/ 09.27.2012 04:14PM
More Stations Go Live on Bitcentral Precis 4
News system continues to get converts
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF.—Three stations have gone liveon Bitcentral’s Precis 4 systems in recent weeks. Another of
Raycom’s TV stations lit up the platform—WALB-TV, the Raycom-owned NBC
affiliate in Albany, Ga. WHEC-TV, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate in Rochester,
N.Y., also fired up Precis 4, as well as Oasis, Bitcentral’s cloud-based asset
management platform, and Create, the company’s browser-based proxy editor.
KLPC-TV, Raycom’s Lake Charles, La., NBC affiliate, also powered up Precis this
month, according to Bitcentral.
Precis 4.0 is a news automation system that provides four
channels of playout and MOS workflow integration, and that plays with other systems
to facilitate multiplatform distribution. Ryerson University’s School of
Journalism in Ontario, Canada, picked up Precis 4 last month, as did KOCO-TV, a
Hearst ABC affiliate in Oklahoma City.
Bitcentral has
long-standing relationships with both Hearst and Raycom, which earlier this
year announced that it would convert all 31 of its TV stations to Precis 4.0. Raycom
started using earlier versions of Precis in 2006. Hearst Television’s WESH-TV,
the Orlando, Fla., NBC affiliate, last year integrated Precis with Adobe
Premiere Pro and AP’s ENPS news production system. Hearst stations in
Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa; and Baltimore also use Precis.