Installed in the main and secondary control rooms of Paris TV sports channel L’Equipe’s two studios, new Calrec 36+8 Summa and Brio36 audio consoles are being used for live mixing, commentary, and sports programming that includes cycling, biathlons, rallying, judo and the pétanque championships.
Alexis Bougault, Audio Technical Manager at systems’ integrator Euromedia oversaw the design and implementation of the project: ‘We wanted to offer our client something that was modular and that was therefore easily expandable – L’Equipe is continually growing so this was important,’ he reports. ‘The consoles benefit from an excellent price/performance ratio and work without complex ongoing configuration with the addition of other interfaces easy to achieve.’
Both control rooms, commentary booths and intercom system and consoles are connected via a Dante network. The two consoles are additionally connected via a Calrec Hydra 2 network with a modular rack. The Summa has two Dante cards with one for the Brio, with Hydra 2 allowing shared console resources with up to 512 channels per link.
‘The combination of the Summa and Brio36 work perfectly because they use the same software, and that’s very popular with the L’Equipe team,’ says L’Equipe Technical Manager, Patrick Vautier. ‘Operators are often called to work in either control room so this is crucial. With features easily accessed via a touchscreen, the consoles are intuitive and very refined to use.’
L’Equipe sports TV channel is part of the leading French sports news media company, L’Equipe24/24. The integration was handled by systems integrator Euromedia, a major broadcast services and facilities provider in France, with assistance from Calrec’s distributor for France, Audiopole, who also provided training.
‘The sports broadcasting market is incredibly vibrant and dynamic and we’re seeing considerable activity,’ says Calrec International Sales Manager, Karl Chapman. ‘We’re really pleased that L’Equipe is taking advantage of our easy to configure networking capabilities, shared console resources and intuitive user interfaces.’
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