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Calrec Craft Interview with Senior Broadcast Audio A1 Eng...

In this craft interview, Rick Bernier reflects on a career that has taken him to the very top of live broadcast audio. As a Senior Broadcast Audio A1 Engineer and Music Director, he has mixed some of the world's most watched events - from the Winter Games to Football Night in America (FNIA). What is your background and how did you get into br...

Submitted by Kate Ford

Published 18 March 2026

From Peaks to Screens - Kiloview P3 Mini Drives Live Stre...

Held in Canfranc-Pirineos, Spain, at the heart of the majestic Pyrenees—Europe’s second highest mountain range—the 2025 World Mountain & Trail Running Championships (WMTRC) marked the first time this world-class event was hosted in the region. From September 25 to 28, more than 1,700 elite athletes from 80 countries competed across five demanding r...

Submitted by Judy Zuo

Published 17 November 2025

Racing Against Time - How Kiloview NDI Solution Powered L...

Motorsports is unforgiving. Cars race at blistering speeds, pit crews make split-second decisions, and fans demand nothing less than a front-row experience — whether they’re trackside or tuning in from home. For production teams, the challenge is just as intense: build, run, and dismantle a full live-streaming workflow in a matter of days, with no...

Submitted by Judy Zuo

Published 16 October 2025

Calrec Craft Interview with Ken Wilkinson

Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work as well as news, sports and entertainment television. Tell us about your path into professional broadcast audio; how did you get started and what drew you in? And who do you work for?...

Submitted by Kate Ford

Published 22 August 2025

Silent Scalable and Seamless AJA KUMO 6464-12G Tackles Ro...

What problem does the KUMO 6464-12G solve? In high-end broadcast, live production, and OB (outside broadcast) environments, managing multiple 4K or 8K video signals quickly and silently is a constant challenge. Traditional routers that support 12G-SDI often come with noisy fans, large rack footprints, or limited integration capabilities — not idea...

Submitted by Simon Tillyer

Published 05 May 2025

Lets do the Time Warp

Time Warp is one of the biggest indoor electronic music events in Europe if not the world, and recently returned to its spiritual home in Mannheim, Germany for the first time in four years for a sold-out attendance that saw 30,000 people soaking up world-class sound. The influential festival was hosted across six floors of Maimarkthalle, a huge...

Submitted by Patrick Hussey

Published 05 July 2023

DIT Sam Petrov Taps AJA ColorBox for Live Grading Flexibi...

Whether working on a feature film, episodic series, or unscripted show, crafting the look of content before it reaches post requires technical acumen and a creative eye. The DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) is integral to this process, bridging the technical realities with the creative goals on-set to ensure the team can achieve its desired aesthet...

Submitted by Anna

Published 27 June 2023

Streaming Technologies Explained

(header image courtesy of Wowza) The word streaming can relate to different technologies from different manufacturers in different scenarios and in this short article we are going to take a little tour of what it all means. When streaming video to the consumer you often see HLS DASH & CMAF mentioned. HLS is HTTP Live Streaming Dynamic Adaptive...

Submitted by Bruce Devlin - new

Published 17 February 2021

Why Routing Control

Routing control sits at the very heart of all advanced control systems. A well-configured system that manages signal routes throughout a facility and groups multi-level actions into a single control surface allows for much richer and focused production. Using one-touch panels, operators could route video, audio and data signals between the various...

Submitted by Mark Davies

Published 26 March 2020

The Networking Revolution

We all seek greater flexibility in everything we do. Whether it is another app for your phone, checking for a faster route on your sat-nav, or a changeable hotel booking, the more options we have, the better! Flexibility is fantastic. It offers us choices that we may never want or need, but at least we know that they are there on the off-chance tha...

Submitted by Neil Vann

Published 27 January 2020

IP Technology for Broadcast Audio Routing Systems

As the AoIP debate continues to confuse and delight in equal measure, what is clear is different scenarios require specific solutions. So is there a solution that encompasses open standards and existing proven AoIP technologies to the benefit of all?IntroductionBy definition, network infrastructure (switches, routers and cables) is protocol and tec...

Submitted by Tom Knowles

Published 10 September 2019

Original KVM or KVM over IP

Intelligent KVM systems for broadcast facilities – advantages, fields of application and challenges for the futureWill the technology used in broadcasting solely consist of IP devices? For years, IP has been entering all areas of life. Especially control room applications as they are typically deployed in broadcasting benefit from the IP revolution...

Submitted by Jochen Bauer

Published 10 September 2019

Keeping the Show on the Road

There is long-established saying in the media business that, if something goes wrong, at least nobody dies. It is almost true unless you happen to be a TV producer suffering a cardiac arrest because your primary video feed has gone blank during a high-budget programme. First-line maintenance is usually in the hands of the user. If a device malfunct...

Submitted by Andy McKenzie

Published 10 September 2019

The Evolution of Audio Monitoring

Every user, production, environment, operation and application is different, meaning that universal tools simply cannot provide the versatility required by today’s customers. Audio monitoring continues to evolve as productions advance, with the need for multi-channel monitoring, configurable metering as well as the ability to adhere to the latest l...

Submitted by Stephen Brownsill

Published 16 July 2019

Looking for the Silver Lining

According to the World Meteorological Organisation, there are 10 different types of cloud, each of which can be divided further into sub-types. They range from the cirrus, the thin floaty clouds which generally serve only to make the sky look beautiful to the towering, all-embracing cumulonimbus which can deliver fearful quantities of rain – the bi...

Submitted by Harry Grinling

Published 21 March 2019