Kensington Digital Media, a station operator in Nashville and Dothan, Alabama, has launched a broadcast software business called Fusion Air, led by CEO Tony Richards. Its first product to market is Broadcast Network Monitor, designed to detect when a station goes off the air, according to a November 5 report in Radio & Television Business Report.
Two other tools address the trip from a remote microphone to the studio. Fusion Air describes Air Codec as supporting up to five independent codec instances on one PC. Its Sportscaster Pro software brings microphone processing, commercial playback and the studio connection into the announcer’s workflow, Radio Ink reported.
For a station evaluating the monitor, a useful off-air bench demonstration would start with two different failures: interrupt the program feed, then disconnect the monitor’s own network connection. Can the engineer tell from the alert which one happened? RNN has not tested the software. Detection speed and recovery under field conditions remain questions for a station trial.