Due to its recent moving to Hilversum, the media group has invested in a high-efficiency studio control system with IP-network connectivity 

DHD audio has made public the installation of an IP-integrated production system at the Hilversum studios of NH Media, regional radio and television broadcaster for North Holland. Designed in partnership with Dutch broadcast and IT solutions specialist D&MS, this recently completed system includes equipment supplied via Media Utilities, Almere.

“We relocated from Amsterdam to Hilversum in 2022 while our sister channel AT5 remained in Amsterdam,” says Edgar van Santen, NH Media Broadcast Coordinator. “The engineers at NH/AT5 must be capable of providing technical support for playout, radio studios and TV infrastructure. We opted for unified technology as much as possible across our radio and TV studios and broadcast infrastructure. We also decided to have our radio and TV studios fully IP-based as this provides more flexibility for sharing resources between Hilversum and Amsterdam. It was important that NH Media and AT5 newsroom journalists be able to operate the equipment without technical assistance. All video sources use the NewTek NDI protocol for production networking and all audio is Audinate Dante. We have chosen a NewTek TriCaster for daily news switching in the TV control room. It is an all-in-one machine that’s easy for everyone to understand. We use vMix for streaming, supplemented by Visual Radio Assist for visual radio. Audio production in our radio and television studios is via DHD audio mixers, chosen because they are easy to operate. Complex audio setups can be preconfigured so that end users never need to worry about details such as clean feeds, IFBs or voice processing. We also experienced good support from the supplier. The audio mixers are a combination of RX2 desks, XC3 Cores and TX panels. We designated key users in advance and made them an integral part of the change process. Everything is running smoothly.”