Category: Core News

Bitcentral Concludes Annual Advisory Board Meeting

Each Year Bitcentral hosts its board meeting to bring together some of the greatest minds in the broadcast world to discuss what is currently going on and what the future will bring for the ever changing newsroom workflow.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – October 3, 2013 – Bitcentral, a media technology innovator of news content production, distribution, aggregation and publishing solutions has concluded its annual Advisory Board meetings. The Bitcentral Advisory Board is comprised of senior level executives representing Bitcentral’s Broadcast and Network customers. The session was held for two days in Newport Beach, CA and covered topics related to the current broadcast landscape, recent changes, future opportunities and overall broadcast workflow efficiencies.

Bitcentral Advisory Board members represent many of the largest and most forward-looking Broadcasters and Networks in the world. Included on the Advisory Board are executives from Hearst Television, Gannett, Media General, Raycom Media, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Bonten Media Group, Meredith, CNN, and KSL-TV.

“We are fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with these industry visionaries on a regular basis,” said Fred Fourcher, CEO of Bitcentral. “Their guidance is invaluable when it comes to helping us define how best to enhance CORE:news and our other solutions to meet their evolving needs and meet the growing opportunities in today’s changing media landscape.”

Additional information on Bitcentral’s suite of products is available at sales@bitcentral.com or (949) 253-9000.

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2013 A Record Breaking Year for Bitcentral’s Oasis

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – September 23, 2013 – Oasis, the media industry’s only solution for comprehensive news archiving, asset management, field-based workflows and collaboration, has reached another major milestone. Over 400,000 stories were moved between news production facilities. Millions more have been securely deposited at 175 locations around the world.

Oasis is built on a flexible industry exclusive hybrid private and public cloud model that enables organizations to leverage the power of access to raw and finished stories and archives with bureaus and partner newsrooms around the world. With simple right from the box readiness, a typical full system launch is possible in just two days. The proven simplicity of the solution allows more locations to go live on a regular basis.

Reaching this year’s milestones is due to many factors. “We have built a solution that journalists love,” said Rick Young, VP of Sales and Product Strategy for Bitcentral. “We deliver all the tools they need, in their hands, from within their familiar newsroom production environment. But, even more than that, we empower them to virtually collaborate from the field on laptops and mobile devices, with other facilities and with partner organizations in methods that just are not available, affordably, in any other way.”

Oasis allows for tight integration with the industry’s leading newsroom computer systems like AP ENPS and Avid iNews. Video, scripts and metadata move in unison throughout the production process. Oasis breaks down production silos by enabling discovery of critical raw, works in progress and finished assets.

For more information on Oasis and all of Bitcentral’s CORE:news modules, send us an email at sales@bitcentral.com or call (949) 253-9000 to speak with our team now.

To see the complete Oasis 2013 sharing infographic click the graphic.

WTMJ Goes Live with Upgrade to CORE:news™

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – July 25th, 2013 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news delivery and the success of its partners, announced today that Milwaukee, WI station WTMJ went live on CORE:news – a complete production, media management, media sharing and media archiving solution. WTMJ is a member of Journal Broadcast Group and the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, WI.

CORE:news is a modular production tool that combines content capture, editing, play out, publishing, collaboration and asset management into one complete system that empowers newsrooms to achieve more and reach further with their daily news programming.

WTMJ’s upgrade to CORE gives them a complete News Production tool to “Collaborate” on project-based production including immediate logging and editing access to live and file-based sources, “Originate” unique content with a concise field-based workflow with finished and raw content acquisition via browser or iOS/Android mobile devices, “Reach” further with multi-platform publishing, and “Extend” their capabilities with raw media workflows that provide access to previously hidden and underutilized assets.

In terms of value, it is no longer a question of “what platform does WTMJ publish to first?” Now, everyone in the Journal Broadcast Group on Bitcentral has access to the same sources no matter the file type (video, audio, images, documents), everyone can participate in the process, everyone can prep content for air and publish everywhere all at the same time.

We’re excited to partner with WTMJ and would like to say congratulations to their staff and say thank you for their partnership during the implementation project!

KTVM Upgrades to Precis 4™ and adds Oasis™

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – July 11, 2013 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news delivery and the success of its partners, announced today that Butte / Bozeman, MT station KTVM went live with their upgraded Bitcentral’s Precis™ news production and playout solution and a brand new implementation of Oasis for archiving, sharing and asset management. KTVM is a member of the Bonten Media Group and the NBC affiliate in Butte / Bozeman, MT.

