Radio World International - September 2009 - (Page 1) INTERNATIONAL EDITION Distributed to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and the Pacific SEPTEMBER 2009 | The News Source for Radio Managers and Engineers | ADVERTISEMENT RADIOWORLD.COM Photo © VANOC/COVAN I NSI DE WILDFIRES • When fires overran its transmission sites, Broadcast Australia’s first responsibility was to get back on the air — Page 3 BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit Following Scottish trial period, audio-over-IP links are being rolled out across the U.K. BY LAWRIE HALLETT GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — An integral aspect of radio broadcasting is the need to send program material from studios to transmitter sites. While this is a relatively straightforward task for small, standalone radio stations where production and transmission facilities are co-located, the bigger the broadcaster, the more complex the task becomes. For a major national and international broadcaster, such as the BBC, ensuring the right material is delivered to the right transmitters reliably and at the highest possible quality is of vital importance. For many years, the BBC relied primarily on a range of analog twisted-pair “music circuits” provided first by the Post Office and later British Telecom. These circuits were of variable quality and unpredictable reliability. Especially problematic was stereo information, which was often degraded by phase (continued on page 12) PRESS FREEDOMS • In Paris, Reporters Sans Frontières is helping exiled Eritrean journalists elude censorship — Page 6 The new West Building (shown here under construction) for the Vancouver Convention Centre will serve as the Main Media Centre for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. IP AUDIO • A special engineering focus looks at the coming generation of audio over IP solutions — Page 10 Vancouver Readies for Olympic Media Arrival BY JAMES CARELESS VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — For STUDIO SESSIONS • Loudspeaker alignment and more — Page 30 the past three years, Nancy Lee has been focused on making sure coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games goes off flawlessly. Lee holds a distinguished position in Canadian broadcast sports. In 1987, she became the first full-time woman sports reporter in CBC Radio history. She advanced quickly through the ranks at Canada’s public-service broadcaster, from producing the national radio sports program “The Inside Track” to head of CBC Radio Sports in 1994. Two years later, Lee became deputy head of the CBC Television Sports division, and by 2002 she was executive director of CBC Television Sports. Given her history and experience, it only made sense to ask Lee to serve as chief operating officer of Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver (OBSV). OBSV is the International Olympic Committee owned-and-operated entity that actually shoots the video and captures the audio at all Olympic sports events, plus the opening and closing ceremonies. It also builds the vast studio and editing facilities used by rights-holding (continued on page 6) It can be so easy. Look it up – page 11. 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