OCTOPUS Newsroom announced that the Portuguese channel Economico TV has decided to drive their newsroom with the latest NCS system from OCTOPUS. Economico TV will be broadcasting 24/7 economic news using OCTOPUS6. The station is based in Lisbon and is the first broadcaster in Portugal to use OCTOPUS. B4M automation, Infostudio graphics and Autoscript telempromters are integrated with OCTOPUS6 using the industry standard MOS protocol. This is the first time Infostudio graphics from GoTV has been integrated with OCTOPUS; thus GoTV is extending the number of OCTOPUS Newsroom's partners. Apart from 15 concurrent user licenses, Economico.TV will take 2 OCTOPUS6 FCP plug-in licenses. The on-air time is planned for the end of September 2009.

4th September 2009