Grass Valley Digital News Production Solutions From Thomson Are The Worldwide Choice for the Move to HD News
More Stations Choose Tightly Integrated Grass Valley HD Editing Environment Than Any Other
This includes Al Jazeera English, and stations across the U.S. in major markets such as the CBS owned and operated stations in Philadelphia (KYW) and Los Angeles (KCBS) and ABC owned and operated stations such as Los Angeles' KABC, all of which have selected Grass Valley Aurora Digital News Production for their full HD news transition.
In some major markets, it's a clean sweep for Grass Valley Digital News Production solutions. For instance, virtually every station in San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland market such as KGO (ABC affiliate), KTVU (Fox affiliate), KNTV/KSTS (NBC/Telemundo affiliate), and KRON (independent) have based their HD newscasts on Grass Valley HD news production solutions.
In fact, the majority of major market U.S. broadcasters who have transitioned to HD news production have done so with Grass Valley solutions.
As further proof of the company's significant impact on the industry and HD worldwide, nearly two-thirds of the tapeless HD news production systems on order from local stations and 80 percent of systems now in place among stations that are natively acquiring HD images in the field and distributing news content are based on Grass Valley Aurora Edit and K2 Media Server and Client Systems from Thomson.
Some stations, including KABC-DT in Los Angeles, are taking even greater advantage of Grass Valley's unmatched end-to-end news workflow systems by adding Ignite control room automation to the mix. Ignite is now tightly integrated with the Aurora production suite through the powerful Aurora Playout server control application. An Ignite operator can now "see" all the way back into the newsroom, to the point of being able to tell if editing has started on a piece required for the broadcast.
"Grass Valley digital news production [DNP] systems continue to gain favor with broadcasters looking for a reliable and cost-effective migration path to HD local news," said Jeff Rosica, Senior Vice President, Broadcast and Professional Solutions for the Grass Valley business within Thomson. "The fact that major customers around the world have converted to Grass Valley DNP solutions illustrates the value and universal appeal of the Aurora News systems and the K2 Media Server for developing news content quickly and getting it to air."
Al Jazeera English, the first global network to go full HD, is on the air in four locations on three continents (Qatar, London, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington, DC) with a digital HD news production system from Grass Valley, built around Aurora and K2.
Broadcasters have also commissioned the complete Grass Valley Aurora suite of products, which includes Aurora Ingest, Aurora Browse, and Aurora Playout, in a tightly integrated, fast-paced workflow design to speed content to air.
In addition, KGO in San Francisco is also planning an Aurora upgrade and will integrate the system with the two Ignite HD production control systems currently in place.
At KRON, the news department there in San Francisco is now working on multiple Grass Valley EDIUS craft editing workstations to develop its long-form and on-air content in a shared-storage environment. The system provides an easy and cost-effective solution that was implemented quickly.
About Grass Valley Digital News Production Systems and the Aurora Suite of Products
The winners in the toughest ratings fights have one thing in common: Grass Valley digital news production systems. They're installed at the leading station groups in the top five U.S. markets—and at leading news outlets worldwide. These highly scalable and integrated systems are designed from the ground up to provide the fastest path from lens to viewer.
The Grass Valley suite of DNP products fit into a complete workflow that spans acquisition, production, and playout. They include feed capture (Aurora Ingest), nonlinear editing (Aurora Edit), browsing (Aurora Browse), playback (Aurora Playout), server and storage (Aurora Share and K2), and archiving solutions (Aurora Browse).
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