Weather Central to demo HDTV at RTNDA; graphics company will partner with WRAL-HD Raleigh. (high-definition television, 1997 Radio and Television News Directors Assn)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1997 by Dickson, Glen

Graphics company will partner with WRAL-HD Raleigh Weather graphics supplier Weather Central will be demonstrating high-definition weather at the RTNDA show in New Orleans next week. The Madison, Wis.-based company is partnering with WRAL-HD, the experimental HDTV station run by CBS affiliate WRAL-TV Raleigh, N.C.

WRAL-TV already has ordered a Weather Central Super Genesis weather system that runs on the SGI Octane platform; that system will be modified for the RTNDA demonstration to record and display HDTV images on a JVC high-definition monitor. WRAL-HD hopes to have its HDTV weather graphics system operating by spring 1998. "We've been working on that since our last change of weather hardware," says Tom Beauchamp, WRAL-HD'S chief engineer....

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