Specifications

Overview of MOS Gateway

Figure 2 Monitor Mode - ON Diagram

Monitor Mode - LOAD

As air time nears and the newsroom staff completes the rundown,

someone—usually the producer or equipment operator—will instruct the

monitor server to load the playlist into MOS devices. As the rundown is

loaded in MOS Gateway, MOS Gateway loads individual playlists to the

appropriate MOS device. The MOS device begins its assigned task, such as

inserting CG text, checking for availability of video clips, and so forth.

Each MOS device sends MOS Gateway the status of the playlist, called a

running order in the MOS Protocol. Each MOS device also sends the

status of individual running order items, each one corresponding to a

machine control event.

iNEWS monitor

servers

ON: Watch for added,

deleted, or Modified Events

(Machine Instructions)

LOAD: send playlists and

updates to MOS Gateway

iNEWS DB

Rundown & Event List queues

System Map & Resource queues

Messages

(progress, errors, warnings)

ON:

Get system info, Parse Rundown,

Build Playlist, Write Event List queues

Monitor Commands

(ON, LOAD, UNLOAD, OFF)

MOS Gateway

Retains all loaded playlists,

playlist & event status.

Distributes commands,

updated status, event

changes & messages.

iNEWS

Clients

MOS

Devices

Create Rundowns,

Enter Events