WCSC Orders Miranda's Kaleido-X Multi-Viewer For Full HD Local Newscast Monitoring

Miranda Technologies has announced that WCSC-TV has launched Charleston South Carolina's first local, HD newscast, using the Kaleido-X multi-image display system for monitoring.
Launched at the end of September 2008, WCSC's Channel 5 was one of the first in the state to air local newscasts in full HD. It broadcasts from a newly refurbished state-of-the-art control room in Charleston, following an HD upgrade of its newsroom, facility infrastructure, visual asset ingest and management, archiving and asset sharing systems.
The Kaleido-X system currently displays 48 inputs over eight 40" LCD screens situated in the station's main control room, the producer 'cockpit' and the audio booth.
Mike Guthrie, Chief Engineer at WCSC, said: "We customised the display walls using Miranda's XEdit configuration software so our control room operators, producers and technical directors would all be able to view what's most important to them for their different roles.
"Kaleido-X has made life much easier in terms of running our multi-news operations from two studios. It can completely change the display layout across multiple areas, from our primary CBS news to our local FOX-affiliate news programming, all at the push of a button."
Guthrie added: "The system's image quality and flexibility also makes for an extremely impressive control room, keeping in line with our reputation for leading the way in the market place when it comes to local news operations."
WCSC's Kaleido-X system interfaces to a Snell & Wilcox Kahuna production switcher, providing tally updates and source labels in the monitoring display.
The station plans to expand its Kaleido-X system to allow monitoring on a fourth multi-image display in the newsroom, which will act as a back-drop for shots of newscaster talents in-front of camera.
The Kaleido-X processor adds to a significant amount of Miranda infrastructure at WCSC, including Densite signal processing and an iControl facility monitoring system.
Guthrie said: "We've been very impressed so far, and therefore it made sense for us to go down the same route with our multi-image monitoring."
Miranda's Kaleido-X multi-image display system offers unprecedented expansion up to 1152 video inputs across 128 multi-image outputs. It also delivers 'best in class' image quality, layout flexibility and robustness.
Further information is available at: www.miranda.com.
(KMcA)