KTVA Automates Newsroom Ops With Ross

摘要

KTVA is the CBS affiliate for the Anchorage market and like most stations these days, news is a big part of our operation. However, our news production system really lagged behind the times; our operations were SD analog-based and ran without any automation whatsoever. By today's standards, things were quite antiquated and we were really in need of a modern newsroom system. So, as part of an effort to bring our newsroom into the modern age of news production, we elected to rebuild things from the ground up. As part of the newsroom upgrade, we elected to automate our news production. After evaluating several competitive systems, we decided that Ross Video's OverDrive APC was the best fit for our particular needs, based on its high interoperability, good support and reliability, as well as an intuitive user interface and overall cost effectiveness. Another big factor was ease of use; it had to have an intuitive user experience that would make it easy to train our operators.