AEQ DIGITAL COMMENTARY UNIT Customer's Manual page 8

1.2.- Commentary unit (CU)
The main function of this unit is to provide access to a combined microphone
headset for the broadcast of commentary or communication with a studio at the
IBC or the home country. The unit provides several operational possibilities,
which will vary in relation to the technical and operating criteria forecast for
each event, and in general are:
• The use of a microphone for commentary broadcast.
• Talkback from the producer at the IBC, studio or country to the commentator
at the venue.
• Commentator communication to the IBC studio or country producer.
• A return feed of the studio program output to the commentator.
• A feed which gives the results from the venue P.A. system.
• A two - way communications circuit between the commentator and the
operator at the Commentary Control Room (C.C.R.).
• Cue and venue information from the mobile producer.
• Cue information from additional organizations.
• Beeping signals of T' Back circuit.
• The option of disposing to listen the IS signal (preselected as the television
one or the radio one). from the competition site while broadcasting.
• The option of selecting a signal from the commentator GUIDE and an
auxiliary input (AUX) as a listening reference for the commentator to obtain
a data source for his commentaries.
All these functions are remotely controllable according to the technician' s
choice.
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