This Week In Radio Tech (TWiRT)

Alex Linger and Chris Moran are two radio engineers using the latest technology to help broadcasters create news, sports, and entertainment. What sets them apart is how they share what they do with the rest of us. Alex and Chris have a new podcast and they produce how-to videos about broadcast studio and transmitter systems.

Glamour shots were hot in the 1980’s and 90’s. But Scott and Lisa Fybush have been making towers famous in photos for fifteen years. Scott Fybush joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack. We’re talking not only glam towers, but also reflections on the NAB Radio Show in Nashville, and Chris is pushing microwaves out of the kitchen!

Yet another “cloud” service? Yep, and it’s something that radio stations will find useful every day. Curtis Machek, CEO of Cloudcast Software is here, along with Chris Tobin and me. We’re also talking about AES67 and the practical side of making IP-Audio connections using this new standard.

Michael Gay’s title is Vice President of Engineering at Cumulus Media, but he’s really an expert planner. His most recent studio project saw construction of 22 radio studios in Chicago, and with insightful planning they were building new studios at an amazing pace, with everything documented and organized. Chris Tobin is here, too, with his perspective and an update from the CCBE conference.

The Annual International Broadcasting Convention - IBC 2016 - is underway in Amsterdam. Stephen Wilkinson, a radio engineer from Sydney, Australia, is here to share his thoughts on DAB+, conference sessions at IBC, building AoIP studios, and his own experiences with IP-radio Studio-Transmitter links.

Ted Randall knows both sides of a radio mic. He’s a longtime broadcast engineer and host of the QSO Radio Show. Holly Misslin quietly keeps PCs, servers, and networks humming along. And David Bialik is coordinating another all-star program track at the next AES convention in Los Angeles. Chris Tobin and I are talking with all these broadcasters on today’s This Week in Radio Tech.