Part of a comprehensive broadcast studio refurbishment, Colombia’s RCN (Radio Cadena Nacional) has installed two mc²36 Lawo audio mixing consoles to serve as main and redundant mixing systems.
Now a private television network, RCN was founded as a production company in 1967, and has operated as a network since 1998. Today, it reaches 97 per cent of the Colombian population of nearly 50 million through 13 stations.
RCN’s requirements for the equipment upgrade – and the audio mixing systems in particular – included gaining operating efficiency, establishing flexibility in workflows from remote control facilities, automation, and advanced AfV and Automix functionality. In their research, the RCN team responsible for specifying the refurbishment determined that Lawo best met their needs – in addition to the consoles’ feature set, Lawo’s audio quality, customisation and flexibility proved essential in winning their endorsement.
The two consoles serve RCN News (NTN24), the channel’s 24-hour news service in Colombia – the main console is a 40-fader mc²36, supported by a 24-fader mc²36 surface for redundancy. The full system includes a Dallis interface with SDI I/O and GPIO boards to handle the AfV (Audio-follow-Video) necessary functions to automation some procedures.
‘The mc²36 consoles are the right solution for a 24/7 broadcast challenge,’ says RCN Colombia Technical Head, Andres Galeano. ‘Beside the benefits of automation, AFV for multi-video sources, and the mxGUI control software, it was the remote diagnosis via web browser and the Lawo app that came as a nice surprise during the demo.’
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