Customer: News 12 Traffic and Weather (New York)
Application: Chameleon (under Ross Tick-It)
Platform: RossVideo XPression Studio
Bannister Lake delivered an automated broadcast ticker solution for News 12 to display weather and traffic for the 5 regional stations.
- 5 channels of Chameleon running on 5 Xpression BlueBoxes, pulling data from a central Chameleon server.
- Weather is a combination of WSI data feed and manual input from their Meteorologist.
- Data from National Weather Alerts is filtered and prioritized to show only weather data for the regions with a severity of 2 or higher with specific weather conditions.
- Inrix GeoID app is programmed to read traffic information from coordinate specific regions.
- Blade is used to populate News12’s website feeds with the same data used on air.