Below, we've highlighted and summarized stories that mention AP or its people, products and services.

Journalists Talk Election Coverage in Event Co-Hosted by RTNDA

Excerpt: About 250 people filled the National Press Club’s ballroom in Washington for a roundtable designed to be a candid conversation, the kind you might overhear if “we were all on the [campaign] bus together,” explained moderator John King from CNN. The panelists included Ron Fournier form the Associated Press, Jonathan Martin from Politico, Derek McGinty from WUSA-TV in Washington Norah O’Donnell from NBC News, Susan Page from USA Today and Jake Tapper from ABC News.

 

Excerpt: In Anchorage, KTUU-TV is also shooting on Beta SX. “We’re using AP’s ENPS and editing video with a Thomson Grass Valley NLE,” says news director John Tracy. “We’ve had ENPS for eight years and Grass Valley NewsEdit SC for two, and find both easy to work with.”

 

Excerpt: The event was co-hosted by RTNDA, the Associated Press, the Newseum and the National Press Club. The panelists included Ron Fournier from the Associated Press.

 

Excerpt: “The Long(er) and Winding Road to the White House: Covering the Race to the 2008 Presidential Election,” will take place December 3 at the National Press Club in Washington, with panelists including: Ron Fournier of Associated Press.

 

Excerpt: Currently, OverDrive can interface with the Avid iNews or AP’s ENPS newsroom computer systems via MOS, so rundowns can be published directly to the controller and operators can view them on the OverDrive timeline.

 

Excerpt: Familiar with AP’s ENPS, McGinnis supported its use as the central content management system and the plan to integrate other applications to it.

 

Excerpt: For more than a decade, news-production solutions provider ENPS (from the broadcast technology group within the Associated Press, or AP) has identified emerging trends in the broadcast industry and developed tools adapted to these trends – in many cases collaborating with the rest of the industry.

 

Excerpt: RTNDA – along with the Associated Press, the Newseum and the National Press Club – will host an event in December to discuss some of these issues with seasoned political reporters.

 

Excerpt: Xmedia provides mOS [Media Object Server] compliant software plug-ins that integrate with AP’s ENPS.

 

Excerpt: Mike Palmer, Director of Design and Integration Strategies for the Associated Press, cautions that stations interested in device automation should be careful the news system doesn’t destroy their current workflow.

 

Excerpt: The Associated Press (AP), the developer of ENPS newsroom systems, in introducing its new Mobile Suite solution.

 

Excerpt: AP Online Video: The Associated Press Online Video Network (OVN), since its launch last year, has expanded to more than 1,600 affiliates including newspapers and commercial sites as well as radio and television outlets.

 

Excerpt: A panel discussion and reception at the National Press Club on June 25 helped introduce a new book about the history of the Associated Press: Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else.

 

Excerpt: Associated Press Broadcast Technology is promoting ENPS Mobile, a link to the newsroom system that runs on pocket devices, giving access to news wires, rundowns, assignment planners and stories.

 

Excerpt: These then can be previewed and inserted directly into stories from within a newsroom client such as AP’s ENPS, and Avid’s iNews.

 

Excerpt: Kevin Roach, executive producer for online video with The Associated Press in New York City, will moderate a panel discussion Tuesday on the use of online video and other multimedia content.

 

Excerpt: The Associated Press Broadcast Technology, which developed the ENPS newsroom systems, is displaying its ENPS Mobile, a link to the newsroom system that runs on a pocket device, with access to news wires, rundowns, assignment planners and stories.

 

Excerpt: WAPSTR runs in conjunction with Chyron’s Camio asset management system and many MOS newsroom computer systems, such as Avid’s iNews, AP’s ENPS and Dalet Open Media.

 

Excerpt: A new feature for the Associated Press ENPS is ENPS Mobile, which provides a link to a journalists’ pocket device with access to new wires, rundowns, assignments planners and stories.

 

Excerpt: “Everything we’ve been preaching about for the last 10 years, with people empowered at the desktop to do more, that’s come true,” notes AP Director of Broadcast Technology Lee Perryman.

 

Excerpt: Primary sources (for example, Associated Press or National Public Radio) can provide text headlines on a subscription basis to affiliate stations.

 

Excerpt: I’m a big fan of Arazie’s “Reel City Tales” vblog. We’ve featured it a couple of times on the home page and the entertainment section front of KnoxNews on the weekends and it’s gotten pretty good traffic – for a weekend.

 

Excerpt: The world’s largest news organization, the Associated Press, is exploring the new medium with a vlog by Ilana Arazie.

 

Excerpt: AP Broadcast Technology, for example, is going mobile with ENPS to link a newsroom system to a pocket device.

 

Excerpt: However, in one of my earlier articles I discussed the ENPS Assignment Desk and the ability to export much of the data contained in it to XML. The assignment grid contains valuable data such as names, phone numbers and other background information that when combined with video, can be a very effective search enabler.

 

Excerpt: According to Bill Burke, ENPS product manager for Associated Press Broadcast Technology in Washington, D.C., “Being able to easily leverage output for multiple targets – DTV, mobile TV, the Web – is a big part of the reason why people are investing in ENPS.”

 

Video Content Booms Online
Newspaper Techniques Gazette
November 2006
Excerpt: While some newspapers worldwide are now producing their own video content, many others are featuring video news provided by news services, such as the Associated Press, which launched a new, large-scale video component in March.

 

Newsroom Technology
Broadcast Engineering
October 2006-World Edition
Excerpt: With the introduction of its Electronic News Production System (ENPS), the Associated Press achieved a tour de force by successfully defining and imposing a new protocol – Media Object Server (MOS) – as a standard communication mechanism.

 

The Christian Broadcasting Network Selects Chyron's Hyperx® As Heart Of HD Project
WebWire
October 5, 2006
Excerpt: The CAMIO MOS solution provides CBN with tight integration between Chyron and AP® ENPS®, which has allowed the network to automate several of its newsroom and studio control room functions.

