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Hey guys, i am having a prob and I need some help!

We have two sattelite shows that run starting at 6PM - Midnight then Midnight until 5AM. The new show doesn't start for a week or so which starts at 6. Until it does we have local music in our scott automation. well the last jock leaves at six. I can't leave the pod up on the board until the midnight show kicks in because then the network audio will be played over our local audio. If we silence the audio on the switcher then come midnight our overnight show doesn't kick in. is there a way to do this without leaving a pod up on the board? I've seen it done but I'm being told it can't. By the way, both shows are going thru the same broadcast tools switcher.
 
Doesn't your automation have the ability to control the feed that comes through the switcher? It sounds like you do not have that ability, which will make your life very difficult.
 
It should, in fact I know it does. But a certain person feels that it cannot be done. How can our AM station have the ability but we don't. We are both running on Scott
 
How about just running your board through the switcher as just another input along with the sat and other things on the way out? If the switch is in the audio chain, Scotts can just switch the switcher at the right time for you in the log or you could even do it manually by making a hotbutton to do that within Scotts. Either way, you've accomplished what you want (I think). Do it the easy way and just run the station through the switch and be done with it. It's simplier that way really.
 
Feed your sources into the switcher and have the otto turn on say Input 1 at 6pm for the syndiicated show A, and then at midnight use input 2 for syndicated show B and when not in use you could just have the otto running.

That way would be the easiest..you would only need your SS 32 potted up on the console.

If your AM is doing something simular then there is no reason your other station can't... Just a matter of wiring up the right cables and punching in the code to control the switcher via the SS system.
 
rl45401 said:
It should, in fact I know it does. But a certain person feels that it cannot be done. How can our AM station have the ability but we don't. We are both running on Scott
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It requires a tiny bit of hardware to control a BT switcher from automation -- essentially a serial cable. It is possible that your engineer has not set this up.

You could also put your local automation as an input in the switcher so a single pot on your board would contain the sat feeds and the locally automated programs.
 
Yeah we have to leave the slide up for everything syndicated and it sucks. especially for this. He says it cannot be done but I've seen it done where we don't need to leave anything up. When the show comes on it automatically takes over and the board is useless. I just can't tell him because I don't have the "technical" part down to explain. I hope I'm making sense!
 
"Can not be done" really means A: Don't know how to do it" or B: "Don't want to bother trying".
There are thousands of stations doing it. Sheesh!

Assuming you have an SS32, read and all will be revealed (Section 4-16) http://www.elbc.net/tuts/7-TechnicalManual.pdf

In fact, print a couple copies of the manual. Keep one for yourself and hand the other to the one that says it can't be done, with pertinent pages marked with sticky notes.
 
I think I understand what you're asking, and we have the same set-up. We run local music and network feeds using a BTools switcher and iMediatouch system. Here's our set-up, which will work for you.

While the automation audio output feeds the console, it also feeds inputs on the BTools switcher.
So, the switcher inputs are the iMediatouch automation audio feeds and satellite feeds. Now to the outputs: one switcher output is called "switcher out" and feeds one fader on the board. At the end of the day, this one fader is brought up on the board and all other faders are down--just the "switcher out" fader is up.

Now, the iMediatouch automation controls the switcher. When we run local music, the switcher routes the automation feed input to the "switcher out" output. When we go to network, the iMediatouch system routes the network feed to the "switcher out" output.

This set-up works well.

Good luck!
 
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