NZVN February 2018

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FEBRUARY 2018

Vol 243

Communicating with Agent-IC I visited the new premises of Māori Television to find out from Gavin Ho about their adoption of a new communication technology provided by Gencom. Ed: is?

Gavin, your position here

Gavin: I’m Technology Manager at Māori Television. Ed: Right, so you’re the perfect person to tell us about Agent-IC which, by the name, sounds a little bit “Secret Squirrel” but in fact, it’s a product that has come from the stables of Clear-Com, a wellknown and respected brand. This new technology gives you more flexibility than the standard Clear-Com beltpack and headset? Gavin: Yes. I guess probably the best place to start is if we take a couple of steps back. We’ve always been a Clear-Com customer from day one and with the build at the new location, it gave us an opportunity to rethink how we wanted to provide comms and talkback in the new facility. A key driver, particularly around the News operation, is to increase agility by providing the crews and the journalists with all of the tools they require to be out in the field and to quickly turnaround the content they want to provide. Agent-IC is just another tool in our

Gavin at Māori Television.

tool-belt that helps to provide that functionality. It’s recognising our News team want to have more of an immediacy, and the easiest way for us to provide them with those tools is to add on to the technologies that they currently have which, for us, are the Apple iPhones. There’s a heavy reliance on their mobile phone from as simple as internet connectivity to now providing them with the ability to have pretty robust comms back to the station.


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