 

WRAL Diversifies
Local station continues cutting the edge
TVTechnology.com
October 4, 2006
Excerpt: The Associated Press ENPS Newsroom Computer System was also installed last year to manage news production, including the rundown of stories in each newscast.

 

Discover Latest Technologies & Business Ideas at IBC2006
Newsroom System for Mobile and Web Platform
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting
September 2006
Excerpt: ENPS, a provider of newsroom systems, is demonstrating its new ENPS 5.0 solution at booth 7.430. One of the key selling points of this new product is its ability to transfer contents to the Web or to mobile devices.

 

Major News Leaders Select Grass Valley HD & Production Platforms
BroadcastBuyer.TV
September 13, 2006
Excerpt: This functionality can also control satellite dishes via its full support of the CompuSat satellite management system, and can be used to schedule events through the Associated Press ENPS newsroom computer system.

 

Chyron Launches WAPSTR Technology for Instant Mobile Newsgathering
Business Wire
September 11, 2006
Excerpt: Chyron's WAPSTR software application, running in conjunction with Chyron's CAMIO asset management MOS Newsroom Computer System (NCS) - such as iNews(R), ENPS(R) and Dalet(R) - allows the easy and speedy ingest of stills and video footage from members of the public's mobile phones into the newsroom workflow.

 

Technology Can Be Used To Free Up Resources
TVTechnology.com
September 9, 2006
Excerpt: ENPS has the ability to export information from the assignment grid via XML. It also can create tags for this information so when it's entered, it's classified. With a simple XML parsing program, you could feed this information into a graphics template.

 

IBC News: Omneon's MediaGrid Gains Traction
Broadcasting&Cable
September 7, 2006
Excerpt: Russell Grute of systems integrator TSL was on hand at Omneon's IBC press event Thursday to describe Omneon's role at ESPN Star Sports, where the MediaGrid is being combined with OmniBus logging software, ENPS newsroom automation software, Apple Final Cut Pro nonlinear editors and an archiving system from Front Porch Digital in a project referred to as "Homerun."

 

TV Technology
September 6, 2006
Excerpt: Over the last several years, AP has also been tinkering with the ways that metadata can be used more efficiently to improve workflow in a facility. Grass Valley and AP will be working together on connecting metadata from the studio to the filed as part of Version 4 of the ENPS electronic news production solution, according to Mike Palmer, director of video technology at AP.

 

An Old Media Revival?
Forbes.com
August 17, 2006
Excerpt: Yes, that Associated Press. According to NetRatings, the venerable U.S wire service, founded in 1846, saw the number of unique visitors to its sites surge to 9.7 million in July, more than triple their traffic from a year earlier.

 

What's New in the Newsroom
Broadcasting & Cable
August 7, 2006
Excerpt: MOS has become an essential interface for newsroom products. One of its strongest backers is AP, whose ENPS is used in more than 500 newsrooms worldwide. "The call-letter-station markets are finally making a big push into video servers now," says Mike Palmer, director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy for AP Broadcast, "and really automating the newsroom."

 

"AP, Google Confirm Online News Deal"
WashingtonPost.com
August 4, 2006
Excerpt: Google Inc. and the Associated Press confirmed on Thursday they agreed several months ago to a licensing deal to use AP news stories on products beyond the existing Google News service.

 

"Google Confirms AP News Deal"
BizReport.com
August 4, 2006
Excerpt: Google Inc. on Thursday confirmed that it has reached a deal with the Associated Pres to use the wire service's news stories for its new product that will complement the Internet search giant's existing topical news search system, "Google News."

 

"More Details on Google-AP Deal"
Lost Remote TV Blog
August 3, 2006
Excerpt: We linked to a story a few days ago that reported that Google has inked a licensing deal with the Associated Press, and now both companies are confirming it.

 

"Parsing & Breaking Down The AP-Google Agreement"
PaidContent.org
August 2, 2006
Excerpt: That the Associated Press and Google reached an agreement earlier this year is not new although until recently neither was willing to say so flat out.

 

"YouWitness News"
Forbes.com
July 24, 2006
Excerpt: The concept is a potentially revolutionary one for TV newsrooms and their Web sites, which rely on their own camera crews and news services such as Reuters and the Associated Press for the vast majority of their video footage.

 

"Fox, AP Settle Photog Flap"
Broadcasting & Cable.com
July 18, 2006
Excerpt: The AP and Fox have apparently worked out their differences over coverage of Fox's Television Critics Association tour presentation next week in Pasadena, Calif.

 

"AP Won't Cover Fox Tour"
Broadcasting & Cable TV Fax
July 14, 2006
Excerpt: A Fox source confirms that the Associated Press has told the news service it would not send reporters to cover the company's press tour events, including cable network's FX presentation Wednesday, and potentially the Fox network's presentation.

 

"APTN Uses ScheduALL to Simplify Content Delivery for World Cup"
TV Technology
July 7, 2006
Excerpt: Associated Press Television News has been using ScheduALL's end-to-end operations management software during the 2006 FIFA World Cup to centralize and streamline resources for booking newsgathering and client broadcast operations, including Sports News TV (SNTV), a partnership between the AP and TWI, an independent producer and distributor of sports programming.

 

"AP rolls out new features for ENPS 5.0"
Broadcast Engineering
June 7, 2006
Excerpt: The Associated Press has introduced several new features and enhancements for ENPS 5.0, including the addition of a top level of the most critical user material in My ENPS.

 

"The New Isn't Destroying the Old"
TV Technology
May 24, 2006
Excerpt: "It's still a 'people' industry," said Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press.

 

"How newspapers can face online rivals
Commentary: Is it too late to cooperate?"
Market Watch
May 23, 2006
Excerpt: Jim Kennedy, vice president of strategic planning at the Associated Press, says newspapers are facing a similar challenge today.

 

"After The Flood"
Forbes.com
May 23, 2006
Excerpt: But this is not to pick on our friends at the AP, which is now reorganizing its business to serve the new world (and is a news supplier to this site).

