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broadcastreport UNITED KINGDOM
Liquidation for radio industry stalwart Audionics
Sheffield-based broadcast equipment firm is wound up after 26 years By Kevin Hilton
RADIO EQUIPMENT and integration company Audionics has been wound up and its assets are being sold, PSNEurope has learned. The 26-year-old firm was based in Sheffield and produced a range of products, including distribution amplifiers, talkback systems, audio routing/switching matrices and audio mixers, as well as undertaking custom design and build projects. The liquidator is confident that creditors will receive either full or “substantial” payment. Founded in 1987 as a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Yorkshire Radio Network (YRN), Audionics was formed to offer the skills of the parent company’s in-house technical team on a commercial basis. YRN’s had already designed much of the equipment used by stations within the group and continued to do this under the Audionics brand, while at the same time working with other commercial broadcasters and the BBC. A management buyout
backed by a group of Yorkshire GERMANY TV Skyline travels with Vista 1
MAINZ-BASED TV Skyline GmbH is one of the largest OB trucks and service providers in Germany, serving public and private TV channels as well as customers in various industries throughout Europe. To meet the increasing customer demand for surround sound productions, TV Skyline has upgraded the audio technology of its Ü3HD truck with a Studer Vista 1 console. The Vista 1 was sold through Audio Pro, Studer’s German distributor. The Vista 1 in Ü3HD is equipped with 32 faders and offers 32 mic/line inputs, 32 analogue outputs and eight
One particular advantage to The Vista 1 is ready for Riedel RockNet!
AES/EBU stereo input and output channels, as well as an integrated MADI port. A Riedel RockNet card is installed in the expansion slot of the console, ensuring the integration of the MediorNet system.
the Vista 1 is that no external hardware is required, according to Jan Saueressig of TV Skyline. “The compact dimensions of the mixer, combined with the fact that no external hardware is needed, was a huge advantage of the Vista 1,” he said. “The easy access to MediorNet was another advantage that made the Vista 1 the obvious choice.” The console was first used in an 8-camera production at the start of the season for the Austrian Bundesliga soccer tournament in Innsbruck.
www.tv-skyline.de.
www.audiopro.de
business people took place in 1991. Involved in this were Phil Myers and Phil Davies, who had been instrumental in building up Audionics as a standalone concern. In 2007 Myers and Davies, who had become executive directors, took over as joint owners of the company. That same year, they hit the headlines when the Audionics HQ was flooded by the River Don, which burst its banks after heavy storms. Audionics established a
range that covered power distribution, internet control, digital audio units such as the DA210D distribution amplifier, routing with the MCX4 and the Com2000 talkback system. Liquidator Philip Daly of
Daly & Co told PSNEurope that Audionics had been put into a “members’ voluntary liquidation”. This is done when a company is solvent – in other words it can pay its debts; this usually happens because the owners want to retire, or it is a family business and nobody else wants to run it, or the
Two of Audionics’ Silence Detector units
business has run its course. There was no indication if any of these was the reason for the winding up of Audionics. However, a source close to the company suggested that the radio specialist’s over-reliance on the domestic market had caused a downturn in sales over the last two years. Daly said there should be
“sufficient monies” to pay creditors in full or at least substantially, although this does depend on the sale of Audionics’ premises. He added that eight employees, including two directors, had been in full- time employment at the time of winding up. All have been made redundant; some have found new jobs while others have decided to retire.
www.audionics.co.uk www.dalyco.co.uk
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