VOV is having about 30 studios, half of them are full digital system and other half are analog system. The latest system has been there almost a decade already. The Master Control System of VOV is digital system with many interface between digital/analog, the core router is controlled by automation software running on server.

VOV has wanted to upgrade their production system and master control system to IP based technology to apply advantages of latest technologies to their daily operation nationwide. VOV has decided to use Livewire technology from Telos alliance with strong support from TVS who is the main SI for the project.

They want to do upgrading phase by phase, for the first phase they have upgraded two analog studios to full AoIP studios and a part of MCR to VoIP system which running in parallel with existing Digital/Analog audio system.

The challenges of project are integration between new AoIP system with existing baseband system and keeping the similar workflow for recording studio.

With strong co-operation between TVS team with Telos team and VOV team, we have successfully deployed the system as VOV desired. The key benefits we together brought to end users as follow:

• Building up the work flow for recording studios which familiar with daily operation, the operators operate the new AoIP system likely the way they do with existing system. Each operator can have their own setup for console and easily to call back.
• All audio sources in the facility are “visible” and “reachable” with unique ID and name, bringing to the administrator an amazing management ability over the system.
• PathfinderPRO router control software for Windows are an amazing rich set of tools we use to customize and command VOV’s entire Axia network, allowing us to craft extremely sophisticated routing functions. Define automated switching events, construct custom software control panels, change between presets manually, on a daypart schedule, or via an external trigger. Pathfinder’s advanced features include the ability to sense silence at a particular audio port and patch around it automatically.

A18 and A19 – Recording Studios

MCR’s Livewire system

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The Voice Of Vietnam wanted to launch a new radio channel which is specified for health and safety foods. This is a total new channel which is technology independent with existing Radio system of VOV.

The channel will be transmitted on 89MHz radio channel and being built from ground, that is an advantage for VOV to apply the latest technology for the system. The Health & Food safety system consists of two On-air/record studios and Master control room and IT based radio production/playout/management system.

VOV has selected TVS to be main system integration for the project. We – TVS have applied the latest technologies for this system with careful design, high ability to customize, high durability, very high redundancy level of all parts of system, quick support onsite or via common communication means.

After few months of system deploying, the channel has been on-air in March 2017.

We have established  Dalet Galaxy radio system with most of main modules:

• Production/Editing with OneCut
• Import and export assets with 3^rd party system.
• Management: access, editing right, MAM for assets, system logging.
• Scheduling, On-air playout, Back up for on-air

On-air/record studio:

Thanks to the flexibility of IT technology, the system is easily configured for any kind of operation of live production or off-live production. Operator just need less than 1 minutes to load up his/her system setting up for daily production, any changing to adapt suddenly case is done quickly via Web browser running on system PC. The operators are free to do many kind of production.

One-man show

Master Control System:

Based on high concern about stability of on-air program, we have deployed the MCR system with 200% back up ability. The MCR system includes both baseband signal and AoIP signal, each system is fully back up and each one is back up system for the other one also. The program sign will never lost on both systems, that mean the on-air sign is always transmitted to radio audience.

Thanks to AoIP technology and well design on baseband system, the space needed for system was reduced significantly.

MCR & Studio Control room	MCR desk

The signal synchronization as well as time sync are handled by Imagine GPS/TimeSync Generator system for both baseband and IP system. The counters on mixing console are always synchronized with timecode on Dalet On-air workstation, all production crew and MCR operator are always got the same timecode regardless of which infrastructure they working on.

MCR Mixing Console Dalet On-air beside

Loudness monitor on MCR desk

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