Bitcentral’s Precis is the most efficient, production system available to news professionals today. Precis brings four channels of playout and unprecedented MOS workflow integration and efficiency to newsrooms. Precis integrates with best-of-breed solutions to meet simultaneous production needs for broadcast, online and mobile with the scalability to meet the ever-growing number of delivery platforms.

Precis customers have flexibility to choose from world-class technology brands, such as Adobe’s Premiere® Pro for full craft editing or Bitcentral’s browser editor Create, which allows newsrooms to do more with the resources they have. AP’s ENPS and Avid’s iNews are tightly integrated allowing for choice among the most popular newsroom computer systems.

Oasis’ sophisticated Asset Management will allow KTVM to automatically archive and share seamlessly and it will grow with their needs. Oasis shares over 6 million news stories annually with that number steadily increasing each year. The flexibility of Oasis has allowed the launch of a new weekly TV news show utilizing shared content and substantially improved the quality of unique content delivered to local markets. Oasis will empower everyone at KTVM to access, share and move stories over existing bandwidth without traditional time-consuming and expensive linear feeds.

Their new workflow goes beyond the newsroom and extends content creation out into the field. KTVM Journalists can see and use all of the station’s content from wherever they are and remotely contribute their packages back to the station.

We’re excited to partner with KTVM and would like to say congratulations and thank you to the staff for their partnership during the implementation project!

KMTV Goes Live with CORE:news™!

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – May 31, 2013 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news delivery and the success of its partners, announced today that Omaha, NE station KMTV went live on the Bitcentral’s CORE – a complete news production, media management, media sharing and media archiving solution. KMTV is a member of Journal Broadcast Group and the CBS affiliate in Omaha, NE.

CORE:news is a modular production tool that combines content capture, editing, play out, publishing, collaboration and asset management into one complete system that empowers newsrooms to achieve more and reach further with their daily news programming. If you haven’t seen the magic of the new CORE platform, schedule a demonstration to learn how this new system will speed your production process and help you achieve more, in less time, than ever before.

We’re excited to partner with KMTV and would like to say congratulations to their staff and say thank you for their partnership during the implementation project!

Bitcentral Wins 2013 “STAR” Award From Editors of TV Technology

LAS VEGAS, NV – April 10, 2013 – Bitcentral’s CORE:news is the recipient of the 2013 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award presented by the editorial staff of TV Technology magazine at the 2013 NAB Show.

If you are at NAB, stop by Booth SL4620 to see a demonstration of CORE:news before the show ends tomorrow.

Now celebrating its 13th anniversary, TV Technology’s STAR Award is designed to honor and showcase the outstanding technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. A panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors, columnists and industry experts reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then submitted their award nominees.

“The NAB Show serves as the launching pad for thousands of new products and services for audio and video professionals,” said Tom Butts, TV Technology Editor-in-Chief. “Our panel of judges walk the show floor in search of the most innovative technologies. The products and services that we select for the STAR Award make the cut, demonstrating their ability to help advance the acquisition and distribution of entertainment and information across the media spectrum.”

TV Technology (www.tvtechnology.com) is the industry’s leading magazine for technology news and reviews and is celebrating its 30th year covering the television industry. The magazine is published by NewBay Media LLC, the world’s largest publisher of audio and video publications.

CORE:news gives news teams and station groups all of the tools necessary for creative collaboration—including video ingest, logging, content sharing, editing, asset management, and playlist or rundown-driven playout—in one integrated, efficient, unified production environment. Since CORE:news is Project-Centric, media assets and projects flow smoothly through this logical, efficient end-to-end workflow. This maximizes the most valuable TV news resource—time. There are many ways that CORE:news saves news professionals time and drives more content to more platforms including:

  • Live feeds that can be scheduled in advance and journalists can start viewing, logging, and speed cutting that live footage—even push it to air—while the event is still unfolding
  • All story components—notes, logs, metadata, raw video, rough cuts, and more—can easily be versioned and repurposed
  • Remote and field-based workflows enabled by laptops, tablets, iOS or Android devices and cloud-powered configurations break down workflow barriers previously experienced by remote journalists
  • Capture, Create, Publish and Manage assets and projects with ease, never worrying if you’re using the right type of file format, video codec, media player, or other technical issue that used to hamper productivity
  • Enhanced and robust support for MOS (Media Object Server) framework ensures seamless integration with the most popular newsroom computer systems and production control room equipment

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by TV Technology for our contribution to Broadcast workflow efficiency and advancement with CORE. I am so proud of this team, whose vision and execution made this great solution possible. We are focused on delivering new solutions for our customers and our entire company is proud of this recognition,” said Fred Fourcher, CEO of Bitcentral.”

To see CORE:news in action, stop by the Bitcentral booth SL4620 before show close tomorrow and the Bitcentral team will be happy to show you what all of the buzz in about.