 

"What works in online video news?"
Online Journalist Review
May 22, 2006
Excerpt: Jim Kathman, product manager for the AP's online video network, said that a segment that summarizes the major news events of the day, called "One-Minute World," has started to do very well.

 

"Three Experts Offer Hard Truths on Future for Newspapers"
Editor & Publisher
May 20, 2006
Excerpt: Jim Kennedy, AP: "Search has become the entry point for all kinds of content."

 

"Simple, Fast and Portable"
Reuters, AP provide electronic news solutions
TV Technology
May 10, 2006
Excerpt: The Iraq war was also the launch pad for AP's SNAPfeed, a store-and-forward softwar application that lets journalists transmit news video from remote locations using Windows Media 9.

 

"WDAY, WDAZ go tapeless"
Broadcast Engineering
May 3, 2006
Excerpt: Reporters and editors can simultaneously browse and edit packages from their desktop and seamlessly drag and drop revised packages into the specified ENPS rundown.

 

"Apple, Sony ready for XDCAM HD/Final Cut road tour"
Sport Video Group
May 1, 2006
Excerpt: Apple Final Cut Studio 5.1 has also been integrated into the Associated Press ENPS system, allowing for Final Cut Pro projects to be incorporated into the run lists of more than 3,300 ENPS newsroom installations around the world.

 

"NAB Idols"
Broadcasting & Cable
May 1, 2006
Photo: B&C honored six of the industry's top techies a the Technology Leadership Awards at NAB (from left): Sinclair VP, Engineering and Operations, Del Parks; NBC Executive VP, Television Operations and Production Service, John Wallace; AP Director, Broadcast Digital Distribution Systems and Strategy, Mike Palmer;

 

"The Shape of Things to Come"
The Tiger Beat
April 28, 2006
Excerpt: Moderated by NBC's John Seigenthaler, the panel included heavy-weight journalists like Associated Press president and CEO (and RIT alumnus) Tom Curley and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather.

 

"RTNDA's Disappointing Election Results"
Lost Remote TV Blog
April 27, 2006
Excerpt: RTNDA voting members also elected three directors-at-large: Ed Tobias, assistant managing editor/broadcast news, Associated Press, Washington (incumbent)

 

"AP's ENPS System Now Delivers More Integration Power to Newsrooms Worldwide"
Broadcasters Show Daily
April 25, 2006
Excerpt: Newsrooms have changed since we invented ENPS ten years ago.

 

"Technology Brings New Media Choices"
NAB 2006 Daily News Online Edition
April 25, 2006
Excerpt: "It's still a 'people' industry," said Tom Curley, president/CEO, The Associated Press. "Some reporter still has to ferret out the information."

 

"NAB: The Shape of Things to Come"
think d2c
April 25, 2006
Excerpt: Curley emphatically replied, "No. We're a business-to-business  model and we're going to stay there."

 

"@NAB: AP's Curley, Google's Mayer Talk Aggregation – Carefully; AP-Google Deal?"
paidContent.org
April 25, 2006
Excerpt: Siegenthaler then asked if AP is fairly compensated when its work "gets out there" in aggregators like Google. Curley: "Let's see if Marissa can answer that."

 

"The AP-Google Cha Cha Cha"
Online News Squared
April 25, 2006
Excerpt: Fairly interesting (but in the end fairly unsatisfying) dance between AP's Tom Curley and Google's Marissa Mayer at NAB conference yesterday over whether they have – or are talking about – some kind of content distribution deal, PaidContent reports.

 

"AP, Google working on licensing deal?"
Lost Remote TV Blog
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: Staci Kramer highlights an exchange in yesterday's session between Google VP Melissa Mayer and AP CEO Tom Curley over Google News' aggregation of AP stories. "We're not suing them," Curley said.

 

"Avid Interplay tops NAB intro list"
Sports Video Group
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: The system reduces the possibility for errors by integrating seamlessly with a range of products – from Avid and other vendors – and can trigger playout events based on rundowns from the Avid iNEWS NRCS, as well as MOS-enabled newsroom play lists such as ENPS.

 

"The State of TV News: Annual Meeting Focuses on Tech"
News Gets a Dose of Digital at RTNDA
TV Week
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: Others on the panel are Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press.

 

"The Shape of Things To Come"
Lost Remote TV Blog
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: These kind of sessions in the past were half-full, but the room at "The Shape of Things to Come" panel here at NAB-RTNDA is packed with a  line of people standing along the walls. On the panel: NBC's John Seigenthaler, CBS' Dan Rather, AP CEO Tom Curley, Google News VP Marissa Mayer, Univision's Jorge Ramos, CBS Radio's Harvey Nagler and Hearst-Argyle SVP Fred Young.

 

"Both Sides Now"
AP's Mike Palmer knows tech and understands journalism
Broadcasting & Cable Special Section: 9th Annual Technology Leadership Awards
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: He's one of the recipients of a Broadcasting & Cable Technology Leadership Award, lauded largely because of innovations he has shepherded in his eight-year tenure at the AP, the last three years in his current post.

 

"MOS Grows for New News Needs"
TV Technology
April 24, 2006
Excerpt: MOS was born at AP's ENPS developer's conference nearly eight years ago, and today is the communication protocol used by all but one of the newsroom computer vendors.

 

"Sprint And The Associated Press Introduce SNAPfeed"
Television Broadcast
April 2006
Excerpt: Sprint and the Associated Press have teamed up to deliver SNAPfeed, a store and forward application developed by the AP, which allows journalists to send high quality breaking news video over Sprint's EV-DO network.

 

"AP Enhances ENPS for NAB2006"
TV Technology News Bytes
March 30, 2006
Excerpt: Associated Press Broadcast Technology will show new features for its ENPS news production system at NAB2006.

 

R&R News/Talk/Sports This Week
March 24, 2006
Excerpt: Kudos to WHJJ/Providence midday host Helen Glover who recently received the award for Best Talk Show from the Associated Press.

