{"id":159204,"date":"2022-04-12T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backbone.com\/BB\/?p=159204"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:49:56","slug":"backbone-and-luci-wow-woosox-fans-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/backbone-and-luci-wow-woosox-fans-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Backbone and LUCI Wow WooSox Fans on Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PXL_20220412_100347824.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the back of a\u00a0 World War II era amphibious \u201cDuck Boat\u201d Backbone Networks and LUCI Global<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> combined their technological prowess to enable Hank Stolz, host of <em>Radio Worcester\u2019s<\/em> morning show \u2018Talk of The Commonwealth\u2019 to effortlessly broadcast <strong><em>live<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014 totally in \u201cthe cloud\u201d \u2014 from the Worcester Red Sox, AAA affiliate of MLB\u2019s Boston Red Sox, 2022 Opening Day Game at Polar Park in Worcester MA.\u00a0  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Worcester, built on Backbone\u2019s cloud-based Backbone HUB&#x2122; platform, enables Stolz and his crews to cover the explosive growth of Central Massachusetts action with on-site broadcasts, and without the burden of heavy, expensive radio broadcast equipment. Utilizing standard local network infrastructure, HUB requires only a laptop, a portable mixer, and a couple mics. Luci Global\u2019s studio-quality smartphone remotes integrate with Backbone\u2019s <em>Talk<\/em> virtual broadcast call-in phone system, as well as low-latency cloud syndication, for a seamless live radio broadcast live on stations like WCRN Radio, Westborough MA, flagship affiliate of the <em>Radio Worcester Network<\/em>. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLuci Global brings in remote two-way audio from anywhere in spectacular quality,\u201d said Stolz, \u201cand also from unorthodox locations, such as 1940\u2019s Duck Boat \u2018Boston Betty\u2019 with incredible flexibility, quality and value. The Backbone platform also lets me handle standard listener phone calls and guests, as well as broadcast to our affiliates simultaneously while we\u2019re live from anywhere I can imagine.\u201d \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backbone Networks CTO George Capalbo explains,\u201cAll this was done with a standard laptop, WiFi at the stadium and a standard Rode mixer\u2013 simple set up and operation.&nbsp; Competing broadcasts at the event required large engineering support, dedicated microwave networks \u2013 lots of complexity and cost that Radio Worcester is ecstatic to be without.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information \u2013 check out Backbone Talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/\">http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com<\/a> and Luci Global at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luci.eu\/luci-community-apps\/\">https:\/\/www.luci.eu\/luci-community-apps\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the back of a\u00a0 World War II era amphibious \u201cDuck Boat\u201d Backbone Networks and LUCI Global\u00ae combined their technological prowess to enable Hank Stolz, host of Radio Worcester\u2019s morning show \u2018Talk of The Commonwealth\u2019 to effortlessly broadcast live\u00a0 \u2014 totally in \u201cthe cloud\u201d \u2014 from the Worcester Red Sox, AAA affiliate of MLB\u2019s Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[12,30,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159205,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159204\/revisions\/159205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}