NBC Universal Installs BitCentral Précis for Ingest

NBC Universal has tapped BitCentral to provide its end-to-end play-to-air system, Précis, at six of the network's O&Os. Précis ingests multiple analog NTSC sources such as microwave feeds or SDI sources, into a facility's digital workflow. The file-based system minimizes the time to prepare a clip for air from 30

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Apr 7, 2005

NBC Universal has tapped BitCentral to provide its end-to-end play-to-air system, Précis, at six of the network's O&Os.

Précis ingests multiple analog NTSC sources such as microwave feeds or SDI sources, into a facility's digital workflow. The file-based system minimizes the time to prepare a clip for air from 30 to 90 minutes, down to three to five, according to the Irvine, Calif.-based company.

"The revised workflow process seemed natural and efficient, eliminating many unneeded steps that were a legacy from antiquated analog tape-based systems," said Apsara Sivamurthy, manager of news technology for NBC O&Os.

Since 2003, NBC NewsChannel has also been using the BitCentral MediaPipe news management and distribution system to disseminate national news to local affiliates.

West Va. station WTAP has purchased the BitCentral Precis play-to-air system to create a digital, file-based newsroom. The Precis integrated system that ingests multiple analog NTSC sources--microwave feeds or SDI--into a station's digital workflow and allows the news team to gather, edit and file stories remotel

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Fisher Communications has tapped BitCentral to provide its Precis play-to-air system in four Oregon stations. Precis enables national and regional broadcast outlets to upgrade to a file-based news workflow from ingest to air. The system ingests multiple video sources--microwave feeds or satellite sources--into th

Bitcentral, a video content management and distribution system provider, has completed the sale of Precis to three of the four news-producing television stations broadcasting in the Las Vegas market.

The stations—KSEE, an NBC affiliate in Fresno, Calif., KMTV, a CBS affiliate in Omaha, Neb., and KTVM, an NBC affiliate in Bozeman, Mont.—scheduled the installations on the same day, (Dec. 14), to take advantage of a small window of opportunity between November ratings and the end of the year holiday periods.

Since late spring, a dozen more station news operations have added the Bitcentral Precis news production system or Oasis content management system.

Three stations have gone liveon BitCentral’s Precis 4 systems in recent weeks.

Waterman Broadcasting has purchased Précis End-to-End Play-to-Air system from video content management provider BitCentral for its affiliate stations. The stations, in Ft. Meyers, Fla. and Charlottesville, Va., will use the play-to-air system upgrade to file-based news workflow. Précis ingests multiple analog NTS