Part of its ongoing modernisation, Korean national broadcaster KBS has added to its use of Lawo equipment, following and earlier upgrade of its master control room with 16 Nova17 MkII routing systems and VisTool workplaces.
For the broadcaster’s news studio and a new OB truck, KBS chose two mc²66 digital audio consoles equipped Ravenna/AES67 Audio-over-IP interfaces. While the news studio has been on-air since the beginning of 2015, the OB installation will be concluded by August 2015. Soundfox International, Lawo’s partner in Korea for Broadcast Audio & Video, is overseeing the installations.
From previous experience with custom Lawo digital systems, and after considering all relevant options, KBS awarded the update of the news studio for KBS News1 (NS1) to the German manufacturer in autumn 2014. The project began in October, and an mc²66 console was installed and ready for news production in December. KBS preferred Lawo due to the operational stability and redundancy options of the equipment, as well as its user-focused layouts. In this case, this flexibility allowed the central control section and master to be located on the right-hand side of the desk.
‘The mc²66 system is very stable and easy-to-use,’ says KBS News Director, Ho Gun Lee. ‘The reasons for selecting the mc²66 include its stability, and the long history and expertise of Lawo as a manufacturer. Another feature is the simple and fast routing via the console, and errors can be monitored and analyzed by the real-time display of the current status of the whole system through the central main screen. In addition, errors are saved in the log file, which is convenient for maintenance control.’
Besides modernising the news tudio, KBS is also updating its OB fleet. For this, a new mc²66 console is being configured in Germany during the summer to be delivered to KBS in early August 2015. The system includes Lawo stageboxes using Ravenna technology. In July, KBS and Soundfox engineers will visit German broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in Baden-Baden close to Lawo’s HQ to inspect the equipment and installations.
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