The announcement of the end-of-life of old newsroom systems has put many broadcasters in limbo. Modernizing, both on the infrastructural side, and for the tools used in the everyday operations of a newsroom, is becoming increasingly important.
Should one migrate the old newsroom control room system (NCRS) to solutions that lock one deeper into single vendors or platforms or switch to modern, cloud-native tools?
Broadcasters need tools available from anywhere that don't require vast amounts of on-premise hardware and maintenance.
A way forward is to start by migrating to the cloud for linear news and, with this, give your journalists and producers modern web-based tools for their everyday news planning. By choosing the right vendor for moving your newsroom to the cloud, the next step forward to story-centric news production becomes easy.
A new tool for linear news
Saga, is a stand-alone rundown tool for linear production that launched in September 2022.
With Saga, producers, directors and journalists can build standard linear rundowns for their news, sports, or entertainment shows in an easy-to-use web application. Saga is a native cloud application with all the benefits of a Software-as-a-Service tool with its browser-based user interface, tailored for work-from-anywhere.
Ideal for anyone wanting to transition from the old newsroom tools (NRCS), Saga serves as a 1-1 replacement for any newsroom rundown application. Broadcasters who want to move to the cloud without significant organisational changes, changes in infrastructure or workflows chose Saga.
Saga customers can easily upgrade their setup to include all the benefits of a full-fledged story-centric newsroom, which includes master story creation, story planning and publishing across all platforms from within one standard user interface.
Collaboration, planning and publishing to all platforms
The story-centric newsroom is organized around the story rather than the delivery platform, allowing a journalist to effectively and quickly deliver content to linear shows, OTT, social media, and CMS.
Broadcasters worldwide are migrating to the story-centric newsrooms in the cloud with Saga, which answers the need of a modern storyteller and journalist, built for journalistic creativity and with the story in focus, independently of where stories get published.
Story-centric workflows open a new world for broadcasters to collaborate between news departments, web desks, storytelling teams that work with social media platforms, and more. The following steps toward a full-fledged story-centric operation, with Saga, for multiplatform publishing and collaboration across departments, become easy.
In the last few years, we have witnessed dramatic changes in the technology available to newsrooms and a change in workflow requirements. Broadcasters like TV2 Fyn in Denmark, Canal9/Kanal9 in Switzerland, and TVNZ in New Zealand have taken giant leaps towards an entirely new approach to storytelling. It is not just about optimizing resources but also about telling stories more thoroughly with every journalist working from the same playbook.
Broadcasters that choose Saga as their new NRCS do this as part of a strategic process to move to the cloud, reduce costs, and work more efficiently across their linear and digital news teams.
Ready to make a move toward the future of broadcasting?
