After a couple of month of implementation, internal testing and trainings, Duna TV in Budapest, Hungary launched their daily newscast using OCTOPUS6. Duna is a state-owned Hungarian language TV channel broadcasting not only for Hungary, but also for Hungarian minorities via satellite to the whole world, including North America and Australia. Our local Hungarian partner - Silicon Computers - worked with us to create and implement a local version of OCTOPUS6, so we now have a Hungarian interface. Don't hesitate to ask, we may already have an interface in your language as well. OCTOPUS6 is integrated with Autoscript prompter for Duna TV.

2nd November 2009

Jamuna TV in Dhaka, Bangladesh has chosen our partner - Benchmark, Singapore - as a system integrator and supplier of all fully tapeless high-speed news production TV systems to launch their brand new news channel. Jamuna is our 6th customer in Bangladesh. OCTOPUS6 is now being installed and integrated there together with Aveco automation, Vizrt graphics system and Autoscript prompters.

30th October 2009

OCTOPUS Newsroom company is proud to announce a major milestone in its history -  the 10th Anniversary of OCTOPUS Newsroom. Over the past 10 years OCTOPUS Newsroom has consistently developed and delivered new versions of OCTOPUS Newsroom Computer Software which has helped journalists, reporters, producers and other broadcast professionals from TV and radio stations around the world to successfully manage their daily production of newscasts. ...

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10th September 2009

OCTOPUS Newsroom has won the tender for Slovakian 24/7 news channel TA3 and OCTOPUS6 Newsroom Computer System has been chosen to drive their newsroom for preparation and handling of everyday newscast. TA3 is a Slovak nationwide 24/7 news channel broadcasting since 2001. TA3 offers a daily newscast covering international and domestic news; this allows viewers to catch the latest news throughout the day. TA3 broadcasts to the majority of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. OCTOPUS6 is supposed to serve up to 50 concurrent users and will be integrated with Avid Newscutter, Avid Countdown and Vizrt Content Pilot. OCTOPUS6 is offering increased functionality, user-friendly features and mainly a platform independence which enables clients running on MacOS X, Linux and Windows. In addition to the platform independence, OCTOPUS6 is selected by TV stations for a number of innovative new features which help to create news even more quickly and conveniently.

8th September 2009