Radio Playouts
Jutel RadioMan visual radio integration
Jutel RadioMan visual radio connects your channel metadata to VRA graphics. The radio automation keeps managing the broadcast while VRA puts the current song on screen and automates the studio picture.
What VRA does with Jutel RadioMan.
One feed per station channel
Map the channel that actually feeds the station, including regional programming. Keep updates from separate channels on their own connections.
Graphics follow the item
Link title and artist to text layers in the Visual Designer. The values change when the next on-air item reaches VRA.
Music and commercials apart
Map the categories supplied by the feed to VRA item groups. Use those groups to show a song title during music and hide it during commercials.
Cameras follow the conversation
Add microphone channels to Audio Triggers and connect your ATEM, vMix or OBS. Camera switching uses the microphones separately from the playout metadata.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- Access to the RadioMan channel metadata and the relevant integration interface.
- A field mapping and credentials for the selected deployment.
- VRA Core running in the studio. Cloud-side delivery also needs internet connectivity and a station machine user.
Select the RadioMan channel feeding the station and provide read access to its on-air metadata interface.
Map the current item to VRA artist, title and item identity. Add categories and upcoming items only when supplied by that interface.
For a studio-side connection, deliver the mapped JSON to Generic AutomationLink on VRA Core. For a cloud-side connection, use VRA Cloud GraphQL with a station machine user.
Verify station routing, a song transition and a regional opt-out before binding the feed to graphics. Test how the workflow behaves when the metadata connection is interrupted.
Jutel RadioMan questions
Can cloud-hosted RadioMan feed VRA? +
Yes. A cloud-side connection sends mapped data through VRA Cloud GraphQL using a station machine user. VRA Cloud passes it to the running Core in the studio.
Does the RadioMan connection work without internet? +
That depends on where the metadata connection runs. A local connection can stay on the studio network. Cloud-hosted RadioMan or delivery through VRA Cloud needs connectivity.
Does this replace my radio automation? +
No. Your radio automation keeps playing the audio and managing its log. VRA reads the on-air information and uses it for the video side of the show.
Does now-playing data also switch the cameras? +
Now-playing data identifies the item, not the person speaking. Connect the studio microphones to Audio Triggers for speaker-driven camera switching.
Jutel
About Jutel RadioMan.
RadioMan is Jutel's radio automation platform for on-premise, cloud and hybrid operations. VRA uses the on-air information for the station channel to produce radio graphics.
RadioMan visual radio across studio and cloud
The metadata connection reads the relevant RadioMan channel through the station's enabled integration interface. Its fields are mapped to VRA's current-item structure, with upcoming items included only when that interface supplies them.
A connection running inside the studio can send mapped JSON to Generic AutomationLink on VRA Core. A cloud-side connection uses VRA Cloud's authenticated GraphQL API, which passes the data to the station's studios. A local Core is needed in either case. A cloud metadata source still depends on connectivity to that source; local rendering does not remove that dependency.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
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Myriad Playout
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Check your studio setup with us.
Tell us your camera models, video switcher and radio automation. We will check the connections and show you the workflow that fits your station.