Autocue

[2][3] Prompting began with Jess Oppenheimer, a writer, producer and director on the TV show I Love Lucy in the early 1950s.

The following year, the newly formed Autocue Group released a computer-driven prompting system, ScriptNet.

Autocue and QTV were also interested in digital prompting, leading to the development of their own scriptwriting and running order package.

The ability to receive, index and process stories from news agency wires was an early addition.

Another requirement was the ability to control multiple playout devices, such as videotape machines and character generators, from a central running order.

Following a project with CNN, a wireless tablet PC-based system to effect and share script changes using ‘digital ink’ was added.