SALT LAKE CITY—It’s out with the old and in with the new as the East Tennessee PBS Station, WETP-TV, has announced that it is replacing its previous automation system with NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions. The CLASS system handles master control, playout and media asset management operations and offers integration with third-party equipment.

WETP will use the CLASS system to support its main HD channel and two subchannels. Hardware and software components are included with the automation system, including NControl on-air playlists, NGest professional dubbing and recording software, NPoint video preparation software for segmenting and trimming, NBase SQL media database manager, NView database viewer, NCommand machine status and control, NConvert traffic interface, NTime time-driven event scheduling, EMC Ethernet Machine Control.

In addition to control of third-party equipment from companies like Harmonic and Sony, WETP’s CLASS system also features an NVerzion TeraStore nearline storage archive system that controls the station’s active storage system. It also comes with a creative protocol interface module (CPIM) that supports BXF format for internal communications and workflow efficiencies, providing a two-way communication between traffic and automation with real-time updates.

The CLASS system will also allow for the addition of more features and infrastructure upgrades as needed. This includes the support of additional channels and subchannels.

WETP-TV is a PBS member station that covers East Tennessee, Southern Kentucky, Southeast Virginia and Western North Carolina.

NVerzion is a provider of digital broadcast automation tools, located in Salt Lake City.

SALT LAKE CITY – KSMQ-TV, the PBS station in Austin, Minn., has recently acquired a NVerzion Component Level Automation System Solutions to help its transition from SD to HD. With CLASS, KSMQ is able to speed up its operations and improve on-air presentation.

KSMQ’s CLASS system includes a variety of hardware and software applications, including NControl on-air playlists; NGest professional dubbing and recording software; NPoint video preparation software; NGenius intelligent storage browser, which is able to manage data via an on-site 40TB Microsoft Windows NAS system; and more.

CLASS also allows KSMQ to control third-party equipment and interfaces with KSMQ’s existing nearline storage system as a Windows shared environment. It also eliminates any single point of failure within the station’s file-based workflow for the integrity of on-air presentation. The station is now able to perform upgrades as the need arises and support additional channels and subchannels.

NVerzion is a digital broadcast automation tool provider based in Salt Lake City.