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Talent in the AM and FM control rooms have total control over program channels, satellite feeds, profanity delays, IFBs, and remote codecs through this interface.
On the le  side of the screen (Fig. 1, top page 12) are all
the necessary bu ons for control room buses and rou ng sources, as well as indicators showing the status of the return feed from the modula on monitor and the FM audio processor. RadiOhio automates satellite programming from ESPN, Skyview and Westwood One, all of which come into the LX-24 console through a BLADE u lity mixer. Talent can select which satellite feed is routed to the mixer and view the status of that feed, whether it’s audio only (yellow) or audio and logic (green).
Indicators tell them whether the logic for ESPN or other satellite program is enabled to trigger the ENCO automa on.
In the past year, RadiOhio updated to Even de profanity delay units with WheatNet-IP audio inside. Armstrong centrally located the units in master control and built widgets on ScreenBuilder for operators to control the delays from any studio.
Hidden on the right side of the screen is an annunciator panel of indicators (see  g. 3) that will  ash in the event of a NOAA weather alert or if the AM or FM goes silent for any reason.
Fig.2Atop Fig2Bbo om
Pu ng codec selec on and IFB rou ng onscreen markedly reduces the  me and complexity of se ng up remotes
by talent, in par cular having to change the fold back on the IP codecs shared by the primary AM studio and the primary FM studio. Instead of having to open a cross point on the network and change the codec to the correct bus-minus, they now select codecs from a menu on the right (see  g 2B) and the system scans the console inputs to  nd out which channel the codec is si ng on and assigns the appropriate bus-minus.
Talent can easily select which studios are
 ed to which air chain by  rst pressing
the “controls locked” bu on twice,
which reduces the chance of someone
making an uninten onal change that
could result in dead air. “For all our
cri cal controls, we make it so they have to press the bu on once, and then again to unlock the controls. If they don’t press it that second  me within three seconds, it defaults to locked,” explained Armstrong.
Instead of a physical bu on panel for AUX and PGM in each talk studio, these can be selected onscreen along with the air studio they’re  ed to.
RadiOhio’s The Fan 97.1 originates college sports programming to 80-some a liates na onwide and broadcasts ESPN programming to local listeners. When the sta on’s ENCO  res a local break relay or ID to the a liates, announcers receive a visual con rma on that the a liate has received the relay. A bu on on the lower le  of the screen that is  ed to the LIOs coming out of the satellite receiver changes from green to yellow and then to red to indicate that the relay has been received. Relays also can
be  red directly from the screen, should the announcer need to bypass the ENCO system, and profanity delay for the sports network is  oa ng as a separate func on  ed to the sports network so that it can be ac vated no ma er which studio the sportscast originates from.l
Fig.3,right Thisimageisofthe“hidden” annunciator bu ons on the right side of the main screen that  ash when ac ve.
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