 

"AP, MSN Roll Out Video Service"
Broadcasting & Cable
March 6, 2006
Excerpt: The AP and MSN on March 1 launched a breaking-news video service to 450 member Web sites that have signed on so far.

 

"AP's Timely Video Exclusive"
Lost Remote TV Blog
March 1, 2006
Excerpt: One of the biggest Associated Press video exclusives in recent memory, the AP today released footage of federal disaster officials warning President Bush about the destructive potential of Katrina before the hurricane hit.

 

"Computer and Automation Systems"
RTNDA Communicator
March 2006
Excerpt: AP's ENPS has also improved its work flow to be more script oriented with a feature that product manager Bill Burke calls "script back line."

 

"Automating the Newsroom"
TV Technology
January 25, 2006
Excerpt: ENPS and iNews allow you to create an empty record clip for field assignments. ENPS, through its Snap Feed product, allows journalists in the field to access these same record clips and transfer their story via ftp into a server back at the station.

 

"On Air"
Radio Ink
January 9, 2006
Photo Caption: The Associated Press radio division recently saluted KDKA in Pittsburgh for 85 years of broadcasting excellence. AP supported KDKA on their first day of broadcasting by providing the Harding-Cox election results, and continues to serve them today.

"Blowing Like A Hurricane"
News/Talk: That Was The Year That Was
Reporting To The World: Pope John Paul II
Billboard Radio Monitor
December 9, 2005
Excerpt: In the case of Pope John Paul II, each U.S. network had spent time during the last 26 years revising its advance obituary, updating biographical profiles and maintaining preparations for establishing a remote newsroom as close to the Vatican as possible. The Associated Press wire service ran its first bulletin at 2:54 p.m., and the first on-air report by AP Broadcast's radio service came at 2:59p.m.

 

News Graphics
Image Databases
RTNDA Communicator
December 2005
Excerpt: AP GraphicsBank offers hundreds of thousands of still images, including head shots of newsmakers, logos, maps and images related to breaking stories, all copyright cleared for broadcast or online use.

 

WSHM Ignites Local News
TV Technology
November 23, 2005
Excerpt: "We leveraged technology to put a great product on the air," said Victor Zarrilli, director of engineering for WFSB and WSHM. Ignite, the Associated Press ENPS newsroom system, and Vizrt graphics system – for lower-thirds and animation – work in tandem to get the product on the air with essentially one "technical producer" to operate the Ignite.

'Lot of Excitement' Over AP Video
Lost Remote
November 23, 2005
Excerpt: I spoke with Jim Kathman, the head of strategy for AP's broadcast division, about the recent announcement to offer a free MSN-powered video player with AP video to member newspapers and TV stations. He offered a few more details on upcoming features and the reaction from AP members.

 

CBS's Poltrack: VOD Market Worth 5 Billion
Television Business Report
November 15, 17, 21, 2005
Excerpt: It pretty much happened all at once – VOD content deals everywhere and more mainstream media channels going online. Microsoft's MSN and the Associated Press announced a partnership to develop an online video network that will stream video news feeds to sites that subscribe to AP's wire service.

 

Here's To Another 85!
Radio & Records
November 4, 2005
Photo caption: The Associated Press' radio division on Oct.28 saluted KDKA/Pittsburgh's 85th year of broadcasting with a special plaque. The two joined forces on KDKA's first broadcast day, when AP delivered the Harding-Cox presidential-election results, and they continue to work together today. (l-r) Infinity/Pittsburgh Market Manager & KDKA Sr.VP/GM Michael Young, Infinity/Pittsburgh VP/Programming Keith Clark, KDKA PD Steve Hansen and AP Radio Regional Radio Exec. Kevin Dalton and GM Thom Callahan.

 

Pathfire, AP Partner to Provide Hurricane Coverage
TV Technology.com
November 4, 2005
Excerpt: Pathfire, and the Associated Press have inked a deal to deliver hurricane-related coverage to stations in the Gulf Coast Region.

 

Helping Hands
Organizations Offer Help to Journalists Who Covered Hurricane Katrina
RTNDA Communicator
November 2005
Excerpt: Lisa Meyer: 6 Inspiring Stories. Associated Press radio reporter Lisa Meyer shares stories about the people she met covering the storm.

 

Pathfire and The Associated Press Team to Deliver Hurricane-Related Coverage to Gulf Coast Television Stations
www.pathfire.com; www.prnewswire.com; www.techlinks.net; www.einnews.com;
October 31, 2005
Excerpt: Pathfire, Inc., the leading provider of digital content distribution and management solutions for the broadcast and media industries, announced today an agreement with The Associated Press (AP) to deliver hurricane related coverage to stations in the Gulf Coast region.

 

On The Cover: AP Photo/David J. Phillip
RTNDA Communicator
October 2005
Excerpt: RTNDA thanks the Associated Press for the Katrina-related images in this issue. Page 3

 

Katrina Brings Out Best in Journalists
RTNDA Communicator
October 2005
Photo caption: AP Radio's Derril Holly interviews an evacuee from New Orleans inside the Houston Astrodome. Page 18

 

Newsrooms Bid Adieu to Sneakernet
Today's designs reflect workflow considerations
TV Technology
September 21, 2005
Excerpt: Mike Palmer, director of technology development for AP's ENPS, said the automation in ingest systems bring real life workflow improvements.

 

Radio News Nets Set for Bush Speech Coverage
Billboard Radio Monitor
September 15, 2005
Excerpt: AP Broadcast's radio affiliates also will have live, anchored coverage, with AP's Ed Donahue anchoring. The news network still has about eight radio reporters in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area covering all aspects of the hurricane Katrina story.

 

"Relaunched AP Radio News Wants Human Interest Tales with Mass Appeal"
Bulldog Reporter Business Media
September 2, 2005
Excerpt: Breaking news, business news and lifestyle features each have a place at AP Radio News, and the key is finding what appeals to a vast audience around the world. "We call it a news and information cast," says AP Radio general manager Thomas Callahan.

