours of news programming per day. The Leitch equipment is MOS compliant and will be tightly integrated with ENPS, the AP newsroom computer system. |
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| ENPS, Parkervision interface |
| Excerpt: Popular newsroom computer system ENPS from the Associated Press can now interface with ParkerVision's PVTV news production automation system. PVTV can receive rundown production and story information directly from ENPS, allowing directors to make changes to scripts more easily and direction on the ENPS rundown. |
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| Crispin Automates National Geographic Today |
| Excerpt: Washington-based National Geographic Channel has chosen Crispin's NewsPlayX Newsroom Automation System to run stories for its daily news journal, National Geographic Today. Crispin's NewsPlayX uses MOS protocol in conjunction with AP's ENPS. Producers use the system to translate the daily show rundowns and execute the playback. The producers create the MOS objects in ENPS, the editors edit the video/packages on Panasonic NewsBytes and then send them to the GVG Profile XP 1100 via Fibre Channel. The NewsPlayX updates the status of the video clip and playback to let the producers know what parts of the show are ready. It maps reports to different server channels allowing transition overlapping and simultaneous playback of the mirrored video for redundancy. The live changes in ENPS are automatically reflected on the playlist. |
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| ParkerVision Integrates AP News Platform |
| Excerpt: ParkerVision and AP have completed the integration of their technologies to allow news staff to easily extract and modify data for news scripts. A new interface between ParkerVision PVTV News control room automation systems and the AP Electronic News Production System (ENPS) allows users of the PVTV system to receive rundown, story and production commands from ENPS using the Media Object Server (MOS) protocol, which speeds up late-breaking changes to a newscast and simplifies the process of preparing for a show. PVTV directors usually mark their scripts electronically using transition macro elements (TME's) that set up each event in a newscast. With ENPS, directors had to access each script prior to making a change. The new interface allows TME's to be entered directly on the ENPS rundown. |
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| News World Best of Show |
Excerpt: Editor's Note: Although News World, held in Dublin in November, is a very small show in terms of exhibitors, it has some good technology. TV Technology picked four products that stood out.
LAPTOP DELIVERY FLEXIBILITY FOR ENPS
Cutting the cost and hassle of satellite and microwave means a lot, and there are more and more store-and-forward options to do just this. Now AP ENPS has added similar functionality to its news products. The company's SNAPfeed product was launched at the IBC show, but was also shown at News World. The software effectively turns a laptop into a remote feed point that can transmit still, audio or video feeds to a studio via dial-up, broadband connection or Inmarsat satellite phone. |
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| From ERTU infinity |
| Excerpt: The ERTU system design had to meet some pretty strict criteria: a video server system providing a high level of redundancy and capable of providing ingest, editing and playout; a video and audio infrastructure; an automated control system with media management; an electronic integrated newsroom computer system for 78 journalist workstations and 30 journalist workstations with browse editing. The system handles all the news broadcasts within the region. Multi-media client workstations allow journalists to create scripts, edit media for inclusion in the ENPS rundown and control the transmission playlists via MOS. The ENPS rundown also directly controls the prompter for the presenter. |
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| In Chicagoland, Harris Ties Tribune Automation Together |
| Excerpt: CLTV, Chicagoland Television News, is Tribune’s 24-hour news channel in Chicago. In late 2000, CLTV began converting to a digital infrastructure and a server-based newsroom. Tribune was an early adopter of AP’s ENPS newsroom computer system, so the ENPS and its MOS (media object server) protocol was the natural centerpiece for editorial content management. Inside the CLTV newsroom, producers are editing on-air rundowns that are directly linked to the on-air product. By stacking segments into the on-air playlists via ENPS, and by seeing the status of clips as they air, one could assume that ENPS is running the show – and, in fact, show producers feel they are running he entire station’s air product through ENPS. The journalists have just one user interface – ENPS. |
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| ENPS: A winning formula for Hong Kong |
| Excerpt: In what is now one of Asia's most advanced news-production environments, journalists at Hong Kong Cable produce around-the-clock news content for two 24-hour news channels. The core of Hong Kong Cable TV's news-production process is the ENPS (Electronic News Production System) which is designed by the Associated Press. Lam Kwok Luen, the controller of broadcast and engineering operations at Hong Kong Cable TV, said one of the reasons ENPS was chosen for the station was because of its "popularity and worldwide reputation". ENPS is currently in use in more than 400 TV, radio and network operations in 39 countries. Lam said that the key benefits of using ENPS with digital technology include the ability to connect ENPS to other production servers in the facility over the station's network by use of the MOS (Media Object Server) protocol. |
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| Project Jupiter: The digital solution for BBC News |
