KREN goes HD for local news in Nevada

The Reno station is the smallest market so far to broadcast locally in HD.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Dec 26, 2006

On Monday, Dec. 18, KREN-DT, the CW affiliate in Reno, NV, went live with a one-hour newscast, using Canon HDV (1080i) camcorders.

It’s the first HD newscast for a CW affiliate and the first locally produced 10 p.m. newscast for the Reno DMA. Pappas Telecasting spent about $1 million on the HD news production capabilities and about $2 million on the entire facility.

The station is using Canopus EDIUS NLE systems from Grass Valley to edit content captured on camera-mounted FireStore hard drives. Additional production systems include an ENPS (Electronic News Production System) newsroom computer system, Vizrt graphics software and a Ross Synergy production switcher.

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