Broadcast News

Bookmark and Share
19/09/2005

Curious Software used by BBC News 24

When terrorists attacked the London transport network on July 7 2005, it took the BBC News 24 team a matter of minutes to prepare and broadcast a street map of London showing exactly where the bombers had struck.
The BBC’s coverage of the July 7 and subsequent July 21 bombings featured on-air maps produced using Curious Software’s Curious World Maps.
Rob Shergold, BBC News 24’s Senior Graphic Designer, said: “Curious World Maps provided us with a fast and easy way of getting accurate street maps on air so that viewers could see exactly where the bombs were located.”
Launched in 2000, CWM has rapidly gained a reputation amongst broadcasters for its versatility and ease of use. The speed at which maps can be created and updated makes it ideal for news and traffic reporting. It also plays a vital role in the post-production of documentaries, sports and travel programmes where maps are needed to set the scene or identify an area of particular interest.
The software, which gives users total creative control, enables them to quickly and easily create broadcast quality still and animated maps of anywhere in the world. It includes built-in vector databases of the whole world comprising detailed outline data for countries, regions, states and counties. It also includes over 100,000 place names covering towns, mountains and other physical features such as rivers, lakes and roads. Imported local data or satellite images can also be incorporated, making it simple to create in minutes an animation than zooms in from a spinning globe right down to a single building. Many top broadcasters are now using CWM on a daily basis, including the BBC, Sky, NBC, ABC and CNN.
Shergold added: “When we bought CWM we also acquired street data for the UK and USA and Natural Earth (500m). Our intention is to add more street data covering different countries as and when we need it.”
(GB)
Solidmate Ltd Memory Card Hire London

Top Related Stories
Click here for the latest broadcast news stories.

18/04/2023
disguise Brings Motion Graphics to Live-to-Air Broadcast
At this year's NAB show, disguise, a virtual production technology pioneer, is showcasing an Unreal Engine (UE) integration to bring new motion graphi
17/04/2023
Ikegami Announces Addition To Its Broadcast-Quality Camera Systems
Ikegami has announced a major addition to its line of broadcast-quality camera systems. Scheduled for introduction on Ikegami’s Central Hall booth C38
30/03/2023
USSI Global To Demonstrate Broadcast And DOOH Convergence
Visitors to the NextGen TV Korean Alliance booth W4126 at NAB 2023 will discover an intriguing proof of concept demonstration powered by USSI Global,
24/03/2023
CJP Broadcast To Provide Multi-Camera Coverage of UK Round Of EBFL
CJP Broadcast Services has been selected to provide multi-camera coverage of the UK round of the European Blind Football League (EBFL), held at the Ro
07/09/2023
Marshall Electronics V-702W-12G Professional Broadcast Monitor Now Shipping
Marshall Electronics has announced that its V-702W-12G professional broadcast monitor is now shipping, just in time for IBC 2023. Marshall will showca
24/08/2023
Dalet Partners With Telstra Broadcast Services
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, and Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS), a leading provider of end-to-end
12/03/2024
Ikegami USA To Display Range Of Broadcast Quality Camera Systems
Celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year, Ikegami USA is to demonstrate the latest versions of its wide range of broadcast quality camera systems an
06/03/2024
Timeline Deploys Video Broadcast's Camera Control
Timeline is using Videosys Broadcast's camera control to deliver coverage of the British Basketball League championships, which are currently screened
06/03/2024
Miller Tripods Unveils A Variety Of Broadcast And Cinema Solutions
Miller Tripods has unveiled its SkyX 8 fluid head, CinX 8 and 9 large fluid heads and CinX 20, 23 and 25 smaller fluid heads, CompassXV and AirV fluid
29/02/2024
Presteigne Broadcast Hire Selects Custom Consoles Module-R Control Room Desks
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has chosen Custom Consoles Module-R control room desks for a newly completed gallery at its southern-UK office in Crawley. T
29/09/2023
TVU Networks Elevates FISU World University Games' Live Broadcast
The FISU World University Games, recently held in Chengdu, China, brought together 6,500 college athletes from around the world for twelve days of com
22/03/2024
Tolka To Unveil Range Of Broadcast Media Products
Tolka Telecommunications is to promote its extensive range of broadcast media products and services at the April 14-17 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Hig
19/03/2024
CJP Broadcast Services Develops Production Suite
CJP Broadcast Service Solutions is developing a cutting-edge production suite for Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT). The studio, a £500,000 inv
13/03/2024
Playbox Neo Announces Refinements To Its Broadcast Playout And Channel Branding Solutions
PlayBox Neo has announced new refinements to its range of broadcast playout and channel branding solutions. These include additional creative function
29/01/2016
RTS Announces Television Journalism Awards 2016
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced the nominations for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2016.   The awards, for news and current aff