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