Audix Broadcast in BBC World Service Bureau
Originally part of the former State of Communist Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic was formed at the start of 1993 and is now a rapidly developing European nation. The BBC World Service has maintained a bureau in Prague for many years, contributing to the Czech Section at Bush House which broadcasts to the area over a network of 29 FM transmitters fed by a satellite link.
Audix Broadcast supplied the studio equipment following the successful refurbishment of the BBC Polskie bureau in Warsaw. The main on-air studio is equipped with an ADD-9000 digital mixer operated either as a self-op desk with presenter and two guests, or controlled by a Studio Manager with presenter and guests around a table in the studio. The voice booth is equipped with an ADD-7000 console with facilities for one guest. It may also broadcast live to air if required, or contribute to the on-air studio. There are sight lines between the two studios and the adjacent meeting room which could be converted to a second on-air studio in the future.
An Audix Broadcast six line phone-in system in the on-air studio features a Visual Talkback facility (a PC screen display) allowing a Producer to detail calls for the presenter and wall clocks throughout the bureau are driven by Audix Broadcast's TickTock master clock system which also provides timing references for the computer servers.
Main ON-AIR studio for Prague Bureau