Pinnacle Systems has announced that Global Television Network, whose broadcast stations reach more than 94 per cent of Canadian households has placed an order valued at over $3 million to upgrade its tape-based facilities with all-digital networked news systems from Pinnacle. The networked broadcast solution will be deployed at Global's flagship News facilities in Toronto and Vancouver where the highly efficient workflow will enable Global News to get stories to air faster and more easily.

An official release informs that Global News is installing a broad mix of products from Pinnacle that includes Pinnacle Liquid Edition systems for craft and field editing, Vortex DeskEdit systems for journalists, Palladium Store shared storage, and Vortex I/O for ingest and playout.

The highly scalable system will enable Global News to ingest video material once, where the multi-resolution Vortex server will make it immediately available for browsing, editing news stories, creating on air promotions, and playing out to air. Pinnacle Vortex provides all network users with access to all media -- video, audio, and graphics -- without having to worry about bandwidth, storage limitations, or copying.

The release adds that networked, digital systems built on standard IT-components have clearly emerged as the solution of choice for meeting the reliability, performance and efficiency requirements of today's demanding news environments. By delivering advanced news solutions to some of the most demanding broadcast envirnments worldwide, Pinnacle claims to have proven its ability to conceive, develop, deploy and support these solutions.

Pinnacle Systems provides broadcasters and consumers with cutting-edge digital media creation, storage, and play-back solutions for use at home, work and on air. The company has stated that its award winning digital media solutions are used around the world for broadcast, video editing, DVD and CDR authouring and on the Internet.