Month: April 2024

DNAV, a full-service systems integrator, consultant, and manufacturer’s representative of leading broadcast, AV, lighting, and display equipment, will create a microphone-to-antenna experience featuring its broadcast radio technology partners at NAB Show 2024, beginning Sunday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. DNAV will take the curtain down between two adjacent partner booths – Sierra Automated Systems (SAS) at W3855, American Amplifier Technologies at W3859 – and highlight a blend of solutions that serve as a conceptual springboard for new radio facility designs and existing system upgrades. DNAV will also have a presence on the Orban booth (W3443), representing the company’s latest audio processing solutions.“Our main goal at NAB is to demonstrate the power of DNAV as an inclusive vendor that isn’t limited by the belief that radio systems need to follow a certain blueprint,” said Daniel Hyatt, Principal, DNAV. “We will demonstrate new hardware systems as well as virtualized software solutions that emulate the hardware, and make connections for our visitors across in-studio, remote and cloud-based solution examples. There will be a little bit of everything on the combined stand and tied together with examples of the physical and virtual services we offer to the radio broadcaster.”One way that DNAV will make connections across these different elements is through SAS Global Connect Software, which offers a complete command and control structure for SAS and third-party broadcast devices living on local and wide-area networks. It acts as a software-based NOC for broadcasters to centrally manage entire network operations and can interface with all components in a broadcast infrastructure from microphones to antennas. DNAV will preview a new virtualized SAS on-air console shipping later this year with connectivity to the Global Connect structure, with the ability to remotely manage and control a live broadcast.DNAV Co-Principal Nick Straka adds that DNAV will preview several virtualized toolsets built into the new console, including an intercom system and touch panels. PlayoutONE automation will also be highlighted on the booth, working in conjunction with SAS Global Connect in its cloud-based software structure. “We are sending a clear message that we embrace the physical and the cloud domain, and there are plenty of opportunities to embrace both in ways that effectively define a solution that works for every broadcaster.” […]

Content from BPRI wrote some time ago about the dangers of reacting to social media feedback and commentary as it is very often not representative of opinion residing in the broader community. I was reminded of this recently when assessing the relative merits of using an airline I had not flown with before.I linked out to one of the notable customer review websites and discovered to my horror a litany of disparaging reviews about the airline in question with the overview result that the airline scored an average rating of 1.6 of 5.  I found my interest in using the airline rapidly evaporating until I decided to compare the airline’s rating to other airlines I use and know to be very good.  This is when it became abundantly clear that a rating of 1.6 was actually a little better than average with some of the best airline’s I know rating less.It brought home to me again just how perilous it is to form opinions of things based on what people might post.  Too often the people who make the most noise are those with an axe to grind while those people who are either happy or ambivalent don’t feel any need to stop their life and note that everything is fine and within expectation.In the media field I have seen songs, subjects, authors, artists, and personalities vilified by people on social media for various reasons while at the same time representative market research reveals a completely different picture.  To make matters worse, people with an open mind and a balanced approach to life are retreating from making comments on social media for fear of being trolled and made to feel bad or worse still; sucked into some form of malignant exchange with someone.  What this means is that proportionally, social media share of voice looks to be skewing towards an idiocrasy.So what to make of social media commentary? Generally speaking; favourable commentary is likely to be reflective of the broader market while negative commentary is likely to be not.  Mine ideas, thoughts and issues from your social media but never make quantitative assumptions of market sentiment based on social media, particularly if the context is negative.  A chasm is developing between the view of the world fermented by social media and what the majority of people really think, so mind the gap!By Wayne Clouten, BPR […]