CBS on WCBS via QGoLive from London

Here’s CBS News Radio’s Steven Portnoy doing a two-way from London with Paul Murnane and Steve Scott on New York’s WCBS Newsradio 880.  Steven was at a pretty noisy location but he comes through loud and clear and with minimal latency on a 3000 mile haulback.  QGoLive is great for two-ways with regular contributors who can be given their own accounts using their own devices. This recording is off the AM air logger which explains the fidelity.

Fire in Manhattan! (Kansas that is)

We like this clip because it demonstrates how QGoLive can put you on the scene of a news event in broadcast quality as easily as removing your phone from your pocket.  Here’s a house fire in Manhattan, Kanas as covered by Kansas State University’s KSDB.    News Director Lucas Peterson happened to be passing by the fire and he went live with Program Director James Copeland.  Notice their easy delay-free Q and A.  Not exactly the towering inferno, but important news in Manhattan, KS.

 

College Basketball at WCDB Albany

From our friend Rob Lepelstat, sports director at WCDB-FM at SUNY Albany, its the Great Danes taking down the Yale Bulldogs on QGoLive.

Rob writes: “Our station has been having some great success with QGoLive and is really excited about our future play by play aspirations for WCDB!”

WCDB had been doing most of their PBP by phone so we’re happy to help out and with Rob at the mic these games really come alive!  Give a listen…

QGoLive vs. “Hardware Solution”

On a recent morning at 1010 WINS New York there were two reporters in the field – the indefatigable John Montone and police specialist Carol D’Auria.   John, as usual, was using his all-in-one kit of QGoLive on an iPad mini.   He did his interviews, his live shots with actuality insertions and his recorded reports for the later in the morning all on his iPad.

Carol was using the best in class hardware solution for broadcast quality field reporting.  She did her interviews on a flash recorder, which she also used to playback her audio into this unit.  When she recorded her reports for later she had to use a separate laptop and mixer.    A lot of hardware vs an iPad mini.

But how does it sound?  First up Carol, live from East New York:

Now John, live from Times Square on QGoLive:

You can draw your own conclusions, but we would argue that QGoLive is the better sounding, less expensive and more flexible solution for live news reporting.  And your station can get it on a barter basis.  Don’t think that works with the other guys.