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Broadcasting & Cable, October, 2001 by GROTTICELLI, MICHAEL
AUTOMATION SYSTEMS TAKE A LARGER ROLE AS ENGINEERS DO MORE WITH LESS In Bristol, Va., two operators at WCYB-TV operate four revenue-generating channels from one location. In Toronto, engineers on the Financial News Channel's (FNN's) Report on Business go home at 6:00 p.m. every day and rarely come in on weekends, yet viewers would never know it because the cable channel operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
That's the power of today's automation systems, which are called on to do a lot more than control tape machines. With software reliability no longer an issue for mission-critical applications like program and commercial insertion, trafficking, electronic billing, and master control, new applications continue to be born. As stations...
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