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NAB 2013 – Bitcentral Unveils New Cloud Distribution Platform for Video Producing Brands and Organizations

Please visit Bitcentral at its NAB 2013 Booth SL 4620 to learn more about how to reach your audience.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – April 9, 2013 – Bitcentral announces a new open media distribution platform powered by Oasis. This service from Bitcentral enables the world’s leading brands and video producing organizations to reach global editorial decision makers via a powerful cloud-based delivery platform.

Today, Oasis reaches 1,200 media outlets and some 40,000 producers and editorial decision makers around the world.

The service automatically packages video, audio, images, documents and supporting script information into broadcast and multiplatform ready bundles. Content is made available to broadcasters and publishers in a broad array of video types. The following are all supported at launch: SD, HD, NTSC, PAL and multiplatform ready versions.

Rick Young, VP of Sales and Product Strategy says, “We are excited to make our Oasis platform, which is used today by the biggest networks and broadcast groups, available to the world’s best brands and organizations.  Reaching the right audience with the right message is critical for the success of any brand. And for news producers, this service provides a high quality pool of rights-cleared content that is ready to use.”

Flexible pricing options are available making the service perfect for the world’s largest brands and media organizations down to small non-profits looking for a way to reach media decision makers.

Bitcentral at its NAB booth, SL4620, will demonstrate Oasis and will have a team ready to answer any questions about how organizations can reach the largest global audience. Contact Lourdes Bennington at lbennington@bitcentral.com to schedule a meeting.

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3 Stations Go Live With Bitcentral in The Last 24 Hours

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – April 3, 2013 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news delivery and the success of its partners, announced today that 3 stations have gone live in the last 24 hours, one of which is the first installation of their CORE:news production system.

Fred Fourcher, CEO of Bitcentral shares his thoughts about this marathon of stations, “I am excited about all the stations moving to Bitcentral’s news production solutions and today was a record with three stations going live. Today is also special because our first station utilizing our new CORE software went live. CORE combines acquisition, editing, asset management, play out and archiving into a streamlined workflow unlike anything else out there. We enable stations to produce news in ways never before possible while making most of their content across all platforms. Bitcentral is known for streamlined and efficient news production and our new CORE software takes this to an entirely new level. Please come see us at NAB and learn more about what CORE and the Bitcentral suite of products can do for your news organization.”

Of the stations that went live today, the company announced this morning that Evansville, IN station WFIE went live on the Bitcentral’s Precis™ news production and playout solution, adding to that event is Jonesboro, AR station KAIT that went live on Precis™ this afternoon as well. The most exciting news of the day and perfect as the company heads to the NAB trade show in Las Vegas is that the city’s very own station KSNV went live with CORE:news – a complete news production, media management, media sharing and media archiving solution.

Over the next several weeks, look for more in the series of Go-Live events from Bitcentral.

If you find yourself heading to Las Vegas for the NAB excitement, stop by the South Lower Hall, booth SL4620 and see CORE in action. If you would like to schedule an appointment, click here and book it while you can.

Bitcentral Demonstrates CORE Creative Collaboration for Multi-Platform Workflows

See Bitcentral’s CORE:news platform at the 2013 NAB Show, Booth SL4620

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – April 2, 2013 – Bitcentral, a leading provider of tools for media content creation, management, and distribution, announced that its revolutionary CORE:news is designed for today’s biggest newsroom challenge: managing pools of media assets of all types to develop multiple versions of news stories for fast delivery across multiple platforms.

Next week, at the 2013 NAB Show, from April 8-11 in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Bitcentral will demonstrate how CORE:news gives news teams and station groups all of the tools necessary for creative collaboration—including video ingest, logging, content sharing, editing, asset management, and playlist or rundown-driven playout—in one integrated, efficient, unified production environment.

“CORE:news understands and supports today’s file-based, multi-platform TV news workflow,” says Fred Fourcher, Founder and CEO of Bitcentral, “Anyone on the team—whether they working at a desk or out in the field—can focus on what they want to do and create, not the underlying technical processes that make it happen. This means they can work intuitively and truly collaborate with each other in an unprecedented way.”

Since CORE:news is Project-Centric, media assets and projects flow smoothly through this logical, efficient end-to-end workflow. This maximizes the most valuable TV news resource—time. There are many ways that CORE:news saves news professionals time and drives more content to more platforms including:

  • Live feeds that can be scheduled in advance and journalists can start viewing, logging, and speed cutting that live footage—even push it to air—while the event is still unfolding
  • All story components—notes, logs, metadata, raw video, rough cuts, and more—can easily be versioned and repurposed
  • Remote and field-based workflows enabled by laptops, tablets, iOS or Android devices and cloud-powered configurations break down workflow barriers previously experienced by remote journalists
  • Capture, Create, Publish and Manage assets and projects with ease, never worrying if you’re using the right type of file format, video codec, media player, or other technical issue that used to hamper productivity
  • Enhanced and robust support for MOS (Media Object Server) framework ensures seamless integration with the most popular newsroom computer systems and production control room equipment

At the 2013 NAB Show, top Bitcentral executives including John King, Vice President of Engineering Services, and Rick Young, Vice President of Product Strategy will demonstrate CORE:news’ features and benefits in the theater at the center of its booth, SL4620, with presentations running at regular intervals during each of the exhibit days. To schedule a personalized demonstration, please complete our online form, or send an email to Lourdes Bennington at lbennington@bitcentral.com. Let us show you how CORE:news can be a valuable asset to your particular news workflow.

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Bitcentral Introduces CORE:news™ for Broadcast News Creation, Asset Management, and Multi-Platform Workflows

See Bitcentral’s new CORE platform at The 2013 NAB Show, Booth SL4620

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – March 23, 2013 – Bitcentral, a leading provider of tools for media content creation, management, and distribution, announced that its revolutionary CORE:news solution will debut at the 2013 NAB Show, taking place from April 6-11 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

To develop CORE:news, Bitcentral integrated its individual modules, in use across U.S. TV stations, into a single unified, secure, user-friendly Web-based production environment designed to boost collaboration, sharing, and productivity.

At the 2013 NAB Show, top Bitcentral executives including John King, Vice President of Engineering Services, and Rick Young, Vice President of Product Strategy will be on-hand to demonstrate CORE:news’ features and benefits in the theater at the center of its booth, SL4620, with presentations running at regular intervals during each of the exhibit days. For a personalized demonstration tailored to your business workflow you can schedule time now here.

Fred Fourcher, Founder and CEO of Bitcentral said, “With the pressure to handle a deluge of incoming media from camera crews, satellite feeds, news services, and User Generated Content (UGC), today’s broadcasters have been asking for a faster, more streamlined, more cost-effective way to produce compelling news stories for live newscasts, as well as for the desktop, mobile, and social media outlets they now serve.”

With CORE:news, journalists, producers, and other news team members now have all the tools they need to deliver compelling media-rich news stories right at their fingertips,” said Fourcher. “While CORE:news leverages our proven technology and expertise, it offers a fresh, open approach to news production that promotes greater creative collaboration, sharing, and productivity.

With CORE:news, content producers do not have to change environments to tackle all of the vital tasks related to content creation, management, and delivery. Whether they’re working in the newsroom or from remote locations, news teams can access the following tools within this comprehensive, end-to-end workflow:

  • CAPTURE: Ingests raw video in native formats, live feeds, file-based sources or recordings from cameras, even UGC from consumer video cameras and smart phones (powered by Bitcentral Media Encoders).
  • CREATE: Enables time code-based proxy rough cutting of file-based and live content (powered by the Create engine).
  • PUBLISH: Manages all aspects of rundowns and playlists, publishing to multiple platforms, and bi-directional MOS (Media Object Server) protocol integration with newsroom systems (powered by Precis).
  • ASSET MANAGEMENT: Provides management and advanced search tools for video, audio, stills, documents, and other media assets from capture to archive whether it’s on-site, near-line, in cloud storage, or in media vaults (powered by Oasis and Wellspring).
  • At any point in the CORE:news workflow, users have access to utilities, such as HD/SD-SDI media encoders, media players for preview, content creation and confidence monitoring, as well as tools for asset search, management, and deep archive. NLE plugins interface CORE:news with popular nonlinear editing (NLE) systems like Adobe Premiere, Grass Valley Edius and Final Cut Pro.

Bitcentral at its NAB booth, SL4620, will also have CORE:news demonstration kiosks where prospective customers can see personalized demos custom tailored to their particular workflow needs and concerns. To schedule your personalized CORE:news demo, please complete our online form, call Lourdes Bennington at (949) 417-4112 before April 1st. After April 1st, please email Lourdes at lbennington@bitcentral.com to schedule. Demo sessions are limited so please schedule your appointment early.

Fourcher goes on to say, “We’re very excited about the prospects for CORE:news and based on the experience of our initial customers, we know the contribution it’s already making to faster, better news production workflows. The new CORE platform is now the foundation that Bitcentral will build on going forward. Our plan is to develop other CORE products tailored to sports, education, law enforcement, military/defense, and any other market that needs to capture, edit, manage, and deliver large pools and archives of video content.”

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