Al Jazeera English Selects ScheduAll to Streamline Newsgathering
By Staff Writer | March 3, 2009
Al Jazeera English has selected software from ScheduAll to manage its staff and media resources, workflow, and cost accounting for its global newsgathering operations and integrate four broadcast centers and feeds from 69 news bureaus, ScheduAll announced Mar. 3.
The ScheduAll system, which serves as the bookings tool for ad hoc, occasional, and recurring satellite, fiber, and broadband global area network FTP feeds, brings scheduling information into other technical areas of broadcast operations, ensuring that events are actuated and completed according to the booking.
Al Jazeera English said that ScheduAll’s automation of workflow has improved efficiencies of existing resources allowing users to improve their productivity.