| Excerpt: BBC Technology is developing a custom-built media asset management (MAM) system (which can support the BBC’s metadata model) and a set of associated services. The aim of these services is to create an architecture that offers a service-orientated solution capable of handling future expansion and increased functionality, as well as handling and optimizing the legacy services and third-party components. The system comprises several core elements, including a media management system to manipulate media or metadata and a gateway for communicating with external MOS-enabled systems and integrating with the newsrooms’ existing ENPS services. |
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| KTLA Goes Sony |
| Excerpt: At KTLA, our Sony Newsbase is controlled by AP's ENPS newsroom computer system through MOS. Through ENPS, producers know when a story is ready and can preview the clip from anywhere before it goes to air. |
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| WWSB-TV |
| Excerpt: This year marked another notch in the successful launch of digital television as WWSB began broadcasts from its new, all-component digital facility in Sarasota, FL. With over 23,000 square feet, WWSB, along with system integrator A.F. Associates, designed a completely server-based and fully automated installation that exemplifies the concepts of collaborative production and shared storage. Ingest of syndicated programming is managed by Sundance Digital's Intelli-Sat. Commercials and program playout are managed by Sundance's FastBreak automation system, and news is managed by Sundance's NewsLink, which interfaces with the AP's ENPS system. |
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| 24-hour operation |
| Excerpt: Around the world, news broadcasters are finding it increasingly difficult to get and keep viewers for a time-specific newscast. So it is with interest that broadcasters in the US and around the world are looking at several new cable news operations and the highly integrated workflow they have implemented in the last year. All of these sites are using the Media Object Server (MOD) as a basic building block of their 24-hour operations. What's different here is the level of interaction between the non-linear system (for video, stills and captions) and the ENPS newsroom system from Associated Press Broadcast Technology. Building on the ENPS philosophy of "drag and drop", and using new shortcut functions, producers can easily copy many stories to multiple rundowns all in one operation. |
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| New CBS Affiliate Aims High |
| Excerpt: Talk about a Cinderella story. Until this September, KPSP was a low-rated, low-power television station in the 160th market with marginal programming and no cable carriage, a big deal in an area with 94 percent cable penetration. But under the aegis of a new owner, the Palm Springs station, while remaining low-power, was transformed into a CBS affiliate, the first new CBS affiliate in about 34 years, moved into new digital facilities and obtained prime cable carriage, bumping the network's Los Angeles O&O, KCBS, from the coveted Channel 2 position. Newsroom automation is handled by a Thompson Grass Valley Group NewsQ Pro system that interfaces with an AP ENPS newsroom system, other Thomson and Pinnacle equipment. With this system, edited pieces are transferred via Fibre Channel to a six-channel news Profile PVS 1100 (one record, five play) for playout on air. |
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| Eye-Catching Election Graphics Win a Mandate From Stations |
| Excerpt: AP's ENPS Stats is an integrated election module that permits stations to collate, view and display results directly from the ENPS desktop to a variety of character generators, allowing full-screen, lower-third, and squeezeback capabilities. |
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| ATG Broadcasts expands TV4 Sweden |
| Excerpt: ATG Broadcast has begun work on a contract from TV4 Sweden to install and commission a sports channel. Running orders will be generated by the journalists within an ENPS Newsroom system and downloaded to Columbus via a MOS Gateway. Graphics information will also be generated in the ENPS system using Vertigo Xmedia ActiveX windows. Templates will be created for the journalists to use, and Xmedia will pass the data to Pinnacle DecoCast for rendering, playout remaining under Columbus control. |
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| Controlling the news |
Excerpt: Newsroom systems help reduce the cost and complexity of getting the show on-air
It wasn't too long ago that discussions of automation in the newsroom meant cameras on robotic pedestals. But the video server and digital newsroom have added much complexity to that discussion, and journalists at a PC desktop can have more control over the news department than was dreamed possible 10 years ago. Sundance Digital's NewsLink, for example, fully integrates MOS-compliant newsroom computers with video servers, editors and graphic devices, according to Fred Schultz, vice president of news automation. Graphics company VertigoXmedia has been heavily involved in the Time Warner Cable 24-hour news operations, working closely with the Omnibus automation systems and AP's Electronic News Production System (ENPS). Omnibus Systems has worked closely with AP's MOS protocol. |
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| WJLA, Newschannel 8 Combine Cable, Broadcast with Multiple Integrators |
Excerpt: When it came time to occupy a new building, corporate siblings WJLA and cablecaster Newschannel 8 moved into a shared facility that uses technology and synergy to streamline the operation of both organizations. The thread holding the core systems together is a Harris automation system, while the newsrooms are automated by the ENPS system from the Associated Press. Obviously, there are many points of interconnection between the two systems integration vendors, but Olingy found that the handshaking between the vendors was not an issue. "It worked out very well - they played in the sandbox together with no problem," he said.
