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Introduced to the broadcast market late last year, and making
it's first public debut at NAB 2003, WSI's WeatherPro EXP promises
to deliver unmatched performance.
Billerica, Massachusetts and the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) Show, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 7, 2003. Today
at NAB (Booth C3758), WSI (Weather Services International),
the leader in professional, on-air weather technology for broadcast
and cable television, debuted their all-new WeatherPro EXP™
that was introduced to the marketplace late last year. Based
on Intel workstation technology, this next generation of WSI's
WeatherProducer is clearly the most powerful on-air meteorological
workstation and automated graphics production system available
to the industry today.
"We're proud to say that WSI has taken what has become the
standard in weather graphics workstation technology, and made
it even better," states Jim Brihan, vice president of media
product marketing at WSI. "The move to the Intel workstation
platform allows our customers to experience performance gains
of 8-20 times that of older platforms," continues Jim. "This
increase in performance helps stations gain and keep their
competitive advantage, since literally dozens of on-air weather
products are automatically produced and ready for air at a
moments notice to cover any weather situation, 365 days a
year."
WSI decided to develop the next generation to their existing
WeatherProducer after moving their Showfx™ and TrueView™ products
to an Intel platform and seeing up to a 20-times increase
in performance for these two products.
WSI cites three reasons for developing WeatherPro EXP - increased
performance, open platform architecture, and the opportunity
to display higher-end graphics. "Converting to an Intel platform
means increased performance for customers not only now, but
in the future as well," explains Jim. "As the technology curve
moves towards even faster processing, so will WeatherPro EXP."
"WeatherPro EXP's open platform architecture makes it easier
and more cost-effective to maintain," comments Jim. "There's
no proprietary hardware and station engineers find the platform
much easier to support with cost-effective servicing."
Existing WeatherProducer customers can experience a smooth
upgrade path to WeatherPro EXP and enjoy the efficiency gains
of the much faster system. WSI will continue to support the
existing WeatherProducer platform.
About WSI
WSI Corporation is the world's leading provider of weather-driven
business solutions for professionals in the energy, aviation
and media markets. More of America's leading broadcasting
and cable companies choose WSI than any other weather provider.
WSI is headquartered in Billerica, Mass., with offices in
Birmingham, England, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Landmark
Communications. More information about WSI can be found at:
www.wsi.com.
For more information & press graphics contact:
Linda Maynard
WSI Corporation
(978) 262-0715
lmaynard@wsi.com
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