Lawo Upgrades for Bell Media

(11/02/2015) Having completed a series of significant upgrades to six control rooms at its Agincourt and Queen Street campuses in Scarborough, Ontario, in 2011, Bell Media (former CTV Canada) has expanded and integrated its Lawo mc 56 and zirkonXL consoles around a Lawo Nova73 router creating a networked infrastructure with a total of five mc series consoles.

The initial installation supported migration from SD to HD, and included four mc 56 MkI digital production consoles and two zirkonXL consoles. These have now been joined by a further mc 56 MkII console.

The audio mixing systems were initially chosen for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium and comprised a 64-fader mc 56 console configured with DSP cards, redundant processors, 15 MADI ports, 32 AES3id I/O, and three DALLIS frames which were located at the Agincourt Campus, Control 8. A 48-fader mc 56 was installed at Agincourt Control 9, fitted with four DSP cards, a single processor, 15 MADI ports, 32 AES3id I/O, and three DALLIS frames.

Lawo systems were also installed in four control rooms at the Queen Street campus, including a 64-fader mc 56 console with five DSP cards and a 48-fader mc 56. The campus was also the recipient of two Lawo zirkonXL consoles, each with 24 faders, four MADI ports, 12 AES3id I/O, and 24 analog I/O ports.

This latest mc-series console is the fifth at Agincourt, with the Nova 76 router installed to enable all existing and new consoles to be integrated together as a centralized networking system using MADI. The entire system update was completed within two days over the course of a weekend adding a new control room without interrupting production schedules.

Lawo AG

Lawo designs and manufactures pioneering audio and video technology for TV and radio broadcast production, post-production, as well as live performance and theatrical applications. Products include digital audio mixing consoles, routers, video processing tools as well as IP-based video and audio transport solutions. All products are developed and manufactured according to highest quality standards at the company's headquarters in the Rhine valley town of Rastatt, Germany.

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