AirScan

The new FCC password rule is only about 30% of the solution.

AirScan is broadcast-oriented pen testing. It looks at your station's public address from the outside, the way hackers' scanners already do every day, and checks the ports broadcast gear lives on first: RDS encoders, HD PAD, STL and audio codecs, transmitter remote controls and EAS.

FCC §11.35(d) has every station changing passwords, and they should. But the other 70% is everything a password can't fix: an RDS encoder open to the internet, a firewall or VPN nobody has patched, a port a previous engineer forwarded and nobody ever closed.

The report names the device that answered, not just a port number, and tells you in plain English what to do about it. It never logs in, never tries a password and never sends a command, so you can run it in the middle of a live show.

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Free with an account, read-only and built for radio stations.

Broadcast Network Monitor

Be the first to know you're off-air.

Transmitter sites lose power all the time, and when it comes back the transmitter doesn't always come with it. Broadcast Network Monitor watches every transmitter, STL, codec, stream and EAS unit across every site you run, around the clock, reading what each box actually reports, not just whether it answers a ping.

When something drops, it doesn't just email you. It calls your phone, then the next person on your list until a human answers, and hands you the site page with the codes, the map and the logins.

No VPN and no ports opened: the site agent only connects out. We host it, set it up and load your gear.

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$50 a month per station, up to 12 devices, whatever the market size.

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An announcer calling a game from the press box, SportsCaster Pro running on the laptop in front of him

SportsCaster Pro

The whole remote kit, on one PC.

SportsCaster Pro is the board, the mic processing, the commercials, the codec, the streams and the recorder for a remote broadcast, in one piece of software. It calls the studio through AirCodec, with a Comrex, a Tieline or most other broadcast codecs on the other end, and brings the return back to your headphones while it streams the game live to YouTube, Facebook, Icecast and Shoutcast.

One Start All button brings up every stream and dials the studio at once. If the link or a stream drops mid-game, it beeps in your headphones and flashes a warning across the screen, so nobody calls a quarter to themselves.

Game notes, rosters, depth charts and sponsor reads sit on the same screen as the board. A PC and a Behringer or Focusrite interface replace the case of gear.

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$599, in two-channel and four-channel versions.

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AirCodec

Five codecs. One install.

AirCodec is a software broadcast codec. One computer runs up to five independent codecs at the same time, each with its own line in and line out, its own name on the network and its own connection. Connect a multichannel sound card or integrate AirCodec with your AoIP network, and one computer can replace up to five hardware codecs in a single rack space.

It calls the hardware already in your rack: a Comrex, a Tieline, a RØDECaster or any EBU 3326 unit by name over SIP, Barix boxes and internet streams, plain RTP for older gear, and another AirCodec over its own error-corrected, password-protected Direct link.

When every connection fails, it plays emergency audio from the box with the legal ID at the top of the hour, then goes back to the link by itself once it proves stable.

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$499.99 per codec. Run up to five on one AirCodec computer.

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Our products

Four products for keeping a station on the air. Pick one to read more.

AirScan

The new FCC password rule is only about 30% of the problem.

FCC §11.35(d) has every station changing passwords, and they should. AirScan finds the other 70%: RDS encoders open to the internet, firewalls and VPNs nobody has patched, and the doors a previous engineer opened and nobody closed. Free and read-only.

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Broadcast Network Monitor

Be the first to know you're off-air.

Watches every transmitter, STL, codec and EAS unit across every site you run, and calls your phone when something drops.

Learn more about Broadcast Network Monitor →

SportsCaster Pro

The whole remote kit, on one PC.

Commercials, processing, the studio link, direct live streams and the recording, from one PC and a Behringer or Focusrite interface.

Learn more about SportsCaster Pro →

AirCodec with all five codecs along the top, four on a call and one waiting, the saved connections down the left and the send and return meters live

AirCodec

Five codecs. One install.

Two-way broadcast audio over IP to the Comrex, Tieline and Barix gear already in your racks. Each of the five codecs runs its own connection at the same time.

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In their words

What are owners and engineers saying about Broadcast Network Monitor?

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Our transmitter didn’t go off. It went silent. Nobody calls you about dead air until it’s already cost you a stop set, and by then the client has noticed. BNM called us while it was still happening.
Owner
Midwest Small Markets
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The first time BNM called me at 3 a.m., I had the transmitter back up before morning drive. It kept going down the call-down list until somebody answered, and that somebody was me. Before, we’d have found out from the morning show.
Chief Engineer
Medium Market Cluster
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It costs less than one stop set a month per station. The first outage it caught paid for it, and across our clusters it has saved us thousands.
Owner
Large U.S. Radio Markets 

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In their words

What are engineers and play-by-play people saying about SportsCaster Pro?

“
I used to carry 12 boxes back and forth between the press box and my car. Now it’s one backpack. Mixer, headphones, headphone distribution amp, all of it is down to one bag, and I can still do everything I did with the 12.
Play-by-Play Announcer
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I used to string together multiple pieces of software and mixers just to get our stream-only games on the air. Now it’s one piece of software, and it’s so easy. They press one green button and they’re on the air, and I don’t spend hours troubleshooting anymore.
Broadcast Engineer
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Buying SportsCaster Pro costs less than trying to piece all the other gear together, and the time it saves our people is phenomenal. It sounds far better on the air than anything else we’ve tried.
Owner

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