Have you ever been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada? No? Not many have, even though it’s a thriving city with excellent radio stations and a lively downtown social, shopping, and dining scene. Saskatoon is also the home of Pippin Technical Service, a leading broadcast equipment dealer and project services firm for all of Canada. Pippin Technical, now “PTS”, is an early adopter of IT and broadcast technologies, including Audio over IP via Livewire and AES67. PTS boasts highly capable on-staff engineers, technicians, and programming developers. In this TWiRT episode we get a tour of this premier equipment and services provider, plus we talk with Tyler Everitt, PTS’s President, as well as Evan Semenoff, developer of the new PTS Aurora GPIO interface. We also take a quick trip - a live shot - out to a new studio under construction at Pattison Media in Kelowna, BC, Canada.

Show notes:

* PTSAurora - Ethernet warning light (and other lighting) controller

* PTSPKR (PTS Speaker) - Passive speaker designed for broadcast

* PTSxR1 - Silent, mid-power, 1RU compute platform designed for broadcast applications

* PTS*GATEWAY - Asterisk Server for Telos VX and business office

Guests

Tyler Everitt - President at PTSEvan Semenoff - Programmer / Developer at PTSTodd Beswitherick - Senior Technician at PTSMike Delayen - Logistics at PTSMike Modney - Engineer at Pattison Media LtdPhil Stalwick - Installer / Technician at PTSJason Pearson - Engineer at Pattison Media Ltd

Hosts

Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.MediaKirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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