ABC select Avid for transition to digital newsroom

Avid Technology have announced they are to accelerate the transition of ABC’s news operations to an all-digital production environment.
The project will start immediately and will involve ABC’s evening news program, World News Tonight, and ABC’s affiliate news service, NewsOne.
Preston Davis, president of ABC Broadcast Operation and Engineering, said: “ABC is using Avid technology with great success in other areas of the television network.
“We look forward to working with Avid as we transition ABC News onto an all-digital platform.”
David Krall, president and CEO of Avid, added: “We are pleased that ABC News recognised our commitment to the news industry and has embraced our approach to all-digital news production.
“To date, we have implemented all-digital news environments at more than 50 broadcast facilities around the world, and we are extremely proud to help ABC News make this same transition.”
ABC World News Tonight will use an Avid Unity for News shared media network environment to facilitate the simultaneous ingest, output and edit functions between workgroups.
When combined with multiple Avid NewsCutter systems exchanging media with one another, ABC will have a highly flexible, collaborative workflow that links analogue and digital acquisition, editing, newsroom computer systems, graphics, audio, distribution and asset management.
ABC will also use Avid systems for their ‘NewsOne’ service, which digitally feeds packaged news stories and media footage to ABC affiliates around the world.
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