WTHR Moves To QueManger To Succeed Headlines Graphics

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Jun 3, 2011 12:21 PM

WTHR, the Dispatch Broadcast Group-owned NBC associate portion Indianapolis, has integrated the Diaquest Products QueManager Web-based graphics demand administration network (OMS) with an ENPS newsroom P.C. system.

According to Randy White, WTHR operations manager, the hire indispensable to reinstate its aging Proximity Artbox software, that was having working problems and was no longer upheld by the manufacturer.

During the installation, Diaquest was able to remove all of WTHR's Artbox environments and metadata and soak up them in to QueManager without disrupting hire operations. The hire put the new network online in February.

QueManager is an OMS program extras for Apple Final Cut Server 1.5 that may be integrated with ENPS or iNEWS around plug-ins. Through a elementary GUI, it provides an easy way to looking and crop assets, produce orders, allocate projects and broach ended graphics for broadcast.

At WTHR, QueManager is used by 10 producers to produce over-the-shoulder headlines graphics. Producers access the program by ENPS and use it to find graphics that may be used for definite stories. If no graphics are appropriate, they can solicit the pattern of a new one. When the striking is complete, a writer can increase or refurbish CG content by QueManager so it is ready for air.

The QueManager interface is roughly same to Artbox, so WTHR producers did not must be retrained. Each of the producers blending to the new network really well, mentioned White.