March 29, 2005
India's Channel 7 JTV signs with AP for ENPS
Dainik Jagran Group, owner of India’s best-selling Hindi language newspaper, has selected ENPS, AP’s news production system, for its new 24-hour satellite news channel.
From the Channel 7 JTV newsroom in Film City, Noida, outside Delhi, ENPS will be used to cover national and international news, sports and weather, coordinating with a 25-bureau network and initially available to some 20 million homes. The system is linked with Leitch production servers, providing state-of-the-art editing, playlist construction and automation control.
"ENPS gives us flexibility," said Piyush Jain, Chief Operations Officer of the new channel, adding that Channel 7 JTV wanted to be competitive from the start. "ENPS provides efficient tools for planning and allows us to publish stories quickly."
As a publishing concern moving into television news, Channel 7 JTV considered the track record of ENPS in other successful 24-hour news channels. With new continuous content rundowns, ENPS workflow is even more streamlined, allowing a single running order to drive non-stop programming.
Strong language support was key, and Channel 7 JTV users will be able to write scripts in both Hindi and English.
Channel 7 JTV will also use ENPS to publish stories to the Internet and wireless platforms. The ENPS Publishing system can format content for the Web, cell phones and PDAs, including video and audio clips pulled from MOS-enabled servers. Tightly integrated with ENPS, this functionality helps efficiently extend on-air brands to additional media platforms.
AP's news production systems are the most widely adopted in the world, and ENPS is now used by more than 40,000 reporters, writers, editors and producers in more than 500 television, radio and network newsrooms in 48 countries.
Powerful ENPS features include management of running orders, planning, contacts, messaging, news wires, third-party device control, scripting in almost any language, no-compromise remote access capabilities for field staff, and one-of-a-kind Briefing functions that make it easy to access any and all material in connected systems. AP's ongoing development efforts promote open standards, including the Media Object Server (MOS) protocol, for communication with and integration of video and audio servers, desktop audio and video browsers and editors, character generators, still stores and other news production equipment.