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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS User's Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- iNEWS System
- Getting Started
- The iNEWS Workspace
- Toolbars
- Working with Queues
- Changing Forms for Viewing Queues
- Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field
- Easy Locking a Queue
- Key Locking a Queue
- Moving a Queue
- Opening a Queue
- Refreshing a Queue
- Searching for Text in a Queue
- Specifying a Destination Queue
- Unlocking a Queue
- Using Abstract Display in Queue
- Using Currency Total
- Viewing Queue Properties
- Working with Wires
- Stories - Creation and Modification
- Moving Stories
- Stories - Protection
- iNEWS Projects
- Scripted Stories
- Displaying a Production Cue
- Enabling Autoscript
- Adding a Production Cue to a Story
- Adding a CG Production Cue
- Adding a Video Production Cue
- Adding a Still Store Production Cue
- Moving a Production Cue
- Deleting a Production Cue
- Using Script Templates
- Using CG Title Entry
- Primary Machine Control Event Placeholder
- Using MOS Placeholders
- Unscripting a Story
- Production Tasks
- Producer Basics
- Endorsing a Story
- Inserting a Break Line
- Ordering a Queue
- Calculating Backtime from Out Time
- Displaying the Show Timing Clocks
- Establishing Broadcast Control in a Queue
- Loading a Rundown Queue into Broadcast Control
- Placing a Rundown Queue in Show Timing Mode
- Production Locking a Queue
- Setting Clock for Show Timing
- Setting Story Start Times in a Rundown Queue
- Synchronizing a Story
- Synchronizing the First Story
- Synchronizing a Rundown Queue During Broadcast
- Timing Story Text
- Timing a Show
- Floating a Story
- Tracking a Show
- Printing
- Messages and Mail
- Sessions and Preferences
- Macros
- Searching in iNEWS
- Local Databases
- Connecting to a Remote Service
- System Shortcuts
- Icons
- Glossary
- Index
Viewing Priority Wire Stories
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Viewing Priority Wire Stories
Priority wire stories include bulletins, urgents, and flashes. They are incoming wire stories coded
as high priority by a wire service and placed in the priority queue. Each alert is color-coded
depending on whether it is a bulletin, urgent, or flash. The color is determined by your system
administrator.
When priority wire stories arrive, you are notified by an audio signal—usually a beep—and a
flashing Urgent icon. This icon looks like a yellow lightning bolt with an arrow tip. You can see
this icon in two locations of the user interface: on the Bulletin button in the Main toolbar or on
the status bar at bottom right of the iNEWS window. In the status bar, the number of priority wire
stories are also provided next to the Urgent icon.
For more information about what appears on the status bar, see
“Status Bar” on page 26.
You can open the priority queue to view the stories at any time.
To open a priority wire story:
1. Do one of the following:
t Click the Bulletin button in the Main toolbar.
t Click the Urgent icon in the status bar.
t Select Go To > Priority Queue, or press F7.
A new workspace containing the priority queue opens, displaying a list of wire stories.
2. Double-click which wire story you want to view.
Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires
Use Alert History when you want to know immediately what the ten most recent priority wire
stories are.
To view the ten most recent priority wires:
1. Select Go To > Alerts History, or press Shift+F7.
The Alerts History dialog box opens with a list of the ten most recent priority wires.