PRESS RELEASE
Comprompter’s Tapeless Newsroom System
La
Crosse, WI
Comprompter News and Automation recently
installed CG and Digital Video to the NewsKing Newsroom system at CMC’
headquarters in Barbados, West Indies. Utilizing very cost effective systems
from Compix Media and Video Technics, the new automation will dramatically
increase the News and other Programming output locally and throughout the
Caribbean. CMC recently contracted to provide Caribbean-oriented programs for a
series of cable companies in the U.S. as well.
CMC Chief Engineer, Garcia Thornhill
stated, ”We have
been working with Comprompter in our newsroom since 1997 … and when it came
time to step up to a new level of productivity, Comprompter again offered the
greatest value and the greatest amount of both News and Production Automation.”
Ralph King, Comprompter CEO, said, ”In order to meet the
new technology and production demands of entering the U.S. market, CMC has time-shifted
from analog to digital in a remarkably short time. With the show preparation
and presentation automation of NewsKing, there normal workload will ease in
itself … and given the transportability of our automation from one show to
another, CMC will be able to produce nearly twice as many shows with
essentially the same staff.”
NewsKing
will generate graphics on a Compix 500 with 1 channel for news and the second
for a lower third crawl. A pair of Video Technics Apella Servers in a NewsFlow
configuration will provide the news and commercial content play out.
Workstation editing and browsing allow multi-user nonlinear show preparation to
occur throughout the facility on simultaneous shows.
About
Caribbean Media Corporation
The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) is a Barbados-based
centralized content-provider formed in June 2000, through the merger of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and
the Caribbean News Agency (CanaNews).
Launched
in August 2006, “CaribVision” is a U.S. distribution joint venture between
CMC-Barbados and Soundview Broadcasting-NY.
About
Comprompter News and Automation
Comprompter
is a La Crosse, Wisconsin based company specializing in news and automation
software for the broadcast and cable industry and services clients from
worldwide with newsroom and automation systems along with auxiliary newsroom
software for elections, closings, Internet newscast publishing, and close
captioning.