In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Nicolas Moulin-Fournier – SVP of New Video Services at Eutelsat. We chat about the importance of free television for communities across the globe, future developments in the satellite field and what he envisions for the future of the broadcasting industry.
farmerswife Case Study: Urban Brew Studios
Established in 1998, Urban Brew Studios is a world class facility with award winning productions. With 9 studios with control rooms, a full video & audio post-production department. Urban brew Studio’s production department has done productions with a wide variety of genres. Eg, music shows, children shows, game shows and telenovelas. The company has two Gospel channels that are on the Multichoice bouquet and has hosted productions like The Voices SA, IDOLS SA and Family Feud SA.
farmerswife Case Study: Instant News Services
Instant News Services (INS) is an audiovisual production company based in Brussels. For over thirty years, European institutions, government agencies, businesses and world-leading broadcasters have trusted INS to tell their stories through compelling and innovative multimedia content produced around the world. We’re experts at capturing the essence of an event, policy or initiative and bringing it to the screen. INS boasts an unparalleled network of creative professionals, with whom we produce hundreds of interviews, reportages and animations every year.
Remote Radio Station Operations with WideOrbit – WO Automation for Radio Version 5
The latest version of WO Automation for Radio, version 5.0, includes significant improvements to help broadcasters manage station operations from anywhere, on nearly any device.
The Infinite Dial 2021: Digital Audio Continues to Grow – Are You Keeping Pace?
Released last week, The 2021 Infinite Dial report once again shows significant growth in digital audio. The report estimates that in 2021, weekly online audio listeners will reach 193 million, or 68% of the US population, up from 169 million, or 60%, in 2020.
Digital Audio: How Advertisers Can Reach Growing Audiences with Automated Buying
Advertisers are finding it increasingly important to embrace an expanding digital audio landscape. The 2021 Infinite Dial report shows significant growth in digital audio, estimating that in 2021, weekly online audio listeners will reach 193 million, or 68% of the US population, up from 169 million, or 60%, in 2020.
Boosting RTCG’s Production Workflows with a Unified Multi-Ingest System
MOG has provided with its partner Tera Adria an automated production solution for RTCG Montenegro, which consisted of a smooth HD-SDI 6 channel recording and card ingest, with playback and quality control, directly integrated with AVID’s Interplay check-in and Nexis. The workflow required an additional layer of central management and automation, fully boosted by MAM4PRO. Read the Full Case Study below.
weConnect: CGI and ARD Multimedia Project
This whitepaper details the collaboration between CGI and Germany’s ARD broadcasting and radio stations.
The weConnect system was developed by the ARD working group “weConnect” with the participation of IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik), CGI, and other manufacturers. Its goal is to replace ARD’s ageing line scheduling and file transfer network and enable it to exchange audio contributions and switch audio lines between the ARD broadcasting stations.
IP Technology for Broadcast Audio Routing Systems
As the AoIP debate continues to confuse and delight in equal measure, what is clear is different scenarios require specific solutions. So is there a solution that encompasses open standards and existing proven AoIP technologies to the benefit of all?
Embracing Immersive Audio
The popularity of OTT broadcasting is really helping to drive the growth of immersive content, and this presents both opportunities and challenges for the broadcast audio world. Mixing in immersive allows the audio engineer to create a sense of envelopment and realism like never before, but as channel count and mix complexity increases, the importance of neutral, uncoloured studio monitoring with precise imaging becomes even more important.
At Genelec we’ve long been involved with designing monitoring systems that are scalable from stereo to surround to immersive, so here we’ll examine some of the principles of immersive audio, and some of the considerations that audio professionals need to be aware of.
