30 l January 2014
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France Télévisions Publicité, the state-owned radio and television broadcaster, has installed a Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker system in its Paris studio. FTP’s screening and presentation room now boasts two compact Renkus-Heinz TRX61 complex conic systems and a Klark Teknik DN9848 to replace the old loudspeaker processor. Terry Nelson, sound designer of the project, praised the TRX612s suitability for broadcast, saying: “People have commented on their very natural sound, especially with voices.”
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Audio Precision has announced a new Android app for testing smartphone audio quality. The app will allow fast, automated profiling of new phones and tablets for the comparison of different models’ audio performance. Key features include testing Bluetooth signal paths as well as using the device’s record feature, then transferring the resulting file to an APx audio analyser over USB for analysis.
www.ap.com
Retail chain Halfords has announced it will stop selling analogue-only radios within two years in the UK, in line with a proposed switch-over to digital/DAB. From 2015, the supplier will offer only digital receivers when it comes to upgrades for customer vehicles. CEO Matt Davies said, “Halfords is committed to a digital future.”
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Timeline Television is using a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system for its new sports entertainment channels BT Sport 1 and BT Sport 2, as well as ESPN. Timeline Television’s new production hub is in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The facility includes three large TV studios, seven sports production galleries, a master control room, 20 edit suites, a dubbing theater, and an audience holding area.
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Euro-Chip for commercial radio broadcasters
Norwegian and Swedish commercial radio stations join the project to expand access to services though hybrid digital technology, writes Kevin Hilton
THE FIRST two European commercial stations have joined the EBU’s Euro-Chip project to expand access to radio services though hybrid digital technology. By signing a Memorandum of Understanding, the Modern Times Group (MTG) in Sweden and P4 Radio Hele of Norway will now work alongside 11 public service broadcasters to promote the installation of digital and analogue receivers in radios and mobile devices. The aim is to allow listeners to receive free-to-air services
UNITED KINGDOM New delights at WB De Lane Lea By Kevin Hilton
A YEAR on from being bought by Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, London post-audio production house De Lane Lea has been substantially refurbished with the installation of Pro Tools HDX systems and the opening of a new ADR suite. Now known as Warner Bros. De Lane Lea, the facility has worked on a number of high profile productions, including 7.1 mixes for Gravity and TV series da Vinci’s Demons. Major investment in the Soho-based operation has seen the addition of 18 Pro Tools HDX and HD native workstations with D-Command control surfaces and a range of plug-ins. Improvements have also been made to the MADI
routing and ADR streaming set-ups. Additional space has been taken on the first floor of Royalty House, next door to WB De Lane Lea’s main premises at 75 Dean Street for the building of the new purpose-built ADR 1 studio and 18 cutting rooms. Another new facility is a 5.1 TV pre-mix suite, built into the old Studio 5. Director of operations and business development Helen Alexander says this, and the ADR operation, is part of the company’s plan to bring in more broadcast work. While most Warner Bros television productions are post-produced at the Burbank facility in California, WB De Lane Lea is being used by UK broadcasters and for co-productions. Recent
De Lane Lea: substantially refurbished a year after the Warner Bros buy-up
shows include The Politician’s Husband, Game of Thrones, Veep and da Vinci’s Demons, the second, 10-episode season of which was mixed in 7.1. “About 20 percent of our
output is for TV and tends to be high end,” comments Alexander. "Da Vinci’s Demons was the first to qualify for the UK high end TV tax break.”
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without having to pay for broadband connectivity. The EBU also wants the new Euro- Chips to be fitted in existing devices with no incremental cost to the consumer. EBU head of radio Christian
Frankenhauser, EBU media director
Vogg says the move sends out the message that terrestrial radio broadcasting will make the transition to digital: “Bringing together different interest groups is an important milestone in the campaign. Norway will be the first country in Europe to switch-off FM [in]
2017 to 2019. Support from commercial broadcasters is recognition that Euro-Chip is about giving radio a future in the digital economy.” The EBU’s media director, Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser wrote in this month’s edition of Tech-i (the EBU’s quarterly technology and innovation magazine) that “a chip capable of delivering what is included in the basic message of the Euro- Chip initiative in smartphones and tablets as soon as possible is our target. This would be a major breakthrough for the future of radio. If radio wants to have a future, this is clearly where radio needs to be”.
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