SABINE SWM7000 WIRELESS WAKES UP AMERICA
WITH “THE DAILY BUZZ”

This nationally syndicated morning TV news and weather show relies on Sabine for the best sound in wireless.

The newest three-hour morning news and weather TV show, the Daily Buzz, is how young professionals wake up five days a week in over 135 cities throughout the United States. This show is definitely “not your father’s Oldsmobile” with regular features like “The Water Cooler”, “Mitch’s World”, and “Trash or Worth the Cash.”

“Everybody has a lot of fun. Even the camera crew regularly throws in their two cents,” says Dano Thieneman, The Daily Buzz’s Broadcast Engineer. “Outbursts and laughing were clipping our old wired microphone system, so we started looking for outboard compressors.” That is when they discovered Sabine’s new SWM7000 Smart Spectrum Wireless Microphones. Each receiver has a full set of built-in DSP processing and each parameter is individually tailored to the talent’s requirements. “We don’t use all of the functions available, but the compressor, de-esser and EQ are indispensable to us”, says Dano. “Also having both analog and AES outputs will save us the cost of converters as we move toward digital audio,” he adds.

The Daily Buzz uses three SWM7200 dual-channel systems for a total of six channels. A 75-foot run of RG8 antenna cable connects a pair of extension antennas mounted in the studio to an SWM6SS Antenna Distribution Amp and the receivers in the production room. “In the beginning, we monitored the whole system with a laptop, but now we just turn the system on and it runs itself.”

Sabine’s SWM Remote software provides full control of up to 70 channels of wireless. Complete system monitoring is available, as well as a full-featured RF scanner.

The Daily Buzz takes advantage of the built-in rechargeable battery system. “I have better things to do at 3:00 AM than to start my day changing batteries,” Dano said. They plug the transmitters into the charger at the end of each show -- just like a cell phone -- so they are ready to go the next morning. Using this simple system, the show saves the cost of more than 3,000 batteries per year. Dano says, “It is more than convenient, it makes management happy.”

“We have used several big wireless brands over the years but none sound as good as Sabine’s. Tune in any morning and hear them for yourself. They sound even better than our wired mics.” says Dano.

The talent on the Daily Buzz use Sabine’s Voice Technologies SWTVT50 lavalier microphones and Sabine offers several other high quality lavalier and headworn mics from this Swiss company. Sabine also offers three different handheld mics and a complete line of transmitter and antenna accessories.

For more information about the Sabine SWM7000 2.4 GHz Smart Spectrum® wireless system and other Sabine products please visit www.sabine.com.