Month: November 2015

Super Ticker now supports the most up-to-date Associated Press’ Elections API 2.0. With AP‘s migration from FTP to a modern datafeed, BL is actively involved in using the most up-to-date AP protocols which began with the initial testing of AP’s new api earlier in 2015 and we have been active in testing all versions since.

AP’s Elections API 2.0 supports all of the same data that has been made available for many years over FTP but provides a much more efficient and robust mechanism for retrieving data. By default, this means Super Ticker will have the most up-to-date data available to our customers.

Super Ticker’s elections support makes it easy to integrate any type of election. Through a flexible and extensive database schema, it is world-ready. Super Ticker allows unlimited election events simultaneously which means that elections data can be active for the current election event and all it’s previous events. This allows comparing results with past years. Also, Super Ticker supports unlimited datafeed parsers simultaneously. Those parsers can be written by users since Super Ticker is an open protocol.

Spring News TV, a news organization based in Bangkok, Thailand, went live with Super Ticker. The solution was sold by our OEM partner Ross Video. They sell Super Ticker under the name Tick-it but  it retains all of Super Ticker’s features and tight integration with Ross’ XPression platform.

For more samples or to watch their live feed simply click on the link to their website: 

http://www.springnews.co.th/

Super Ticker’s Election support is standard as is everything in Super Ticker. It has been designed with a flexible data model so it can cover any type of election. The standard building blocks are contest and choices. But on top of that, there are all the standard data types to define candidates, offices, areas, questions, polls, surveys and multiple, simultaneous election events. Election events can even cover historical data where we can have both the upcoming election event plus the event from 4, 8 and 12 years ago.

While Super Ticker’s Election support was modeled with standard political elections in mind, it can be used for a lot more. It’s the ideal place to store polls, surveys, industry board elections and more.

For example, users can use 3rd party tools like Survey Monkey to create a web and phone-based poll or survey and have the results show up in Super Ticker for use by Super Ticker standard players or through BLADE for use by any CG or Web platform.

Congratulations to Rogers Media on their successful launch of Brando 2.0 for OLN. This is the first of many channels Rogers Media will be moving to Brando 2.0. This version offers the most advanced integration with traffic and automation systems while providing a tightly coupled and dynamic environment for Ross Video’s XPression platform.