A release said that NBC Sports will make use of Triton’s hosting, monetization and audience measurement tools.
“Working alongside Triton Digital allows us to better understand our growing audiences and deliver reliable, consistent measurements to advertisers,” said Aileen Sokol, VP of content partnership development at NBC Sports.
As part of the collaboration, NBC Sports will use Triton’s Omny Studio for podcast hosting and distribution, Triton Ad Platform for audio advertising monetization and campaign management, Podcast Metrics for IAB-certified podcast measurement and analytics and Demos+ for demographic insights.
The release said that Triton’s technology will support NBC Sports’ podcast portfolio, allowing the company to distribute and monetize its sports podcasts.
From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: DHD says radio and online broadcast network ArtSound FM in Australia’s capital Canberra chose its audio mixing consoles for new studios at its headquarters in the Manuka district.
“The project is part-funded by the Community Broadcasting Foundation and being progressed by DHD distribution partner Qvest Australia, which is based in New South Wales,” the manufacturer said in its announcement.
ArtSound covers performing and visual arts including literature, theater, film, exhibitions and concerts. Its VP and Technology Manager Chris Deacon told DHD that the modernization initiative included replacing three audio mixing consoles that were built in-house in 2005. ArtSound selected two DHD SX2 consoles and a compact TX2 model.
Campbell Swinton, Queensland State manager at Qvest Australia, said the project is being done in two phases so ArtSound can maintain 24/7 operation.
“Phase 1 is now complete with the first studio fully equipped and ready to go operational. It includes a 10-fader DHD SX2 studio console connected to a DHD XS3 core. Phase 2 will center on equipping a second studio with a 10-fader SX2 console and XS3 core. We have also integrated an ultracompact DHD TX2 console plus DHD’s Views and Assist apps. All three consoles are equipped with Dante audio-over-IP connectivity.”
Its six-hour daily and one-hour weekly country music shows are now localized and distributed by Radio.Cloud’s cloud-based suite of tools, including Content Controller and Content Transporter.
The announcement comes during this week’s Country Radio Seminar in the Music City. A release said that the platform allowed Café Nashville to produce and record the show directly from CRS for the first time, rather than taping ahead of time.
Café Nashville can also check to see if its affiliate stations have downloaded its shows for the day.
The show is heard on 12 U.S. stations, including 98.9 KNUC(FM) in Seattle and 98.7 KUPL(FM) in Portland, Ore.
Radio.Cloud’s Content Controller allows localization and customization of content per affiliate and per market. Content Transporter provides distribution that allows for last-minute updates during and after events.
From our “Who’s Buying What” page:Audacy will install synchronized boosters in New York City to solve “invisible coverage gaps” in local coverage for WCBS-FM and WXBK-FM.
The company will use MaxxCasting systems from GeoBroadcast Solutions, which deploys clusters of low-elevation, highly directionalized boosters. GBS called the agreement “a major expansion of proven FM signal-optimization technology into the nation’s largest and most complex radio market.”
According to GBS, even strong FM signals in dense urban markets may not reach their full potential audience.
“In New York, terrain effects and dense development in all directions can disrupt reception at street level, where most listening occurs, particularly in cars with antennas positioned roughly six feet off the ground,” it said in the announcement.
“For decades, broadcasters have assumed that top FM stations were engineered to the fullest extent possible and that additional reach was unlikely. In reality, natural terrain and dense development can create signal disruptions that traditional planning models do not fully account for.”
It said traditional planning assumes “ideal conditions and rooftop antennas,” but that real listening “happens at street level, in motion, in dense markets like New York.”
John Kennedy is Audacy senior vice president of technical operations.
MaxxCasting systems also are in use in San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose.
GBS also makes the ZoneCasting geotargeting technology.
The software-based production environment brings its athletic venues into a media network capable of handling shows from multiple control rooms.
An operator uses a Lawo VSM control panel. The VSM system provides a control layer for video routing, tally, device control and multiviewer changes across University of Nebraska athletic venues.
The network connects facilities that include Memorial Stadium, Hawks Championship Center, the Devaney Center, Pinnacle Bank Arena, Haymarket Park and the Dillon tennis and Hibner soccer complexes.
The IP backbone feeds three co-located control rooms inside Memorial Stadium.
HuskerVision led the project as the second phase of a multi-year modernization effort, following an audio-first IP transformation in 2023, according to a release.
