Quantel Newsbox Installed In Chattanooga NBC News Affiliate

Chattanooga based WRCB has recently installed a Quantel Newsbox system to deliver its daily news production.
WRCB Channel 3 is an NBC affiliate serving Southeastern Tennessee, Northwestern Georgia, Northeastern Alabama, and Southwestern North Carolina.
Seeking a new production system veteran Production Manager Doug Loveridge set off on a fact-finding mission to NAB 06 in Las Vegas. He met with several vendors at the show, and was particularly impressed with the Quantel Newsbox. A couple of weeks later, the WRCB project team comprising journalists, reporters, editors and producers visited KWTX in Waco, TX, who installed a Quantel sQ news system in 2005.
"I went to NAB in April and we went live on 13th November so it was a super-fast project," said Loveridge.
"One of the reasons we went with Quantel is that we purchased a Picturebox 12 years ago and it is still in daily use; you don�t get much better ROI than that! We have had very few problems with it, but when we�ve needed support it was excellent and it has meant that in those 12 years we have never been �off-air��.
The WRCB news system comprises eight sQ Cut journalist workstations, two sQ Edit seats for craft editors and an eQ multi-resolution editing, visual effects and colour correction system which produces promos.
The existing Picturebox will also continue in service alongside the Newsbox still producing that old black magic. �This is a great set-up as everyone can be working on the same piece of video; the journalist is putting the story together, the producer can do a quick V/O and the editor can make a trail for the nightly news all at the same time,� Loveridge added.
The Newsbox takes care of all the news programming for WRCB from the Channel 3 'Eyewitness News� from 5am - 7am, the �Live at Five� show the 5:30 news and �Eyewitness News� programmes at 6pm and 11pm - a total of over four-and-a-half hours of news programming per day.
"The fact that the Newsbox came with five years� QCare was very important to us," concluded Loveridge. "Dave Black and the Quantel team really took care of us. They were very responsive and made us feel that we really mattered to them. Quantel engineers were here throughout the installation and the go live. We didn�t need to call on them at go live as everything went like a dream, but it was great to have them there, and its great to know they will fully support us in the future too."
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