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Broadcasters Show Daily 4 1 Wednesday, April 26 - Thursday, April 27, 2017 Air Comm's "Buy One Get One Free" offer on select radios. With over 30 years of experience, Air Comm supplies and services cus- tomers ranging from small businesses needing just a few radios to large nation- wide corporations requiring multi-mil- lion dollar systems. Air Comm features a wide range of Motorola and Titan Radio products. Air Comm's customers, which include numerous Fortune 500 compa- nies, rely on Air Comm's premiere cus- tomer service and competitive pricing for their day-to-day radio communication requirements. Air Comm's most popular radios for its production industry customers are the Titan Radio products. Titan Radio's pop- ularity is due in large part to Titan Radio's innovative 18 bank charger. Titan Radio is the exclusive manufactur- er of the economic and efficient 18 bank Air Comm (Cont'd. from p. 1) charger, which allows customers to easi- ly transport and charge up to 18 radios. Titan Radio also offers six and 12 bank packages, including one accessory per radio and carrying case, starting at $1,399. Come to booth #C11243 to see why Titan Radio products are the choice of many production companies. Many customers also choose to take advantage of Air Comm's radio rental options. Several musical artists and bands rent radios from Air Comm's large rental fleet, but you do not have to be a large touring group to benefit from Air Comm's competitive rentals. Air Comm rents any number of radios for a range of short term and long term contracts. Rental radios start at only a $1.00 per day. For more information, visit booth #C11243 to learn more about its products and packages, and to take advantage of its special Titan Radio "Buy One Get One Free" offer. Another recent change now allows Medium Intensity lighting to replace High Intensity systems on towers from 550 feet to 700 feet. This change allows system replacement at a fractional cost of a comparable High Intensity system. Towers taller than 700 feet utilizing FAA High Intensity systems will benefit from installing new Dialight LED High Intensity lighting systems. Power requirements have been reduced 1/3 to 1/2 of what typical xenon based HI sys- tems typically consume. Dialight offers a unique integrated red L864 beacon in each HI flash head that can be used with FAA F and G systems. Another major advantage is the reduction of mainte- nance. Dialight offers a five-year system warranty (material only). All Dialight FAA lighting products feather precision optics that keep ground scatter to a very minimum which is extreme- ly important if the tower is located close to a residential area. The High Intensity systems greatly benefit from this feature given the extreme intensity of the lights. Slatercom-WCD has provided and installed nearly 40 of these high tech lighting solutions. Systems can be pro- vided material only or as a turn-key installed project using qualified installa- tion contractors. Slatercom-WCD can also provide integrated lighting solutions – either dual Slatercom-WCD (Cont'd. from p. 1) (red-white) systems or red only systems (as used with painted towers) for towers of all heights. Slatercom-WCD constructs FAA D-2 and E-2 systems in a single NEMA rated enclosure. This eliminates tedious and time-consuming field work, including power and system synchroniza- tion issues. All two level systems (FAA A- 2, D-2 and E-2) also benefit with the new FAA Advisory Circular rules. Marker lights are not required on any configura- tion of these systems utilizing at least two levels or more of beacon lights. This results in lower overall costs for high effi- ciency LED FAA tower lighting solutions. Slatercom-WCD manufactures and/or integrates all FAA A, D and E series con- trollers. Modular construction allows easy reconfiguration for special applications. Slatercom-WCD maintains a large inventory of FAA lighting equipment and semi-complete systems ready for final integration and testing. This allows rapid delivery of individual components or completed lighting kits – including wiring, mounts and other components that the system may require. For more information, stop by booth #C1730, located near the front outdoor entrance in Central Hall. All Dialight FAA lighting products are on display, including the D266 High Intensity system. If unable to visit, email info@slatercom.com or call 541.805.9492 for additional information or system questions. improving closed captioning – specifical- ly, Voice Generated Captioning to sup- plement and/or replace hand-typed scripts or manually entered captioning. Our goal is to be more accurate, more immediate and less costly to the broad- caster, yet produce a much better and more logical reading result for the hear- ing impaired viewer. BSD: In 2012, you released Caption Central, your first voice-based caption system. RK: Yes, our first iteration of Caption Central was our introduction to voice captioning and we learned a lot from that. Two years later, we made tremendous modifications to the software, including changing out the speech engine, and released it as Caption Central v2, which we still market today. We have been able to achieve a much higher accuracy rate and transcription speed ranging in the very high 95 percent plus levels. However, despite that