One of the players on Nairobi’s lively radio broadcast landscape, Kayu FM, has chosen to serve Kenya’s largest city listeners using Lawo’s Rǝlay virtual radio software.
Kayu covers numerous important local and regional topics, airing its programs in Kikuyu, one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Gikuyu people, who form the ethnic majority in Kenya. Taking advantage of the refitting of a former hotel building, Kayu FM combined and renovated several rooms, converting them into full-fledged radio studios powered by Lawo Rǝlay software. The Kenyan system integrator BYCE Broadcast was responsible for the implementation of the project.
Lawo’s Rǝlay virtual radio suite provides radio talent with a full-blown broadcast mixer in software – live audio mixing, processing and source routing can be performed on a touchscreen connected to an off-the-shelf PC or, for remote and on-location shows, a laptop computer.
Rǝlay allows Kayu FM to mix 24 audio sources, as well as AES67-compliant AoIP signal streams, directly on the station’s PC for audio production and output. Rose Kimotho, CEO of Kayu FM, says that ‘Rǝlay brings professional radio production to our radio station, complete with Audio-over-IP and internal routing.’
‘The Rǝlay touchscreen interface is a clean and low-maintenance surface,’ adds Kayu FM Program Manager, Grace Murungi. ‘And it is so easy for our talent to learn and work with the Rǝlay software – everyone says so. We just love our radio station’s new facilities.’
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