Newington, VA -- October 11, 2005 -- Communications Engineering, Inc. (CEI) has designed and delivered a new digital broadcast platform for one of the nation’s leading public broadcasters: WMHT-- Schenectady, New York.
The station is now broadcasting from a state-of-the-art Digital Operations Center - delivering 21 st Century television and radio services.
CEI provided WMHT with a full turnkey digital broadcast solution. The television and radio stations have all-new digital production and On Air facilities as well as special services for the visually impaired.
Four television signals originate from the new WMHT broadcast facility – a primary channel via analog and digital transmitters, two digital channels with a third channel planned, and one highdefinition channel.
CEI also introduced leading-edge visual displays with two fifty inch DLP projection screens using a 40-input multi-image display processor. There are no glass monitors in the facility except for required test monitors.
All of the station’s new television editing and production facilities are video-server based. The facility also includes a new digital production control room with two large studios and three non-linear edit rooms, two standard and one high-definition. Other facilities include a camera shading area and a central core which houses sixty racks of equipment.
WMHT’s FM radio stations broadcast from two new digital On-Air studios with a digital control room and production room. The studios use an all-new audio server and automation system with a digital audio mixing engine. In addition, the facility includes digital editing rooms for all FM radio services.
For WMHT’s RISE, the reading service for the visually impaired, CEI has provided special ergonomic engineering to accommodate station volunteers.
Welcoming the opening of the facility, CEI President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lawrence Brody, praised the work of the engineering teams involved. “Creating such a complex facility requires considerable engineering expertise, professionalism and, above all, teamwork,” he said.
“Working in partnership with yet another great public broadcasting service, CEI has, once again, delivered leading technology - on time and on budget. That means the station benefits from the efficiencies generated by new technology, and their audience enjoys new and exciting broadcasting services,” Mr. Brody added.
Background:
WMHT Educational Telecommunications, in New York State’s Capital Region, is the only full-service public broadcaster serving eastern New York and Western New England.
CEI, located in Newington, Virginia, is a leading United States Systems Integrator. The company has helped to define the leading edge of systems engineering and implementation for the communications industry since the mid 80’s.
