WFXL Trades in News Caster’s Note Pads for iPads

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WFXL in Albany, Georgia, is looking to save a few trees by switching to iPads for news casts instead of printing out notes and scripts on paper.

Newscast scripts are emailed to each iPad and viewed with iAnnotate PDF.

News Director and anchor Terry Graham commented, “By using the iPad, we’re saving hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper annually.”

He added that the station expects it will save about US$9,600 a year in paper costs by switching to iPads. Assuming savings fall in line with projections, the studio will likely purchase more iPads in the future.

Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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2 Comments

furbies

To quote Eric Cartman
“It’s all a load of tree-hugging hippy crap!”

And when the news reader/presenter or news dept director want to do a last moment edit of the script for the news ? Post it notes stuck to the side of the iPad ?

CityGuide

Nope.  Just email the update.

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