Specifications

Chapter 1

Loading a Show to the MOS Gateway

When your newsroom staff builds a show, they insert special keywords into

scripts, referred to as machine control events. These items include at least a

word to identify the specific machine or a machine type, such as CG or SS,

and some information to indicate that they want that machine to display. If

the machine is a MOS device, these machine control events are created

using the ActiveX control that came with the MOS device.

Monitor Mode - ON

When the monitor server is turned on—usually by the producer, from the

iNEWS Workstation´s Tool menu—it will read all the machine control

events in the rundown and build playlists, also known as event lists, for

each device. The monitor server performs as much error checking as it can

without communicating with any broadcast equipment.

After the monitor server is turned on, it continues to monitor the rundown,

examining every story saved for new, deleted, or updated events in the

playlist.

MOS Gateway is not yet involved. Playlists can be printed and distributed

to equipment operators. The devices can be controlled using traditional

methods.