Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
  • H04H60/00—Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
  • H04H60/02—Arrangements for generating broadcast information; Arrangements for generating broadcast-related information with a direct linking to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time; Arrangements for simultaneous generation of broadcast information and broadcast-related information
  • H04H60/04—Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F25/00—Audible advertising
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
  • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
  • H04H20/10—Arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or the distribution
  • H04H20/103—Transmitter-side switching
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F25/00—Audible advertising
  • G09F2025/005—Message recorded in a memory device

Definitions

• the present invention refers to system for recording and reproduction of radio broadcasting wedges based on digital technology and projected and designed with a view to achieving a significant advance in the field of digital treatment of the recording of radio broadcasting wedges, though this specific aim did not turn out to be the most significant improvement of those obtained in the systems of use; in actual fact, the most important improvement was that which will be set out below in the development of this request, and which will allow the following: administrative control of transmission of the wedges, transmission of sound messages between broadcasting stations and studios, even by means of low quality telephone lines, and a simplified selection by technicians of the wedges to be transmitted, as well as automatic programming of transmissions in blocks, thus reducing possible errors, in addition to other advantages, which, as a whole, represent the basic set of achievements motivating this request.
• This system makes it possible to use a magnetic tape open coil, cutting off the part corresponding to the duration of the wedge and, by means of a simple operation, installing it in the plastic container which, thanks to its configuration, allows this piece of tape, played always in the direction of the reproduction reading, to be what we understand by "endless”; in other words, having united its beginning and end, the tape constantly keeps turning.
• a system of tones in a specific frequency enables the reading device to detect the end of the recording and the beginning of it and, as a result, the chaining which proved so difficult in previous processes now was significantly simplified.
• THE ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION OF RADIO WEDGES is a system that makes it possible to obtain the reproduction of advertising wedges thousands of times without causing any deterioration whatsoever of the quality of the sound as a consequence of use while, moreover, this system establishes a two-way relation between, on the one hand, the transmission and treatment of the wedges and, on the other, departments such as accounting or advertising within the transmission station or chain, thus allowing the follow-up, the establishing of timetables or the modification of blocks by the said stations, thanks to this direct computer communication system which, in addition, makes it possible for them, when they wish, to carry out the chainings between transmitted wedges in the same block in a completely accurate and automatic way, thus significantly reducing the space needed to contain them.
• a wedge is produced by digital process, that is, converting the sound signal that proceeds from a microphone or any other type of conventional medium into information capable of being recorded on a computer medium.
• the controller of the transmission can transmit a block of wedges which he himself does not even know and which has been set up a minute ago by the programming or advertising departments.
• no physical displacement will be necessary anymore to change listings of blocks in the studio, to collect those of the previous day or to introduce a modification as the transmission is taking place, etc. Neither will the technicians specific for the transmission of the wedges have to be on the watch for the exact transmission time of a block, etc.
• the ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION OF RADIO BROADCASTING WEDGES contains two basic concepts which must be explained here.
• the first concept is that of the conversion of wedges into files and their treatment. In other words, these files can be recorded with the parameters one wishes to apply; the originals received at broadcasting stations from sound studios can be sent in this type of medium instead of the conventional ones, provided always that the studio has a similar system; the wedges can be transmitted over conventional telephone lines without even the slightest loss of quality, as the transmission is a digital data transmission and, in short, all advantages resulting from the treatment of the sound data.
• the other treatment consists of chaining, transmission relations, programming, invoicing, insertions and other processes that can be carried out with these files.
• wedges As for the practical operation of the transmission of wedges, these can be selected one by one, while the cutoff between wedges will not be noticed; blocks can be established in advance and it is even possible to introduce minisyntonies between them, apart from other possibilities. These processes can be established in advance and by an automatic procedure, in accordance with one's wishes.
• the wedges are recorded on a computer medium which can be either centralized, with accesses of each terminal of the system, or independent per studios or control stations, meaning that, for example, the medium containing the programme of the day is passed on to independent media for each of the studios. These independent units would have been recorded in advance.
• the studio technician selects the code of the wedge to be transmitted, for example "2F" or the title of the wedge, which he finds on the listing he can obtain on the "help" screen. Next, he pushes the reproduction button. The wedge is then reproduced. If, while the wedge is being transmitted, he selects a new wedge and enters the order of transmission of this new wedge, the latter will be chained to the previous one as soon as it ends.
• Another execution formula is the one where the programming department has established the transmission order and programmed it in advance in the system.
• the system indicates to the technician the approximate time when a particular block must be transmitted, by means of a light signal or an instruction on the "help" screen, indicating that the block must be transmitted.
• the technician at the time he considers convenient, depending on the development of the programme, simply has to give the order of reproduction of the block, which will be reproduced accordingly. He does not need to know the composition of the block itself nor of the wedges contained in it.
• the programme will register the parameters corresponding to the administrative departments which, accordingly, will obtain transmission reports, transmission hours, etc., based on data which are completely real and accurate, thus avoiding all possible errors often occurring in this field till now.
