The "Físchlár" systems are a family of tools for capturing, analysis,
indexing, browsing, searching and summarisation of digital video
information. Físchlár-News-Stories, described in this paper, is one
of those systems, and provides access to a growing archive of
broadcast TV news. Físchlár-News-Stories has several notable features
including the fact that it automatically records TV news and segments
a broadcast news program into stories, eliminating advertisements and
credits at the start/end of the broadcast. Físchlár-News-Stories
supports access to individual stories via calendar lookup, text search
through closed captions, automatically-generated links between related
stories, and personalised access using a personalisation and
recommender system based on collaborative filtering. Access to
individual news stories is supported either by browsing keyframes with
synchronised closed captions, or by playback of the recorded video.
One strength of the Físchlár-News-Stories system is that it is
actually used, in practice, daily, to access news. Several aspects of
the Físchlár systems have been published before, bit in this paper we
give a summary of the Físchlár-News-Stories system in operation by
following a scenario in which it is used and also outlining how the
underlying system realises the functions it offers.