(English) 2020 Broadcasting from Home
The Broadcasting from Home eBook. With ‘Working from Home’ being the ‘new normal’ for many radio broadcasters due to the coronavirus emergency, Tieline has put together this eBook to discuss remote options and solutions with a range of broadcasters and audio codec specialists.
The Broadcasting from Home eBook. With ‘Working from Home’ being the ‘new normal’ for many radio broadcasters due to the coronavirus emergency, Tieline has put together this eBook to discuss remote options and solutions with a range of broadcasters and audio codec specialists.
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DOUG FERBER’S<br />
US Broadcast Trends<br />
will find ways to smooth out the roughness through creative necessity and higher quality<br />
equipment acquisition. And remote broadcasting “aint goin’ away”. Fewer people in the<br />
studio building means you don’t need all the space that you currently occupy. In big<br />
markets commercial office space in high visibility buildings where radio companies like to<br />
operate <strong>from</strong> leases for $100 per square foot or more. Do the math…during an economic<br />
downturn, an industry that was already struggling will see this as an easy way to lower<br />
operating expenses. The remote equipment works great, the jocks like working <strong>from</strong><br />
home (especially single parents), and the GM gets to run the place leaner.<br />
As broadcasting <strong>from</strong> home becomes more permanent, there will likely be more<br />
investment in better remote equipment. This will mean that more hardware will be<br />
installed in home studios. More robust all-in-one solutions that stream, record, edit,<br />
and play audio <strong>from</strong> several sources (some <strong>from</strong> other remote locations) will become<br />
even more popular. Now that the engineering community is not under the gun to set up<br />
everyone remotely at one time in a matter of days, more attention will be paid to increase<br />
the audio quality of their solutions.<br />
The wish list of features will include multiple IP network connection options for quality<br />
and redundancy, configurable routing, on-board audio processing, and separate IFB<br />
channels. And maybe the most important elements of the new hardware will be ease<br />
of use and the ability to control<br />
it <strong>from</strong> anywhere. Some air<br />
personalities are comfortable with<br />
technology. Others are just good<br />
entertainers and will not have the<br />
luxury of calling Bill the engineer<br />
down the hall when the tech fails<br />
(translation…an incident involving<br />
“operator error”). Remote control<br />
will be a key feature to any remote<br />
or home studio.<br />
Are you prepared for the new<br />
normal?<br />
The ViA codec delivers multiple connections,<br />
redundant streaming, record, playback and FTP<br />
capability, an editable matrix router, plus features like<br />
EQ and compression.<br />
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