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Ottawa, Canada, September 25^th 2018 – Sky is a聽company聽that needs very little introduction and the聽brand continues to grow as聽one of the powerhouses of content production. Sky News, in turn,听is one of Europe鈥榮 pre-eminent聽news organisations producing content on mobile, television and radio. Its award winning 24 hour live television news channel broadcasts breaking news, long form content and interviews.

Following a review of operations in 2016聽and the decision to refurbish the news studio, Sky made the decision to introduce production automation as a way of improving the consistency of the channel鈥檚聽content, and then聽set out to find an appropriate technology partner.

Jack Horry, Sky鈥檚 Project Lead at the Isleworth studios near London, was initially concerned with the issue of integration. 鈥淭here were a number of different vendors involved in this project and many of them were providing custom applications, so we were concerned about how any automated production control (APC) system would integrate with the different solutions on the table. We already knew that OverDrive is a popular product and is widely-used, but interoperability was obviously an important issue for Sky. Fortunately, the Ross OverDrive development team spent a lot of time with us and they were happy to talk about roadmaps to the extent that some specific features we asked for have now been incorporated into the mainstream product. We鈥檙e extremely pleased with the results and we鈥檝e seen a definite improvement in consistency while still giving us the flexibility we need to introduce breaking news or make changes to the rundown quickly and easily鈥�.

鈥淔or Sky News, no reduction in flexibility would have been acceptable鈥�, according to Scott Bowditch, Director of Business Development for OverDrive at Ross. 鈥淔rom the beginning of the process, it was clear to the operations and engineering stakeholders that OverDrive is a very powerful product and can automate even the most complex workflows. OverDrive is designed to be 鈥榥ewsroom friendly鈥� and to take account of the fact that news is inherently dynamic and fluid. OverDrive has actually increased Sky鈥檚 ability to address late changes and breaking news more quickly and efficiently than ever before without comprising the rest of the rundown鈥�.

Oscar Juste, Director of Sales for EMEA, sees the relationship with Sky as an important milestone for Ross. 鈥淲e鈥檙e delighted to be working with Sky and this deployment is another important feather in the Ross cap for Europe; we鈥檝e seen consistent growth of over 30% year on year in the region and, with our new EMEA HQ facility in Reading, UK, and further additions to the team, we鈥檙e on a very positive path right now. We couldn鈥檛 do that without great products and forward-thinking customers who help us improve them; Sky is no exception鈥�.

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Ross powers video productions for billions of global viewers daily with the industry鈥檚 widest range of smart production solutions. Ross makes it easy to create compelling news, weather and sports聽broadcasts, engaging material for聽sports stadium screens,听entertainment shows and rock concerts,听educational institutions,听濒别驳颈蝉濒补迟颈惫别听补蝉蝉别尘产濒颈别蝉,听corporate applications聽and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Ross solutions have impressed the audiences and marketing partners of NBC Sunday Night Football, Eurosport, BBC World,听Google YouTube Space London聽and China鈥檚 eSports powerhouse VSPN. Ross delivers an unrivalled range of products and services comprising聽virtual studios, real-time motion graphics, cameras, robotic camera systems, production switchers, video servers, infrastructure and routers, social media management, newsroom systems and聽mobile live events.

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