EZNews is a fully-integrated News Production, Prompting, and Automation System. With
EZNews, all essential News Production and Presentation functions are neatly and tightly bound into a single package.
EZNews is designed to run in virtually any local computer network running any Microsoft server (©Windows NT, ©Windows 2000 Server, and ©Windows 2003 Server (including Enterprise and Advanced) Operating Systems. In addition, EZNews can be run on networks served by the Linux Operating System.
Linux-based networks offer a low-cost, stable, high performance network server for the cost-conscious. Linux servers can operate on the same hardware specified for ©Windows Operating Systems (see the Tech Specs page in the EZNews Online Tour).
EZNews is configurable to address a variey of specific needs. Every EZNews system includes:
- Script-writing ... including Director, Editing, and Production Instructions.
- Show Production ... including fully-configurable Rundowns, backtiming, etc.
- Show Templates ... create and load and many show templates a you wish.
- Prompting ... Full Color, user-configurable Prompter ... on every workstation (if you wish).
Depending on your requirements, EZNews can also include:
- Archiving
- Archive Word Search ... search any word or combination of words in the Archive
- Wires (from AP, Reuters, CNN, and numerous other wire service providers).
- Wire Word Search ... search any word or combination of words in Wire stories
- Assignment Desk
- Automation Services ... Closed Captioning, CG Control, and Interfaces to a host of automation systems (Video Servers, Still Stores, etc.)
ADS is the manufacturer of ...
- EZNews - Fully-integrated, Windows-based Newsroom system.
- EZPrompt and EZPrompt Pro - Windows-based prompting software for Production and Prompting.
- EZWire - News-wire transmission and reception for ANPA/IPTC standard wire data.
- EZNewsNet - Companion to EZWire ... permits data to be fed to your system or subscribers from anywhere in the world!