DVB Production, a major supplier of outside broadcast (OB) services in Slovenia and Central Europe, has integrated Calrec’s all-IP Argo S audio console and two ImPulse1 cores into its OB Vehicle 1. It’s the first European customer to deploy Calrec’s reduced-height Argo S, and now benefits from the flexibility and scalability IP brings to the truck’s audio capabilities.
Following its successful launch at NAB 2024, Cleanfeed Cinema - the latest remote recording innovation from Cleanfeed - is already helping audio postproduction facilities redefine their workflows by combining studio quality audio with real-time, high frame rate video over the internet.
Welcome to the third part of ‘Designing IP Broadcast Systems’ - a major 18 article exploration of the technology needed to create practical IP based broadcast production systems. Part 3 discusses some of the key challenges of designing network systems to support everyday operation. It contains five articles which tackle; device discovery and why plug and play is not so easy to achieve, routing, resilience, remote control data flows, and ground to cloud contribution.
We’ve all witnessed its phenomenal growth recently. The question is: how do we manage the process of adopting and adjusting to AI in the broadcasting industry? This article is more about our approach than specific examples of AI integration; there’s plenty of time for that later.
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) is relying on a media and intercom network based on Riedel technology for the renewal of its technical infrastructure at WDR Filmhaus in Cologne. The Riedel solution offered by system integrator Studio Hamburg Media Consult International (MCI) GmbH came out on top in a public tender thanks to its efficiency, flexibility, and future-proof design.
The migration of the core network functionality of 5G to virtualized or cloud-native infrastructure opens up new capabilities like MEC which have the potential to disrupt current approaches to remote production contribution networks.
Broadcast media systems integrator BeckTV and Lawo worked together on a large-scale AES67 build of radio control rooms at KPBS, San Diego’s NPR and PBS member station located on the campus of San Diego State University (SDSU). The new control rooms modernize the infrastructure to the AES67 standard, ensuring all-digital origination, with studios, routing core, signal intake, and distribution all embracing AoIP networking for maximum flexibility and maximum redundancy.
The shift from hardware-based to software-driven broadcast technology has fuelled the innovations we witness in live production today. Despite this, broadcast facilities have remained predominantly reliant on custom hardware setups. With evolving media consumption patterns, broadcasters and professional media producers now demand greater adaptability, agility, and scalability than what current broadcast facilities provide.
