"Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso" is one of the most important Italian publishing groups. (24th august 2013)
It operates in all areas of communication and present almost everywhere in the mass communication media, daily and periodical press, radio, internet, television and advertising.
"Deejay TV" and "Repubblica TV" channel, two well known channels respectively appreciated in the national scene of entertainment and information are part of the Group.
Deejay TV is a national musical entertainment channel among the most innovative in the international arena and can be seen on channel 9 of the Digital Terrestrial Television (As well as on Satellite in SKY bouquet). This is the video counterpart of the successful radio brand "Radio Deejay", and has been using -for two years - very advanced graphics workstations to complete the most important music programs, such as "Deejay chiama Italia" and "OCCUPYDeejay."
The prestigious channel "Repubblica TV" (R.it) produces a feed of information of high standard, with quality content and very advanced graphics.
With programming dedicated entirely to information, it can be seen on channel 50 of the digital terrestrial television, but also on the web from http://video.repubblica.it/home (but also with the IOS and Android apps) and produces a continuous cycle of news and the latest info in all fields, politics, news, business, sports, international, science, technology, internet and more.
The structure of television production is new and dynamic, based on a control room and a theatre based on virtual camera equipped with devices by Orad where internal tv programs are produced and recorded. Some ENG crewa push themselves outside, equipped with Panasonic 170 P2 cameras to follow Repubblica TV journalists.
Editing is performed on Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut, Avid and even without continuity, in fact editors have "multi platform" skills and may switch roles in the suites when needed.
Three workstations are equipped with Avid, two with Premiere and Final Cut. The headquarters are in Rome, via C. Colombo 90, and the production-as we said-is twofold, aimed both at the tv channel to both the web and live. Some programs for the contributions employ IP satellite links which are then redistributed on the web.
Tony Paone, Technical Manager of the entire infrastructure tv, audio and video of Repubblica TV highlights: "We currently use four stations equipped with ClassX softwares for Repubblica TV channel and two for Deejay TV where we produce graphics as well as the broadcast of the channel, offering informative contents in audio/video in continuous rotation; our graphics workstations are also used to enrich the interventions with live studio broadcasts, with guests or live events."
Repubblica TV is a TV channel and a website that operate in symbiosis, in fact most of the content in the video are also published on the web and are very rich in graphics in progress, as the live streaming is considered an essential component.
These software are used in creating journalistic contributions live in the two daily editions produced in collaboration with the new Tv channel "F" Feltrinelli: 19.50 to 13.50 and often live broadcasts of 8/10 minutes, repeated also in the schedule of "F" and R.Tv channels.
Graphics contents allow to enrich the video with the names of journalists, the respondents, incorporate photos in a dynamic way, show news crawl with pictures/videos and messages directly from Facebook and Twitter.
CastaliaCG, the titling software with vector graphics engine, is used for the production of advanced graphics while the broadcast is through the use of some specific scripts developed in Liveboard that interface directly to the web to read part of the journalistic content already created in video.
Video contents are stored on a server and everything is "packed" to create a unique product, useful for airing on the channel on the TV and the web, thanks to the proprietor engine.
Tony Paone continues: "A very interesting structural feature is that on the basis of a program more or less "stable and repeatable", it is always necessary to reorganize many of the stories in a different way every day, adapting to what the menu calls in video. And the graphics must follow in a very dynamic way, in fact we realize many crawl for sports news, interviews, behind the scenes, a full page of sport, "Sport di Republica", while in all the news bulletins sports occupies the final slot and more generally, 4, 5 stories for each news service are dedicated just to sports.
In August we launched a program of "Soccer transfer market" called "Figurine", as a regular appointment which includes studio footage and a lot of graphics, where the journalist follows somehow the speech of the collection of figurines made by children and apparently even here the dynamic graphics is crucial. "
