CUSTOMER STORY Telemundo Group PUERTO RICO Best TV entertainment in Puerto Rico with Sennheiser Digital 6000 With a nimble and scalable network system, Sennheiser and AVL Group equipped WKAQ Television with latest digital wireless audio technology to cover eight television studios and outdoor production areas. WKAQ, owned and operated by provider AVL Group and custom- mands it. “It’s just a matter of au- the Telemundo Group and the designed by Sennheiser, the new dio routing,” says Alexander Ro- largest and longest-running tele- system provides seamless wireless jas, AVL Group’s Vice President. vision station in Puerto Rico, has microphone coverage throughout In all, the networked antenna laid the foundation for its next the building’s eight television system comprises 20 Sennheiser phase of audio equipment up- studios and outdoor production A 2003-UHF passive directional grades with the implementation areas. antennas and six A 1031-U passi- of a Dante-enabled Sennheiser With the new networked Senn- ve omni-directional antennas. An Digital 6000 wireless microphone heiser setup, each control room is equipment rack centrally located system and facility-wide networ- no longer limited to the number of in the main hallway interconnects ked antenna installation. Concei- wireless microphone channels in- the distributed antenna system ved, installed, and commissioned stalled in the studio but can scale and the wireless microphone re- by San Juan-based equipment the system up if a production de- ceiver racks through a series of CUSTOMER STORY Telemundo Group, Puerto Rico Same audio network across eight studios ASA 214 antenna splitters, ACA 3 antenna combiners and AB 3700 broadband antenna boos- ters. “WKAQ wanted talent to be able to walk from Studio 1 all the way through the hallways and rear corridors to Studio 8 and have perfect, broadcast-quality coverage all the way,” says Senn- heiser’s Andrew Kornstein, Cus- tomer Development and Appli- cation Engineering, Americas. “It was a very complex require- ment. This is not just something that we have in the catalog.” AVL Group pulled more than 8,000 feet of cable for the pro- ject, reports Freddie A. Rojas, who led the firm’s post-sales en- gineering and commissioning team. AVL Group also delivered a to- tal of 22 Sennheiser EM 6000 Dante two-channel digital recei- vers plus 14 SKM 6000 handheld transmitters topped by MMD 945 dynamic super-cardioid capsules to WKAQ. Thirty-two MKE 1 miniature clip-on lava- lier microphones are paired with 29 SK 6000 pocket transmitters, with three SK 6212 mini-body- pack transmitters additionally available for female on-air ta- lent. All of the equipment uses rechargeable batteries and Senn- heiser’s L 6000 rack-mount char- gers, says Alexander Rojas. Now, with Sennheiser’s facility- wide coverage seamlessly cover- ing the studios, hallway, lobby and outdoor areas, Rojas says, “They don’t have to switch mi- crophones, because the whole system is on a network.” CUSTOMER STORY Telemundo Group, Puerto Rico Outdoor areas covered with antennas Studios 1 through 5 are used to go into the front yard, which is fitted microphone. produce WKAQ’s original pro- quite nice, and they also do things Puerto Rican industrialist Ángel gramming, which includes a in the parking lots.” As part of this Ramos founded WKAQ-TV in weekly comedy sketch show, game project, AVL Group also prewired 1954. In keeping with Ramos’ shows, an entertainment news the rear parking lot, he says. other endeavors, which inclu- show and political news analysis. WKAQ had previously standard- ded the El Mundo (“The World”) Studio 8 is used daily for multip- ized on Sennheiser’s 2000 series newspaper and his first radio sta- le daytime and nightly newscasts analog wireless system. “They’ve tion, WKAQ, known as Radio El as well as a variety and interview been a Sennheiser house for 10 or Mundo, the television station was show. 12 years,” reports Alexander Ro- named Telemundo. Ramos sold A number of the shows also make jas. Maximizing WKAQ’s prior WKAQ-TV in 1983 and in a mer- use of some of the public areas of investment, some of the existing ger several years later its name WKAQ’s building in their pro- 2000 series antennas were incor- was adopted by the NetSpan Spa- ductions. “There is a large hallway porated into the new antenna sys- nish-language television network, that they wanted to sometimes use tem. The station also retained an which rebranded as the Telemun- on the game shows,” says Alexan- EM 2050 twin analog receiver for do Group. der Rojas. “Also, the cameras can use with one show host’s custom-.