
Exceptional Sound: Why We Need Next Gen Audio in Live Sports
By Costa Nikols on Jan 28, 2025 2:50:32 PM
"Just Good Enough audio won't cut it anymore"
High-quality audio is a crucial component of live sports broadcasting. Exceptional audio intensifies live sporting events and creates unforgettable moments that resonate on a deeper level. Reproducing the unique sounds of a stadium or racetrack to create truly engaging experiences for TV audiences is complex, but emerging technologies and deep innovation are beginning to change the game.
Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Sporting Events, Immersive Audio
Yannick Olivier, lead broadcast engineer, France Télévisions, and Costa Nikols, strategy advisor, M&E, Telos Alliance, look at the future of sport audio
Major live events like the Paris games, Paralympics and UEFA Euro 2024 dominated TV screens and drew in millions of audiences around the world this past summer. While growing investment in 4K UHD and ever-increasing demand for superior viewing quality push broadcasters and streaming services to innovate with more immersive on-screen experiences, there’s an unsung hero that has underpinned every cup final, gold-medal race and penalty shootout: the audio.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Sporting Events, 2024, S-ADM, Immersive Audio

S-ADM: What It Is, Why It Matters For Next Generation TV Production
By Larry Schindel on Jul 16, 2024 5:59:12 PM
Examining and implementing
S-ADM workflows
Serial ADM (S-ADM) is metadata that describes the elements of an audio program to enable object-based personalization in TV productions. It is defined in ITU-R BS.2125 and is starting to be adopted. This summer (2024), France TV and other European broadcasters will use it for the first time in broadcasts of some large-scale sporting events.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, 2024, S-ADM

White Paper: S-ADM Authoring & Monitoring with flexAI
By The Telos Alliance Team on Jun 12, 2024 12:10:42 PM
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:
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Junger, flexAI, S-ADM
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.
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Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus
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.
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Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

AudioTools In Focus: Simple, Painless Layout Identification
By Graham Tudball on Feb 21, 2024 12:57:12 PM
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.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

What the Heck, Where's the Tech? | Telos Alliance
By The Telos Alliance Team on May 10, 2017 3:32:16 PM
What the Heck, Where's the Tech?
ATSC 3.0 Next Generation Audio (NGA) System Demystified
Technology truly is a train that just keeps on rolling. With the world preparing for yet another advancement in personalized entertainment experience, acronyms are being thrown around like dice on the craps table. What does it all mean and how will any of it benefit the consumer?
Let’s take a deep dive into what a Next Generation Audio System can really do by looking at what’s happening in South Korea.
Read MoreTopics: Television Audio, Linear Acoustic AMS, Next Generaton Audio
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