Re: [RDD] Remote News Inserts?

2013-01-07 Thread Rob Landry
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Bill Putney wrote: > Since we had a water main break downtown this morning... I was wondering > how people handle remote news audio inserts. What I did was to record a > news piece and sftp it to the automation server. I used VNC to make a > new cart and insert the cart a few

Re: [RDD] Remote News Inserts?

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Jeffares
We have a dropbox that can be accessed by SFTP into which remote contributors can drop breaking news, news, traffic, community notices, and in our case Civil Defence announcements The CD media guy [ex Jock great voice ] has access and just records a voicer on his laptop and drops it in. Our CD even

Re: [RDD] Remote News Inserts?

2013-01-06 Thread Bill Putney
I've been thinking more about it. The dropbox is a possibility. I don't know what to do about timing things except that you'd put a slot for news items once an hour and if there wasn't an item it wouldn't play. Pad the logs so there is extra time then time-start the station ID at the top of the

Re: [RDD] Remote News Inserts?

2013-01-06 Thread VE4PER/ Andy
On 06/01/13 18:16, Bill Putney wrote: > Since we had a water main break downtown this morning... I was wondering > how people handle remote news audio inserts. What I did was to record a > news piece and sftp it to the automation server. I used VNC to make a > new cart and insert the cart a few p

[RDD] Remote News Inserts?

2013-01-06 Thread Bill Putney
Since we had a water main break downtown this morning... I was wondering how people handle remote news audio inserts. What I did was to record a news piece and sftp it to the automation server. I used VNC to make a new cart and insert the cart a few places in the automation log. This is fine fo