Category: Television
Studio: WCBI-TV
News departments around the world are transitioning to tapeless, but many of them have not completed that transition due to the complexity and costs involved. WCBI-TV, a CBS and UPN affiliate in the mid-size news market of Columbus Mississippi, wanted to transition to tapeless, but do so in a way that was affordable and easy to use. WCBI’s Chief Engineer, Gary Savage explains that so many alternatives were not suited for news or over-priced, or both. “We looked at some solutions that were specific news-servers, but in our applications, that was not what we were doing. They started at $80,000.” Not deterred, he kept investigating options until he chose NewTek VT[4]. “VT[4] fit the bill at MUCH less cost. We got a powerful VT[4] turnkey workstation with plenty of SCSI storage for about $14,000.”

Category: Television
Studio: Paramount
Broadcasters and graphics artists live under constant stress of deadlines. As soon as one passes, another is looming large. That is certainly the case in daily television production. NewTek recently spoke to Adam Hayes, the lead animator for the graphics department of ET Insider, a division of Paramount/CBS, about his workflow when having to create numerous high-quality animations each day on short notice.

Category: Education
Studio: Royal University College of Art Profile
The Royal University College of Art, in Stockholm, Sweden, teaches video production with the goal of fully acquainting students with the realities of professional production. The University required that production equipment be able to create and output absolute highest broadcast quality finished work, with the most flexible set of capabilities, and found that NewTek's VT fit the bill. NewTek recently spoke with Eberhard Höll, a professor at Stockholm Sweden’s Royal University College of Art, regarding how VT[3] and especially Aura VT are being integrated into art instruction at this prestigious University.