TiMedia chooses Axia for Radio, TV stations
Swiss media outlet deploys Element and Radius consoles in combined broadcast facility
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30 November 2012 Cleveland Ohio, USA
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Switzerland's TiMedia (www.timedia.ch), the parent company of Radio 3i and television station Tele Ticino, have completed a studio rebuild that utilizes mixing consoles and IP-Audio networking equipment from Axia Audio for both radio and TV broadcasts.
Located in Ticino, close to the Italian border, Radio 3i and Tele Ticino provide local news and entertainment programming for southern Switzerland's large Italian-speaking population. A mix of Axia Element modular mixing consoles with Axia StudioEngines and low-cost Radius mixers with QOR.16 integrated console engines are used throughout the facility, along with a mix of Axia audio nodes and assorted IP-Audio networking hardware and software.
TiMedia's Axia network was designed and installed by Swiss Axia representatives Decibel SA.
"We installed the first two Element consoles in 2011 for Radio 3i, and then a large Element for the Tele Ticino television studio," says Decibel's Jean-Pascal Ruch. "This worked so well that we later added a Radius console for their journalists' production room."
According to Mattia Ghidoni, Technical Manager for Radio 3i and Tele Ticino, the Axia IP-Audio network serves TiMedia well. "Having the TV and Radio audio in the same network makes it very easy to share or exchange audio content between our TV and our Radio channels," Ghidoni says, also noting that he "likes very much the expandability of [the] Axia system." Axia IP-Audio networks are based on standard Ethernet, and each system expand to carry more than 10,000 stereo audio streams, with related PAD and machine control data.
Axia AoIP networks and consoles are installed in over 4,500 studios worldwide. Axia allows broadcasters to quickly and easily build audio networks using Ethernet to connect a few rooms, or an entire facility, eliminating much of the cost normally associated with wiring labor and infrastructure. To find out more, email Clark Novak at cnovak@AxiaAudio.com, telephone +1-216-241-7225, or visit www.AxiaAudio.com .
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Axia Audio, a Telos Alliance company, builds Ethernet-based professional IP-Audio products for broadcast, sound-reinforcement and commercial audio applications. Along with the Element 2.0, iQ, Radius, DESQ and RAQ AoIP consoles for on-air, commercial production, audio workstations and personal studios, Axia products include intercom systems, digital audio routers, DSP mixers and processors, and software for configuring, managing and interfacing networked audio systems.
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