NEWPORT BEACH, CA – June 20, 2014 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news production, management and delivery, announced today that Washington, DC station WTTG went live on Bitcentral CORE:news – a complete news production, media management, media sharing and archiving solution.
CORE:news is a modular production tool that combines content capture, editing, play out, publishing, collaboration and asset management into one complete system. Fox 46 will have the freedom and the tools to achieve more and reach further with their daily news programming.
CORE:news is 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 raw and finished content field-based workflow, “Reach” further with multi-platform publishing, and “Extend” their capabilities with raw media workflows that provide access to typically hidden and underutilized assets.
We’re excited partner with WTTG and would like to say Happy New Year, congratulations and thank you to their staff for their partnership throughout the implementation process!
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KTAZ Goes Live with Upgrade to CORE:news™
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – December 16, 2013 – Bitcentral, dedicated to open news delivery and the success of its partners, announced today that Phoenix, AZ station KTAZ went live on CORE:news – a complete production, media management, media sharing and media archiving solution. KTAZ runs programming from the Telemundo network in Phoenix, Arizona and is the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
Since CORE:news is a modular production tool that combines content capture, editing, play out, publishing, collaboration and asset management into one complete system, KTAZ will have the freedom and the tools to achieve more and reach further with their daily news programming.
Their upgrade to CORE:news gives KTAZ 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.
Now, everyone in the KTAZ newsroom 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 extend our partnership with KTAZ and would like to say congratulations and thank you to their staff for their partnership during the implementation project!
Hearst Television Selects Oasis™ to Manage and Archive News Content Group Wide
Newport Beach, CA – December 4, 2013 — Hearst Television Inc. has chosen Bitcentral’s Oasis to manage and archive its award winning news product. The announcement was made today by Rick Young, Vice President of Sales and Product Strategy at Bitcentral.
Enabled by Bitcentral’s Wellspring, stories will be automatically safeguarded in the cloud to ensure those assets will be available forever. While maintaining absolute Disaster Recovery security, the journalist, working from any location, has immediate access to all current and archived stories at any given moment.
“Oasis and Wellspring provide the perfect solution for our needs,” said Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects at Hearst Television. “We know our valuable news product is safe while providing the professionals in our newsrooms immediate access all from within their newsroom computer systems (ENPS) or even from the field. Content is always secured but, as important, it is always available when news breaks.”
Hearst will complete a corporate wide deployment of Oasis and Wellspring at its more than two dozen news-producing stations by the end of Q1 2014. This is in addition to the already standardized Bitcentral Precis deployment across the Hearst Television group.
“We are thrilled to work with industry news leaders like the team at Hearst,” Young said. “Hearst Television is a technology leader as well as a news leader, and is again guiding the way by deploying a unique architecture that leverages Bitcentral’s hybrid private and public cloud model. It is an honor to be trusted in their award winning newsrooms. Our CORE:news platform with Oasis is changing workflows and enabling collaboration in ways that no other vendor can empower while providing the utmost mission critical reliability that customers like Hearst Television demand.”
Additional information on Bitcentral’s suite of products is available online at es.bitcentral.com, via e-mail at sales@bitcentral.com or by calling (949) 253-9000.
ABOUT HEARST TELEVISION, INC. – Hearst Television, a national multi-media company, owns and operates 29 local television stations and two local radio stations, serving 30 U.S. cities and reaching approximately 18% of U.S. television households. The TV stations broadcast 60 video channels, featuring local and national news, weather, information, sports and entertainment programming, and local community service-oriented programs.
The stations also host and operate digital on-line and mobile platforms that extend the company’s brands and content to local, national and international audiences. Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry’s premier companies, and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. Hearst Televisi11on is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation. The Company’s Web address is www.hearsttelevision.com.
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!