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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 10 | October 2016

Appointments
Audio Network
Appoints CEO
GBR: Audio
Network,
the
international
music
group
specialising in music for television,
film and digital media, has
appointed Robb Smith as Group
CEO.
Smith joins the business from
Studiocanal, where he held the role
of Chief Operating Operator UK and
Executive Vice President of Global
Digital Strategy.
He will take up the position with
immediate effect and will lead
the company as it enters its next
phase of international growth
and implements its new digital
strategy.
Smith succeeds Chris Blakeston
who stepped down from
the role of CEO in April
2016 but continues to
work with the company in
an advisory role out of the
London and New York
offices.

Sound Devices Europe
Business Manager
USA / EUR: Sound Devices Europe
GmbH has appointed Hermann
Heide as the new Business
Manager of its European Service
Center located in Berlin-Adlershof,
Germany's leading science and
technology park.
Heide comes to Sound Devices
with many years of experience
in different roles, including IT
management, international trade,
risk management, and business
development.
In his last position as Business
Development Manager with an
international IT consulting group,
Heide led and managed the
group's joint business
development activities in
Switzerland,
Germany,
Czechia, and Ireland,
and contributed to client
projects as a Consultant.

PlayBox To Demo Latest
Solutions In Mumbai

P

layBox
Technology
heads to the Broadcast
India exhibition in Mumbai,
claiming the most successful
IBC show in the company's
history.
The latest server-based Neo
and cloud-based CloudAir
broadcast playout solutions
will be demonstrated in
standalone and integrated
hybrid configurations.
PlayBox Technology AirBox Neo
PlayBox Technology CEO
Pavlin Rahnev said: "The PlayBox Neo have operated that way for decades
product family is designed primarily and will doubtless continue to do so.
for broadcasters who choose to With an annual maintenance contract,
possess, and operate their own their playout system is fully supported
technical infrastructure on site.
both in terms of technical support,
"Having recouped their initial new feature upgrades, plus ongoing
investment costs, many broadcasters compatibility with new file formats and

signal distribution standards."
Rahnev noted that PlayBox
and PlayBox Neo deliveries
had now passed 17,000
television
playout
and
branding channels.
PlayBox
Technology
President Don Ash said
CloudAir had "attracted a
huge amount of interest
at both NAB and IBC this
year, both as a complete
SaaS-based solution and
to supplement existing AirBox Neo
server-based infrastructure".
He said that CloudAir opened up
a new area of operational freedom
by allowing extra channels, extra
storage and extra facilities to be
accommodated quickly and easily.

2wcom And Jump2Go
Develop RDS2 Encoder

to the existing carrier, and reduces
many limitations of the existing RDS
standard by increasing the usable data
transmission capacity by a factor of 10
to 20. This permits station identifiers
to reach a maximum of 32 characters
versus the current eight characters.
The new standard also supports nonWestern Europe languages through
UTF-8 encoding, which improves
TMC delivery to allow for much more
detailed urban and regional traffic
information and even graphical station
logos.
RDS2 will also play a significant
role in the ongoing development of
the "connected car," with its "service
following" method of broadcasting a
URL for the station's online stream.

2

wcom and jump2go have joined
forces to produce the first RDS2.0
Encoder.
Designed for all RDS2 applications
(the new industry standard introduced
in 2015), the compact RDS2.0 Encoder
is backward compatible with existing
RDS receivers. The release of this
innovative unit represents a giant
step forward in data transmission
technology.
The RDS2.0 Encoder is the first RDS
encoder to feature an internal FM

receiver for the verification of all RDS
activities. Real-time configuration and
monitoring of the encoder's activity is
available via web interfaces as part of
Jump2Go's data management system.
"Today data transport is a
fundamental business, and this release
will allow broadcasters to easily meet
changing RDS requirements," said
Werner Drews, Managing Director of
2wcom.
RDS2
technology
uses
three
additional data subcarriers in addition

RDS2.0
Encoder
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