August 1, 2003
More US broadcasters choose the power of ENPS
Thirty more newsrooms have selected AP’s ENPS as their new news production system, joining almost 500 others in recognizing the innovation, flexibility and reliability that have made ENPS the choice of broadcasters around the world. The latest additions to the list include three ABC television network affiliates, five CBS affiliates, a dozen NBC affiliates, two PBS affiliates and three cable channels.
Some of America’s most respected station groups are taking advantage of the power of ENPS to create multi-station enterprises. Adding KHNL-TV, Honolulu, Hawaii, WECT-TV, Wilmington, N.C., and WPBN-TV/WTOM-TV Traverse City, Mich., 20 Raycom Media stations are now connected with ENPS. Hearst-Argyle Television has linked WGAL-TV, Lancaster, Pa., to its nationwide 22-site 'virtual newsroom'; Media General Broadcast Group has installed its third ENPS system at WCBD-TV, Charleston, S.C.; and KMTV-TV, Omaha, Neb., is the 12th EMMIS station using ENPS.
In addition, Time Warner Cable trusted ENPS to help power its newest 24-hour cable news operations in Houston and San Antonio, Tex., as well as its new Spanish news channel in New York City. ENPS is now part of eight Time Warner news and sports channels.
Other recent ENPS installations include KCEN-TV, Temple, Tex.; KNOE-TV, Monroe, La.; KSBY-TV, San Luis Obispo, Cal. (SJL); KVIA-TV, El Paso, Tex. (News-Press & Gazette); WCYB-TV, Bristol, Va. (Lamco); WJAC-TV, Johnstown, Pa. (Cox); WJRT-TV, Flint, Mich. (ABC); WMDT-TV, Salisbury, Md.; WPMI-TV, Mobile, Ala. (Clear Channel); the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, Oklahoma City, Okla.; PGA Tour Productions, St. Augustine, Fla.; and the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
ENPS has also been installed in television newsrooms in Columbus (Ohio), Indianapolis, and the West Virginia cities of Clarksburg, Huntington, and Wheeling, and has been selected by Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y.; Syracuse University's Newhouse School, Syracuse, N.Y.; and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
Designed by and for broadcast journalists, ENPS is a fit for all types of demanding news production environments, with powerful, easy-to-use features include scripting, rundowns, planning, contacts, messaging, archiving, third-party device control, news wire management, remote access capabilities for field staff, and the industry's only fully-integrated search engine.
More than 50 products from 32 companies now integrate with ENPS via the MOS protocol, and the ability of ENPS to connect journalists with a variety of resources and systems is transforming the traditional news production process.
"ENPS gives stations and networks important advantages as they work to provide even more innovative news and information programming for diverse audiences without technological distractions," said Lee Perryman, Deputy Director of AP's Broadcast division and Director of Broadcast Technology. "Our aggressive, non-stop development efforts and close cooperation with dozens of other vendors of newsroom systems and products are unmatched."
ENPS DNA powers extensions to the base news production system, including SNAPfeed, which enables field video feeds from laptop computers directly into ENPS and to compatible play-to-air video servers, and ENPS Stats, an election statistics and reporting system that drives character generators and Web pages with up-to-the-minute election results.
Newly-integrated publishing features allow formatting of content for the Internet, wireless PDAs, mobile phones and print systems. By far the most advanced set of such features offered in a broadcast newsroom computer system, output of text and media content can be customized for internal users, reporters and producers in the field, and the public.
AP provides technology for many of the world’s largest and most demanding broadcasters, and the ENPS system is now used by more than 43,000 reporters, writers, editors and producers in 42 countries.