March
1, 2000 -Inscriber RTX was used by Turner Broadcasting (TBS and TNT
networks) for the display of sport event timing during their 2000 Winter
Goodwill Games broadcasts. The Goodwill Games took place in Lake Placid,
NY, from February 15-22.
"Inscriber RTX allowed us to create custom applications to produce
impressive on-air running clocks, time to beat, differentials and split
times for a number of events: downhill alpine skiing, snowboard Super-G,
bobsled, luge and others," stated James Broder, Managing
Director for Broder's Skunkware Scoring & Timing Software. "Turner
Broadcasting was very pleased that we were able to produce the on-air
look they wanted. We knocked out two perfect downhill races, the first
of which dominated the first night's broadcast. Over at the bobsled
venue, all of the bobsled, luge, and skeleton events also went very
well. I was able to develop the timing and clock applications in a reasonable
length of time using Inscriber RTX, rather than struggling with other
more complicated tools to produce the same output."
"Broder is an accomplished RTX developer who produces amazing results,"
says John Wrigglesworth, RTX Product Manager for Inscriber Technology
Corporation. "His recent work for the 2000 Winter Goodwill Games
continues to affirm Inscriber RTX as the leading choice for creating
custom live titling applications that deliver an original on-air look."
About Inscriber RTX
Inscriber
RTX includes development tools for creating automated live titling systems
for sports broadcasts, elections, financial news, stock tickers, home
shopping channels, weather displays, subtitling, info channels and more.
Inscriber RTX provides an environment of high-level productivity tools
that allow broadcasters to quickly create unique solutions for custom
data driven programming.
About Inscriber Technology Corporation
Based
in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Inscriber Technology Corporation develops
the INSCRIBERŽ line of open system-based character generators and digital
graphics tools for the television broadcast and video post-production
industries. Founded in 1986, Inscriber Technology has a customer base
of over 50,000 installations in more than 110 countries, making Inscriber
products the character generator and graphics tools of choice for video
professionals at leading progressive television networks and broadcast
design/post facilities around the world. Inscriber's lengthy client
list includes ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, Swedish Television, Korean Broadcasting
as well as many others.
About Broder's Skunkware Scoring & Timing Software
Broder's
Skunkware Scoring & Timing Software started with scoreboard programming
in 1984 and has expanded into a full range of networked scoring, timing,
and TV graphics solutions for some of the largest sporting events in
the world. Broder's Skunkware specializes in high-speed transaction
processing on PC-based networks which tracks competitor times, results,
& statistics in real time, and outputs processed scoring information
to large digital matrix scoreboards such as ALGE and Daktronics, live
network TV graphics via Matrox DigiMix and Chyron Intelligent Interface,
custom web sites, telephony solutions such as Dialogic, and custom intranet
client applications.
Skunkware specializes in tennis, cycling (velo, road, and mountain),
ski racing, equestrian sports, motor racing, and bobsled/luge. Current
and past customers include the US Open & Australian Open (tennis), Le
Tour de France, World Cup Showjumping, winter Goodwill Games, equestrian
& velo Olympic Trials, NASCAR Winston Cup, World Cup ski racing, and
World Cup velo.