 

"AP To Launch Online Video Network"
TVB, Television Broadcast
August 2005
Excerpt: The Associated Press will launch an online video news network for newspaper, television and radio Web sites in the United States.

 

Sales Briefs: "Associated Press & Leitch's NEXIO NewsNet"
TVB, Television Broadcast
August 2005
Excerpt: The Associated Press has selected Leitch's NEXIO NewsNet server system. Comprising 500 hours of storage and two NEXIO NewsFlash non-linear editing systems, the NewsNet system will be used by AP to create news stories for distribution over the wire to print, radio and television networks and forms a critical ingest component of the AP network.

 

August 19, 2005
Excerpt: Veteran reporters and AP Radio correspondents Jon Belmont and Lisa Meyer covered the space shuttle Discovery's latest mission live from the Kennedy Space Center. Photo caption: Belmont is seen here reporting from in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building.

 

 

Covering the West Wing for Radio Is Not Quite as Glamorous as You Might Think
Excerpt: AP Radio News correspondent Mark Smith, a 27-year AP veteran, has covered Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes. He also is incoming president of the White House Correspondents' Association, which represents the White House press corps in negotiations with the Bush administration.

 

August 1, 2005
Excerpt: In 1906 Mark Twain addressed an Associated Press convention in new York, declaring: "There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe – only two. The sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here." That quote has inspired the AP Television-Radio Association of California & Nevada to rename its annual honors the Mark Twain Awards as part of a complete revamp of the image, operation and judging of the annual contents, said APTRA President Hal Eisner.

 

TV Keyword Tracker Adds AP Video
Broadcast & Cable TV Fax; www.broadcastingandcable.com
July 27, 2005
Excerpt: Television news monitoring service Critical Mention will not have access to Associated Press video content, thanks to an agreement announced Monday.

 

July 26, 2005
Excerpt: While there are no firm plans in place, Mr. France said, he envisions creating an Associated Press-type of service that would be available to a broad swath of news organizations, including newspapers and television news operations.

New facility offers a glimpse at the future – and a nod to the past
Excerpt: An OmniBus automation system, Pinnacle nonlinear editing systems and Associated Press' ENPS newsroom system are used by reporters and producers to build story packages on the desktop. And because the system is tied directly into the network's ENPS newsroom system, voting can take place right up until airtime.

 

July 13, 2005
Excerpt: The newsroom computer uses Crispin's News Rundown Manager (NRM) and will be tightly integrated with the ENPS newsroom system to make it easier for producers to shuffle story order or add in new graphic and story elements.

 

The London bombings turned ordinary citizens into reporters
Excerpt: London-based Sandy MacIntyre, director of news for APTN, says its reporters asked people on the street for images and video.

 

The newsroom revolution turns 10
Excerpt: "Today, with ENPS, as soon as the story is edited and saved on the server, you're alerted by the system, and you can click on that asset to view it. As a result, the process is easier and the newscast is more polished," said Bill Burke, product manager for ENPS at AP in Washington, D.C.

 

July 6, 2005
Excerpt: One news vendor has done a great job of looking at the newsgathering process and developed solutions to allow its users to more easily gather the news – ENPS.

 

June 26, 2005
Excerpt: To ensure that ERTU's workflows remain efficient, Deko 3000 has been integrated seamlessly with ERTU's existing ENPS newsroom system and Omnibus automation.

 

June 22, 2005
Excerpt: The Associated Press Broadcast division plans to drop its AP All-News Radio service in mid-July and also scale back its sports coverage. The AP cited low demand as the reason for the change.

 

June 6, 2005
Excerpt: The McMahon Center features 25 stations of Macintosh G-5 editing suites equipped with Final Cut Pro HD; five Avid editing suites; two audio suites; and a news technology center featuring an AP ENPS system.

 

May 2005
Excerpt: If the heart of News 14 Carolina's technology is the digital hardware, the brain is a system called ENPS, or Electronic News Production System.

Radio World
May 2005
Excerpt: If you are an AP member and you also use AP material on your Web site, you'll have to pay extra. The Associated Press said its board of directors in April approved a new online licensing structure to cover use of AP content on newspaper and local radio and TV station member Web sites…

 

Television Week
April 2005
Broadcasters update computer systems for better integration
Excerpt: A newsroom computer system is the guts of a station's editorial operations, and leading provider Associated Press, with its ENPS, and Avid, with its iNews, are tweaking their systems so they can better integrate with other equipment in a newsroom and handle the new territories that broadcasters are just beginning to use. This year AP plans to focus on upgrades to ENPS that allow the system to stretch further into the news organization.

 

Billboard Radio Monitor
April 2005
Excerpt: A news network's preparation for the death of a pope begins as soon as a cardinal is elected and becomes head of the Catholic Church. In the case of Pope John Paul II, each U.S. network has probably spent the better part of the last 26 years revising its obituary reports, updating biographical profiles and maintaining preparations for establishing a newsroom as close to the Vatican as possible. In some cases starting as early as Thursday, March 31, each U.S. radio news organization – ABC News Radio, AP Broadcast, CBS Radio News, CNN and Fox News Radio – offered extensive coverage, countless special reports and live anchored segments reporting on virtually every aspect of the life, death and burial of the pope. AP Broadcast's Melissa Gray was dispatched to Rom from London March 31. Victor Simpson of the Associated Press' Rom bureau and AP Television News' Trisha Thomas provided coverage prior to Gray's arrival.

Broadcasting & Cable
March 2005
Breaking Story: HD Gear Without Sticker Shock
NAB show features plenty of equipment that takes the string out of digital conversion
Excerpt: The main action in newsroom technologies, in fact, will be in response to what Bill Burke, Associated Press product manager for ENPS, describes at the creation of pools of content within a newsroom. With news organizations having more ways to distribute their content (TV, broadband, mobile devices and even VOD), that content needs to be readily accessible and easily configurable for those distribution methods. In turn, journalists and producers need to be able to easily format stories and material for distribution. "A station like WRAL in Raleigh [N.C], which brings in content and sends it out for TV newscasts, mobile phones and an online presence they've had for years, is the type of network environment I see developing," Burke says.

