COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 22, 1998

April 22, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 16

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
The New York-based news cooperative has announced the sale of its Electronic News Production System to ESPN, the cable sports network. The AP installation, replacing a 400-seat Avid-BASYS system, will be used to manage ESPN's editorial and production needs, from making story assignments to live broadcasts. The system is also being installed by the British Broadcasting Corp., which eventually will have 5000 PCs on its system.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a publishing solutions supplier and subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced recent installations at THE TIMES-GEORGIAN (12k, evening), in Carrollton, Ga., where nine AdManagerPro workstations were put on-line, and the BURLINGTON (Iowa) HAWK EYE (17k, morning), which now has 21 editorial workstations and nine pagination stations;

Baseview, which is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.baseview.com/, had installations, training or upgrades at 40 other sites in March.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a production systems supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced recent sales to the STUART (Fla.) NEWS (35k, morning), which is installing a 63-seat Harris NewsMaker editorial system, and Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y., which bought a 48-seat Harris Classified Advertising System as well as XP-21 server software and NewsMaker pagination software licenses.

In Canada, Harris sold its C-PAG classified pagination package to LA PRESSE (284k, morning) of Montreal and a classified system upgrade to LA TRIBUNE (40k, morning) of Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/.

MEDIASTREAM INC.
Philadelphia-based MediaStream, a supplier of archive tools for text and images, and a subsidiary of Miami-based Knight Ridder, has introduced SAVExtQ, a package that sets up Quark XPress pages for archiving in the MediaStream SAVE Library System. Developed for MediaStream by eXperience Technology Inc. of Dundas, Ontario, SAVExtQ "decomposes" an XPress page into its components, identifying the contents as photos, headline, byline and such.

MediaStream is on the Web at http://www.mediastream.com/.

MILES 33
Miles 33, a publishing solutions supplier based in the United Kingdom with U.S. offices in Darien, Conn., has announced an alliance with Digital Equipment Corp.'s MultiMedia Publishing Services unit based in Piscataway, N.J. Under the agreement, DEC will market Miles 33 products in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Miles 33's products encompass advertising, editorial, pagination and Internet access needs. Its customers in other industries include Deere & Co., Eastman Kodak and Bell Atlantic. In the United Kingdom, Miles 33 products are used by more than 200 newspapers.

PUBLISHING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
PPI, a publishing systems supplier based in Manchester, N.H., has announced seven recent sales to daily and weekly newspapers. Among them:

-- A 35-seat AD2000 classified solution at the NEWS JOURNAL (125k, morning) in Wilmington, Del. Products included a WebLink Internet interface.

-- A 40-seat retail and classified advertising system at the READING (Pa.) TIMES (48k, morning) and READING EAGLE (22k, evening). Products included PPI's ClassAct classified pagination and the EdCapture Interface for recording credit transactions, from Edgil Associates Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass.

-- A 40-seat classified and billing and receivables system for USA TODAY (2.1m, morning) in Arlington, Va., running on dual NT/SQL servers. Products included ClassAct classified pagination and the EdCapture Interface.

PPI is on the Web at http://www.partnersintl.com/.

SCITEX CORP. LTD.
Scitex, an Israeli imaging systems supplier with U.S. offices in Bedford, Mass., has introduced Scitex FinalTouch, software for automatically touching up scanned images by removing defects, scratches and dust. The Macintosh-based product works with input from any Scitex scanner.

Scitex is on the Web at http://www.scitex.com/.

TRENDWATCH CREATIVE REPORTS
Trendwatch, a Rhode Island-based market analysis firm, has found that the top anticipated purchase by creative professionals in the next few months is an Apple Macintosh workstation, which was listed first by 54 percent of respondents. In second place was desktop photo manipulation software and publishing software (tied at 38 percent), followed by desktop illustration software (32 percent).

Trendwatch is on the Web at http://www.trend-watch.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a global publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced the sale of its Hermes, WireCenter and DocCenter publishing solutions to LA PROVENCE (200k, morning) in Marseilles, France. The 270-seat system, replacing one made by CCI Europe of Aarhus, Denmark, will run on four IBM RS/6000 SP2 servers.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/.

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