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Radio Sultanate selects Netia [DigitalProductionME.com](DigitalProductionME.com Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Netia Radio-Assist Selected by Radio Sultanate of Oman to Automate Operations and Digitise National Audio Archives Installed at Muscat and Salalah Stations, Complete Radio-Assist System Automates Ingest, Production, Scheduling, Playout, and Archiving. Radio Sultanate of Oman has implemented the Netia's Radio-Assist suite of digital audio software programs at radio stations in Muscat and Salalah. The software will provide complete automation of operations and will support digitisation and preservation of the national archives. The custom Radio-Assist software, which will run in English and Arabic, will provide secure digitisation of the broadcaster's audio archives, currently stored on a collection of 80,000 tapes. "The robust capabilities of Radio-Assist not only facilitate more streamlined operations at our two broadcast stations, but also provide needed flexibility and reliability as we undertake archiving of treasured historical content," said Ahmed Al Balushi, director of radio studios at the Radio Sultanate of Oman. "The modular design of Netia's software suite has allowed us to implement a solution tailored to our needs, and it will enable future adaption of the system as our broadcast and archiving workflows evolve." Philippe Fort, CEO at Netia, said: "We worked closely with our systems integrator, Bahwan IT, and the Radio Sultanate of Oman to engineer a stable, secure, and reliable solution for preserving the valuable audio assets and for making that media readily available for future broadcast or distribution. "As the stations in Muscat and Salalah continue to build their archives through Radio-Assist, they can do so with confidence in the long-term integrity and availability of those assets." Radio-Assist 8 is equipped with a range of tools for end-to-end multimedia workflows, and the Muscat and Salalah stations leverage the system to streamline their ingest, production, music scheduling, playout, and archiving operations. Radio-Assist 8 extracts data from a legacy automation system and from newly created or digitized media to make stored media readily available to users. The Netia system provides fast access to all audio content, which in turn can be accessed remotely for listening at a low bit rate and subsequently restored at full quality for repurposing and distribution or for broadcast. Netia's solution will also ensure the stability of the archived content, synchronising the Muscat and Salalah archives automatically, and providing transparent redundancy and automatic archives restoration in the event of any incident. Each site will act as a disaster recovery site for the other, and any audio digitized at one site will be automatically stored at the other. Secure remote access to the Radio-Assist 8 database will also give the two sites the option of exchanging content. (c) 2014 ITP Business Publishing Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |