AIB Membership
AIB Membership, April 2004
PLATINUM
Al Jazeera Channel
Autocue
GOLD
Globecast
Harris Corporation
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RadioScape
SES-Astra
CORPORATE
ABS-CBN Europe
APTN - Associated Press Television News
AWR Adventist World Radio
BBC Global News
incorporating
BBC World
and
BBC World Service
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
incorporating
International Broadcasting Bureau
CNBC Europe
Dalet a.n.n.
D.A.V.I.D.
Deutsche Welle
Intelsat
InterMedia Survey Institute
ITN International
NASB
(National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters)
NDSatCom
Omnibus Systems
PacSat
PanAmSat
Quantel
Radio Canada International
Radio Free Asia
Radio New Zealand International
Radio Polonia
Radio Prague
Radio Romania International
Radio Sweden
Radio Taiwan International
Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal
Services Sound and Vision Corporation
TDP (Transmitter Documentation Project)
Teletrax
Television New Zealand
VT Merlin Communications
World Radio Network
You/Com Audiocommunicatie
Gold
RadioScape
RadioScape was founded to exploit software solutions
for digital radio. The company’s pioneering approach
has enabled RadioScape to become a world leader, as
it provides the flexibility to add innovation and rapidly
incorporate changes to suit evolving standards.
The first area to be targeted by the company was the Eureka 147 Digital
Audio Broadcast (DAB) standard. RadioScape’s initial product was a software-
based professional DAB radio test receiver for broadcasters and network
operators that was announced in 1998. This brought RadioScape to the
attention of NTL and the first of many successful partnerships with market
leading companies was forged.
During 1999 NTL, in conjunction with RadioScape, developed a revolutionary,
software-based new way of implementing, controlling and monitoring digital
radio transmissions for DAB which is now used for virtually all commercial
DAB radio stations in the UK. RadioScape’s suite of professional broadcast
products is being supplied to other operators around the world.
This in-depth understanding of DAB broadcast technology enabled RadioScape
to address the receiver end of the market as well, giving the company a
unique position of being an end-to-end innovator for DAB. The first product
was a joint collaboration with Psion to develop a digital radio for the PC
platform - the Psion Wavefinder - that was launched in 2000 to great acclaim
and many awards.
As the DAB functionality for this was software running on a processor, it
could be ported to other processors. RadioScape licensed this software to
Texas Instruments, which resulted in the DRE200 that was launched in 2002.
This is now one of the top selling DAB chips in the world and is used at the
heart of RadioScape’s own family of innovative DAB modules, which are
designed into many of the leading DAB radio receivers.
Corporate
D.A.V.I.D. GmbH
In Europe the name D.A.V.I.D. is synonymous with the age of digital radio.
Ten years ago D.A.V.I.D. began developing its business with the development
of EdigAS (Editor for the digital Audio System), our first digital audio editor.
It was (and still is) remarkably fast and available over networked systems -
an absolute innovative solution at that time. During the next 10 years
D.A.V.I.D. was projected into a lead position in the German speaking countries
and in Scandinavia.
The next step was the development of video applications for both TV and
convergence purposes. That was the logical conclusion from the rapid
development in the field of processor and storage technologies, which now
allows handling the huge amount of data involved in videofiles.
D.A.V.I.D. GmbH designs, assembles, sells, installs and services for computer-
based broadcast systems, concentrating on radio applications. The spectrum
of products covers stand-alone solutions for correspondents as well as large-
scale client/server applications for recording, storage, administration,
editing, distribution and transmission of audio actualities and format
elements (jingles). The services offered include extensive software
development, consulting, planning with system and business conception,
project management, installation, training, and service. Some of the specific
partners of D.A.V.I.D. GmbH also develop application-specific hardware that
can be used with the D.A.V.I.D. system.
AIB Membership continues to expand
An increasing number of organisations worldwide are recognising the
benefits of AIB Membership. Over the past few weeks, we’ve welcomed
a range of companies at Gold and Corporate Membership levels.
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