Radio World Buyer’s Guide articles are intended to help readers understand why their colleagues chose particular products to solve various technical situations. This month’s articles focus on products that support streaming, podcasting and online content delivery.
With sporting events changing by the venue and the hour, streaming is a dynamic and growing part of Sports Entertainment Network New Zealand.
SENZ streams different content and sponsorships for 17 unique markets in New Zealand as the local extension of the Australian SEN brand. SEN/SENZ deliver live sports broadcasting, racing and sports-talk content to an enthusiastic target core audience of males aged 25–54.
SENZ is using the Wheatstream appliance for provisioning streams, processing them and managing metadata out to its CDN provider and eventual delivery to the SEN/SENZ streaming app. Streaming instances are spun up by Wheatstone’s Wheatstream appliance, which is part of the WheatNet-IP native AoIP environment.
As a WheatNet IP audio network appliance, Wheatstream is integrated into the busy 24/7 sports network. Streaming is part of the studio operation like other workflow sin the audio chain, with AoIP logic controls for triggering stream provisioning and live coverage and color streamed directly from the studio automation or talk studio.
Each stream is individualized by Wheatstream with the appropriate type and amount of audio processing; Wheatstream audio processing is designed to optimize encoded streams. Multiple streams are managed in one rack unit, including audio processing and metadata unique to each channel.
Both SEN in Australia and its New Zealand counterpart SENZ operate from WheatNet-IP audio networked studios.
