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30 | ISSUE 2 2011 | THE CHANNEL
OPERATOR OR
NEWSREADER: NO
TV NEWS: YES
4SATA is a successful newspaper in Croatia, and it has
developed a full and vibrant web site to sit alongside and
complement its printed news offering. When the company
decided to launch a television channel to broaden its market
and enhance its range of information service delivery it set a
unique challenge to its delivery partners – to run a full 24
hour news channel that functions in a completely
automated way, without the need for any operators or newsreaders.
GRAPHICS
So Systems Integration company RoBaGo set out to put in place the
facility management of the channel, and to design a solution that allowed
the 24SATA editorial staff to create video content that could have automated
graphics linked to both the video clips and the company's web pages, that
could be scheduled and run automatically without operator intervention.
The result is an hourly looped news feed that is synchronised to the
updates to the web site, an automatic creation of new hourly looped news
schedules, text linked as graphics overlays to describe the content, breaking
news animations and updates, all created in a simple web based interface.
Each hour the 24SATA journalists review the video file content of the
news they are covering around Croatia. Using the web interface they type
up a description of the events much as you would do when creating a
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With a background in
information technology,
telecoms and broadcasting,
Mark Errington joined OASYS in
2005 to lead the re-structuring
and development of the
business. Today OASYS is a
leading supplier of IT-based
automated playout solutions for
all types of TV channels around
the world, including the BBC,
Doordarshan, TBN in South
Africa and Spain, TVN in Poland
and Spiegel in Germany, and
Mark is at the helm as CEO of
the ON-AIR Systems group. This
is his case study of a newspaper
launching a 24/7 news channel
without the need for operators
or newsreaders