If you need a radio broadcast engineer early Sunday while you’re at the NAB Show, try The Flamingo where the annual Nautel Users’ Group meets.
More familiarly knows as NUG@NAB, it’s where many of them have gathered. The audience reached nearly 300.
This year’s edition featured very interesting news concerning smoothing out EAS delivery and functionality.
Presented by Bill Robinson and Ed Czarnecki of Digital Alert Systems (shown), it showed the evolution of the system from the traditional workflow of a sometimes complicated air chain of connected boxes (that usually worked together) to a digital world ecosystem with AoIP and virtualization wherein various modules can adapt to what is required to deliver multiple messages at different points in the air chain. In this world everyone is on the same page and there should be full compatibility between those…