Visual Radio by LAWO

Lawo debuts Visual Radio at NAB Show 2015
Visual radio adds entertaining and compelling video content to today’s radio shows. Live camera feeds increase listener engagement with more time spent listening and more interaction with broadcaster’s websites. In Las Vegas, Lawo debuted a new approach to visual radio by combining Lawo radio consoles and video products.
Video signals can be attached to certain live audio sources and by audio detection the video naturally follows the voices of the people using microphones, enabling a video production to be created without any extra effort beyond simply speaking. In addition to visual radio, the same concept can be used to provide fully-automated audio and video coverage of sporting events, parliamentary meetings and for surveillance applications.
“A surprisingly large number of clients are either adding live camera feeds to their radio shows or planning to do so,” says Stephan Turkay, radio product manager for Lawo. “Radio broadcasters are finding that listener engagement increases when the audience is able to watch their favorite radio personalities work, and through intelligent application of the built-in features of Lawo video and audio products we can deliver this capability without disrupting or distracting the talent.”