PROJECTS, NEVER A ONE-MAN SHOW

A while back we told you about Cogeco Media and the importance of teamwork. At the time, the group moved into a new WheatNet IP audio networked facility in Montreal. “It’s never a one-man show,” said Cogeco Director of Technology Pascal Gélinas, who relied on his engineering team to make it happen and listed off key networking principles that helped the project along. Fast forward to today, and Cogeco’s new content and contribution distribution using Tieline Gateways and WheatNet IP, yet another example of excellent teamwork.

The new distribution network feeds Cogeco’s 20 studio locations in eight cities across Quebec. Studios are interconnected via a pair of Tieline Gateways that pass audio and WheatNet IP logic between them. Cogeco’s engineering team, with expertise from Tieline and Saint-Sauveur-based integrator Marketing Marc Vallee, tested the Gateway codecs to ensure the equipment performed smoothly in a controlled environment. Next, codecs were installed in two cities initially, before the remaining codecs were rolled out across the network seamlessly over time (for details read Radio World article Cogeco Media Upgrades Network Across Quebec).

Today, talent from any studio can feed shows to any other studio and trigger commercial breaks, essentially syndicating shows from studio A to studio B in another city as if they were there.

In addition, they are now able to bring remote feeds and reporting in from the field using Tieline’s Via and Report-IT applications into WheatNet IP studios. Explained Tieline’s Jacob Daniluck during our recent Studio Master Class Connecting Locations and Systems, “They can still pass LIO commands from the field using physical GPIOs tied into the Tieline system and then we can output those via WheatNet LIOs back at the studio end, so we have seamless integration so that way remote talent can control things like RCS remotely through LIOs and trigger them as they need to.”

Cogeco studios are predominantly standardized on WheatNet IP audio networking and consoles. In 2021, Cogeco’s team of engineers and partners installed at their main facility in Montreal, 16 production studios, six on-air studios and a news center with a control studio, eight workstations, and a traffic workstation (read Cogeco Manages Studio Project Using Networking Principles).

The WheatNet IP audio networked plant is another study in partnership and teamwork with fiber-optic routing between dual core switches and edge switches for redundancy and customized user interfaces for functions such as signal monitoring and routing of the facility’s 20-plus remote codecs.

Wheat:News November 2025

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