advancement, we were still faced with the fact that we could only support one trained voice at a time and the 20 seconds it took to change between speakers was just too long for those stations that were trying to cover multiple person interviews and group Comprompter (Cont'd. from p. 1) discussions. So we spent last year creat- ing a new version of Caption Central that supports multiple voices back-to-back that would handle these studio situations that require that our voice recognition system handle a group of voices at the same time. BSD: Caption Central Multi – that's what you're introducing this year at NAB? RK: Absolutely, Caption Central Multi (CCM) comes as a turnkey, rack-mount server that provides either a four-speaker or an eight-speaker system that provides pass-through of newsroom generated text (ENT) and instant transcription of in-stu- dio speakers. CCM keeps all speakers in the real-time sequence and even identi- fies each speaker by name and title so that people reading along know exactly who is saying what and what those words represent! CCM also supports nine dif- ferent regional American accents to cus- tomize it to the entire U.S. as well as speakers with international accents. At present, CCM also supports eight foreign languages. The captioning speed and accuracy of CCM is something you real- ly have to see to believe. See Caption Central Multi in the North Hall, booth #N6014. transition to professional LED. Your initial expense is offset by power savings alone in less than a year, plus you will see 80 percent less air con- ditioning, no heat on the stage or talent, and you can use all your existing wiring and dimmers. Its just a relamp. Just like installing new bulbs, but the bulbs are LED. Now a studio does not have to fill a dumpster with old fresnels in order to go green. Have you ever blown a circuit? You can run 10 ReLamp 1K LEDs on a 15A power strip. That would be comparable to 10,000 watts of halogen on one power strip. The ReLamp LEDs are available in sizes for most common fresnels. In some fixtures, the reflector should be unscrewed to make room for the LED. The ReLamp LEDs work on the same AC dimmers as halogen. The light looks just like tungsten halogen, but without the heat. It is also available in daylight. Both have very high quality color rendering. ReLamp (Cont'd. from p. 1) Regardless of how it is measured, the color looks right on all faces, makeup, wardrobe – just like the tried and true halogen. For a list price under $700, the ReLamp 1K is what most have been waiting for. It's certainly more than a halogen globe, but given the estimated 50,000 hour lifetime, one ReLamp LED compares to about $5,000 worth of halo- gen bulbs that would have to be pur- chased over that same 50,000 hours. A newsroom can now upgrade to LED with no down-time. The process of installing the ReLamp LEDs is only a few minutes per fixture. The look is seamless. It is easy to replace a few fix- tures or all of them, and preserve the look the halogen was providing. The focus and barn door cuts are equivalent. Best of all, it can save enough in power in the first year to pay for the upgrade. See ReLamp LED in the Visionsmith booth, Central Hall booth #C12341. Learn more at www.visionsmith.com. for Akitio. Thunderbolt 3 brings Thunderbolt to USB-C at speeds up to 40Gbps, cre- ating one compact port that does it all – delivering the fastest, most versatile connection to any dock, display or data device. For the first time, one comput- er port connects to Thunderbolt devices, every display and billions of USB devices. A single cable now pro- Akitio (Cont'd. from p. 4) vides four times the data and twice the video bandwidth of any other cable, while also supplying power. It's unri- valed for new uses, such as 4K video, single-cable docks with charging, external graphics and built-in 10 GbE networking. Simply put, Thunderbolt 3 delivers the best USB-C. It all starts with Akitio! For more information, stop by booth #SL13417 or go to www.akitio.com. After getting Unity up and running and hearing the results, the production team decided that they would be able to use the field producers like local reporters by having them talk on air directly into their comm headsets. "No show has ever aired remote producer's audio before. The audio quality of Unity allows us to do that several times per show," said Heimlich. "We've also start- ed using Unity for IFB when we inter- view the cops. The latency is so low com- pared to previous solutions that it's like they're in the same room talking to each other." During the show, host Dan Abrams walks through the studio and control room while providing narrative commen- Unity Intercom (Cont'd. from p. 4) tary throughout. Several cameras provide coverage as he moves from set to set, but after just a few weeks of using the new Unity system, director John Gonzalez felt the quality of Unity surpassed that of the wireless and hardline belt packs they had been using and decided to replace them with Unity as well. By providing high reliability, low cost, broadcast quality audio, and a high degree of flexibility, Unity Intercom has surpassed the expectations of the crew. "We probably couldn't do this show without Unity," said Director John Gonzalez. For more information, visit www.unity intercom.com, call 888.225.8054, email info@unityintercom.com or stop by booth #C12330.