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VertigoXmedia Collaborates With Major Broadcast Technology Companies to Re-Launch NY1
URL(s): http://ny1.com
MONTREAL, Jan 28, 2002 -- VertigoXmedia, ( www.vertigoxmedia.com), a leading provider of content automation and
graphics solutions for broadcast television, the Internet, interactive TV (iTV), and wireless devices, today announced that it has collaborated with three
major broadcasting technology companies to re-launch NY1 News on Monday, January 28, 2002. NY1 News is the first of Time Warner Cable's six
new 24-hour local news channels to implement the new digital technology, which streamlines newsroom operations down to a single platform. Time
Warner Cable owns and manages the most advanced cable television operations in the country and has a reach of more than 12.7 million customers.
VertigoXmedia's "Producer On Air" Suite is involved in every step of the content automation process, offering a complete set of applications for
automatically creating, controlling and managing content across multiple media channels. Its Template Builder allowed Time Warner Cable designers to
create sophisticated graphics styles that could be quickly and easily applied at each individual facility; the Graphic Builder module was integrated into
Associated Press' Electronic News Production System (ENPS) via the Omnibus Automation System Desktop Control, allowing journalists to recall
pre-made templates and insert relevant text. Used in conjunction with Omnibus and Pinnacle's systems, VertigoXmedia's graphic pages can now be
automatically updated with up-to-the-second information coming from live data feeds, such as financial data, breaking headlines and weather alerts. The
resulting graphic pages are then assembled into playlists to be sent to air with VertigoXmedia's Playout Manager.
"Time Warner Cable's re-launch of NY1 establishes a new benchmark for innovation in news production. We are very pleased to have our 'Producer
On Air' suite of products play a role in the realization of this ultra-modern facility and look forward to having our technology be the standard for other
newsroom systems in the future," states Roi Agneta, COO of VertigoXmedia.
"Time Warner Cable has always striven to make technology invisible to journalists so that they can produce a better news product. By using
VertigoXmedia's 'Producer On Air' integrated with Associated Press' ENPS, Pinnacle, and Omnibus systems, producers and journalists are now able
to create better news content via WYSIWYG templates from the Vertigo Graphic Builder. They can also search for all of the images on our database
and insert them into those templates and can also select names of anchors and political officials, for example, from a pick list that reduces spelling
errors. Additionally, producers and journalists now have the ability to insert information from data feeds into the final output via commands inserted in
the ENPS rundown," states Harlan Neugeboren, Senior Director of Engineering and Technology for Time Warner Cable.
About VertigoXmedia
VertigoXmedia ( www.vertigoxmedia.com) is a leading developer and provider of content automation and broadcast graphics solutions for live
television, the Internet, interactive television and wireless devices. The company's technology and creative services provide users with a solution that
allows broadcast graphics, streaming video and interactive content to be automated and shared across all media channels. This enables producers of
television programs and new media to quickly produce compelling content for any delivery medium. VertigoXmedia has provided content automation
and graphics support for numerous high profile live television events including the 2000 Presidential elections, the 2000 World Series, and Super Bowl
XXXIII. VertigoXmedia's clients include Time Warner Cable, NBC, CNBC, CNN and other leading broadcasters around the world.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable owns and manages the most advanced, best-clustered cable television operations in the country, with more that 90% of its more
that 12.8 million customers in systems serving 100,000 subscribers or more. Time Warner is a pioneer in the dynamic cable industry-bringing the digital
age into America's living rooms and transforming the way Americans receive information and entertainment. Time Warner Cable is solidifying its
technological leadership through the digital upgrade of its systems and the introduction of such innovative services as Road Runner(TM), its jointly
owned high-speed online service.
About NY1 News
NY1 News, a division of Time Warner Cable is available to more than 2 million subscribers on Channel 1 on the following cable systems in New York
City: Time Warner Cable of New York City (serving Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and portions of Brooklyn), and Cablevision Systems of New
York City (serving the rest of Brooklyn and the Bronx), parts of Westchester and Time Warner Cable of Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey.
NY1 News is also available on the World Wide Web at http://ny1.com.
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