Cole's Newswire July 5, 1995
Vol. 1, No. 5

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NEW INSTALLATIONS

  • BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
    More than a score of newspapers installed products from Baseview in March and April. The company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., markets Macintosh-based software.

    The customers, and some of the key products they purchased, are:

    --LOWELL (Mass.) SUN, five new workstations and eight upgrades to NewsEditPro.

    --MERCED (Calif.) SUN-STAR, three ClassManager/Plus workstations and one ClassFlow pagination workstation.

    --DAILY NATION and SUNDAY SUN of St. Michael, Barbados, 25 NewsEdit IQue workstations and eight IQue pagination packages.

    --COOKEVILLE (Tenn.) HERALD-CITIZEN, Baseview Library System, 11 NewsEditPro workstations including three with the pagination XTension DragX, four workstations with ClassManager/Plus and one ClassFlow pagination workstation.

    --WINTER HAVEN (Fla.) NEWS CHIEF, five ClassManager/Plus workstations and three ClassManager Remote Merge workstations.

    --AUSTIN (Texas) BUSINESS JOURNAL, five workstations with the Pro Pagination Package and one ClassFlow classified pagination workstation.

    --LUDINGTON (Mich.) DAILY NEWS, two ClassManager/Plus workstations.

    --MADERA (Calif.) TRIBUNE, five NewsEditPro workstations, two pagination workstations and one ClassFlow pagination workstation.

    --PLYMOUTH (Ind.) PILOT-NEWS, CirculationPro.

    --OKMULGEE (Okla.) DAILY TIMES, library system, four NewsEditPro pagination workstations and one ClassFlow pagination workstation.

    --DEVILS LAKE (N.D.) DAILY JOURNAL, CirculationPro.

    --TAOS (N.M.) NEWS, three ClassManager/Plus, one ClassFlow pagination workstations.

    --FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS of Cumming, Ga., training upgrade.

    --GREENVILLE (Ala.) ADVOCATE, one ClassManager/Plus workstation.

    --YOUNGSTOWN (Ohio) VINDICATOR, one pagination package.

    --EAST OREGONIAN of Pendleton, Ore., 11 NewsEditPro IQue, five pagination packages.

    --CLEVELAND (Tenn.) DAILY BANNER, five pagination packages.

    --CLOVIS (N.M.) NEWS JOURNAL, hardware for 13 news workstations.

    --SAN DIEGO (Calif.) DAILY TRANSCRIPT, five copies of ClassManager/Plus.

    --NORWICH (N.Y.) EVENING SUN, CirculationPro.

    --ROLLA DAILY NEWS of Rolla, Mo., three copies of NewsEditPro and two pagination packages.

    --HOUGHTON LAKE (Mich.) RESORTER, hardware and software for editorial and classified.

    --Topics Newspapers' weekly CARMEL of Indianapolis, CirculationPro.

    --SALEM (Ore.) CAPITAL PRESS, several upgrades.

    --Lansing Suburban Newspapers of Charlotte, Mich., ClassFlow pagination.

  • DIGIFLEX
    The Broadcast Group of CBS has installed ad transmission software from Los Angeles-based DigiFlex for distributing print ads to newspapers via high-speed telephone lines.

    By implementing the system, CBS saves the cost and time associated with engraving, duping and distributing velox copies of ad prints. DigiFlex also installed its software at TV Week Network, a media service that distributes ads to 91 U.S. newspapers for publication in their television listing magazines.

  • MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
    The output device supplier based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has announced 16 installations in the first quarter of 1995:

    --ROCKFORD (Ill.) REGISTER STAR, Sun RipExpress, ExpressMaster 25, ProofExpress, MCS3 OPI server/spooler.

    --EL PASO (Texas) TIMES, PC RipExpress driving ExpressMaster 1016s.

    --CEDAR RAPIDS (Iowa) GAZETTE, ProofExpress.

    --YOUNGSTOWN (Ohio) VINDICATOR, two Sun RipExpresses.

    --MILWAUKEE (Wis.) JOURNAL SENTINEL, ExpressMaster 1000, MGS3 OPI server/spooler.

