Radio Playouts
NETIA Radio-Assist visual radio integration
NETIA Radio-Assist visual radio brings your radio playout information into VRA graphics. Radio-Assist keeps the audio workflow while VRA displays the current song and automates the studio cameras.
What VRA does with NETIA Radio-Assist.
AirDDO supplies the on-air item
Follow broadcast-item changes from the station channel. An archive record or exported history report must not stand in for the current song.
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
- Radio-Assist and AirDDO with access to the station on-air information.
- The enabled NETIA interface and a mapping to VRA current-item data.
- VRA Core reachable from the metadata connection.
Select the AirDDO station channel and identify its available current-item interface with the NETIA engineer.
Configure the connection to follow broadcast-item changes, rather than a manually exported history log.
Map artist, title and item identity into the VRA Generic AutomationLink JSON format. Deliver updates to the local VRA Core endpoint.
Test manual and automatic starts in AirDDO, then compare the on-air item with VRA. Bind the received fields to graphics and test commercial-break visibility if categories are supplied.
NETIA Radio-Assist questions
Can VRA use a NETIA broadcast log for now playing? +
The connection needs current on-air information. A manually exported historical CSV does not update with the show and cannot replace that feed.
Does this change how presenters use Radio-Assist? +
No. Presenters keep their radio production and playout workflow. VRA reads the available metadata for the video side.
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.
NETIA
About NETIA Radio-Assist.
NETIA Radio-Assist covers radio production and broadcast workflows, with AirDDO handling on-air playout. VRA adds on-screen graphics from the station's current-item information.
NETIA Radio-Assist visual radio from AirDDO
The source must follow actual AirDDO playout. NETIA documents AirRun information about broadcast items and integration configuration through NWE. Which information can be delivered externally depends on the station's installed version and enabled interfaces.
The connection maps the available on-air feed to VRA automation data. A historical CSV log is not a substitute for a current-item feed. Once artist, title and item identity reach VRA, graphics follow the broadcast. Audio playback, editing and newsroom workflows stay in NETIA.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
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Inbound HTTP
Send now-playing data to VRA over HTTP from any playout system: post the current and upcoming items as JSON and your radio graphics follow the show.
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CGI dira
Connect CGI dira to VRA for visual radio, now-playing graphics and camera automation. Keep your radio playout and build the video workflow around it.
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.