CNN Financial gears up for launch. (CNN Financial Network)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1995 by Dickson, Glen

CNN is constructing an all-digital production control room for the December launch of CNN Financial Network, its new 12-hour business news channel. The facility, located in CNN's Manhattan studios, will maintain all video in the digital domain before converting its outgoing feeds to analog with a Tekniche digital-to-analog converter.

All news editing will done nonlinearly with the Avid Newscutter, and the finished product will be fed into the Avid Media Server, then played out of the Avid Airplay. Acquired ENG material from the New York bureau's existing Betacam cameras will be digitized with the Avid Media Recorder for editing. "All editing and playback will hopefully be off the Avid system," says CNN's Alan Friedman, director of engineering, special...

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