(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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NORDJYSKE Media<br />
<strong>Broadcasting</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>Home</strong>...<br />
How about turning the fader up in the studio, when there is nobody at the station?<br />
This is done by LIO (GPIO) in the Wheatstone and can be triggered by a button press on<br />
the Tieline ViA or a macro in the RCS Zetta playout system.<br />
How has your team of announcers and engineers adapted to working remotely?<br />
To be honest, it took a day or two to refine and adapt to the new workflow. Of course,<br />
there have been small glitches here and there. But overall it has been a success. We’re<br />
here to inform, entertain and tell the stories of people living in our part of Denmark.<br />
We are part of a big media house, so our listeners<br />
expect us to inform them right away, when something<br />
happens, and this has been done working remotely<br />
– also thanks to a great effort <strong>from</strong> everyone working<br />
together.<br />
As CTO, I have to be able to support and monitor all<br />
shows at any given time. This is done by Wheatstone<br />
Glass-E and the Tieline Cloud Codec Controller, <strong>from</strong><br />
where I can control any Tieline codec <strong>from</strong> setting the<br />
input levels if needed, to setting up connections, and<br />
monitoring the quality of streams coming in and out of<br />
our station via the internet.<br />
Henrik Poulsen using Tieline’s Cloud Codec<br />
Controller to monitor and adjust remote<br />
codec settings and levels<br />
Do you foresee that broadcast workflows may change after the COVID-19 crisis?<br />
Sure there will be changes, some of those were already under way. Doing remotes has<br />
never been easier, and now everybody has been “forced to make the jump” to stay on air.<br />
These routines are not going away. Workflows will be updated, and new options, both on<br />
the hardware and software updates, will support this move. I’m sure more shows will be<br />
done <strong>from</strong> outside the studios, and with great benefit for the listeners. Radio was the first<br />
social media, and the coronavirus has showed that it still is a social media. The technology<br />
brings us together, as we can broadcast <strong>from</strong> where people live, work and have fun.<br />
Do you have any other advice for other people setting up equipment at home?<br />
Small and simple will do. Our start kit for home voicetrack is less than $300. Blankets<br />
and pillows are your best friends when the office needs to be turned into a radio studio.<br />
Be aware of the potential security issues that can occur when work moves home to<br />
peoples’ own computers.<br />
Tieline: The Codec Company<br />
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