The ideal tool for integrating in the news cycle producers, reporters, operators, broadcasters and correspondents.

The News version of the powerful Hardata hdxRadio embodies the modules News Explorer, News Production, News Air, Prompter and News Programming. With them you will have all the needed functions for integrating in the news cycle producers, reporters, operators, broadcasters and correspondents, speeding the whole process.

Applications

• Operations of a news broadcast.
• Operations of the news department of a broadcast, integrating the commercial and artistic programming.
• Integration of reporters, journalists, operators, broadcasters and correspondents.

Advantages

Easy-to-use: Features a carefully designed user-friendly interface to make operative tasks, and different module interaction easier.

News cycle fully integrated: Integrates all resources related to the news course, from the operator to broadcaster.

Automatic news import: download automatically the news from the most important agencies.

Correspondents Attendance: Your correspondents may record and hear their notes through telephone.

Flexible: It is compatible with SoundBlaster type audio cards as well as Antex, AudioScience or Digigram professional cards.

Scalability: It can be easily enhanced supporting thousands of users and millions of materials.

Efficient: It allows effective access control to each audio material in your library.

Reliable: It is designed to be reliable from its architecture to its implementation.

Remote administration: It allows Internet remote administration.

Features

Prompter

Through this window, the broadcaster will have all the previously programmed news ready to be read on air. It offers different reading speeds, as well as the possibility of reproducing audio materials attached previously to each news.

Detailed Information

n the properties folder of each news you can observe the detailed information, as when and who created the news, which user modified the note and a preview of the news content.

News Explorer

This module has a really friendly user interface from which you can create new, delete or modify news and leave them prepared to be programmed in the News Programming window. From here you may also print, read, edit and order all you news.

Importación automática desde agencias de noticias

Mediante el sistema de importación automática de noticias usted no tendrá que preocuparse por descargar manualmente las noticias de cada agencia.  Nuestro sistema descarga en forma automática las noticias recientes desde las agencias que usted elija y las ubica en una categoría previamente creada.

Automatic import from news agencies

Through the news automatic import system you will not have to worry for downloading manually the agencies news. Our system downloads automatically the recent news from the selected agencies and puts them in the previously created category.

Total control of storage space

"Material Maintenance” offers an exhaustive physical space control of your storage. You may choose the limit date of the materials that you whish to keep by category, with the option of deleting old materials or move them to a history category.

News Editor

The News Production module is a powerful text editor that includes, besides all the needed functions for creating, editing and modifying your news, a useful spell checker. With the function of quick bold you can easily indicate the text that each broadcaster must read. From here it is possible to attach one or more audios to each news allowing to generate multimedia contents with audio, text and images.

Correspondents Attendance

With the application Press Line your correspondents can save and listen to their notes from remote places using only a telephone.

Time, temperature and humidity playout

Updated time, temperature and humidity data are always visible on the main board. These data can be updated manually or automatically by connecting a Davis Weather Monitor.

Hardata hdxRadio allows audio files recording needed for time, temperature and humidity playout. They can be played out manually or automatically by adding a command.

RDS encoders control

Hardata hdxRadio features RDS (Radio Data System) encoders control that besides transmitting audio it also transmits data in encoded signals that are decoded by any automobile stereo compatible with this system.

This new development provides the chance to display data related to the song that is being aired by a radio station, like the song title, ranking position, artist information or even advertising in the automobile radio screen.

Satellite and Internet networks

Hardata hdxRadio collects Hardata’s considerable experience in the satellite network market, where it has always been a pioneer. It allows reception of commands setting the beginning and the end of commercial breaks, remote recording of content played out by the audio channel, programming dispatch to remote stations and synchronism of time in the whole network, considering the different time zones.

It supports the use of data channel to distribute audio material to the different remote stations. These files are digitally distributed, thus keeping its original quality and associated values.

Hardata hdxRadio generates automatic fillers with local audio allowing duration differences fill up between national and regional commercials. Besides, it automatically detects satellite interruptions, shifting in those cases to local programming, and restoring itself once the satellite channel resumes its normal status. All transitions when connecting and disconnecting to satellite programming are performed with cross fades.

Centralized Audit

The server keeps in a centralized way the audit information of all the actions performed by Hardata hdxRadio terminals. Users reports can be requested through audit applications (by stations or material).

Remote Administration

The architecture on which Hardata hdxRadio is developed allows the remote administration by Internet of the information available in the server. Users accounts administration, license assignment, material categories setting, system import, recording, edition and airing can be managed. In turn, format, programming and audit report can be controlled and managed.

The software has a broadcast-quality version, so that it is possible to monitor each audio file by Internet. Since Hardata hdxServer creates a Proxy version for each material stored in the system, it is possible to monitor them even using a dial-up connection.

The system also reports: connected users list –including user’s name, terminal name, IP address, application and version to which it is connected; memory and CPU use percentage of PC Server, Hardata hdxServer and SQL Server. It is also possible to visualize input and output traffic; number of services executed per second and number of simultaneous sessions.

Centralized Users Control

Hardata hdxRadio and Hardata hdxServer use the same user structure. Therefore, users are divided into groups; each of them assigned with a definite license per application (to delete, edit, play out material, etc.) and each user can belong to more than one group at the same time.

System requirements

Recommended requirements

Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive UDMA
32 MB graphic card (supporting 1024x768)
CD-ROM 52x
Professional soundcard (Antex, AudioScience o Digigram)
10/100 Base-T Fast Ethernet interface
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2
SVGA 17 " Monitor
Keyboard and Mouse

Minimum requirements

Intel Pentium IV 1.4 GHz
512 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive UDMA
8 MB graphic card (supporting 1024x768)
CD-ROM 52x
SoundBlaster compatible soundcard
Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP
SVGA 15 " Monitor (supporting 1024x768)
Keyboard and Mouse

Note: One key (one license) per workstation.
Important: these requirements can be modified depending on the project.

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