Computer control systems allow you to profitably serve your community.
Remotes and sporting events produce local revenue.
The best way to deliver big voices to multiple markets and still sound live.
Flexible and efficient unified system for multi-city, multi-station groups.
Press one of these buttons to play audio. Skylla allows for hundreds of buttons which you can organize into limitless numbers of pages. You can either view the button panel alone, or...
...view the button page side-by-side with the log. Skylla lets you decide on the mode that best suits you.
Easily drag and drop content from your Inventory to the log. Or drag items to our unique Workspace for later use. Perfect for live events like requests, newscasts, or cancellations.
We interrupt this program to bring you… National games, Local Games, Parades, Weather Emergencies, News Events, etc. All these and more run as Special Events in Skylla separate from your main program log. Start the Special Event and end it knowing that your normal programming will be ready and waiting.
Skylla is built on the Linux operating system, which avoids viruses and resource problems experienced by other operating systems. Linux allows us to carefully craft and control operating system updates so there will be no surprise updates that will take your station off line.
Worried about transitioning to a Linux OS? Don't be. Modern Linux operating systems are very user friendly.
All Skylla production is done using Windows.You can use your favorite Windows production tools with Skylla. Skylla Producer allows air talent to record from their home Windows computers or at the station.
All audio is housed in a central location. With built-in redundancy, If the one drive fails, the server continues on without disruption. The server will sound an alarm and Smarts technicians are automatically notified.
Our system is designed to be robust and not fail easily. But eventually all systems can fail, which is why our system handles failure with minimal disruption to your operations with up to three tiers of defense:
An off-line spare hard drive is included. This “spare tire” allows the system to boot and grants remote access via internet to Smarts Broadcast Systems’ support technicians, who can then update software and return your station to normal operation while we prepare and send you a new main drive.
Should the server fail entirely (say in a lightning strike), each Skyllette (audio appliance) contains yet another backup of all audio and database information. Smarts support personnel can make any Skyllette perform “double duty” and act as a server until the real server is repaired or replaced.
(Optional) You can set up an off-site backup server for Skylla database and audio duplication. In the event of a major catastrophe at the station, your audio files, Skylla database and even your Smarts SecGen traffic and billing data can be kept updated and backed up off-site.
automated weather forecasts
automated news feeds
automated make goods
and much more
You can think of it as a virtual satellite receiver, without the need of the satellite. Programming simply appears on your hard drive in time for you to play it to air. There’s no time spent manually downloading programs and dubbing them into the system. Just set SmartWeb to grab the files you want, and they will be there, week after week.
There are many ways to use the system. For example, that weekly news feature can be automatically downloaded and placed into Skylla for later playback. Multi-hour features can be fetched automatically from the provider, saving station staffers valuable time.
Smartweb can fetch content from shared folders on the Skylla server, making it easier for local content contributors to get material to air.
Smartweb can also be used to upload material from the Skylla inventory to your web site. This hour's recorded local newscast becomes this hour's podcast, automatically.
It has been just over a year since your tech installed our SKYLLA system and it has worked as advertised. As you recall, we had considered other operating systems, but we decided on Skylla after you demonstrated it for me. Our on-air personalities (yes, we still have live shows) love the system because it is so easy to understand. Even our part-time staff, who we generally train from scratch with little or no broadcast experience, have little problem understanding all the basics.
James Field, GM
The upgrades you made from Smartcaster, which we used for the last nine years, have made things even more user friendly. It really helps save time when voice tracking, and the “hot buttons” for the newscasts are another great upgrade.
John W Hoscheidt, Owner & GM
There are so many advantages to the new Skylla system for our college students, including the ease of using it in live mode, the updated clocks, and the ability to program the music schedule weeks and months ahead of time. Over the summer, I was able to access the system from 1,400 miles away and make immediate on-air log changes via computer. It was not only easy but it saves us so much time and trouble. We are really glad we made the investment to acquire the Skylla system.
Stephen Winzenburg, Communications Professor