Studers Vista 8 console for Trinity Broadcasting Network
Published: WORSHIP
US: The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world’s largest religious network and America’s most-watched faith channel, has revamped its Nashville production facility from standard-broadcast analogue to high-definition digital. TBN reaches 104 million households worldwide.
The broadcaster has selected a Studer Vista 8 console as a key component of the upgrade. In addition, TBN has outfitted seven control and edit rooms in its Nashville facility with JBL LSR4300 Series studio monitors.
Russell Hall, TBN Nashville’s station manager, explained the broadcaster’s reasons for choosing the Studer Vista 8. ‘We’re a global broadcaster, the sixth-largest broadcaster in the world,’ he said. ‘We produce a wide range of content including Christian educational, worship, variety, music, entertainment, children’s and even sitcom programming. We recognised that our existing 16-year-old analogue broadcast facility could no longer meet our growing requirements, and upgrading it involved nothing less than a complete overhaul. Basically, we gutted everything and went from analogue broadcast straight to HDTV.
‘For us, there was no other choice but the Vista 8, because of its audio routing capabilities and flexibility,’ Mr Hall continued. ‘TBN had already done three HD renovations of other production centres, and we had been putting in a complicated system of audio routers. We found that the Vista 8 eliminated the need for all of that. It can handle all of our complex audio routing needs with capability to spare. Its touchscreen control interface is easy to use – especially important for live TV broadcasts – and the sound quality is excellent.’