The Cache Valley Radio Group operates eight radio stations in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah from a studio complex in Logan, Utah. Six transmitter sites and numerous translators carry those eight signals throughout the area.
CVRadio started a conversion to all digital facilities in 2003 and began installing Logitek Audio Engines and Remora Control Surfaces in each of the eight broadcast studios. The Audio Engines were located throughout the building in a hub fashion and were linked by fiber optic cable using the AE-Neta cards.
An interesting challenge of the changeover was to keep all eight studios on the air while installing the Logitek Audio Engine Consoles, since there were no spare studios. You can see a whitepaper document describing the installation process by clicking HERE.
Here we enter the studio complex at CV Radio. Four of the eight studios border on this point.
You may recognize this studio which was featured in national advertising for Logitek. A station originates from this studio that is, most of the time, using satellite programming. The satellite programming and the Prophet Nexgen audio system are mixed in the background through "virtual" faders and Auxiliary mix buses that are not visible to the operator. Operators can use the studio for production without concern that something will accidentally interrupt on-air programming. However, pushing one button brings the satellite and computer audio into the main Program mix bus using Command Builder triggers. The studio is then live.
Several of the studios are identical using Remora 10 control surfaces. As is the case with the studio above, all these consoles can be "bypassed" so that the studio will not interrupt on-air programming when the stations are using NexGen voice tracking. That gives operators freedom to use the studio without worry about accidental mistakes to the on-air audio.
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The News/Talk studio uses a Remora 16 for flexible control of six microphone positions as well as numerous live feeds for news and sports events.
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The Remora 4 and the NexGen display in the News Room are mounted so that they can serve two work station positions. Phone and live interviews as well as news narration are easily accomplished from either postion. Newscasts can be originated for any of the stations from this studio.
One of the Audio Engines is located in the Master Control area along with the Supervisor computers. The Master Control Engine acts as the router feed for all common audio sources and is also the output feeding the digital Omnia audio processors, next to the Moseley Starlink digital STL tranmitters which then feed BE digital exciters. With these facilities, the CV Radio stations are prepared to move to IBOC in the near future.