Radio Sultanate of Oman selects Radio-Assist
Published: MEA
OMAN: Radio Sultanate of Oman is using Netia’s Radio-Assist suite of digital audio software programmes at radio stations in Muscat and Salalah. The software provides complete automation of operations and to support digitisation and preservation of the national archives.
‘The robust capabilities of Radio-Assist not only facilitate more streamlined operations at our two broadcast stations, but also provide needed flexibility and reliability as we undertake archiving of treasured historical content,’ said Ahmed Al Balushi, director of radio studios at Radio Sultanate of Oman. ‘The modular design of Netia's software suite has allowed us to implement a solution tailored to our needs, and it will enable future adaption of the system as our broadcast and archiving workflows evolve.’
‘We worked closely with our systems integrator, Bahwan IT, and Radio Sultanate of Oman to engineer a stable, secure, and reliable solution for preserving the valuable audio assets and for making that media readily available for future broadcast or distribution,’ said Philippe Fort, CEO at Netia. ‘As the stations in Muscat and Salalah continue to build their archives through Radio-Assist, they can do so with confidence in the long-term integrity and availability of those assets.’
According to the manufacturer, the custom Radio-Assist 8 implementations, which will run both in English and Arabic, will provide secure digitisation of the broadcaster's audio archives, currently stored on a collection of 80,000 tapes. The Muscat and Salalah stations leverage the system to streamline their ingest, production, music scheduling, playout, and archiving operations. Radio-Assist 8 extracts data from a legacy automation system and from newly created or digitised media to make stored media available to users.
Netia's solution will synchronise the Muscat and Salalah archives automatically, providing redundancy and automatic archives restoration in the event of any incident. Each site will act as a disaster recovery site for the other, and any audio digitised at one site will be automatically stored at the other. Secure remote access to the Radio-Assist 8 database will also give the two sites the option of exchanging content.