DIGITAL AUDIO SYSTEMS COMPRISING COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS, FOR RECORDING, REPRODUCING, STORING, ADMINISTERING, ARCHIVING, PROCESSING AND TRANSMITTING AUDIO ELEMENTS FOR RADIO REPORTING; COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE MODULES FOR IMPORTING DATA FROM SERVERS INTO AN ARCHIVE, FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND EXTERNALLY CONTROLLED RECORDING OF AUDIO DATA ON ELECTRONIC STORAGE MEDIA OF ANY KIND AND THEIR REPRODUCTION, FOR GENERATING, PROCESSING -EDITING AND MIXING- AND PLAYING OF AUDIO CONTRIBUTIONS, FOR ADMINISTERING AND COMMUNICATING WITHIN DIGITAL AUDIO SYSTEMS, FOR RADIO SCHEDULING, FOR DISPOSITION OF LINES, FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSPORTING AND FOR CONVERTING THE FORMAT OF AUDIO DATA FILES AND FOR CONNECTING AUDIO SYSTEMS TO THE INTERNET, INCLUDING AUDIO DATA BASES WITH A RESEARCH FUNCTION, FOR PLANNING AND PLAYING OF READY-TO-SEND AND VIRTUAL AUDIO CONTRIBUTIONS, COMPUTER AUDIO INTERFACE CARDS, AUDIO CARDS, SPECIAL COMPUTER KEYBOARDS, CENTRAL AUDIO MEMORY STORAGE MEDIA INCLUDING HARD DISKS, CD'S, TAPES AND MASS STORAGE DEVICES, DATA BASE COMMUNICATION SERVERS, AUDIO WORKSTATIONS CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS OR NOTEBOOKS, MULTIMEDIA-AUDIO-CARDS AND SOFTWARE MODULES, PERIPHERALS -BREAKOUT BOXES-, AUDIO FORMAT CONVERTERS, COMPUTER SOFTWARE MODULES FOR DISTRIBUTING AND REPLICATING DATA BASE ENTRIES AND AUDIO FILES VIA NETWORKS, DISPOSITION DEVICES FOR AUDIO LINES AND AUDIO SWITCHING UNITS, DIGITAL AUDIO MIXERS, AUDIO PCS WITH A SPECIAL CONFIGURATION FOR DIFFERENT SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

RADIO PROGRAMMING