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Author: Dan Daley, Audio Editor
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Shure Debuts the First Digital Array Microphone Tailored for BroadcastShure today unveiled its long-awaited DCA901 Planar Array microphone at the IBC Show in Amsterdam (Stand 8.C32). Designed in large part around broadcast sports applications — particularly professional basketball games, where prototypes have been tested during Summer League — its...
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Audio innovations help Chess.com checkmate cheatingCheating at chess is nothing new. One of the first such instances in modern chess competition took place in 1980 when a Bell Laboratories technician snuck its newest prototype 'Belle' calculation machine into a library near where German grandmaster Helmut...
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IBC 2024 Preview: Audio Vendors To Emphasize Updates and UpgradesThe International Broadcasting Convention (Amsterdam RAI, Sept. 13-16) is the European counterpart of the NAB Show in Las Vegas every April. In both shows, product introductions tend to be iterative rather than transformative, but that’s chiefly a function of broadcast...
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NFL in Europe: It’s all about the crowd soundLondon calling — again. After besting the Atlanta Falcons on 1 October at Wembley Stadium on ESPN, the Jacksonville Jaguars defeated the Buffalo Bills a week later at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the NFL Network. That venue and network will...
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NAB 2023: IP, immersive, and streaming audio are here; AI is on the horizonThe 2023 NAB Show last week marked the 100th anniversary of broadcasting’s biggest event — and set the tone for the next century of technological change.
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FCC denies wireless-microphone makers’ plea for vacant spectrum availabilityIn an Order on Reconsideration issued on 11 May, the Federal Communications Commission denied a request from microphone-systems manufacturers Sennheiser and Shure to sustain a vacant channel in the TV bands reserved for wireless-microphone use. That channel was part of...
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MLB and ESPN take player-miking to a new levelBaseball players are just plain chatty. Perhaps it’s the relatively slow pace of the game, or maybe the pitcher is in a groove, and three outfielders find themselves a bit bored by the third inning. In any event, that’s working...
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Tech focus: bodypacks, part 2 – wireless transmitters are smaller than ever, more flexibleIncreasingly essential to audio capture for broadcast sports, wireless bodypack transmitters are small, light, flexible and powerful. Here’s a look at some current leading models. Click here for Tech Focus: Bodypacks, Part 1 — Wireless Transmitters Reflect RF-Industry Challenges.
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Lawo’s Johan Boqvist looks at sports radio’s next centuryRadio was broadcast sports’ first electronic medium, and, a little more than 100 years since the first announcers crackled over the airwaves, radio remains a leading media format for sports. It’s also where broadcast audio gets to stretch out, offering...
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Tech focus: Bodypacks, part 1 – wireless transmitters reflect RF-industry challengesThey’re small and getting smaller. They’re designed to be virtually invisible. They’re light enough to be measured in ounces and grams instead of pounds and kilos. But wireless bodypack transmitters have become both central to audio capture for broadcast sports...
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Sound for the Tokyo Olympics both ‘a challenge and an opportunity’Listen closely to the sound of the Summer Olympics, because there will be a lot of firsts. For instance, it will be the first Olympics broadcast in 5.4.1 immersive audio, with four overhead channels adding an upper dimension to the...
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Olympics audio: A Herculean task for the classic gamesOn the podcast Transformed by Tech: How The Olympics Stay Cutting Edge, produced by The Podium for NBC Olympics, Karl Malone, director of sound design at NBC Universal, discussed how the Games’ sound is collected, produced and processed, transported and...
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Bose Professional provides bespoke audio for Royal Ascot 2021It’s Downton Abbey meets the Kentucky Derby. Royal Ascot is UK horseracing’s most auspicious event: five days (15-19 June 2021) of pomp, circumstance and actual royals, and it’s been going on near Windsor Castle in one form or another since...
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Audio Consoles, Part 2 — Remote operation continues to growRemote audio-mixing consoles for broadcast are still a relatively rarefied category at the high end of the market, but diversity within the group is increasing, thanks to growing demand for consoles of various sizes and functionality. Here’s an overview of...
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