The pillars of À Punt's most groundbreaking studio: an integration of Unitecnic

Halfway between a visual radio studio and a broadcast one, At Punt has promoted an innovative studio, which operates offering significant cost savings to the Valencian broadcaster. Higinio Añó Sanz, exploitation and engineering director of À Punt, and Francisco Javier Periáñez, project manager at Unitecnic, help understand the success and challenges of a single study.

At Punt faced several challenges when launching your multipurpose studio. “We wanted to make the most of the technical and human resources,” says Añó, who, leading the engineering team from Valencian television I wanted to design a concept that takes advantage of the latest technical solutions on the market to merge radio and television environments: “We studied how we could make a radio program, televise it, and in this way we could also cover our linear programming in the mornings.”

After several months of work, and the corresponding tenders, At Punt awarded a Unitecnic, engineering company MEDIAPRO GROUP, the integration of all the lots that would make up this transversal project, halfway between a top-level visual radio studio and a television studio. It is not a transformation, nor an update: it is the creation from scratch of a set with all the necessary solutions to broadcast live, including its corresponding control room. A process, which according to Añó himself, went “very well and was completed with all the necessary training” before putting all the effort machinery in operation.

The cherry on top of this technological bet is a designed scenery inch by inch by the team EN Technology, dominated by a custom-made table that has ended up giving rise to an environment spacious, bright and that allows transmitting closeness with the spectators.

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Technology everywhere

The versatile study of At Punt, located at its headquarters in Burjassot (Valencia), does not renounce cutting-edge technology despite its hybrid nature. Certified to work up to 12G SDI under the standard SMPTE ST 2082, this space of 50 m² bet on the interconnection: far from being an island, it represents a solution completely integrated into all production processes of Valencian television.

Unitecnic has integrated an important selection of top-level equipment, including four PTZ cameras Panasonic AW-UE150; Brio and Cube systems The valley, integrated into the À Punt production ecosystem; Aston and On Demand graphics solutions from Brainstorm; a Prism waveform monitor Tektronix; audio monitoring system Wohler AMP1-16V; the Brio 36 audio console Calrec; audio recorder codec Quantum Lite de Prodys; the intercom system Riedel, and the Systel IP16 multi-conference system from AEQ.

The company of MEDIAPRO GROUP has been responsible for providing several essential solutions for the study of Ross Video.

In addition, the GRUP MEDIAPRO company has been in charge of providing several essential solutions for the study of Ross Video: the video mixer Carbonite Ultra, the panel TouchDrive 2M/E, the video matrix Ultrix UHD of 32×32 and the system glue. These teams, Periáñez details, contribute important advantages like its architecture around 12G, so that the future and hypothetical jump to ultra high definition of this study can be carried out without losing capabilities or resources, as happens when 3G products with licensable UHD capabilities are chosen.

On the other hand, Unitecnic has also delivered several switches Huawei S5732-H48, network core of the multipurpose studio that provides VoIP, Internet, Dalet, Brainstorm, Dante, DHCP, control, management, codecs and IPTV services.

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A paradigm shift

He multipurpose studio of À Punt It is currently used for the broadcast of various magazines on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning and The Morning News: and informative program de tres horas de duración que se emite simultáneamente en TDT, radio y streaming, detalla Añó.

Higinio Añó Sanz, director de explotación e ingeniería de At Punt: “Este proyecto demuestra que se pueden hacer programas de radio, televisión y streaming en el mismo study y con el mismo equipment”.

En ambos casos, el estudio está respondiendo a la perfection, offering a acabado visual de primer nivel y “reduciendo mucho los costes de producción y explotación” gracias a la versatilidad de su control room y su apuesta por las robotic cameras. Para el director de ingeniería y explotación de À Punt, este proyecto demuestra que se pueden hacer programas de radio, televisión y streaming “en el mismo estudio y con el mismo equipamiento”.

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Las barreras se difuminan

El proyecto de Á Punt, integrado por Unitecnic, pone sobre la palestra no solo la extrema versatilidad de los sistemas de producción, en la que soluciones destinadas exclusivamente para el universo broadcast conviven con soluciones más imaginativas, sino una nueva forma de pensar que avanza con paso firme entre las televisiones y radios de todo el Estado: las barreras entre los verticales, las ventanas y las tecnologías se difuminan.

Y es que, en este punto, la technology ya está preparada para ofrecer soluciones inéditas y adaptarse a cada situación, a cada momento.