TOPICS Ticker

Ticker lines from agency reports

The AI drafts. The editor decides.

For TV newsrooms: one ticker line from your agency reports, ready to approve, edit or reject.

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On air: Harbour bridge closes Tuesday for six weeks of repairs, detour via Mill Road.

By Natanael Feješ, live-broadcast technician turned developer.

Several agencies, one line

The agencies disagree. Ticker shows all three. The draft waits for approval.

Northline Wire · 14:02Storm: 4,000 homes without power in the north

Harbor Press · 14:04Storm leaves 6,500 homes without power

Eastgate News · 14:06Power out in the north after storm, no count yet

Agency summary · AI

  • Power is out in the north after a storm.Northline Wire · Harbor Press · Eastgate News
  • 4,000 homes.Northline Wire
  • 6,500 homes.Harbor Press
  • No count yet.Eastgate News

Numbers are copied exactly as the agencies give them.

Ready for graphics

Storm cuts power in the north, number of homes not yet confirmed

Be the editor

Approve what you would air.

Sample wires

  • ANew ferry timetable Monday, two evening sailings withdrawn.
  • BVarnby coast road shut after flooding, no reopening date.
  • CLibrary: weekend visits up 40 percent; longer hours from November.

Three drafts, three decisions. Want this on your own wires?

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Ready for graphicsApproved 0

    None yet.

    Paste into graphics, mark on air.

    Today

    An editor approves every line.

    Future Later, lines above your threshold could go to graphics on their own, if your station allows it.

    Invented data.

    Automatic lines would be logged, with one off switch.

    What Ticker does

    Ranked before anyone reads

    AI score 0 to 100, with a reason.

    Queue · ArrivalQueue · By scoreScore
    DomesticFLASH Crash shuts highway Drivers hit +10 94
    Economy Bank holds rates Markets 71
    Sport Home side reaches final Routine 48
    Other Library hours change Minor 33
    Culture Film festival Friday Planned 27

    Every line gets an end time

    Ticker suggests an end time, you confirm. One click extends.

    On air1 lineEnds
    Extend:
    3Ferry timetable change Archived 13:10
    Archive
    1Rain warning, north Archived 12:20
    2Rail strike talks Archived 12:35

    Who did what, when

    Each step shows who and when.

    One line's trail

    Ferry timetable change

    1. Created System
    2. AI draft AI
    3. Edited Editor A
    4. Approved Editor A
    5. Published Editor B
    6. Extended Editor B +30 min
    7. Archived System

    Archive search

    ferry
    Ferry timetable changeArchived 13:40

    How a pilot works

    Free, 4 weeks, alongside normal work. No link to graphics or playout.

    1. Start Agreed date
    2. Midway First numbers
    3. Week 4 Written report
      • Approved unchanged
      • Edited
      • Rejected
      • Minutes from report to on-air copy
    4. +2 weeks Extension on request

    Data and control

    Agency reports Ticker server Paid API: Gemini, OpenAI fallback Newsroom browsers

    Report text goes to the API provider for the model call, under the provider's API terms, which exclude training on API data by default. Gemini (Google) and OpenAI are US companies. Before the pilot we check your agency contract allows it.

    Ticker reads your licensed agency feed. We set it up.

    Your server
    Cloud model 1No answer
    Cloud model 2Answers
    Model on your serverFallback
    • If both cloud models fail, a model on your server can take over.
    • Spelling: cloud, rule-based fallback on your server.
    • Meaning-based search runs on your server.

    Who is behind it

    My system for a Slovak TV channel prepared 150+ programs and ran on its own for over a year. A person only spot-checked the subtitles. I lead Ticker; a second developer runs the servers.

    TOPICS Ticker is built by Natanael Feješ, a developer in Sønderborg, Denmark. Write to natan@nfejes.me.

    More about my work

    Contact

    Tell me your station, its ticker character limit and your agencies. I reply within a day.

    Ask for a free pilot

    natan@nfejes.me