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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2017 InShow Guide | 15-19 September

Octopus Newsroom Celebrates
MOS Emmy Award
Octopus Newsroom is celebrating the award of an
Emmy to the Media Object Server (MOS) Group...

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ctopus Newsroom (stand 7.G38)
will be celebrating the award of
an Emmy to the Media Object Server
(MOS) Group of which it is a proud
member. The presentation was made
during the 68th Annual Technology &
Engineering Emmy® Awards ceremony
at The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
"MOS may sound like just another
engineering term but it is one of the
most useful developments in the entire
history of newsroom computing,"
explains Octopus Newsroom's Senior
Developer Martin Nedbal. "The MOS
Communications
Protocol
gives
newsroom computer system users the
ability to integrate with third party
systems such as graphics, automation,
storage servers and teleprompters.
Newsroom managers thus retain a
high level of freedom to decide when
and where they purchase production,
post-production and data storage

equipment. Careful design and
co-ordination allow all essential
newsroom tasks to be handled
from a single workstation rather
than having to clutter desks with
multiple monitors and keyboards.
MOS-standardised metadata exchange
between these devices also allows
fast content searching and seamless
control across an entire production
network."
"We are additionally celebrating
at IBC a year of major newsroom
system successes," adds Sales Director
Gabriel Jankó. "These include Astro
AWANI in Kuala Lumpur, CHEK-TV in
British Columbia, Echo TV in Hungary,
La Tele in Switzerland, NTD TV in
Taiwan, SAT 1 Bayern in Bavaria,
plus USA-based TheBlaze and VICE
News. The past 12 months have also
seen important reinforcements to
the Octopus Newsroom management

team with the promotion of Lukas
Kotek to Chief Technology Officer, and
the appointment of Gianluca Bertuzzi
as Sales Manager for Africa & Latin
America.
"This year we have achieved tighter
integration than ever between Octopus
8 and products from other members of
the Emmy awarded group, including
Avid, ChyronHego, Grass Valley, SAM,
ToolsOnAir and Vizrt. That gives our
customers the freedom to integrate
Octopus with their existing graphics,
asset management, archiving and
playout investments rather than
obliging them to buy an entire extra
support system simply to service their

newsroom. A complete
Octopus 8 system will
be demonstrated on
our IBC stand, G38 in
Hall 7."
Established in 1999,
Octopus Newsroom is the leading
producer of standalone newsroom
computer systems. Octopus Newsroom
advocates an open ecosystem using
the MOS protocol which enables
customers to choose freely among
high-quality providers of graphics,
playout, MAM, prompters, traffichanding and advertising solutions.
Octopus Newsroom has successfully
installed systems into more than 200
channels around the world. Based on
Unicode, Octopus Newsroom products
support all major character sets
including Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Thai, and Vietnamese.
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