NewsDepot: integrating real time and file audio contributions

The advance of digital technologies for gathering, editing, programming and distribution of news, sports and current affairs at radio stations can no longer be stopped. Curiously enough separate systems have been created for the handling of “live” audio contributions and for the handling of file transfer. At the most there is a primitive connection between the two. It would certainly simplify life if “live” and “file” contributions could be interchanged in the “real time” mode. At this moment this is not the case. The article describes an integrated solution in which both forms cannot only be used in parallel, but also mixed. This solution is being brought to market under the name NewsDepot. The NewsDepot is a gateway for contributions coming from “outside” to either the normal “file” orientated broadcast automation system or the real time audio codecs in the studio