Don't put them off, or they might put you off the air

Every broadcast engineer tasked with the care and feeding of a transmitter site likely has a checklist of tasks to perform on a regular basis. The frequency of regular visits will depend on a variety of factors, including accessibility, proximity, time, and whatever else the universe sees fit to hurl at us on any given day.

Topics: Broadcast Engineering, 2024, infrastructure, Maintenance

NGA Metadata Format S-ADM and Jünger Audio flexAI

Serialized ADM (S-ADM) metadata describes the referenced audio to enable object-based Next Generation Audio (NGA) productions.  This white paper introduces our concept to enable S-ADM production workflows in the Jünger Audio flexible audio infrastructure flexAI for Dolby® Atmos distribution. Various audio processors can be added and routed internally to set up different broadcast chains. These processors can run on the AIXpressor and a range of flexAIserver audio processing servers. This allows for meeting various processing power and interfacing capability requirements. Examples of applications:

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Junger, flexAI, S-ADM

EAS alert distribution finally realizes the benefits of AoIP

Guest editorial by Bill Robertson, VP Business Development, Digital Alert Systems, Inc.

(At NAB Show 2024, Telos Alliance, Digital Alert Systems, and Nautel announced a joint technical collaboration designed not only to complete the all-AoIP air chain but to give broadcasters more control, reliability, and flexibility in EAS implementation. - Ed.)

U.S. Broadcasters are required to provide emergency alerts to their audiences, but many radio stations use IP-based signal distribution — something incompatible with old-style EAS boxes. What is needed is a simple way to interface the real-world over-the-air reception of EAS events, filter and process the messages, and — if necessary — incorporate the alerts into the modern audio-over-IP (AoIP) air chain.

Topics: IP Studios, virtualization

For truly dependable systems, resiliency is a must

When it comes to deploying any automated solution a commonly used maxim is to aim to avoid any single points of failure. This can be summarized by the phrase “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. In other words, spread your risk and try to make your solution as resilient as possible.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

Nearly everything can be virtual now. Why not radio airchains?

Virtualization is a hot topic, not just in the broadcast business, but in scores of industries. Years ago, Telos Alliance made the strategic decision to migrate our solutions to virtual models that leverage the IT industry, the Internet, ubiquitous computing, state-of-the-art cyber security mitigation, and open standards and practices. 

Topics: Radio, AoIP networking, virtualization, infrastructure

Welcome to another edition of "Ask The Omnia Guy", a continuing series of expert answers by the Omnia guy, Paul Kriegler, to real-world questions from our electronic mailbag. Our question:

Q: "Why Can't I Get My Omnia.3 Repaired?"

A: This is a pretty common question from customers that want to keep their favorite 15- to 25-year-old Omnia on the air and sounding great.  

Topics: broadcast audio processor

Making time is easy with ATS' Frame Rate Toolbox

They say that time is precious, and this was particularly true for one of our radio customers, a multinational religious broadcaster which receives and processes hundreds of hours of content every day at their US headquarters from independent providers across the globe. With so much content coming from so many different sources, ensuring consistency and quality was always going to be a challenge.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

A look inside the most flexible audio-handling ecosystem yet for TV production

In our ongoing exploration of cutting-edge audio technology, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Friedemann Kootz of Jünger Audio to delve into the innovative flexAI platform. 

Topics: Audio Processing, Automation, Audio Routing, Junger, AIXpressor, 2024, flexAI

Netherlands' Triple Audio Puts Axia To Work at Radio4All

Recently we heard something quite amazing from our partners in the Netherlands, Triple Audio: they'd built a client new broadcast studios, ready for air, in just two weeks' time! How in the world is this possible? They've given us permission to share their story - read on! (The following is edited; to read the original, click here.)

Topics: AoIP studios, Axia Quasar

ATS Channel Assignment Detection Speeds Workflows

When you have content coming in from many different vendors and sources it can often feel a bit like the wild west, with no certainty over what audio channels are on any given file and in what order. Bringing order to this chaos and identifying the audio layout on each file can be both time-consuming and expensive - two things that don’t make great business sense!

This is the exact challenge that one of our Canadian customers faced.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus