Weather Solutions: 4 of today’s leading weather software systems

ChyronHego

ChyronHego’s Metacast allows meteorologists to visualize data from virtually any source available, thanks to its “data agonistic” approach.

This gives clients the flexibility to choose the data type, coverage and the data vendor they trust and know, but also to change sources or add concurrent sources without replacing the graphics system.

Metacast gives meteorologists the tools to create relevant and compelling weather stories in a data immersive workflow.

Being data source agnostic also reduces cost of operation and improves the ROI for the weather graphics system.

Metacast also allows authors to create and re-apply templates for content that is used frequently.

The latest version of Metacast also features full integration with Camio, the company’s  graphics asset management server and graphics production workflow application.

This integration brings Metacast tools to non-meteorologists who can make use of the expert designed templates to add content to a news show or run continuously updated weather segments overnight and during the weekend without the meteorologist on site.

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Metacast has a tiered pricing structure, which allows customers to utilize affordable, and even free, local data, alone or in concert with a variety of data sources from ChyronHego or third parties. Metacast can be provided as a stand-alone, end-to-end solution which starts under $2,000 per month, with a small initial investment.

Metacast is also be offered in multi-system, client-server topologies at several times that price point.