Kenya’s Royal Media Services (RMS) has upgraded its radio broadcast studio infrastructure with Lawo IP technology. Project management and installation was carried out by Lawo system integrator BYCE Broadcast.
Among Kenya’s leading media companies, RMS has added a 12-fader Lawo crystal console to its Radio Citizen station, which serves the most widespread audience in Kenya, with progamming broadcast nationwide over the 14-station Royal Media Services network.
Radio Citizen is highly regarded for its thoroughly researched news and education programming, which i s delivered in Sanifu, the standard Swahili dialect. The move follows the successful installation of Lawo mixing consoles and IP infrastructure at other RMS radio stations.
Lawo crystal consoles have proven popular thanks to their cost-effectiveness, clean intuitive design and standards-based Ravenna/AES67 networking, offering advanced features such as AutoMix hands-free mixing and AutoGain one-touch mic gain controls. Lawo VisTool GUI-building software comes standard with crystal, providing touchscreen graphical controls that may be customised to tailor workflows further. crystal consoles employ the open-source Ember+ remote control protocol for operation of automation and other software.
RMS, Lawo and BYCE Broadcast began their relationship in 2017, with the installation of their first Lawo mixing console; crystal consoles are now in service at Radio Citizen’s sister stations Ramogi FM, Inooro FM and Hot96, also headquartered in Nairobi.
‘It is exciting to watch as Royal Media Services sets the pace for the adoption of broadcast IP technology in Kenya,’ says BYCE Broadcast Head of Business Development, Cynthia Odari. ‘RMS were our very first client in Kenya, and we thank them for their continuing trust in us, and in Lawo – a decision which keeps proving to be right.’
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