by Uwe Felderhoff and Aylin Vogl In the night of 01.12.2020, under the direction of IRT, the ARD radio contribution exchange was switched to weConnect. This was followed on December 9, under the direction of ARD Sternpunkt, by the shutdown of the previous, centralized line dispatching and thus the introduction of the decentralized weConnect line …
The weConnect project aims at establishing seamless networking amongst all ARD radio stations. Mainly affected by this change are editorial, production and scheduling systems. Until now, all these individual systems were separate solutions that enabled flawless and structured work, but used their own “language”, which made interoperability between these systems impossible. Now weConnect intends …
Audio is on the brink of the next big step after the transition from mono to stereo. Next Generation Audio (NGA) and especially object-based audio will provide the consumer with a lot of new features such as personalizable dialogue level. Check out this EBU website for an introduction into NGA and an overview of the …
