With over 2000 systems in the field, we sometimes get emergency calls from stations who had avoidable catastrophes when lightning strikes or when drives or other equipment fails. Many of our customers have fail safe features like WireReady provided RAID, hot swappable workstations and servers or backup computers which protect them, but some folks still don't.  In any case ALL customers should still back up critical data and it's as easy as ever. 99% of our WireReady systems in the field will fit on a 1 GB USB flash drive that you can buy at any store - even the Walgreens.  Because our Windows software will run on any computer, these catastrophes can be easily avoided if your backup is handy. In event of a failure, you could quickly copy the programs and data onto a laptop or another computer, or even run it right off the USB drive. Don't wait.

Peace of Mind for as little as $50
If you don't know how to back up your critical files yourself, WireReady can provide the hardware and help to do it. If you have a Platinum service contract, we'll do this for free. If you don't have a Platinum service contract, we will back up your system for as little as $50 plus the cost of hardware. Click here for rates

WireReady has signed an agreement with Wheatstone that will provide our on-air automation customers the ability to control their network consoles from their ControlReady workstations. WireReady also is now compatible with Axia, PRE/VistaMax and Logitek studio console equipment.

Late last year, WireReady also signed an agreement with Ibiquity corporation and now offers customers the ability to send PSD
artist, and title information through HD Radio importer/exporter equipment directly from their ControlReady on-air computer without requiring any extra hardware. Stations wishing to add HD Radio support should contact WireReady for more information and to obtain an HD Radio data licensing agreement.

WireReady has recently added MOS support for its News Player Pro multi-channel television news clip playout solution and can now support several popular newsroom system MOS workflows including ENPS, iNews, Octopus and others.   Workflow integration includes media awareness, automatic placemarker creation, placeholder and channel assignment, running order control, and a plug-in for the newsroom system providing search, browse and preview of video proxy assets on the media server.   News Player Pro is an integrated all on one box solution that provides playout, mass storage and archiving, and direct LAN file transfer integration with 3rd party NLE and mpeg based editing platforms.

  
Our playout solution costs a fraction of what leading news
playout vendor solutions charge for similar capabilities and our news server provides both HD and SD output.  Real-time mpeg2 SD/HD capture and ingest is offered an option with an add-in card.  The non-proprietary design integrates well with popular news NLE including NewsEdit, Edius, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Vegas and any other 3rd party product that can save and render MPEG video out over a LAN or via FTP.

Recent News Player Pro purchasers include Time Warner.