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| Newsroom Spotlight: KTLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| Excerpt: It's when the system ties in with AP's ENPS newsroom production system that the true benefits of nonlinear are realized. "The newsroom system talks through the MOS protocol to the NewsBase and it really gives the producers in the booth the ultimate flexibility to move around," said Cox. |
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| Newsroom Spotlight: KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA |
| Excerpt: "The combined solution of OmniBus control, Quantel Clipbox Power server and storage (and editing and graphics), combined with AP's ENPS made it a tremendously powerful tool." Rundowns are created on ENPS and downloaded to the OmniBus automation system for playout and can be changed right up to air time. |
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| News Systems at IBC |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press, owners of ENPS, claim that it continues to be the world's fastest-growing news production system and that over the past four years it has accounted for nearly 70 per cent of newsroom system installations or upgrades. Latest installations include Mega Channel's fully digital newsroom based in Athens, which claims to reach 100 per cent of Greek television households terrestrially or via satellite and Rádio Televisão Record in São Paulo, the second major broadcaster to move to the system this year. The Associated Press demonstrated SNAPfeed at IBC, a new software application that will allow jourbalists in remote locations to send video to newsrooms without needing satellite links. |
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| MOS lays bedrock for TV4 Sweden and MTV Nyheter Norway |
Excerpt: Heart of newsroom operation
Six years after becoming one of the world's first tapeless stations, TV4 took another major step by adopting ENPS, which is now used on more than 260 workstations at the heart of newsroom operations. Through the industry-standard MOS protocol, journalists using ENPS are linked with an OmniBus automation system and Thomson Grass Valley Profile video servers for news and sports output. Parallel with the ENPS installation for Sweden's largest broadcaster, Scandinavia's smallest and newest television news company, MTV Nyheter in Norway, was adopting the system. Using MOS, the company matched ENPS with Grass Valley's NewsQ Pro system for video playback and media management, paired with GVG's Profile XP1100 video server and NewsEdit stations. ENPS and MOS also control character generator creation and playout via Pinnacle's Deko 2200, as well as a BDL +WinPlus+ prompter. |
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| In Brief |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press has announced new web authoring and publishing features for ENPS, its news production system, extending the traditional broadcast news process to the Internet. |
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| Quantel secures 'Project Jupiter' |
| Excerpt: Quantel has won a major order from the BBC for the supply of a massive generationQ news system for the British broadcaster's "Project Jupiter" -- the centralising of content for the entire London Television Centre news operation. The new technology will be deployed to work alongside the BBC's existing ENPS newsroom system while empowering the journalists to locate material easily, edit and package it quickly for download through the centre's automation system for transmission. |
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| OmniBus to automate Indian news channels |
| Excerpt: Commercial broadcaster Sahara TV has chosen OmniBus Systems to help construct a sophisticated broadcast news operation. Sahara TV will use the Columbus, an integrated module within the overall OmniBus system, to automate the production and transmission of its new six-channel newsroom in Delhi and a single channel news operation in Mumbai. The OmniBus system will coordinate the operation at both newsrooms with a wide range of equipment, including on-air graphics solutions, Leitch's new video servers, and Associated Press' Electronic News Production Systems (ENPS). The ENPS system will deliver the new playlists to Columbus via a Media Object Server (MOS) gateway. |
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| Open to Interoperability |
| Excerpt: Utilising "as many open standards and protocols as possible" was a key goal when Time Warner Cable was selecting equipment for its New York One all-news cable channel, said Harlen Neugeboren, director of engineering and technology, Time Warner Cable. New York One invested about $6 million in a package of equipment that includes OmniBus Systems' asset and archive management technologies, integrated with the Associated Press ENPS newsroom and Pinnacle servers. The OmniBus platform used the MOS (media object server) protocol to integrate the various pieces, making it all easily interoperable. |
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| Automating your graphics |
