theibcdaily The news in Sweden 24/7 Q&A Mosart By Ian McMurray
Sweden’s largest private provider of broadcast news, Nyhetsbolaget Sverige, has launched the country’s first 24/7 news channel using the
been a major component of its offering to the Swedish market since the inception of the network in 1990.
Newly constructed for the channel launch, the TV4 news gallery is the network’s second installation of a Mosart system. The main TV4
loaded by Mosart from the network’s ENPS system, and the two channels are linked every 30 minutes during the morning show, which runs between 6:00am and 10:00am, with the TV4 News gallery controlling the broadcast. Despite featuring a large proportion of live production, the 24/7 news channel is highly automated, and the gallery is usually operated by only one or two staff members.
Newscast can be run ‘with complete flexibility’
Mosart newscast automation system from Mosart Medialab. As the sole supplier of news to TV4, Sweden’s largest commercial network, this service from Nyhetsbolaget allows TV4 to extend the network’s strength in news coverage, which has
channel has used the platform for its newscasts since 2010. The two galleries share a common playout system and content store, with all devices under Mosart control, including cameras, audio and vision mixers, and servers. Schedules are
“TV4 News demonstrates that a high-quality 24/7 news channel can be run very efficiently with the right technology,” said Stefan Kurvinen, head of technology at Nyhetsbolaget Sverige, the company that supplies all news to TV4 and publisher of the 24/7 news channel. “With Mosart, the director and the editor-in-chief can run the whole newscast with complete flexibility. This is the real benefit of the Mosart system; it provides very sophisticated automation, but it doesn’t limit what the operators can do when they need to deviate from the schedule.” 5.C26
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