4.0
This summary gives you a brief overview of the basic features of NewsTicker, including 4.0 and prior.
Headlines and Breaking News
- Category-based organization allows you to enter content centrally but isolate on-air displays
- Intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows you to quickly re-order your content, or move items to different categories
- Configurable for one to three line crawl or hot-change displays content can be pre-loaded, then “approved for air” when ready
- Integrated spell-checker
- National and major international headlines fed automatically via TickerWire
Weather
- Current conditions, forecasts and severe weather (see Severe Weather, below)
- Forecasts may be entered for multiple cities for hyphenated markets or hyper-local forecasting, and broken down by custom-defined dayparts
- Hourly current conditions from National Weather Service reporting stations fed automatically via TickerWire, including temperature, sky conditions, barometric pressure, relative humidity, and more
- Can be configured to read from in-house temperature probe or an AWS WeatherBug network (from participating affiliates)
- Supports weather icons and free-flow text data
Sports
- Flexibility to limit the display to certain teams within a league, allowing you to only display the most relevant games to your audience
- Talent can enter optional free-flow comments about games that can appear along with the score
- Local leagues can be created and schedules loaded months in advance
- NCAA and professional schedules and real-time scores fed automatically via TickerWire
Finance
- Station can add or delete stocks of local interest, including major indices, on the spot
Information updated via TickerWire, requiring no manual updating - Display names of stocks can be changed by the station to improve presentation (e.g. “Penney J C Co Holding” to “JC Penney”)
- Supports expanded stock data, such as 52-week high/low, today’s high/low, and volume
Other specialty content modules
- Lowest price for gas in your market, updated automatically
- Emergency messages from your EAS endec can be passed through NewsTicker, permitting you to use the CGs assigned to NewsTicker for EAS
- State lottery results fed automatically via TickerWire
- Election reporting module for receiving results from the wire, web and manually throughout your market, with support for feeding to lower-thirds, your fullscreen CG, and the web
- Closings and delays module takes in automated data via a telephony and secure web interface, and integrates active records with other NewsTicker content
- Traffic data from Metro Traffic and Traffic.com (if licensed), or manually from station personnel
- Ski conditions from area resorts, updated automatically, is unique and highly sponsorable
- National Terrorism Threat Level, updated automatically