From Radio World’s Who’s Buying What page: PMC is highlighting the use of its monitors in new studios that serve BBC Radio 2.
“After 18 years at Wogan House, BBC Radio 2 has moved back into the nearby BBC Broadcasting House, London, and is housed in new studios designed by specialist broadcast systems integrator, IPE,” the manufacturer states in a press release.
“The four new studios form part of Broadcasting House’s Popular Music Hub, and this expansion brings the total number of studios in the Hub to 10. They provide facilities for the UK’s most listened to radio stations, Radio 2, Radio 1 and 6 Music.”
It said IPE has worked on past projects with the BBC including Yalding House Radio 1 studios in 2005 and later installing the original Popular Music Hub studios when Broadcasting House was being built in 2012.
According to the PMC project summary, the new BBC facilities are largely based around an AoIP infrastructure, with DHD audio consoles in each studio. “PMC6 active two-way monitors matched with a PMC8 Sub were used as the main studio loudspeakers.”
The studios have visual radio capabilities, live music performance areas, DJ positions with Pioneer DJ decks and Technics turntables, and an IHSE KVM System to allow operators in pairs of studios to access the necessary PCs and playout servers.
“Much of the new equipment was supplied by pro audio technology provider HHB, which worked closely with IPE to deliver hardware to meet the project timescales, despite challenging supply conditions in the wider technology market,” according to PMC.