| Excerpt: VertigoXmedia offers the Xmedia suite of products for live-to-air graphics. The driver of the suite is the MOS (Media Object Server)-compliant Xmedia server, which connects all the Xmedia applications over a local or wide area network, enabling seamless integration with existing newsroom and automation systems. One of VertigoXmedia's success stories is Time Warner Cable's NY1, a local news channel in New York City that was the first station to install the full VertigoXmedia suite. The Vertigo products integrated with Associated Press' ENPS newsroom computer system, the OmniBus automation system, and Pinnacle Systems' character generators. When they need graphics, they simply open the Vertigo application from within the ENPS, and select a template and graphic from the central server, type in some text and save it with the story. |
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| Make it snappy: No more deadline jitters with SNAPfeed |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press (AP) has introduced a new software application that allows journalists to transmit video to their newsrooms from remote locations without using satellite links. Call SNAPfeed, this application manages video compression on a PC-based laptop, along with transmission to a companion SNAPfeed server through standard dial-up telephone lines, ISDN, DSL, cable modems or satellite phones. |
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| AP Broadcast Technology |
| Excerpt: The Electronic News Production System (ENPS) now fully supports double-byte languages such as Chinese and right-to-left languages such as Arabic. New extensions of the Media Object Server (MOS) Protocol allow more sophisticated control of broadcast production hardware and integration station and network automation systems through ENPS. In addition to supporting highly automated 24-hour news channels, these new ENPS capabilities provide greater integration with media asset management systems and control of video and audio ingest from the field. |
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| ENPS newsroom gathers new MOS |
| Excerpt: According to Associated Press, major advances to the core features of its Electronic News Production System (ENPS) have been realised this year. Extending the international operation of the system, ENPS has been upgraded to fully support double-byte languages such as Chinese and Arabic. ENPS also has the ability to work in more than 40 languages and is in more than 400 newsrooms around the world ... |
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| Mega Channel installs AP's ENPS in Greece |
| Excerpt: Mega Channel, Greece's first privately-owned station and the largest, is on the air with ENPS, Associated Press (AP)'s news production system. Staffed by 80 reporters, editors and producers, Mega Channel's news coverage and broadcasts reach viewers in Greece as well as in the US, Cyprus and Australia. Other recent ENPS installations include one at TV7, Indonesia's newest TV station. |
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| IBC 2002 |
| Excerpt: La empresa actualmente está trabajando en más de 40 idiomas y en más de 400 salas de redacción en todo el mundo. Los visitantes que se pasen por ed stand podrán echar un vistazo a los productos de NPS y comprobar rápidamente los beneficios que pueden aportarles. Un recorrido visual por las pantallas mostrará a los periodistas que su uso es verdaderamente sencillo. |
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| BBC Northern Ireland buys generationQ |
| Excerpt: The BBC Northern Ireland (BBN NI) has chosen a Quantel generationQ sQServer to act as its central news playout server. Integrated with the ENPS newsroom system via Quantel's MOS gateway for playlist automation, the BBC NI will use the sQServer's built-in production effects and sQFx live control panel for on-air presentations. |
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| Newsroom automation: Helping broadcasters target new audiences |
| Excerpt: BBC News 24 uses OmniBus Systems' station automation system to manage its broadcast operation. The system is linked with the BBC's own news production package, ENPS, via an interface specifically developed by the BBC. |
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| Brown to lead BBC World into the tapeless universe |
| Excerpt: The BBC is using a combination of Associated Press' Electronic News Production System (ENPS) and desktop-editing solutions in its newsrooms, according to Dr. Alistair Brown of BBC World. |
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| ESPN Puts NewsBase to the Test at the U.S. Open |
| Excerpt: After the editors cut short clips from the day's footage, it was immediately placed into bins for later use, organized by topic or player name through the use of the Associated Press' News Production System (ENPS). Because footage was digitized in real time, full-motion images from the first part of a tape cassette were available to the editors immediately, allowing them to begin cutting highlights while the tape was being logged into the server. |
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| Palm Springs' new CBS affiliate is aiming high |
| Excerpt: With only two months to get his new CBS affiliate in Palm Springs, Calif., up and running, Bill Evans exudes confidence. He expects to take first place in the November book. The station's newsroom is being built from the ground up. KPSP will use Grass Valley Group's Profile servers for commercials and news and AP's ENPS for a newsroom computer system. |