• the system proves to be equally operative in the opposite sense.
• wedges can be automatically programmed if one wishes, without anyone having to intervene.
• the wedge When the wedge is received at the broadcasting station, it is introduced into the system with its corresponding parameters, such as transmission days, approximate hours of transmission, number of times, etc.
• the system automatically selects each block and chain, so that the controller only will have to indicate the exact time when the transmission of a block must start, once the system has told him that it is time to start.
• This system based on the description given above, also avoids that wedges are repeated by mistake, that their transmission is forgotten or that their hardware is lost, in addition to other factors that guarantee a high level of reliability.
• figure 1 shows a diagram of blocks corresponding to the control of several broadcasting stations without permanent link and in an individual way.
• the main broadcasting station has been referred to as (1) and the secondary broadcasting stations with (2, 2', 2'').
• the main broadcasting station (1) counts with a central organizer (3), a interface (4) for telephone communication, a terminal of control (5), administration, etc. and a modem (6), such main broadcasting station transmitting, through telephone centrals of the Spanish Telephone Company, the information to the secondary broadcasting stations (2), each of them provided with a telephone interface (8), a daniel 2 (9), a control (10) and a terminal (11).
• FIGs 9 and 11 display two examples of practical execution of the system of independent automatic sincronization, a central organizer (23) taking part in all of them, assitied by a programming console (24).
• a transmission of sound and control data is made from the central organizer (23) to a RG studio (25) assisted by a mixer console (26), thus in the first case the transmission output is established from the studio it self (25), while in the second case such output is established from the console (26), in any case accessing the broadcasting station (27).
• the central control unit has been numbered (28), associated to it there is a telephone interface (29) for advertising reception, another telephone interface (30) for control and a satellite interface (31), toadmier with a printer (32), a block for programmes control (33), a block for backup copies (34) and several RG units (35) each of them assisted by a laser disk (36) and a commanded compact disk (37).
• Figure 12 displays a command data control system with mixed communication, in which a central broadcasting station has been numbered (38) and a local broadcasting station (39).
• the central broadcasting station counts with a central programme organizer (49), chain commands and management, assisted by three consoles, a consoles cointaning commands from the central control (41), a programming console and a administration console (43).
• Such central organizer (40) counts with a interface (44) that receives control data from the local station (39), with a converter of modulated signal that acts on a interface (46) encoder mixer of signals to a broadcasting station (47) via satellite, the interface (46) also receives commands from a console (48) of central control for the outputting of the programme to the satellite.
• each local broadcasting station counts with a receiver (49), an interface (59) of signal encoder and separator, a demodulator (51) of commands signals, a Daniel 2 central unit (52) a modem (53) to send data to the central broadcasting station, a mixer console (54) and a RG unit (55).
• continous lines represent commands or orders sent together with the chain sound in a part of the band, this allows the simultaneous execution of all broadcasting stations and several processes at distance.
• Discontinous lines correspond to verification signals and other management and control data that the central station can ask for to any of the broadcasting stations in an automatic way by means of a telephone call or a certain line designed for this purpose.
• figure 13 displays the complete programming system of groups of broadcasting stations with a microphonic line connection from a central.
• Main broadcasting stations has been numbered (56) and secondary station (57), continous lines refer to sound and date and discontinous lines refer to data exclusively.
• the central organizer is numbered (58), the communication interface (59), the bidirectional convertor of commands of modulated signal (60), the RG unit is numbered (61), the broadcasting station for control and transmission (62), the peripherals previously mentioned 63) and frequency splitter encoder-decoder corresponding to the main broadcasting station, the frequency splitter encoder-decoder corresponding to the secondary broadcasting station (57) has been numbered (65), being assisted by a bidirectional convertor of modilated signal command (66), a console (68) to control the transmission with its correspondent peripherals (69) and a Daniel 2 organizer (70).
• the speakers are ready.
• the technician has decided to carry out the recording directly on the digital medium through the system; he could also have registered it first on a conventional medium to transfer it at a later stage.
• He prepares the system, using his "help" screen, selecting the medium on which he wants to record the wedge, the quality he wants to obtain, etc, until the system indicates that it is ready and waiting only for the relevant button to be pushed and thus start recording.
• the technician indicates to the system that the recording is finished.
• the system allows the technician to eliminate silences or small background noises, to speed up or to increase the duration of the recording, to select the names and codes he will give to the file, to work with the file adding other files to it, etc.
• the technician must send the wedge to several broadcasting stations. To do so, he simply dials the telephone number of the stations and gives the system the order to transmit the wedge in digital form. At this moment, the transmission will be carried out by communication between modems and will send both the sound file and the programming of it, in addition to other information.
• the station proceeds to check and verify the perfect sound of the file sent, as well as the data corresponding to its programming. If all is correct and the approval of the advertising and programming departments is obtained, the latter may give the order to the system to proceed with the transmission of the wedge just as it was received and, therefore, just as it was programmed.
• the wedge received in the way set out above will appear in each block corresponding to the hours and days for which it has been programmed. If, for example, this programming is established for each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 am and 8 pm, the system, by means of its internal calendar, will automatically select this wedge in these blocks.

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