NorCom Information Technology AG has gained a further customer for its NCPower Pro newsroom, planning and production system. An innovative new TV broadcaster based in Kempten, OUTPRO will be covering a wide range of outdoor activities when it goes live at the end of the year. It will be primarily offering high-quality reports, service-oriented contributions and exciting documentation for outdoor sports fans and Alpine lovers.

OUTPRO TV was looking for a media production solution containing all workflow components such as ingesting, research, scheduling, playing out and archiving while also being capable of processing video, audio, graphics and text files.

NorCom offers in NCPower Pro a long-term future-proof solution incorporating open standards meeting all of OUTPRO’s requirements and additionally permitting it to react flexibly to changes. All processes – including research, copy-writing and editing – can be performed. As well as this, the status of all contributions from the initial idea to scripts as well as broadcast scheduling and archiving can be monitored at all times. All tasks can be assigned electronically to internal and external, stationary and mobile staff and monitored efficiently. The NorCom solution is being installed on a total of 20 desks at OUTPRO. ‘We have set ourselves the goal of offering an innovative and cost-efficient solution by providing a suitable combination of editorial, technical and creative support,’ explains Viggo Nordbakk, CEO and founder of NorCom Information Technology AG.

OUTPRO is a special-interest broadcaster under the same management as Deutsches Anleger Fernsehen (DAF). After successfully installing NCPower Pro at the financial IPTV broadcaster DAF, NorCom has now additionally been awarded a contract for OUTPRO.

‘We are very pleased to have received the contract for OUTPRO as this confirms the strong trust being placed in NorCom’s NCPower Pro solution for this interesting project,’ adds Viggo Nordbakk. The decision-makers at OUTPRO were particularly taken with the open software architecture and platform independence. ‘The complete end-to-end integration of the Apple editing solution in NCPower Pro was one of the many strong arguments in favor of this product. Most of the systems which we looked at offered only individual standardized solutions. However, the integrated NorCom system contains everything that we were looking for,’
says Peter Rampp, Managing Director of OUTPRO TV GmbH.