 

But Emmis gives stations some latitude about their choices
Excerpt: In a few areas, such as newsroom computer systems, there isn't as much wiggle room because Emmis has already picked the ENPS platform.

Media General's digital plans enter a new phase
Excerpt: News-editing and related precuts from the Grass Valley Group will work alongside AP's ENPS newsroom system, which will also handle content management.

"Newsroom Systems"

Communicator
March 2005
New enhancements allow for easier transmission, automation and control of news streams.
Excerpt: Four-Step Video: ENPS offers customers SNAPfeed 3.0 to encode and transmit video from the field using almost any telecommunication device. The simple interface makes encoding and sending video and easy four step process. SNAPfeed works with Agility encoding and transcoding software from Anystream to automatically convert incoming files to production-server-specific formats and then transfer the video directly into servers. Producers waiting for incoming video receive constant status reports. Once received, the video can be accessed via any ENPS workstation. SNAPfeed 3.0 also enables system administrators to define resolutions and aspect ratios to avoid oversights by those in the field.

 

Billboard Radio Monitor
March 2005
Excerpt: Successive Arbitron surveys have demonstrated a heightening desire on the part of listeners to seek out news and information via the radio. What we also know is that listeners who seek out news content are generally well-educated people with substantial disposable income and a wide variety of interests. In a bid to capture the needs of this group and in an effort to identify the changing market conditions pertaining to news radio, Billboard Radio monitor brought together the news executives who head ABC News Radio, The Associated Press' radio division, CBS Radio News and Fox News Radio for a special round-table session. Held Feb. 18 at Monitor's world headquarters in New York, the discussion was attended by ABC News Radio VP/GM Steve Jones, AP Broadcast GM Thom Callahan, CBS Radio News VP Harvey Nagler and Fox News Radio senior VP Kevin Magee. Callahan told the round table that commercial FM programmers should "start to understand that they need to program information, as well as music, entertainment and all the other things" that comprise a weekly schedule. "I just think that FM music stations, if they can take a little bit of time in the morning [to create a sponsorable segment], I think the return can be substantial," he said.

Broadcasting & Cable
March 2005
Newsroom systems step up with digital
Excerpt: The Associated Press will trot out a number o new features for its ENPS newsroom system. First up is the automatic archive, which Bill Burke, Associated Press product manager for ENPS, says will send an XML copy of incoming content to a content-management system. "It will work in the same way that our MOS protocol allows us to mirror content that is on the online server," he explains. Users will be able to find content that is located in deeper storage in a folder on the desktop, allowing them to access more information.

TV Technology
February 2005
Digital technology helps control vast amounts of amateur video
Excerpt: The earthquake and tsunami was located in an area on earth where the giants of television news had deployed few of their technical resources. Fortunately, thousands of tourists were in the area with their consumer camcorders to record the event. "If you can make out what's happening on the film then it's good enough to air," said Sandy MacIntyre, director of news for Associated Press Television News (APTN), "especially in the opening stages if that's all you've got to illustrate the story. As the journalists arrived in the disaster region, video material began to flood in to APTN's facility, which had gone fully digital just a year earlier. Not quite all digital, it turns out. When the number of incoming feeds exceeded the number of ingest ports into the servers, APTN staffers recorded additional fees on tape to ingest when things came down. The secret to their success at keeping track of all this video within their servers was disciplined logging.

 

TV Technology
January 2005
Broadcasters strive for a streamlined, automated process
Excerpt: AP offers a solution that moves away from machine control and focuses more squarely on the needs of the individual journalist. Its ENPS platform helps journalists create, manage and broadcast news content, allowing users to search for material across one facility or across multiple locations. Hardware control within the ENPS systems is possible via the MOS protocol, allowing users to control outside hardware devices such as servers or CGs. New features within ENPS include SNAPfeed software, which enables field crews to transmit video from the field using a standard laptop computer; and ENPS FAX, an application that gives journalists the ability to view and use faxes from within the ENPS interface.

 

Broadcast Engineering
January 2005
Excerpt: Simplicity is a virtue to non-technical television journalists in the field. The lat thing they have time to do is worry about technical details when they're on deadline and a story needs to get back to the station in a hurry. The Associated Press is attempting to simplify matters with the release of its SNAPfeed 3.0 software. Packaged with its ENPS, a new user interface directs journalists through a four-step, non-technical process to encode and transmit video.

 

New Products for Integrated Newsrooms
Excerpt: Arizona Engineered Products has teamed up with Associated Press to offer software that monitors, coordinates and controls ENG microwave operations from within ENPS.

 

IBE
November/December 2004
Excerpt: Mike Palmer, director of technology development and digital distribution systems and strategy for Associated Press, looks at the changing role of journalists within the newsroom. News production is the process of planning, gathering, producing and communicating news content. While this is primarily an editorial process these days, it is supported by sophisticated technical appliances and systems. Journalists around the world generally share these six basic workflow elements, regardless of media type: planning, gathering, production, distribution (output), archiving, researching. Palmer explains how seamless workflow is enabled in ENPS.

 

Broadcasting & Cable
November 8 2004
Excerpt: To gain a domestic video presence, AP updates headquarters. Despite its stature as a leading news organization, the Associated Press has never been able to duplicate that success in its video services. In 1994, the AP launched AP Television News (APTN) in London and now offers APTN Direct, a satellite-delivered live news service. Though used by more than 500 broadcasters, major portals and Web sites worldwide, including RAI in Italy, Nippon in Japan and BBC in the UK, the service is a global win, not a domestic one. But Tom Curley, AP president and CEO since June 2003, the 12th since the service's founding in 1848, is on the case.

Broadcasting & Cable
November 2004
Networks rely on new service for election results
Except: At a time when the nation is nervous about election returns, the networks have taken extra steps to ensure accurate reporting. In 2000, the Florida flip-flop damaged their credibility. That fiasco led to an overhaul in analyzing polling data: In 2004, Voter news Service is out, National Election Pool is in. Formed by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Associated Press, CNN and Fox News, NEP will be the primary source of vote count, election analysis and election projections on Election Night, Nov.2. Unlike the VNS, the NEP is dividing the workload: The AP will tabulate votes; Edison Research and Mitofsky International will handle exit polling and analysis. The system has already been tested on 23 elections and primaries and performed flawlessly. Despite the unknowns, CBS News Director of Surveys Kathleen Frankobic has confidence in the NEP system, especially the division of labor between AP and Edison/Mitofsky. After all, in 2000, the AP was the one news organization that got it right, declaring the race too close to call. AP has been getting presidential elections right since 1848, which is why AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll trusts the vote data.

Broadcasting & Cable
October 18th 2004
Excerpt: CBS News Vice President Linda Mason hasn't forgotten the debacle of Election Night 2000 and know s the White House race could be every bit as tight this time around. "First think we've changes is, we've split the jobs VNS did in 2000 between two organizations. VNS computers were put under tremendous stress. Now AP will have responsibility for collecting official tabulated results from election officials. Edison Media Research will be doing the exit polling. This system is much more robust because the two tasks will be checking on each other."

 

RTNDA Communicator
October 2004
Excerpt: Associated Press Broadcast provides news organizations with results for every state and national race, as well as political news segments, information and research tools in a variety of formats for radio, TV or online use. AP has significantly expanded its offerings for the 2004 election season, and s now the sole provider of vote-tabulation for the five major TV networks. For more information, visit www.apbroadcast.com/AP+Broadcast/Television/default.htm.

 

Radio Ink
October 4 2004
James R.Williams III, Vice President/Director of AP Broadcast Services
Excerpt: With a daily each of 1 billion people around the world, what sort of logistical challenges does the organization face on a day-to-day basis? Think of it this way: We have reporters in cities and countries around the world, and we have clients in all those places. The challenge is to gather the news from all those places, make sure it's accurate and has the right context, and get it out to all those clients.

 

"AP/AzEp Alliance Advances Live Field Reporting Hardware and new software work together with AP's ENPS news system"
Broadcast Newsroom
September 10th 2004
Excerpt: Specialized hardware and newly released software Arizona Engineered Products (AzEP) works in concert with AP's industry-leading ENPS newsroom computer system to bridge the information gap. Stations can now enjoy the ability to remotely control many aspects of live shot set up, allowing field crews to concentrate on covering their stories. AP's Mike Palmer said, "AzEP integration with ENPS allows Producers and Assignment desks to, for the first time, closely integrate field transmissions units with Running Order and Story content within the newsroom computer system. Jeff Sales, President of Arizona Engineered Products, stated, "AzEP appreciates the enthusiasm and support that AP/ENPS has shown for its MOS-based applications. AP is a terrific partner in this project and shares a common vision." The integration of AzEP and ENPS, "will allow users more ability to plan, coordinate, and control their field news product," he added.

 

Broadcasting and Cable
September 6th 2004
Excerpt: Mike Palmer, director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy, discussed new tools that journalists use in order to work closely with a story from beginning to end. The two industry leaders giving reporters more control over their stories are AP's Electronic News Production System (ENPS) and Avid's iNews. Each one puts a wealth of information and capability at the fingertips of anyone in the newsroom. Palmer stressed in the article, "It's not about reducing headcount but increasing efficiency." Palmer goes on to add that the unexpected number of feeds that can come in to the receive station means it will always be a good idea to have personnel monitoring the area where stories are ingested. Also helping journalists become more comfortable with newsroom automation is the ENPS "Follow ME" feature. Introduced earlier this year, it uses the newsroom system to automatically send messages from the assignment desk to a phone or PDA in the field. "It's an automated way of communicating planning and running-order information whether the reporter is logged into the newsroom system or not," said Palmer. The new My ENPS feature delivers an automatic overview of top stories and summaries of top wire, key local, and current assignments. ENPS also gives producers a greater degree of comfort by allowing station personnel to monitor the status of transmissions from the field.

 

Radio Ink
August 25th 2004
Excerpt: Sirius Satellite Radio has licensed the use of the AP SportsPower content with complete coverage of all professional and college sports with voicer-length stories, actualities and correspondent reports. Also included are stories and final scores on important state and regional sports. To optimize delivery channels and timelines, text is delivered via satellite, while audio is available via the Internet.

Radio World
August 23rd 2004
Excerpt: Live reports and recorded interviews were transmitted from the floor to the Associated Press broadcast booth overlooking the convention floor in the Fleet Center, where they were used in AP Radio programming. Convention material also was recorded at the Broadcast News Center in Washington and edited for use on AP's closed circuit feeds. Also, in People News, AP Broadcast's Ed Tobias was elected to an at-large seat on the Radio-Television News Directors Association Board of Directors.

 

RTNDA Communicator
September 2004
Excerpt: Focusing on the less is more philosophy in the newsroom, many consolidated newsgroups, using this new state of the art technology, can connect with their sister stations across the country and share resources better. Mark Miller, news director, WBAL-AM, Baltimore, has been working with AP's ENPS newsroom system for a couple of years and finds the increased connectivity to be his favorite feature. Miller went on to add, "In some cases, I get late-breaking information that hasn't made it to the wire yet." Miller also feels that the system will be most beneficial on election night.

 

Broadcast Engineering
August 2004
Excerpt: Four out of five Portuguese TV broadcasters used The Associated Press Electronic News Production System, ENPS, to follow their national team to the UEFA Euro 2004 final. Portugal's national state broadcaster, Radio e Televisão Portuguesa (RTP), private rivals, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC), and sister station, SIC Noticias, together with the specialist channel SPORT TV, all used the desktop ENPS system. The Associated Press is also launching ENPS 4.5, the latest version of the news production system. New features provide a tighter and more efficient workflow for both users in the field and the newsroom.

