Category: News

Super Ticker now supports the most up-to-date Associated Press’ Elections API 2.0. With AP‘s migration from FTP to a modern datafeed, BL is actively involved in using the most up-to-date AP protocols which began with the initial testing of AP’s new api earlier in 2015 and we have been active in testing all versions since.

AP’s Elections API 2.0 supports all of the same data that has been made available for many years over FTP but provides a much more efficient and robust mechanism for retrieving data. By default, this means Super Ticker will have the most up-to-date data available to our customers.

Super Ticker’s elections support makes it easy to integrate any type of election. Through a flexible and extensive database schema, it is world-ready. Super Ticker allows unlimited election events simultaneously which means that elections data can be active for the current election event and all it’s previous events. This allows comparing results with past years. Also, Super Ticker supports unlimited datafeed parsers simultaneously. Those parsers can be written by users since Super Ticker is an open protocol.

Spring News TV, a news organization based in Bangkok, Thailand, went live with Super Ticker. The solution was sold by our OEM partner Ross Video. They sell Super Ticker under the name Tick-it but  it retains all of Super Ticker’s features and tight integration with Ross’ XPression platform.

For more samples or to watch their live feed simply click on the link to their website: 

http://www.springnews.co.th/

Super Ticker’s Election support is standard as is everything in Super Ticker. It has been designed with a flexible data model so it can cover any type of election. The standard building blocks are contest and choices. But on top of that, there are all the standard data types to define candidates, offices, areas, questions, polls, surveys and multiple, simultaneous election events. Election events can even cover historical data where we can have both the upcoming election event plus the event from 4, 8 and 12 years ago.

While Super Ticker’s Election support was modeled with standard political elections in mind, it can be used for a lot more. It’s the ideal place to store polls, surveys, industry board elections and more.

For example, users can use 3rd party tools like Survey Monkey to create a web and phone-based poll or survey and have the results show up in Super Ticker for use by Super Ticker standard players or through BLADE for use by any CG or Web platform.

Congratulations to Rogers Media on their successful launch of Brando 2.0 for OLN. This is the first of many channels Rogers Media will be moving to Brando 2.0. This version offers the most advanced integration with traffic and automation systems while providing a tightly coupled and dynamic environment for Ross Video’s XPression platform.

Super Ticker BLADE now supports ChyronHego Data Tools.

Global News operated BL Elector out of 4 hubs at their Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto production centers supporting 80 concurrent users and 20 XPression Players for their coast-to-coast coverage of the Canadian Federal Election. Elector was also used to populate their website, virtual & augmented reality and CGs (using BLADE), all driven by one server and a replicated backup.

Brando now supports Named Snipes. Named Snipes is the latest feature in Brando that makes tight integration with broadcast automation and traffic systems painless. Define the named snipe in our web interface Flow using a house id, trigger it from automation and presto, snipes that have been scheduled by Traffic. Named Snipes even work for live broadcasts where they can be triggered manually by a TD.

Global News has chosen Bannister Lake BL Elector to drive their results for the upcoming Canadian Federal Election on October 19th.

Atlanta, GA, USA – 13 September 2015 –Leading automated playout specialist, BroadStream Solutions and top content management solutions provider, Bannister Lake, have entered into a preliminary agreement to integrate Bannister Lake’s Super Ticker Flow into BroadStream’s OASYS Integrated Playout Platform

“Combining this technology will mean that BroadStream’s customers will be able to increase the number and types of data feeds they use for on-

screen display with the OASYS Extended Graphics Engine,” explains Ben Wolk, President of Sales & Business Development at BroadStream. “This includes social media moderation, election results, sponsored activity and tailored presentations of national, regional and local information such as school closings – all the things that engage today’s discerning TV audiences and encourage viewer loyalty.”

Super Ticker Flow (STF) is a scalable content management solution that aggregates a vast array of information and data in a centralized database for graphic displays. Data sets include news tickers, alerts, headlines, stories, events, weather updates, financials, social media, local school closings, sports scores and updates, traffic, ski reports, lotteries, election returns, sponsored elements, and other in-the-moment information. The various data sets will be utilized by BroadStream’s OASYS Graphics Extension and Publisher software modules to deliver enhanced information capabilities to BroadStream’s customers using OASYS’ state-of-the-art on-screen graphics capabilities.

“We’re excited to work with an innovative and forward looking company like BroadStream,” said D’Arcy Pickering, Bannister Lake vice president of worldwide sales. “With a proven track record and exciting new products, BroadStream is a perfect partner for Bannister Lake. The products fit together exceptionally well, enabling a user to have a complete, integrated playout syst, including dynamic data management and display.”

BroadStream’s OASYS software platform is designed to provide efficient, high quality, end-to-end SDI, IP or hybrid SDI/IP playout solutions that are easy-to-use, scalable, flexible and reliable. Based on a unique and innovative software architecture, the OASYS playout solution provides broadcasters with the ability to create a completely customized solution using optional software modules for single channel or multi-channel operations. OASYS also interfaces to third party systems such as channel management, traffic and scheduling to enable further customization for your specific situation.

To find out more, please visit BroadStream at IBC 2013: Hall 8, Stand B29 or www.broadstream.com.