Following upgrades to six control rooms at its Agincourt and Queen Street campuses in Scarborough, Ontario, in 2011, Bell Media (former CTV Canada) has integrated its Lawo mc²56 and zirkonXL consoles around a Lawo Nova73 router, creating a networked infrastructure of five Lawo mc² series consoles.
The initial installation supported migration from SD to HD, and included four mc²56 MkI digital production consoles and two zirkonXL consoles. These have now been joined by a further mc²56 MkII console. The audio mixing systems were initially chosen for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games by Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium and comprised a 64-fader mc²56 console configured with DSP cards, redundant processors, 15 Madi ports, 32 AES3id I/O, and three Dallis frames which were located at the Agincourt Campus, Control 8. A 48-fader mc²56 was installed at Agincourt Control 9, fitted with four DSP cards, a single processor, 15 Madi ports, 32 AES3id I/O, and three DALLIS frames.
Lawo systems were also installed in four control rooms at the Queen Street campus, including a 64-fader mc²56 console with five DSP cards and a 48-fader mc²56. The campus was also the recipient of two Lawo zirkonXL consoles, each with 24 faders, four Madi ports, 12 AES3id I/O, and 24 analogue I/O ports.
This latest mc-series console is the fifth at Agincourt, with the Nova 76 router installed to enable all existing and new consoles to be integrated together as a centralised network using Madi. The system update was completed within two days adding a new control room without interrupting production schedules.
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