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| Analisis Newsrooms: En terreno vedado |
| Excerpt: En un momento en el que la empresa Associated Press está conquistando el mercado de la televisión, recibiendo un encargo de instalación por semana de su aplicación ENPS para informatización de redacciones, el sector de sistemas digitales de informativos (newsrooms) se está volviendo cada día más competitivo y complejo. Algunas compañías cuentan ya con una tradición respetable en este área de aplicaciones, mientras otras están llevando a cabo serias inversiones para penetrar en este interesante campo de las operaciones de televisión. |
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| Making two newsrooms one |
Excerpt: AP production system will help out when WJLA-TV, NewsChannel 8 merge
The ambitious merger of Allbritton Communications' WJLA-TV Washington and co-owned local cable news net NewsChannel 8, planned for August, will be facilitated by the addition of state-of-the-art technology that connects its hundreds of employees and dozens of functions. The combination will be facilitated largely by a 171-seat Associated Press Electronic News Production System (ENPS) that will tie operations together. With ENPS, says WJLA-TV News Director Steve Hammel, the various video sources ... will be available for viewing at all the operation's workstations, instead of at an edit station or a viewing station as is currently done. "ENPS allows users not only to control the text like they do with normal newsroom systems," says AP ENPS Product Manager Bill Burke, "but also to control media by building playlists and getting status back from various video servers. It also facilitates moving material back and forth among co-sited or remote workgroups." |
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| Newsrooms to link via AP software |
| Excerpt: Good communication can be a challenge in any office. It's especially challenging, and important, for WJLA Channel 7 and its cable sister station, NewsChannel 8, which will merge their newsrooms this summer. The stations want to be able to share broadcast content and information in real time. So the stations' parent company, District-based Allbritton Communications, recently agreed to use proprietary software created by the Associated Press. The software, dubbed the Electronic News Production System (ENPS), will link the TV stations' servers for the sharing of everything from graphics and text to video and audio files. With 170 employees, the consolidated newsroom will create the largest local TV news operation in Greater Washington. |
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| PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: ENPS+WorldNow |
| Excerpt: WorldNow, which provides online content management technology to more than 120 local TV stations, has built a plug-in so users can access WorldNow from ENPS, AP's newsroom computer system. With the plug-in, journalists using ENPS can post stories directly to the Internet. More than 30 vendors have applications that work with ENPS and 75 of ENPS's installed sites run MOS integrated applications ... |
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| Metadata's profile rising for industry |
| Excerpt: News outlets are also evaluating methods to make better use of metadata. An assignment desk culls information for stories, and that research could be considered metadata, said Mike Palmer, director of technology development for AP Broadcast. He wants to find ways to move that metadata from the assignment desk out to the field and then back to the video server once it comes back into the station, he said. This could be accomplished by creating a unique ID for each story on a newsroom computer system. When the tape returns to the station, the user simply clicks on the story ID while using the video server to link the video with the research, or metadata. AP Broadcast will have some installations in use enabling these capacities by the end of the year, he said. |
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| D.C.-area Stations to Employ AP ENPS in Combined Facility |
| Excerpt: Allbritton-owned ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and cable Newschannel 8 in Washington, D.C., plan to consolidate their facilities this fall and will use the Associated Press' Electronic News Production System to integrate and manage the resources and on-air news content of their two newsrooms. |
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| AP's ENPS breaks the language barrier |
Excerpt: KTSF brings Chinese and English together with system
Until recently, television stations that broadcast in a language other than English had few choices when it cames to news production systems, which typically operate only in English. That's why it wasn't unusual to find stations such as KTSF-TV, San Francisco, still using paper. The station's challenge was to find a multilingual newsroom system that provided an easy way for journalists to work in different languages and dialects and share information quickly and easily while offering traditional rundowns, scripting, prompting and planning. |
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| The Ultimate Newsroom |
