 Grass Valley NewsEdit workstation. |
As the latest example of small and medium market TV stations migrating to digital news production, two Hubbard stations have both upgraded their news departments’ production capabilities. The local affiliates WNYT-TV (NBC), in Albany, NY, and KAAL-TV (ABC), in Austin, MN, have installed Digital News Production (DNP) systems from Grass Valley. The new equipment supports both stations’ analog and digital channels.
WNYT purchased a total of seven NewsEdit NLEs for use at the station in Albany. The station also bought three M-Series iVDR units, one for ingest activities and two more for automated playout (for four channels of live playout and to provide redundancy). A Grass Valley Ingest Station and redundant NewsQ Pro automated playback systems with 110 hours of NAS have also been installed.
In order to facilitate cuts-only editing at the reporters’ and producers’ desktop, WNYT-TV also purchased 15 NewsEdit editing and review-station licenses that will be loaded onto existing PCs throughout the newsroom. WNYT is using the Grass Valley equipment to produce about 27 hours of news programming per week.
Following a similar migration path to WNYT, KAAL-TV purchased three NewsEdit SC systems, a NewsQ Pro and NAS system, and two M-Series iVDRs.
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