Pro Tips: Weather Forecast Bulletins

New to Carousel 6.2.2 is the ability to create a weather forecast bulletin. The tutorial on how to create one from scratch is here. The following instructions will guide you through uploading our weather forecast templates to your system. Quick note: this is a bulletin package and will appear in your Active Bulletins section, not in Weather Templates.
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Creating a 5 Day Weather Forecast in Carousel

Ever wish you could create a 5 day weather forecast in Carousel? Well, now you can! Actually, you can create any weather forecast with up to seven days worth of data. Below is a quick tutorial to get you on your way! 1. Click New Bulletin 2. Click the Dynamic Tab (Choose Weather bulletin) 3. [...]
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Carousel 6.2.2

Carousel 6.2.2 is ready! We have made many improvements to dynamic bulletins like weather and RSS, and we also made stability enhancements to our Micro Channel Players. Typically, new features are not common in a maintenance release, but we have a surprise for you! Ever wish you could create a 5 day weather forecast in Carousel? Well, now you can! Actually, you can create any weather forecast with up to seven days worth of data.
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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from Tightrope Media Systems! Download Icons We hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday. As a small thank you for being our customer, we wanted to let you know about a new, FREE graphics package of icons for your Carousel channel. We have created many useful images for categories like Health, [...]
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ZEPLAY 2.0.5

A maintenance update for ZEPLAY 2.0 is available. It includes minor changes related to hardware performance.
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Cablecast 5.0.3 Software Update

Today we are releasing a maintenance update for Cablecast 5. Among some minor enhancements, we’ve added hardware support for select models of the Videohub router family from Blackmagic Design, as well as V-Chip support for the Evertz 8084AD closed caption encoder. Check out the full release notes on our GetSatisfaction page. Here are the highlights: [...]
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ZEPLAY 2.0.2 is out!

Hi Everyone: ZEPLAY 2.0.2 is now shipping! It is also available as an update for existing systems. We’ve made some refinements to ZEPLAY 2.0, and we recommend the update to all ZEPLAY users. Our development team will be reaching out to all ZEPLAY users with instructions on how to obtain this release. Check out the [...]
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We won a “STAR” Award from editors of TV Technology Europe

We're super excited about our recent win at IBC in Amsterdam. ZEPLAY is the recipient of a 2011 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2011 IBC convention.
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Tightrope Closed Next Monday, August 29th and Limited on the 30th

Tightrope Media Systems will be holding a company meeting on August 29th and 30th. As part of our meeting, we will be requiring everyone to leave their desk to engage in a day of team building and planning. As a result, sales and support will be closed the 29th and limited the 30th. We hope [...]
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New Channel Designs for Carousel 6 Now Available!

Tightrope Creative has added 7 new channel designs to the online store. Get down to business with the “Office” layout or have a little fun with the “Travel” channel. Either way, your messages will be communicated in a stylish new way. New 16×9 channel designs include: “Office”, “Classic”, “Travel”, “Sleek” and “Leather”. We are also [...]
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