    --RALEIGH (N.C.) NEWS & OBSERVER, Sun RipExpress, four ExpressMaster 3850s.

    --GALLUP (N.M.) INDEPENDENT, Sun RipExpress driving an ExpressMaster 3850.

    --NEW YORK POST, ExpressMaster 3850.

    --LaSALLE (Ill.) NEWS-TRIBUNE, PC RipExpress driving an ImageMaster 1000.

    --PUEBLO (Colo.) CHIEFTAIN, PowerMac RipExpress driving Lasercomp 100s.

    --COLUMBUS (Ga.) LEDGER-INQUIRER, ExpressMaster 1270 driven by PC RipExpress.

    --Syracuse Newspapers, Syracuse, N.Y., two Sun RipExpresses, 8x8 LaserPlex, ImageMaster 1200, MGS3 spooler software, two MonoLogic Express interfaces.

    --GREENSHEET of Houston, Texas, two Sun RipExpresses to drive an ExpressMaster 1016 and ImageMaster 1200.

    --GREENSBURG (Pa.) TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Sun RipExpress driving an ExpressMaster 1016.

    --NEW YORK TIMES, ProofExpress.

    --DAYTONA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-JOURNAL, Sun RipExpress outputting to an ExpressMaster 25.

  • T/ONE INC.
    This photo technology company based in Quincy, Mass., has announced these recent purchases of its Merlin image archiving system:

    --BOSTON GLOBE, dual-Pentium server, 10-gigabyte RAID system.

    --NORFOLK (Va.) VIRGINIAN-PILOT, dual-Pentium server, 100 CD jukebox, mastering station.

    --WASHINGTON POST, dual-Pentium system, upgraded RAIDs.

    --RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES-DISPATCH, dual-Pentium system, upgraded RAIDs.

    --NEW STRAITS TIMES of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, dual-Pentium system, upgraded RAIDs.

    --EDMONTON (Alberta) JOURNAL has ordered a dual-Pentium system with upgraded RAID, 100-CD jukebox and mastering station.

    --Southam Newspapers of Canada has selected Merlin as the group archiving system for its 16 daily newspapers. Two of the papers, the VANCOUVER (British Columbia) SUN and THE PROVINCE, purchased a dual-Pentium server, 100 CD jukebox, mastering station, for internal use.

    NEW PRODUCTS

  • BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
    Now available through its own World-Wide Web site is information about products from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based supplier of newspaper software. The address is www.baseview.com. Accessible through the Web are a full text archive of Newspapers & Technology for 1994 and 1995; an example of Baseview's classified solution for the Internet; a listing of college newspapers on-line, an index of Baseview Viewpoint Articles and information on the 1995 Macintosh Pagination Forum.

  • LEXIS-NEXIS
    Access to court documents in the O.J. Simpson murder trial now are available on-line through LEXIS-NEXIS of Dayton, Ohio. Unofficial court transcripts of morning and afternoon sessions of the trial in Los Angeles are made available on-line within 60 minutes of the close of each session. Included are transcripts of sidebar conversations at the bench. Official court transcripts and sidebars are posted on LEXIS-NEXIS 24 to 48 hours after the close of the court's day. This information is available in the OJHOT file in the service's NEWS, TOPNWS and LEGNEW libraries. A custom on-line product for users seeking only Simpson trial information also can be provided, which includes California public records data such as professional licenses and corporation records.

  • NEWSBANK INC.
    New Canaan, Conn.-based NewsBank has added the U.S. Newswire to CD NewsBank, a CD-ROM news database issued monthly that contains articles from more than 100 U.S. newspapers and domestic and international news services. U.S. Newswire provides full-text information issued by Congressional offices, the White House, government agencies and interest groups.

  • TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
    Voice News Network, the audiotex syndication arm of Chicago-based TMS, has signed an agreement to use more voice feeds from ABC News. The deal expands VNN's use of ABC's sound bites from major events, providing access to more sports reports as well as reports from ABC correspondents. VNN also recently expanded its business news coverage through an agreement with Reuter News Service.

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