Overview

Engaging audiences in a new era of journalism

Allowing you to capture more viewers while reducing operating costs, the iNEWS Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) is a dynamic, connected hub of news content creation and distribution. This comprehensive news broadcast solution enables you to swiftly create and deliver breaking news, unify your entire newsroom operation, and engage audiences across a broad spectrum of TV, radio, web, and mobile channels.

The iNEWS NRCS unifies your entire newsroom operation. News teams can operate at peak efficiency as they capture wires and other data feeds, create content, dynamically manage news rundowns, and precisely control on-air news playout. Whether in the studio or the field, journalists are completely connected, and a powerful and newly updated iNEWS interface lets them efficiently monitor news sources, perform forward searches across multiple iNEWS systems, preview video, monitor local and remote station rundowns, and message colleagues – everything that contributes to more and better stories.

Key Benefits

Focus on what matters most
In news, content is king. And the new story-centric workflow tools included in iNEWS provide a dashboard of all the content related to key stories in a single location. Everyone covering a hot topic can focus on what matters most, creating and delivering compelling news stories.

Do more with less
Today’s news teams are being challenged to produce more news for more platforms. iNEWS enables every role on the news team. Journalists, assignment editors, producers, new directors - all news personnel have swift access to moment-by-moment status information, access to feeds, stories, rundowns, and playback status through iNEWS Command. Leveraging the speed, reliability, and accuracy of the iNEWS solution, news teams can now work more efficiently to produce more news for multi-channel distribution.

Stay connected
Keeping them in the field and in the know, journalists and producers can create, view, and edit iNEWS stories and rundowns through the iNEWS Web Client, or the native Interplay Central Mobile app for Blackberry. The Interplay Central web application adds intuitive tools for complete story creation with video, audio VO recording, and graphics insertion on any laptop with an Internet connection.

Comprehensive newsgathering
Newsgathering becomes more connected and collaborative as information is collected from diverse sources, including serial wire feeds, telnet, email, and network shares. The iNEWS Data Receiver can ingest text strings from anywhere, even a journalist's smart phone. Forward searching on hot topics keeps journalists apprised of new information as it unfolds.

On-air reliability
Providing higher availability, instant status monitoring and access to rundowns from any location, automatic server mirroring ensures uninterrupted operations if a server becomes unavailable.

Share everywhere
Making better use of your organization’s resources, iNEWS Community allows station groups and networks to share content and collaborate on stories by providing users with the ability to view, edit, and search for content on any of their iNEWS systems.

Unmatched openness
Offering virtually limitless integration opportunities, iNEWS Web Services provide third parties with a rich set of functions to exchange data with the iNEWS newsroom system.