Hi,

I am Pam Gill.  I handle marketing for newsroom products in broadcast.  My colleague, Steve Wilcox, in our training group created this short video about how iNEWS enables users to view scripts and any other area of the iNEWS system on an iPad or other web-connected device.  This will save customers from printing thousands of pages each day.  It will also eliminate mistakes that can be made when there are last-minute changes.  Check it out!

Hello Pam,

      I liked Steve's video on the iNEWS Web Access.  I am not able to view scripts in a browser the way it was demostrated in the video.  Our system does not have S.SCRIPT under SYSTEM.WEBFORMS.  Do you have easy to follow instructions to make viewing scripts possible.  LFisher

Pam -

We are now using the iNews iPad feature in place of scripts at WHAG-TV.  Our anchors would prefer being able to advance to the next story by "flicking" to the left or right with their finger rather than clicking a link at the bottom of the page.

Any thoughts?

Pieter Bickford

Hi Peter,

I sent this along to Pam so she knows you posted.  Not sure what her schedule is this week so I dont know if she will respond.

Marianna

Hi Pieter,

Thanks for your feedback.  It's great that WHAG is realizing efficiencies of viewing scripts on iPad versus printing!  The iNEWS stories are being viewed on the iPad via iNEWS Web Access Client which provides read-access via HTML web pages.  Since the anchors are viewing straight HTML pages, "flicking" to navigate does not work, as it does with native iPad apps.  

We have had a number of requests for features such as this one that would require a dedicated iPad application.  We would be interested in getting more information about your workflow and requirements.  

Thanks,

Pam

We are an Avid station: iNews, Newscutters, Unity, AirSpeed.

We broadcast more than 30 hours of news a week.  That's a lot of paper that we are replacing with one iPad.  But our anchors are still hesitant because the iNews iPad feature is still so awkward to navigate.

The current script viewer is a great start, but the rundowns are very small to read.  You really have to concentrate to make sure you are selecting the correct link with your finger, which is not something you have a lot of time for if your teleprompter just failed.  

Clicking a link for "next page" at the bottom of the script is awkward.  It'd be great if there was a feature where we could just "load the show," similar to a teleprompter, so that all the scripts are available at once - and not separate pages.  People expect to be able to flip through pages on an iPad - not click a link.

Does that help?  I'm happy to answer more questions.  I'm sure we could beta test an app, if needed.

Pieter Bickford

WHAG-TV

I know this is an iPad thread, but if you want a quick way to address all the concerns mentioned above (and many more), check out rScript.  We use it in Houston and it works great.  We have seven $200 seven inch (perfect size for one handed use) tablets running it.  Its very fast, skips blank pages, and is immune to flaky networks (unlike anything running inews web access).

https://market.android.com/details?id=info.unexpecteddevelopment.rscript