(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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CHARLIE GAWLEY’S<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
BROADCAST TRENDS<br />
Is doing a remote <strong>from</strong> your front lounge a<br />
new norm, or has it always been the norm?<br />
In these unprecedented times, we as humans<br />
and social beings have been required to isolate<br />
ourselves. Some would say the advances in<br />
technology have brought us closer, others beg<br />
to differ. I noted when you sat on a bus or train<br />
in recent times we all resided in our social media<br />
bubbles -glued to our smartphones, or tuned into<br />
music or videos. However, if there has been one<br />
constant over time, it is the medium of radio. It<br />
has stood the test of time and the Radio Star<br />
has not been killed off by video! It is the one medium where we are all connected to<br />
happenings around the world.<br />
For decades, Tieline has enabled broadcasters to deliver studio quality audio <strong>from</strong><br />
wherever talent is located. All that was needed was a simple POTS/PSTN line, some<br />
cans, a mic and away you went. For many, this meant actually broadcasting <strong>from</strong> their<br />
homes. Fast forward to today and there is an abundance of IP connectivity around the<br />
world - be it Wi-Fi, fiber, DSL, or even your phone. All broadcasting audio over IP.<br />
Ironically, AoIP has been the buzz word for the past few years, but for Tieline customers<br />
it is somewhat passé as we have enabled broadcasting over the public internet for<br />
more than 15 years! Yes, the public internet, so we are not talking about the networks<br />
rated with five-9’s of reliability. We can’t always choose the best network or know what<br />
the quality of the link will be like. Is it dropping packets, is the latency fluctuating - and<br />
that’s where Tieline’s expertise comes in. We have taken the guesswork out of how to<br />
configure a codec for live IP streaming by integrating the smarts into our code. Features<br />
like SmartStream PLUS redundant audio streaming and five automatic jitter buffer<br />
settings take the guesswork out of how best to connect reliably.<br />
Radio France Le Mouve conducted live broadcasts <strong>from</strong> the homes of listeners over<br />
a two week period using nothing but the public internet. Southern Cross Austereo,<br />
Australia’s largest commercial network last year successfully set up four home studios<br />
spanning over 20,000km and 2 continents for its popular drivetime show. Some 2 million<br />
listeners followed the successful relocation of one of their announcers <strong>from</strong> Melbourne,<br />
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