How do you create interesting television by filming a live radio broadcast?

“Putting a camera in a radio studio is one thing, but making a television program that people want to watch is something completely different,” says Kees Touring, station manager at Radio 2 (NPO). “Our main focus is radio broadcast, but we also want a full video experience for our listeners. Creating a multi-camera television broadcast with dynamic graphics is a challenging task.”

“That’s why we are going to add more content, such as graphics with album covers, artist photos and archived video material”.

VidiGo created the Visual Radio solution by combing strengths of VidiGo Live and VidiGo Graphics Server. VidiGo Live works as a video switcher that operates in automatic mode to switch between the different cameras in the radio studio. The VidiGo Audio Director is an extension to VidiGo Live and detects which microphones are used during the radio broadcast. The VidiGo Audio Director is optimized to make decisions like a television director. Finally, the graphics and text overlays are automatically inserted with the help of VidiGo Graphics, using a dedicated Adobe Flash application.