• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Live Remote

A

ascouserinnewyork

Guest
Greetings to one and all,

I believe this would be my first post on the forums and look forward to gathering a wealth of information offered. Having done a search I find my query cannot be answered so I am bringing it to the people.

I have been tasked in producing a live remote in New York. Great :) . Or it would be, if I knew how to go about doing a live remote in New York. My expertise is television production, not radio.

My question would be, what is required to pull this off? The company has already dictated to me "limited means" (translate as you will) which will alter how this can be performed.

That's pretty much my issue. I am not a radio person, I have no background in radio (except the year in college), expecially when it comes to live remotes.

Any help, greatly appreciated.
 
Hey Michael can you be more specific?

Is this a musical broadcast?
Radio talkers?
Stage show?

Is there internet application?
Podcast?

Do you need equipment help?
Contract help?

I'm not even sure I have the asnwers to these questions but I've learned that "live remote" can mean many things and even at that, I'm not sure what kind of help you need
Cheers,
HH
 
Sorry for not being specific.. where is my netiquette :)

The station, City Talk, is (well obviously) talk radio format.

I produce a 10-15 minute package for the above host, which airs just after Midnight (morning) on Friday's (EST). The package (with surrounding air checks) then get's posted (not live) on the segment website where those in this country can listen to whenever they please.

A little background, because I know there are those who are wondering how someone as incompetent as I got this gig. ;)

The host is a very good friend whom I met during my mobile/club D.J. years through the early 90's. My background is broadcast television, so that is the direction I took - my friend went the way of radio (he has the 'gift-of-the-gab'). He wanted to represent that his show has international capabilities and knew I reside in New Jersey. Calling me up and asking me to produce this segment for him - I do this all for free. It's a lot of fun, even if I do sound horrendous and the segment has little (to no) entertainment value as far as I am aware.

Fast-forward to present and he wants to do a simulcast (not on a station - partnering takes a little leg work) taking the stations internet stream and pushing it out through a PA... then, whenever he feels like it, tossing to a live interview on the street of New York.

This is where I come in... as I am the "host" of the New York segment this is something they want me to setup. As said, I have already been informed of "limited means" but they are going to financially work with me.

I have no idea of equipment or, even, if I need to get some sort of 'waiver' allowing me to perform a live broadcast. The expectation rule is omitted when people come and speak to me as it will be pretty clear that they will be live on the radio (in Liverpool, England, but still live non-the-less).

The best I can discover would be - computer with internet connection to PA (for the stream) and this unit, from JK Audio... that is my discovery since the post earlier today... outside of that I am at a loss. Where else to go, than to the experts on this forum for assistance ;D

Hope that gives a little more insight into what I have been tasked to perform... Thank for any help.
 
So the segment gets broadcast live during the show, and is also archived for later use? Is there any interaction with the host during your segment?

You could probably use something as rudimentary as Skype for this purpose, especially if it is a one-time deal.
 
Whether any of us write anything golden for you or not, your post here was one of the right things to do.

Did you ever attend a seminar where one of the demonstrations was to put up a screen of some kind between two people, and the person on one side of the screen gave instructions to the person on the other side to complete a task... maybe something as simple as folding a piece of paper in a unique way.

Keep asking people. The more you do, the better you will become at explaining what you are trying to do. Pretty soon you will get good enough at it that you can...... EXPLAIN IT TO YOURSELF.

My question back to you is: Can you sit down and record these segments in advance, maybe even doing a "take 2" if necessary.... or must it take place "live" as you converse with your host, your counterpart? If you became equipped with digital audio editing software, could you cut-and-paste the results of an interview much like a print reporter would do with a word processing program? (I'm not asking it cut-and-paste audio is possible... I do it.) I am asking if that is one of the techniques you could use, of must it be NOW, live, as-we-speak?

Could you pre-record the basic content and then in concert with the program host do a live "book-end" intro and wrap up to package the recorded part?

I have this feeling that listening to some of the stuff National Public Radio does with Morning Edition and All Things Considered might trigger some inspiration on things you might try.

Don't loose sleep over this project. Make it fun!
 
I usually do tape all the interview - The segment I produce is all taped wraps and interviews. I usually tape interview one week - edit the package together with wraps and eMail it to the station - airing the following week (with no live-talk back just the hosts lead-in). The segment then get's archived to the website. Problem, or opportunity, the host wants me to go live. I have done phoners - which I will be doing this Friday tossing to in-studio soundbites and conversing with the host - but my side sounds like I am on the telephone (which I am).

I believe I may have found what I need; Comrex Access Portable unit.

This connects to a broadband, cell connection, DSL or other lines and gives audio sounding more one-on-one, than one-on-telephone. At a tag of $3,800 it seems to be the one to go for (just got to find out if it can be a rental unit).

The show will be taken from a live stream to a PA speaker to passing members of the public... every once in a while the host will live cut back to me on the street for live-interview talk-back with myself/guests/members of public. Having never done this part before - well, like you said, posting here was DEFINATELY the right thing to do.

The Skype/Vonage was something I was looking at.. I am running tests to see if connecting SM58 to a vonage connection will yield better audible results.

I fully appreciate all the assistance being offered.
 
Forgive me for being so thick in the head. I go back now and read your original post and realize what you were asking from the beginning: What TECHNICAL APPARATUS would be best suited for the task. :D

And thank you for introducing a new word to my vocabulary. You are a Scouser who has given me something rather than taking something from me.

I shall try to give City Talk a listen.
 
Well, after performing a test of the Comrex Access Portable unit it seems that this unit is exactly what 's needed. Portable, connects via the internet using wireless 3G or hardline via RJ-45 ethernet connections - the station must have the base unit for receiving the feed - and it sounds like I could be in the next studio, even if I am in an office in Long Island (that's where I tested the unit) connected via a wireless card.

Next step is to find out where to go live from.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom