EZNews is an intuitive, powerful & cost effective newsroom computer system (NRCS) for multi-media news production and automation, designed to improve your workflow and free you up to focus more on the most important part of your job - reporting & creating compelling content for your viewers. Used by commercial TV, cable, satellite and Internet news stations and networks throughout the world, EZNews offers a highly integrated news production environment. EZNews is also currently used by hundreds of Public, Educational and Government (PEG) broadcasters worldwide with features specifically designed for broadcast news production and TV/Video Production educators. Fully integrated EZNews features and functions include complete show planning, an assignment (futures) desk, top line messaging, script & rundown management, live “on-air” control for Directors & Producers, a live updating teleprompter display and show archiving. Optional EZNews interface and automation features are/were also available for compliant brand character generators, broadcast newswire (agency) subscription & RSS feeds, closed captioning encoders, video servers & much more. The EZNews software is a true client-server application that runs on Windows and/or Mac workstations, providing a 100-percent scalable solution to meet your exact production requirements.
- Instantly reflects changes in Rundown or Scripts
- Displays SOT or PKG times and counts them down
- Displays Out Cues, Anchor data (in contrasting red text)
- Color-Codes narrative for each Anchor
- Auto Reports “Light/Heavy” status to Producer/Director in every script
- Auto Reports (by auto-highlighting Script in Rundowns) where it is
- Uniquely Exceptional for “Breaking News” – no uploading, no refreshing
- Virtually unlimited Fonts, Colors, Size
- Easily controlled by Mouse, Foot Pedals, Dial Controllers, and more
- Display text in Upper-lower case or, with one click, force all display text to UPPER CASE
- Text is fully reversible; select any TrueType font, any font style and any font size for display
- Displays with all teleprompter hardware brands and models
