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SINCLAIR
BROADCAST GROUP’S WNYO-TV PURCHASES DVCPRO P2
Buffalo WB Station Selects Solid-State Solution for
Start-Up News Operation
LAS
VEGAS, NV (April 18, 2004) – Panasonic
announced today that Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.’s
WNYO-TV, Buffalo, NY, has made an initial investment
in DVCPRO P2 solid-state memory products for its
latest News Central start-up. DVCPRO P2 series products
form the core of Panasonic’s next-generation
IT-based Electronic News Gathering (ING) system,
and are being showcased here at the company’s
NAB ’04 exhibition.
WB affiliate WNYO-TV (Channel 49) has purchased the
range of DVCPRO P2 products –AJ-SPX800
2/3" cameras, AJ-SPD850 studio recorders, AJ-PCD10 card drives, AJ-P2C002
2GB cards and accessories. Sinclair Broadcast Group is one of the largest and
most diversified broadcasting companies in the country today. Sinclair owns
and operates, programs or provides sales services to 62 television stations
in 39 markets. Sinclair’s television group reaches approximately 24%
of U.S. television households and includes ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WB and UPN affiliates.
All of Sinclair’s news-producing stations currently utilize Panasonic’s
DVCPRO tape-based ENG equipment.
Sinclair’s Vice-President of Operations & Engineering Del Parks said, "Our
ongoing objective within Sinclair has been to move to a tapeless IT infrastructure
for newsgathering. We have installed 13 Avid Unity and Lanshare nonlinear news
editing systems, and P2 certainly seems to deliver the IT tapeless acquisition
element to round out the process. We’re eager to implement the equipment
at WNYO-TV, and determine what work flow advantages the new format delivers."
He added, "The AJ-SPX800 camcorder delivers high-quality video, and has
the appealing benefits of no moving parts and direct
integration into a PC. The fact that it has a preset
News Gamma feature that is specially optimized for
the demands of field news acquisition is a real plus."
Parks said that he anticipates that P2 will integrate
well with Sinclair’s existing Avid NLE infrastructure. "As
the latest of our news start-ups, WNYO affords us
the opportunity to evaluate P2, and then consider
the format as we undertake future replacement of
ENG equipment throughout our News Central system."
Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2 series products are fully
compatible with DVCPRO, the industry’s standard
for digital newsgathering, and provide a seamless
migration path to DVCPRO HD. DVCPRO P2 offers nonlinear
acquisition and instant access to material, high-speed
file transfer, laptop field editing without requirement
for proxy videos, and compatibility with off-the-shelf
data storage drives for low-cost archiving, while
eliminating traditional digitizing and ingesting
operations. The DVCPRO P2 system eliminates transports
and mechanisms, resulting in a significant maintenance
cost-savings because of the absence of any moving
parts that can break down or wear out from repetitive
use. Moreover, DVCPRO P2 products are resistant to
environmental extremes including shock, vibration,
cold, dust, moisture and humidity.
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