| Excerpt: If engineers and general managers could come to a consensus and offer a shopping list, it would certainly include an Electronic News Production System from the Associated Press ... Tribune Co., which operates 23 stations, currently relies on ENPS and would continue to do so in an ideal newsroom, said Ira Goldstone, the media company's VP of engineering and technology in Los Angeles. The National Geographic Channel, which built its newsroom just over a year ago and considers it as close to ideal as possible, also relies on ENPS. |
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| The new newsroom |
| Excerpt: It has taken a while, but the digital newsroom appears to be ready for NAB, and not just as an impressive technology demonstration. Associated Press Director of Technology Development Mike Palmer says customers are also asking for the ability to create more content without expanding staff. "They want to repurpose their existing content to multiple output channels. This is an important issue, as they wish to use content originated for network TV, for example, on their cable station, Web site and radio broadcasts, too. They want to create efficiencies from within." AP's Palmer observes, "The journalist workstation should no longer be thought of as a dumb terminal. Through AP ENPS, the journalist workstation is able to provide a range of tools, from text editing to video editing, appropriate for the skill set of the person sitting in front of it. The same workstation can be used at one time of a day for a person working exclusively on text editing and later in the day by someone who wants to produce a show and cut video teases." |
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| Cover Feature: BBC enters sixth year with ENPS |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press and the BBC have been working for more than five years with ENPS, the AP news production system first rolled out at the BBC and now used in more than 340 newsrooms. The BBC has the largest ENPS installation, where more than 12,000 users collaborate from hundreds of locations. ENPS ... is the vital structure which holds together the whole of BBC News, from the smallest regional radio station, to the furthest far-flung correspondent with laptop and modem. This huge global operation gives journalists unparalleled access to networked information sources and far more control -- all from their desktops. |
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| Television Newsroom Systems |
| Excerpt: AP's news production systems are used in more than a third of the world's broadcast newsrooms, providing tens of thousands of journalists in 38 countries with superior editorial control, and, in a growing list of locations, with expanded control of integrated broadcast hardware. |
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| Newsroom automation systems |
| Excerpt: The result of the cycles of competition is a rich set of tools and capabilities available from several major players and a few smaller companies as well. One of the innovators was, in fact, one of the providers of news wire services, the Associated Press, which clearly saw integrating its service offering completely into a newsroom automation system as facilitating its long-term service business. |
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| NY1 Goes to Head of Class |
| Excerpt: The Associated Press Electronic News Production System (ENPS) was tapped next. "About a year ago, we demonstrated ENPS for Time Warner and they made their evaluation of our particular implementation of the MOS (media object server) open communications protocol," said Bill Burke, ENPS project manager for AP Broadcast Technology in Washington. The Omnibus platform integrates with the ENPS newsroom system via MOS. |
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| OmniBus at the heart of NY1 |
| Excerpt: Using OmniBus' tight integration with Associated Press' ENPS newsroom system via the MOS protocol, the OmniBus control layer integrates the entire production process, controlling the ingest of raw material, editing at the desktop, media and asset management and playout. NY1 journalists who use the OmniBus Desktop Control frim within the ENPS environment have the ability to add graphics to their material via a WYSWIG interface to scripts. The Vertigo graphics builder, that is also available on ENPS, uses pre-defined templates that are rendered with a Pinnacle Deko graphics engine, allowing journalists to produce high-quality graphics packages. |
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| More broadcasters install ENPS |
| Excerpt: Indonesia's new station LATIVI has chosen Associated Press' electronic news production system (ENPS) for its news production. San Francisco's KTSF-TV, which serves the Asian population in the Bay area, has also installed an ENPS. Sweden's largest TV broadcaster TV4 has also opted for an ENPS system. |
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| Chyron's Lyric 3.1 |
| Excerpt: New from Chyron is the Lyric 3.1, with enhancements including MOS protocol, fast recall of Aprisa clips, dual-channel Aprisa support and 3D text mapping onto a 3D face. Lyric is the Windows NT graphics creation and playback software for Chyron's Duet graphics and animation system. Lyric 3.1 features MOS protocol: journalists can update Lyric templates from an AP-ENPS client works |
