![]() Power the kit up and the Huskers Broadcast Center takes over from there via Tieline CCC and VPN connectivity to the REMI kit.” Mount the antennas for the sideline reporter wireless. Setup at the remote site, he said, is simple. “Using the Tieline CCC we had full monitoring and control of the Tieline equipment at the game site, no matter what IP patch the signals were taking.” They use MaxxKonnect Wireless for automatic failover connectivity to the REMI road kit, with stadium Ethernet as the primary. “Furthermore, all of these feeds are also available to mix into the Spanish broadcast, with the Spanish broadcasters at another remote site.” “With Wheatstone LXE and AoIP technology, we can easily generate custom mixes, and adjust any needed audio processing for each and every road game microphone while mixing at the Huskers Broadcast Center.”įor example, if the color announcer wanted to hear more nat sound, that’s handled at the broadcast center. Included in the return feeds are various nat sound feeds from the remote venue. A producer position to monitor and operate the HDVMixer video production system “Every remote game-site talent - play by play, color, stats, even the sideline reporter - appear on individual ‘pots’ on the Husker Broadcast Center pod assigned to that game,” he continued. Using Tieline Gateway and Via codecs and their Cloud Codec Controller technology, a simple road kit travels. Each and every road game announcer microphone is individually returned to our Broadcast Operations Center. Each and every road talent has their own individual IFB mix to the broadcast operations center production team. “Instead of sending producers and engineers to remote sites, we designed a radio version of the TV remote integration, or REMI, model. We send on-air talent to road games but do not send production or engineering staff. ![]() “Initially that was system design, RFPs, buildout, testing, and training of all staff to operate and produce Husker broadcasts.”Įlliott said the department took an unusual approach to producing road game radio broadcasts. “When Nebraska Athletics made the decision to bring their radio operation in house, they asked me to join the Athletic Department as Director of Broadcast Operations,” he said. “All audio connectivity to remote sites was using Tieline technology and products.” At work in the Huskers Radio Network Broadcast Centerīilingual broadcasts of all Husker Football games was a requirement of the facility, utilizing announcers at remote sites, often different remote sites for every game.Įlliott designed and built the Broadcast Operations Center and all REMI systems, with support from various Husker Athletics departments. ![]() “Private video capability with ultra low latency - under half a second - is part of the Broadcast Center to accommodate non-traveling, COVID-safe broadcasting of any home or road game, with talent in isolated studios and/or offsite locations around the country,” Elliott said. Video can be ingested from any Husker Athletics venue, and audio from anywhere across the globe. The Broadcast Operations Center has five live event production pods. The network has the capability to send a live video stream of the network’s “Sports Nightly” talk show, heard on more than two dozen terrestrial radio affiliates, plus internet radio streams and free live video streams on YouTube, and the app. The show produces audio and video two hours a day, five nights a week, 52 weeks a year. “The Huskers Radio Network had to be built to support up to four simultaneous live Husker sporting event broadcasts to terrestrial radio affiliates, with up to eight live simultaneous internet radio streams of live Husker sporting events and programming.” “This was not your typical radio station operation with ‘studios,’” Elliott said. Part of the challenge was to bring up a statewide radio network on a very short timeline.ĭirector of Broadcast Operations Mike Elliott said the new facilities serve the Huskers Radio Network, with its 50+ radio stations across the Midwest, plus internet audio broadcasts across the world on and the official Husker App. college athletic department to bring its multimedia operation fully in house, starting with the 2021–22 sports season. The Athletic Department at the University of Nebraska became the first major U.S. ![]() This story appeared in the Radio World ebook “Spectacular Radio Studios.”
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