TV News Team Retires Scripts in Favor of iPads
It seems that not only is Apple on the road to becoming more environmentally friendly, their products are now being used to make other organizations a touch greener as well.
According to 9to5Mac, Fox TV affiliate WFXL has opted to retire the tried and true technology of dead trees in favor of Cupertino's new iDevice.
The station has purchased six iPads for their news anchors to use as a replacement for the paper scripts that newscasters have relied upon for decades.
According to the station's News Director, Terry Graham, by sending the script for each show to each iPad, WFXL stands to save approximately $9,600 per year--that's more than enough cash to pay for those shiny new tablet devices, as well as 192 ream boxes of multi-purpose printer paper. Now, with that in mind, there's 5000 sheets in every ream box. With a bit more number wrangling, that would seem to work out to 960,000 sheets of paper.
Think about that how many trees that saves. Not too shabby, huh?
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markrich
April 25, 2010 at 7:35am
...but sustainable forests which provide the paper provide more than that. There is the eco system which needs the woodland, animal and vegetable, plus the additional benefits trees provide to global warming reductions. Remove the need for paper and you destroy the need to maintain and grow the woodlands. It's the need for paper and wood which has seen woodlands in many countries grow over the past 60 years.Also using recycled paper from the start reduces the environmental impact of manufacturing from new with vehicles, machines and factories.Replacing paper with electronics doesn't always help the environment. It's wrong to imply it does. The benefit is in the use only.
Kahlmann
April 24, 2010 at 10:45am
I've been providing equipment to broadcasters since the early 1980's. It was in that decade computer-based teleprompters were introduced, electronically displaying scripts at the anchors' reading speed. The concept goes back to the decade of my birth, the 1950's. If WXFL wasn't saving paper by using teleprompters, shall I assume they're still using 16mm FILM to shoot their field footage?
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