The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), has extended its use of Tieline’s Report-IT application for iPhone to users throughout its global radio network.
The move provides reporters, journalists and content contributors for Norway’s largest media organisation with secure, portable IP audio codec and 20kHz audio transmission facilities.
‘This global broadcast solution allows NRK users to install the Report-IT application and then engineers can remotely manage and programe all connections for news and radio journalists around the world at the touch of a button,’ said Tieline’s Charlie Gawley. ‘This can also be used by ad hoc contributors or guests, who can download the Report-IT Enterprise application onto their iPhone, log in with a secure user name and password and start broadcasting at the touch of a button.’
‘NRK has over 2000 iPhone users and we see Report-IT Enterprise as an affordable, high-quality and portable IP codec solution, which is simple to deploy and use,’ adds NRK Technical Manager, Asle Veien. ‘Throughout the trials and subsequent installation we were closely supported by Tieline and Idar Kvam from MultiTechnic. Report-IT was successfully tested for several months throughout the network and we commenced deployment of the new licenses in December.
‘We use Report-IT extensively to broadcast live and it also integrates seamlessly with the database of our nonlinear editing system to accept FTP audio files as required,’ says Veien. ‘Report-IT is also popular with politicians and other content contributors who can simply download the app and be interviewed in high audio quality without having to come into the studio.’
Configuration of NRK’s Report-IT user accounts around the world can be performed using a Report-IT administrator account on an iPhone, or a specially designed web-browser management interface, which is accessible from any computer with an internet connection.
NRK has also purchased additional studio-based hardware codecs, which complement existing network infrastructure and increase NRK’s capacity to manage additional Report-IT connections.
See also:
Tieline Report-IT