 

Broadcasting & Cable
August 2004
Excerpt: Media General will use AP's ENPS news-production system at WFLA Tampa Bay, Fla., when the station moves to a convergent newsroom that also shares information with print and Web reporters. The newsroom will have new functionality, such as follow-me messaging, which allows assignment editors to use the newsroom system to send messages to reporters wherever they are. Says WFLA News Director Forest Carr, "We're impressed with the ENPS system and confident it will take care of our current and future needs in our converging news environment."

 

TV Technology
July 2004
Excerpt: Media General has selected AP's ENPS news production system to digitize the newsroom workflow of Tampa, Fla. WFLA-TV. ENPS will be linked to NewsGate and NewsDesk applications built by CCI Europe to be used by the co-located Tampa Tribune's newspaper journalists. ENPS is already used by 20 Media General newsrooms.

 

TV Technology
July 2004
Excerpt: Use of Internet Protocol (IP) to send video over the Internet, once just a dream, is now being adapted in many parts of the broadcast industry. TV Technology surveyed an array of vendors about the challenges of video over IP. At Associated Press, video over IP is used to aid journalists in the field relay their video back to their stations. Much of the effort has gone into simplifying that task for non-technical people on deadline. Using AP's SnapFeed, "all the journalist has to say is, 'my deadline is X'… and then SnapFeed does all the calculations and makes sure that the piece makes it back," Palmer said.

 

TV Technology
July 2004
Excerpt: Associated Press Product Manager Bill Burke said asset management cataloging begins at the assignment desk. "It really finds its roots before the actual media in many cases gets made," Burke said. "It is driven by the content that's created and the planning that's done through the assignment process." The protocol solution was MOS, Media Object Server protocol.

 

BroadcastAsia
June 2004
Excerpt: The facility integrated 10 edit suites utilising Leitch's
NewsFlash craft editor, 10 ingest channels and 18 playout channels with
ENPS newsroom computer system …

TV Technology June 2004
Product Review: Automation
Excerpt: The Associated Press launched ENPS 4.5 with enhancements that include multilanguage features, extended search capabilities, automated national and local content integration, and new newsgathering options. Other new solutions as part of ENPS 4.5 include SNAPfeed 2.0, the latest version of the store-and-forward technology that allows users to feed  stories to multiple newsrooms and servers simultaneously, and On-Air Ticker System Integration, which automatically merges and updates local, state and national content for viewers.

Excerpt: ESPN redefined sports TV. And June 7, it makes history. That's when it begins broadcasting 13 hours of SportsCenter daily in HDTV. SportsCenter will be the first program to broadcast from ESPN's new 120,000-square foot digital facility -- a state-of-the-art plant that is arguably the most advanced in the world. Each room has two six-channel Quantel servers, a Thomson Grass Valley Kalypso production switcher, and access to AP's ENPS newsroom system to handle switching and tracking of on-air events.

 

Broadcast Engineering
May 2004
Excerpt: The Omnibus Automation System will manage media ingest, mirroring and dubbing processors on the Omneon Content server. Omnibus's new G3 Series Headline Browse Editor will be integrated within TEN's ENPS Newsroom System providing desktop editing.

 

TV Technology
April 2004
Excerpt: Proximity Corporation and Sundance Digital recently announced a graphics system that harnesses the specialties of both companies to automate the creation and recall of news graphics. The combined Proximity/Sundance system works with most playout servers and graphics creation systems, using the MOS protocol and template-based architecture to automate the process. The combined system is compatible with Avid's iNEWS and the AP/ENPS newsroom systems.

NAB Daily
April 2004
Excerpt: Calling it "the shortest route from assignment to air," The
Associated Press introduced version 4.5 of its Electronic News Production System at NAB 2004. It has also been referred to as "the HOV lane for news production."

 

TelevisionWeek
April 2004
Excerpt: Associated Press' ENPS newsroom computer system includes some new functionality, such as enabling stations to add local content to any of the 12 AP tickers, said Bill Burke, AP product manager. In addition, assignment managers can sent messages directly from ENPS to a reporter in the field via a wireless phone or personal digital assistant.

 

TV Technology
March 2004
Excerpt: "Broadcasters are always on the lookout for efficient, cost-effective ways to trim expenses and maximize revenues. In anticipation of this trend, Associated Press will showcase new features to its ENPS news production system at NAB 2004. The newest version, 4.0, supports a wider variety of languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Greek. Other solutions on display include SNAPfeed, a software application that allows a field journalist to transmit video from remote locations to the newsroom using a laptop".

Broadcasting & Cable
March 2004
Excerpt: "The AP's ENPS includes that functionality in the form of 'follow-me messaging,'" says Bill Burke, AP product manager. "The key is, the person sending the message doesn't have to know where the user is or keep track of them", says Mike Palmer, director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy. Reporters also have greater need to stay on top of developing stories. That has led AP to develop "My ENPS", which allows newsroom staff to create a personalized wire service. "They can search across multiple locations," says Burke. The MOS protocol has helped news organizations tie the editing, graphics, and newsroom systems more closely together.

 

Broadcast Hardware International
March 2004
Excerpt: Journalists at nearly 500 locations worldwide work on ENPS systems, giving rise to the claim by AP Broadcast Technology that it is the world's most popular newsroom. AP is also the driving force behind the MOS protocol which has become widely recognized as the way to provide systems level interconnection.

 

Broadcasting & Cable
February 2004
Excerpt: Leitch offers workflow gains with tighter systems. NAB attendees will be able to see a system that provides ingest, browse, edit and rundown capabilities and also integrates with newsroom computer systems like Avid iNews or AP's ENPS.

 

Television Week
January 2004
Excerpt: When the presidential primaries begin this month, the Associated Press takes over vote-tallying chores for the defunct Voter News Service, the exit poll consortium that previously provided network news divisions with race projections.