newsrooms

Tribune Broadcasting recently reversed its policy of reticence when it comes to discussing technology, and what a story the station group has to tell. Motivated by a desire to shrink its tech spending dramatically and shed costly maintenance contracts, Hank Hundemer, Tribune SVP of engineering (above), launched an ambitious engineering project to create and maintain a homebrew newsroom system and master control that the group began to deploy in 2008.

The Weather Co. is introducing major enhancements to its Max Engage solution for news stations, which will now include the power of IBM Watson, a cognitive digital solution. Using Watson […]

This year had a record number of entries representing a wide variety of project scopes, design styles and locations with a panel of seven industry experts judging the competition sponsored by NewscastStudio. Winners in each category scored the highest combined points total, based on our judging criteria of overall visual aesthetics, flexibility of the design, use of technology and creative use of perceived budget. Honorable mentions scored within 10 percent of the top finisher in each category.

Content management systems are being enlisted to tackle newsroom workflow problems and the proliferation of fake news in a fast-evolving industry. In a new special report, Angela Misri looks at how CMS-level content verification has come into play, along with the increasing demand to produce platform-neutral content and why some media companies, including Al Jazeera and Hearst Television, have chosen to build their own CMSs.

ChyronHego | Booth SL1210 | Website: www.chyronhego.com  Launched only a year ago, ChyronHego’s CAMIO Universe is transforming news operations as broadcasters continue to migrate to all-software environments and standard off-the-shelf […]

TV newsrooms create news content for much more than their newscasts these days. Social media, mobile and digital are just as important in reaching viewers as TV newscasts as the public increasingly relies on these distribution platforms. Even while vendors of newsroom computer systems race to transform their systems for use in news operations where the story, not the linear rundown, is the centerpiece of the workflow, a couple of companies are suggesting it’s too late, and it’s time for the NRCS to go the way of the IBM Selectric. Click here to access TVNewsCheck’s NAB 2017 Resource Guide listing of NRCS vendors and products or here to download it as a PDF.

For the second year, TVNewsCheck is augmenting its coverage of NAB Show Hot Topics tech trends stories with information that can make your visit to the NAB Show easier. This week’s focus […]

The same augmented reality technology that makes Snapchat filters and Pokemon Go addictive can transform TV broadcasts into captivating experiences that engross your audience. AR superimposes digital images or text on live video in real time. The use of this technology allows broadcasters to explain and tell stories in entirely new ways, and it couldn’t be more needed.

Spurned by NBC, which wanted to own its own station in the market, now-independent WHDH Boston has responded by offering 87 hours of local news a week. (Plus Family Feud.)

Producing the most news in Boston has come at a cost after Sunbeam’s WHDH lost its NBC affiliation on Jan. 1. Since then, WHDH has covered at least three breaking news events with expanded coverage — a winter snowstorm; the airport shooting in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and the Presidential Inauguration. With the special coverage and the expanded newscasts, news crews have been required to work six day work weeks and double shifts.

Scripps-owned Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV was the social leader for the market according to data from Share Rocket.

It’s a neck-and-neck race for Nextstar’s KARK (NBC) and Tegna’s KTHV (CBS) in Little  Rock, Ark., where the former holds a razor-thin lead on social media performance according to Shareablee data. Both outlets explain that Facebook Live is a key emerging tool in stoking engagement and powering their performance.

Stations are looking for content management systems and workflow solutions that will help their newsroom managers wrangle and organize content created at their stations for both linear and digital, as well as user-generated content from social media. And the speed required to post stories quickly on station digital platforms, coupled with the need to always be generating video to go with them, has spurred an evolution in portable transmission equipment

Technology leaders from Hearst, Fox, Gray Television and Nexstar discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by recent advancements in automation and robotics technologies. Among the advancements that are improving station newscasts are templated graphics, consistent newsroom editing, consistent studio lighting and multifunctional workstations.