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PRESS RELEASES
News
Release For
Immediate Release
Comprompter
Announces NewsKing “Caption Central” that handles all Three
types of Captioning Needs: NRCS, Typing and Voice Automation
La Crosse, WI
June 25, 2008
Comprompter, today announced a new product will
be joining their line of News and Automation Software. “Caption
Central”™ is designed to provide multiple Captioning
solutions for the local broadcaster. From sending out Captioning from
NewsRoom Computer Systems (NRCS), Keyboard Entry, and Voice Captioning.
Comprompter CEO, Ralph King said, ”We have been
working on Voice Recognition for Captioning for several years and even
showed a beta version at the last 2 NAB shows … but it just
didn’t quite keep up to the pace of a fast Anchor.”
“This year we switched to a
Microsoft Vista Platform for the voice module and that made all the
difference in the world”, King continued, “Caption Central is a
single touch-screen computer where one person can control all the
captioning from any newsroom system; or type in adlibs, or speak into the
headset Mic and the words are turned into text immediately”.
Caption
Central™ performs a context comparison and tries to select the most
appropriate word when a conflict arises over which spelling of that word
occurs. “Caption Central even does Spell-Checking and capitalizes proper names
of ‘people, places and things’ it recognizes.” King
added, “Caption Central is a standalone system
that can output captioning for our own NewsKing Newsroom system, or nearly
any other newsroom system we’ve tried so far.”
A unique USB-based
Audio Mixer allows a live studio voice, like weather or sports, to speak
directly into Caption Central and turn their unscripted words into
captioned text. “This is the most universal system of captioning that
exists in the broadcast market today and we are proud to offer our fellow
broadcasters the opportunity of really serving the hearing impaired
community in the most complete and instantaneous way possible.”
said King.
Caption Central™ is scheduled for release
1st Quarter of 2008.
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.
For more information contact:
Ralph King 608 785-7766 Ralph@comprompter.com
KBJR Upgrades NewsKing Server
Automation
Duluth, MN June 24, 2008
Comprompter, this week installed a New NewsKing Server specifically
designed to handle the workload of 6 major news outlets that cover the
entire Lake Superior and North Shore Region.
In 2007, KBJR TV owner, Granite Broadcasting Corporation, formed
“The Northland's NewsCenter” by combining several broadcast
properties in the Duluth/Superior region into a single broadcast facility.
Stations include: KBJR-TV (NBC), KRII-TV (NBC), KDLH-TV (CBS), KBJR-DT2
("My Network TV") and the market's cable-based CW channel.
The NewsKing NewsRoom and NewsCast system coupled with Digital Broadcast’ NewsBank
Video Production system facilitate more than 50 hours of local news
programming each week at “The Northland's NewsCenter”.
NewsKing provides the backbone for the complete end-to-end digital solution
featuring multi-channel Ingest and Playout, editing and networked storage
along with CG and Captioning output. This solution has allowed
“The Northland's NewsCenter” to work in a shared digital
network workflow environment that makes this kind of production
consolidation cost-effective and practical.
Clip Viewers are embedded inside of NewsKing so that Producers can
preview news clips from their workstations and Reporters can easily enter
the body copy of SOT’s and PKG’s for complete Closed
Captioning. NewsKing monitors and controls the playout of all video clips
and CG’s for each newscast.
The newest Server Technology will enhance and speed up production
capabilities even more.
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 Atlantic City to Hong Kong with newsroom and
automation systems along with auxiliary newsroom software for elections,
closings, and Internet Newscast Publishing. For more information visit: www.comprompter.com
About Digital Broadcast, Inc
DIGITAL BROADCAST offers a premier line of broadcast
program and news automation control products including master control
automation, newsroom automation, automated media delivery transference,
on-air verification, disaster recovery, archiving, and broadcast
centralization. Headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Digital Broadcast
maintains regional offices on the West Coast, Southwest, Midwest and the
East Coast. For more information visit: www.digitalbcast.com
For more information contact:
Barbara Reyelts
218-720-9600 breyelts@northlandsnewscenter.com
Ralph King 608
785-7766 ralph@comprompter.com
Caribbean Media Corporation Adds NewsKing
Automation
La Crosse, WI February 13, 2008
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.
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