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Software for morning news

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ChiefOperator

Folks,

I'm hoping you can give me some guidance. I have an AM that wishes to add both a morning and afternoon news program. They plan to air interviews/actualities. In the "old days" these were simply recorded on carts.

What are you folks using now? Are you using actual news software that has copy and sound files combined (Newsboss??) or are you simply using generic cart replacement software (example: Simian Wavecart)?

Finally, how are you importing your audio. Is your news/cart software networked to your production machine?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

And, as always, thank you!
 
You've pretty much nailed it down. All-news stations or stations with a somewhat larger budget are running a dedicated newsroom software suite (NewsBOSS, RCS News, Burli, etc.). In most cases there's two or more workstations - at least one in the news writing area and the other in the studio/news booth.

However, many use separate editor and audio playback software packages - from Wavecard (as you mentioned) to freeware like Sonicart or BTSG's vintage "triple decker" (downloable at http://members.tripod.com/~s_snailham/3DECK.ZIP).

With the low cost of computers - even older ones that are certainly audio editing capable - I'd just put in a extra workstation or two for news audio editing and network it to the news booth/control room computer. Why tie up a production studio?
 
I like Jazler Show, which is free. It allows you to create multiple categories, with multiple pages in each category, and collect files for playback either on command, or stacked for automatic playback. You can play back MP3 or WAV files from your local machine, or from a network server. Once you assign a file to a button, it retains that info until you erase it or change it, so you don't have to reload the pages if you shut down.

Best of all, it's free. Check it out at http://www.jazler.com/products/JazlerShow.asp
 
Re: Jazler Show

Thank whoever posted it originally a couple of years ago on this board. BTW, it really works well with a touch screen, too.
 
At a station I was at a few years ago (AM/FM combo) we had a couple of 360 Systems Shortcut Audio Editors in the prod room. We dedicated one of them to news use. The talent would load their bits into a hotkey for each cast/user. They loved it. They could edit it first then load it to the hotkey.

Some of these folks were not technical minded (it was hard to get them to use the VU meter on the board) but they took to this like a duck to water (approxamnetly 7 different users).

I thought it was much easier than the computer in the room.
 
ChiefOperator said:
That's interesting, thanks..... So, they loaded the file from 360 to a hotkey on the studio automation, yes?
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There are 10 hotkeys on the Shortcut. They did the news live sometimes. Othertimes they recorded it into the production unit for the automation system.

Either way they could play their bits in realtime - that was a much easier curve for them to learn. THe only thing we had to show them on the automation system was how to find their cut # and how to record.
 
This gave them just one cut # for each of the cast on the automation system - with the kill dates outdated news didn't run if they forgot (and sometimes did).
 
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