Liveedge! Makes Life better For Everyone Involved In Television News

Station Management | Sales | Engineering | News

NEWS

Reporter
• Get on the air faster with breaking news
• Spend more time with your photographer instead of waiting for set-up
• Focus on the story, not the equipment
• Move between stories quicker. Cover more stories in a news day

Photographer
• Spend more time shooting
• Get the best live shot positions
• Direct communication with the control room. No cell phones. No radios

Live Truck Engineer
• Less time finding line-of-sight transmit point, raising the mast, tuning the signal, and running
• cables, not to mention tearing down

Assignment Editor
• No more busting a story to reassign a live truck and crew
• More live capability means more coverage options

Producer
• Get crews on the scene, close to the news quickly, not a block away.
• Communicate with crews reliably with full studio support

Executive Producer
• Give all news crews the same capability as production remotes
• Teleprompter, IFB, script transmission, monitor preview and program video

Chief Photographer
• Reduce vehicle maintenance costs
• Coach photographers to get better live shots from more novel angles
• No mast to raise into power lines
• No large trucks that can be a target in volatile situations

Assistant News Director
• Make every crew a live crew
• Expand your coverage areas with remotely controlled fixed cameras
• Get more stories on the air at a lower cost

News Director
• Explore new ways to get the promotional edge
• Be first on the air every time with the best angles and best prepared crews.
• And do it with no capital and a lower operating cost per crew

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ENGINEERING

Chief Engineer
• Reduce capital spending for News (compare to $200k+ for a microwave van or $500k+ for a
• satellite truck)
• No transmitters and receivers to set up and maintain. You don't have to manage the network.
• We do.

Production Engineer
• Manage multiple live shots easily, even from the same location
• End the frustration of tuning in and switching between back-to-back microwave live shots on
• the same receive site

SALES

Sales Manager
• Sell more remotes and live promotions - increase revenue
• Integrate sales promotions with live local sports and civic events
• Reduce production costs for live sporting events

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STATION MANAGEMENT

Controller
• Reduce capital spending
• Reduce fleet maintenance costs
• An attractive alternative to replacing worn-out or depreciated live trucks

General Manager
• Reduce Capital spending for News (compare to $200k+ for a microwave van or $500k+ for a
• satellite truck)
• Lower operating costs per live camera
• Make news teams more productive and enable reallocation of headcount.
• Add a breakthrough news gathering tool that will help the news staff fight and win the ratings
• war
• More news remotes means higher ratings means higher revenue
• Affordable option for sales and production remotes
• Increase your community presence and expand your coverage area

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