Samoa National Radio inaugurates its first digital studio with AEQ

The Chapter IP console of AEQ It forms the backbone of the main broadcast studio of Samoa National Radio, a station founded in 1947 that has recently decided to make the leap to digital technology.

Radio 2AP began broadcasting on AM in 1947 as the national radio station Samoa. Even today, the station broadcasts on AM to cover the 2 islands: Ubolu, where the capital city, Apia, is located and Suvaii, which together make up Samoa. Likewise, the station has opted to broadcast in FM with several new transmitters spread across the nation, as well as online through the aggregator ZenoFM.

Recently, Radio 2AP, which broadcasts public service and proximity programming with large music or sports blocks, has opted for the company Miseopoint to renew its main broadcast studio with digital quality. The company, local partner of AEQ, opted to integrate the compact console Capitol IP, capable of managing all the signals that are sent to the program, as well as the contributions with TV9, the country's national television.

Samoa National Radio's AEQ Capitol IP has a control surface of 12 faders. Its implementation of IP connectivity is based on a single module of 16 input and 16 output channels, incorporated into its “core”. Likewise, one of the main qualities of the equipment is its wide available input capacity: 4 microphone/line, 12 analog, 4 digital stereo AES/EBU (AES3), 2 digital stereo USB, 2 optional telephone lines, and optional digital multichannel audio links. In addition, it offers 16 AoIP channels over two Ethernet connectors or 64 MADI input channels via fiber optics.

The AEQ Capitol IP console is very popular in remote studies from all over the planet, since it offers digital technology with IP functions, supporting the latest features demanded by the market, but with a very simple and particularly robust. In this way, in the words of the company, it “becomes the ideal unit for these studies of public service in such distant places”.