Duty room Automation at VBS BH AIR Mumbai
Under VBS duty room automation VBS BH Mumbai duty room automation work was taken up. Since AIR Mumbai BH is exclusively using NETIA software so technical set up was ready. Hence minor changes were made. Using Grid Editor module Fixed Point chart insertion was made and auto generation of playlist was started. Also in the Transmission booth for both HDBRs pre faded listening of on board sound card was extended up to Announcer console. For the report generation from AIRRUN module which is in CSV format a EXCEL template was prepared using macro and different formulas and conditions. Three reports can be generated by using this template 1) Full Transmission Report 2) Commercial broadcast report 3) Royalty statement report. For this changes were made in the Registry of AIR RUN module. Report is made according to guidelines of the Directorates.
Under the VBS Duty room automation project training for the engineering staff was held seperately on 1st and 2nd February 2018. They were apprised functioning of all Administrative modules and backend modules. Also they were acquainted about the changes and report generation process.
Training was arranged in coordination with VBS BH Mumbai for the Programme Officers and Casual Staff artists. Around forty members has attended training. Training was conducted from 5th feb to 9th feb 2018. They were made aware of all modules of the NETIA software i.e. Radio assist, Browser , Export, Import, Grid Editor, Federall service AIR DDO etc. Also scheduling of programmes using schedulers was taught. Report generation methods were shown to them.
Now VBS BH Mumbai Duty is functioning with full automised mode.
Training was given by Manojkumar Shaha SEA and Subhash Mundhe EA of BH AIR Mumbai
Contributed By: Manojkumar R Shaha, SEA, BH AIR MUMBAI.