Radio Sultanate of Oman has adopted Netia’s Radio-Assist suite of digital audio software at its stations in Muscat and Salalah to provide automation of operations and support national archiving.
‘The robust capabilities of Radio-Assist not only facilitate more streamlined operations at our two stations, but also provide needed flexibility and reliability as we undertake archiving of treasured historical content,’ says Radio Sultanate of Oman Director of Radio Studios, Ahmed Al Balushi. The custom Radio-Assist implementations will run both in English and Arabic, and provide secure digitisation of the broadcaster’s audio archives, currently stored on a collection of 80,000 tapes.
‘We worked closely with 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,’ says Netia CEO, Philippe Fort. ‘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 broad 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.
‘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.’
The installation withh synchronise the Muscat and Salalah archives automatically, 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.
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