NewsTicker Content Modules
To maximize user efficiency, NewsTicker's content areas are segmented into logical categories called modules. While distinct in their data entry role, they are all maintained in one application for more complete integration.

Newsroom's seven-year-old TickerWire service provides ready-to-air content to most NewsTicker modules eliminating the need for manual entry in the vast majority of on-air displays. With other ticker systems, data feeds are known to create as many problems as they fix. They make new work for producers by only partially automating the process. Not true with TickerWire. Our system is designed for stations that don't have any news staff and are capable of running on their own without any editorial intervention. No other product on the market makes this claim.

STANDARD MODULES
Headlines
> Configurable for one to three line crawl or hot-change displays

> Quick insertion of local headlines, with the ability to load in advance without airing

> Can be grouped into categories with isolated on-air displays

> TickerWire: National/international headlines in rundown format

Sports
> Flexibility to only display certain teams within a league

> Multiple comment lines with each game to display stats or headlines

> Pre-loading of local sports schedules

> Customize the order leagues are displayed for maximum on-air control

> TickerWire: Realtime updates of professional and college sports

Weather
> Current conditions and forecasts

> Forecasts by city and day part

> Supports weather icons and free-flow text data

> Read from an in-house temperature probe for time/temp displays

> Display current temperature, sky conditions, barometer level, relative humidity, dew point, sunrise/sunset, and more

> TickerWire: Hourly current conditions from the National Weather Service or from AWS InstaWeather (from participating affiliates)

Finance
> TickerWire: All data provided through TickerWire

> Quotes updated continuously during your newscasts

> Station can add or delete stocks of local interest on the spot and change the display names

> Expand your finance display offering by showing most active stocks

> Display all major indices including the Dow, NASDAQ, S&P500, and the Nikkei

> Supports expanded stock data such as 52-week high/low, today's high/low, and volume

Lottery
> TickerWire: Results from all 50 states and Canada

Ski Reports
> TickerWire: All data provided through TickerWire

> Multiple intraday updates of number of lifts operating, base and top depths, and KM of cross country paths open

> Unique sponorship opportunity of potentially market-exclusive data

Terrorist Threat Level
> TickerWire: Data provided through TickerWire

> Display the current national threat level or set to only display if above a certain level
OPTIONAL MODULES
Closings
> Highly optimized transactional system capable of handling thousands of organizations via telephony, web, or manual entry

> Can display closing information in a hot-change or crawl format with realtime updates (i.e. information updated in the middle of a crawl will be displayed properly on air)

> First to air features include Just InTM, an isolated display of organizations that just closed seconds ago, and Always OnTM, a separate display of the largest organizations in your DMA

> Through LOGICTM, Newsroom's powerful middleware scripting language, realtime decisions can be automatically executed such as changing the pace of the display based on the number of closings

> Robust centralized web-proxy service provides realtime web closures in the most secure environment available on the market, rigorously audited and approved by more than two dozen station groups and 70 stations

> Integration with all NewsTicker modules allows you to include other data in your display until an arbitrary number of organizations are active without stopping the on-air display

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Severe Weather
> Dynamic, state-of-the-art animated map display with integrated legend, display of expiration times, and display of multiple conditions per county or zone

> Receive instant real-time redundant data from the National Weather Service's NOAA Port satellite

> Complete visual customization by station fortifies your weather brand

> Display data in any combination of a bug, map or crawl format

> Incorporate RADAR images (near real-time sequenced images or live local output) with the bug display

> Can have data sent automatically as-is to air or edit alerts before air

> Supports newer and more accurate VTEC codes from the National Weather Service

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Elections
> Robust real-time enterprise system scalable to thousands of races with hundreds of candidates per race

> Automatic data capture from wire and web sources including "inspection" mode that auto-detects races and candidates for rapid setup

> Controls hot-change or crawl displays as well as fullscreens

> Races can use different fullscreen templates to best present your data, including pictures and winner flags

> Advanced studio prompting software provides extended race information to talent in sync with full-screen displays

> Race memorization for easy setup of local races in future elections

> Ability to turn off display of bottom vote-getters

> Powerful audit controls to identify potential mistakes

> Export to website including 3D graphs

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