From our Who’s Buying What page: The Public Relations Department of Thai Government Radio has updated its radio transmission equipment with Orban Labs’ Optimod 5950 Digital Audio processor.

The PRD operates Radio Thailand, its public broadcasting arm.

The network includes six FM national sations, which Orban noted in a release as receiving a processing upgrade. They are A.S. Radio in King Palace and Bangkok, PRD Chonburi, PRD Panga, PRD Yasothon, PRD Lampang and PRD Nakhon Sri Thumrat.

JAA Systems, based in Malaysia, as well as the Bangkok-based Broadcast and Studio Co., Ltd., assisted with the Optimod installations.

[Related: “Orban Names JAA Systems a Master Distributor”]

According to the release, the six stations are now using the audio processing technology for improved loudness and clarity while maintaining full compliance with broadcast standards in their respective coverage areas.

“It is a highly reliable processor that gives broadcasters confidence in maintaining premium audio quality, especially for high-power FM operations like A.S. Radio Station (King Palace Radio Station) and other PRD stations,” said Pairoj Veeraondh, CEO of Broadcast and Studio Co.

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From our Who’s Buying What page come two announcements from Nautel.

Ideastream Public Media in Ohio has ordered transmitters for FM stations WKSU, WCLV and WKRW and a related translator.

“The transmitters, which were ordered through Warmus and Associates, include two GV2-30ND units, a GV2 3.5 and a VS1,” according to Nautel.

Chuck Poulton is senior director of technology for Ideastream.

Separately, Nautel said that Hutton Broadcasting has purchased an NV20LT transmitter for FM station KQBA in Los Alamos, N.M.

Hutton used Nautel’s finance partner Navitas. The company has previously installed Nautel transmitters at several other FM stations and translators.

Austin Burch, shown, is its director of engineering.

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From our Who’s Buying What page: Audiospace has won a contract to develop 240 digital radio platforms for Connoisseur Media. 

The first websites and apps rolled out in December.

Audiospace is a Swiss software line from the company Brands Are Live AG. The firm said it is working to expand its global presence.

Connoisseur recently grew by acquiring Alpha Media and its approximately 200 U.S. stations, plus five more in San Francisco, from Bonneville Group. Jeff Warshaw is CEO.

Warshaw was quoted in the press release saying of Audiospace, “They’re not just building apps and websites, they are helping us connect with our listeners while also unlocking new revenue opportunities for our advertisers.”

The announcement was made with Audiospace CEO and founder Jan Müller.

Audiospace develops apps, websites, monetization tools, data infrastructure and additional digital services. The company said it has also been growing in Europe, particularly in Germany.

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From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: Audacy’s 95.7 KGMZ(FM) in San Francisco is the latest Bay Area station to partner with GeoBroadcast Solutions for its MaxxCasting technology.

“95.7 The Game,” the all-sports station, is using the technology to improve its signal across the south bay areas of San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas and Campbell, via two new synchronized booster nodes, according to a GBS release. 

The first booster is located atop the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara using 1.75 kW ERP, while the second with 100 watts ERP is located in downtown San Jose. Sister station 105.3 KITS(FM) is already using both locations for boosters. 

KGMZ, unlike many Bay Area FMs, is not a “superpower” Class B FM, thus, the new boosters fall within its protected 54 dB contour, as depicted in KGMZ(FM3)’s engineering exhibit.

KGMZ already has an existing booster, located in Diablo, serving the East Bay area. 

A GBS release said the MaxxCasting nodes add approximately 400,000 potential listeners, with improved coverage around Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, the SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks, and San Jose International Airport.

The release notes that the nodes “lay the groundwork” for future ZoneCasting capabilities, or geotargeting via boosters that originate programming, as Radio World has written about in the past.

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From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: In Colombia, the Cadena Melodía radio network has selected DHD audio consoles for its main studios in Bogotá.

The project was completed by the Bogotá-based integrator Aspa Andina and is part of the digitization of the network’s facilities using SX2 production consoles.

Aspa Andina said that the upgrade of the network’s studios in the glass building on Bogotá’s 45th Street “sets a benchmark” as the first station in Colombia to digitize through an SX2 control surface.

The SX2 allows the interconnection of studios via Cat-6 Ethernet cabling. The control surfaces on the SX2 consoles can perform audio routing from assigned outputs, which includes booth monitoring, audio codec returns and hybrid output, DHD said.

The upper section of each SX2 modular control surface features a 10-inch touchscreen. The surface is also equipped with motorized faders, which allow for the implementation of a virtual microphone mixer on a second layer. Through DHD’s Automix tool, studio microphones can be routed to any of the 16 available program buses.

The SX2 also supports headphone jacks with independent level control. In Cadena Melodía’s case, this allows return audio to be sent to each announcer, including specific talkback or commands from its control room when needed, DHD said.

Cadena Melodía was founded in 1967 following the merger of Radio Industrial and Melodía FM Estéreo. It broadcasts under the callsign HJCU on 730 AM in Bogotá.

The Cadena Melodía network expanded in the 1980s, adding stations in Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Cartagena de Indias, Barranquilla, Cali and Pasto.

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