AQ Broadcast
AQ Broadcast Limited was established in 2013 after a management buyout of the workflow division of Autocue. But while the company itself is brand new, the products, and the people involved in developing, selling and supporting them, have been long-established under the Autocue brand name.
Autocue and QTV (in the Americas) have been providing the broadcast industry with teleprompting software, hardware and services since the 1950s. A natural extension to prompting has always been script preparation, and Autocue have provided a variety of scripting systems since the 1980s. In the early 1990s they became resellers for the Newsmaker 'NEN' DOS-based newsroom system, with particular success in the new regional ITV stations which started operation in the UK in 1993. By 1995 Autocue had started to develop its own networked scripting and newsroom system - WinCue - and by the late nineties, and particularly over the transition into 2000, had wide success with the resulting QSeries range of products. These continued to evolve and extend to cover hardware as well as software, with the introduction of standalone video servers in 2010 and the production suite in 2012. This same range of products is now developed, sold and supported by aQ, and are the only company to offer the television industry a single solution for newsroom, scripting, automation, media management and video servers, all with direct integration to the Autocue teleprompter range.
True End to End
AQ Broadcast is the only company to offer a complete live and pre-recorded end to end workflow meaning that a TV station is able to buy a genuine single vendor solution for the first time.
Products include:
- Newsroom Computer System (NRCS), Qnews
- Live Automation, ACC or aQ Control Centre
- Transmission Automation, Airchain
- Media Asset Management (MAM), Media Station
- Archive, Qarchive
- Video Servers
- Live Production system (vision mixing, audio mixing, chroma keyer, still store, clip store, CG etc.) aQ Production Suite (APS).
The aQ Production suite is the only product on the market to be both a channel in a box and studio in a box solution. All products are open and flexible working with industry standard protocols and over time or due to preference, customers are able to choose to match aQ Solutions with other industry solutions such as Chyron Graphics Chyron Viz RT Viz RT Omneon Omneon and many more.
Many of the aQ Broadcast range products use Linux and for reliability the company re-developed their original range of windows based video servers and developed a range of Linux broadcast video servers. The APS (aQ Production Suite) is also a Linux system.
The company's products are designed to be opened and support many industry protocols including VDCP, P9, MOS and AMP to name a few.