The university worked with BeckTV, who designed and integrated the SMPTE ST 2110 implementation, to evaluate its goals that included scalability with less bandwidth overhead.
Garrett Hill, director of technology for HuskerVision, spoke of the ease of routing video or audio independently.
“We can bring in signals from any venue — whether five cameras from volleyball or a football package — and everything just shows up in the fabric,” Hill said.
At the core of HuskerVision’s video infrastructure is Lawo’s .edge platform, which serves as both a high-density gateway and an IP processing node for the campus media network.
At the core of the new infrastructure is Lawo’s .edge platform, which acts as both a high-density gateway and an IP processing node. The .edge frames provide 3G-SDI and 12G-SDI ingest, while native ST 2110 connectivity and quad-25GbE interfaces feed the production network.
Recently retired Chief Engineer Scott Guthrie said the Memorial Stadium’s truck dock has especially reaped the benefits of the upgrades. HuskerVision can exchange 24×24 bidirectional signals with national broadcast trucks, supporting 12G-SDI, HDR, SDR and ST 2110 feeds.
Inside the Memorial Stadium control rooms, HuskerVision uses the HOME Multiviewer to create venue-specific monitoring setups.
The project also uses Lawo’s HOME Apps running on COTS servers. It includes the HOME Multiviewer for monitoring setups and the HOME UDX app.
Brock Raum, BeckTV senior engineer and Nebraska alumnus, said the flexibility of the HOME App system was the highlight of the solution, allowing its operators to adjust specific tools up or down depending on the sport or season.
Garrett Hill, director of technology at HuskerVision.
HuskerVision said that the upgrades have allowed its team to manage events while providing student operators with hands-on training.
A Dielectric manifold combiner inside the RF building at Farnsworth Peak.
From our Who’s Buying What page: Dielectric has completed an FM infrastructure upgrade for Bonneville International with the installation of a new master antenna system outside Salt Lake City.
The RingMaster broadband FM and manifold combiner system now supports 13 FM stations broadcasting atop Farnsworth Peak.
At approximately 9,000 feet above sea level and named after Utah native and television inventor Philo Farnsworth, the mountain is the nerve center for radio and TV in the Salt Lake metropolitan area. Counting translators, 21 FM stations broadcast from the peak, according to data from the RadioLand app.
Bonneville operates three of the stations on the new manifold combiner system — 102.7 KSL(FM), 100.3 KSFI(FM) and 103.5 KRSP(FM) — and the company led the project to modernize the site’s master antenna infrastructure and strengthen RF performance, according to a Dielectric release.
The combiner will also serve Salt Lake stations for iHeartMedia, Cumulus Media, Capital Broadcasting, KSOP Inc. and Community Radio of Utah.
Aaron Farnham, Bonneville’s regional director of engineering, said that the previous master system at Farnsworth was approximately 40 years old, and it was not designed for the requirements of HD Radio.
The company evaluated multiple antenna manufacturers, with goals that included allowing all stations to achieve improved coverage with smaller transmitters, while also supporting HD Radio insertion levels that matched current standards.
Farnham cited Dielectric’s consultative engineering that took into account both RF performance and the physical constraints of the site.
SCMS worked with Bonneville and Dielectric throughout the procurement process and provided customer support to help keep the project on schedule, according to the release.
Dielectric’s RingMaster technology builds on the company’s DCR side-mounted ring antenna designs and introduces a broadband concept through half-wave and full-wave spaced arrays. Dielectric said that the wavelength spacing helps FM stations maintain full bandwidth performance with fewer radiating elements while offering greater control over directional elevation patterns.
A Dielectric RingMaster antenna.
The Farnsworth Peak RingMaster antenna is side-mounted on the tower, and the existing combined antenna system will remain in place as a backup, the release said. Dielectric also performed tower surveys and modeling to account for surrounding antennas and tower structures that could influence final coverage patterns.
The project also included installation of a new Dielectric manifold combiner inside the RF building. Its design merges the 13 FM signals in a small footprint, allowing Bonneville and the other tenants to support a large master system without requiring facility expansion.
Farnham said that the performance improvements are already evident in both analog FM and HD Radio reception across the Salt Lake City market, even with HD Radio operating at –14 dBc, as opposed to the maximum –10 dBc insertion level.
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