Hundreds of university students are now using Autocue’s newsroom, production and automation software to produce news programmes as part of their media and journalism courses. In the last two years, six UK universities, along with several academic institutions in North America, have chosen Autocue to provide integrated workflow solutions that enable their students to work on ‘news days’ in a real broadcast environment. In many of these installations Autocue has installed an end-to-end system - providing video/ audio server functionality as well as a NRCS solution - allowing the universities to work with a single provider to obtain a fully integrated, but low-cost solution, for a range of television, radio and technology courses.

Autocue (and its Americas prompting brand, QTV) is recognised around the world as the leading provider of innovative prompting solutions, but the company also has an established presence in newsroom, production and automation applications through its QSeries product range. QSeries is an integrated suite of applications providing functionality from multi-user scripting, through news room computer systems (NRCS) and playout automation, to full workflow/ media management. QSeries software has enabled thousands of users to produce millions of hours of live news and sport programming at hundreds of customer sites all around the world.

There are a host of traditional broadcasters that use QSeries applications, including Bloomberg Financial Television (Worldwide), Rogers Media Inc. (Canada), Doordarshan (India), TF1 (France), Ministry of Information (Oman), CNN (US), together with many other stations in the US and Canada. As with its prompting solutions, Autocue’s in-house development team has adapted its newsroom and production applications to appeal to customers outside of this traditional broadcast sector, including educational institutions and smaller production companies.