Press release: Bergen, Norway, May 12, 2021
Saga today announces a new milestone deal to deliver its cloud newsroom solution, to Television New Zealand. TVNZ has chosen Saga as their core journalist tool in order to transition to a modern, cloud-based newsroom. Saga will sit at the heart of the newsroom for creating, planning and publishing news to all of TVNZs linear and digital platforms.
The project will be delivered in conjunction with technology partner Stem Media, with the development, installation and implementation of Saga done remotely from Bergen, Norway.
“Saga is built from the ground-up on modern web technologies and runs in the cloud. This means that we can deliver projects remotely and highly efficiently, benefitting both the customer and our team”, says Mads Grønbæk, EVP, Saga.
Andrew Fernie, General Manager of Operations, News and Current Affairs at TVNZ, has been spearheading the project.
“We want to allow our journalists to plan, investigate, collaborate and tell stories that matter and then deliver to all platforms with ease. By choosing Saga, we knew that we’d end up with one tool that encompasses the planning, creation, and publishing of stories to linear TV, our digital platforms and to social media.”
The Saga workflow at TVNZ
With Saga, TVNZ journalists can work in an easy-to-use browser-based tool for all their news planning, story creation, and collaboration, and publish to all platforms, both linear and digital.
Saga integrates with ScheduAll for resource booking and resource management in the TVNZ newsroom. All planning and publishing to linear TV will be done in Saga's built-in rundown module, integrated with the studio automation system Viz Mosart from Vizrt.
This gives TVNZ a complete newsroom workflow for planning, creating and publishing news to rundowns, as well as to all of the TVNZs digital platforms.
Fernie adds:
“Having one unified user interface means that there’s no need to jump around multiple tools to create and publish content which allows our journalists to work more efficiently. Journalists working in Saga can plan, prepare and create content for all programmes and platforms and publish to linear TV as well to our digital platforms through our CMS and to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.”
About TVNZ
TVNZ is New Zealand’s state-owned, commercially funded broadcaster. TVNZ’s all about sharing the moments that matter – whether it’s breaking news, following adventures, sharing stories or putting smiles on faces. Each day, TVNZ reaches more than 2 million New Zealanders through channels TVNZ 1, 2, DUKE and the online platform TVNZ OnDemand.. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/
Image courtesy of TVNZ
