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Radio War Stories from Sochi | Telos Alliance

Radio War Stories from Sochi | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Feb 7, 2014 9:35:00 AM

TWiRT 200Radio War Stories from Sochi

In the midst of the endless media blitz covering the 2014 Winter Olympics, Westwood One’s VP-Engineering, Mitch Glider, joined us in real time from Sochi, Russia. Mitch and his colleagues have assembled a long-form studio plus several reporters’ workstations.

Now the hard prep work pays off and engineering vigilance begins as hours and hours of Olympic radio coverage is fed back to New York for affiliate distribution. Mitch takes us through the studio build and the technologies employed to bring live commentary and reports from across the Olympic venues and ship the final products back home.

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Catching the “Spirit” of Audio over IP | Telos Alliance

Catching the “Spirit” of Audio over IP | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Feb 6, 2014 11:00:00 AM

Spirit 105.9Catching the “Spirit” of Audio over IP

It takes brass to plunge headlong into an unfamiliar technology.

Chris Cottingham, CE at CRISTA Broadcasting’s KFMK-FM in Austin, Texas, has that sort of spirit. Which is why he took on the task of updating his station’s studios from analog to IP Audio without having laid hands on networked studio gear before.

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There's a Problem - Go Back to Sleep: New Radio Engineering Tech | Telos Alliance

There's a Problem - Go Back to Sleep: New Radio Engineering Tech | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Feb 3, 2014 6:10:00 AM

TWiRT 199There's a Problem - Go Back to Sleep: New Radio Engineering Tech

As engineers incorporate new technology into their broadcast facilities, we’re figuring out better approaches to old – and new – problems.

Chris Tarr offers up a boatload of tips, tricks, and tools that make his life easier at both studio and transmitter sites. Chris Tobin chimes in, and Kirk Harnack describes how one TV station in Oklahoma is handling tornado “play-by-play” coverage.

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Brett Gilbert, Performance Studios | Telos Alliance

Brett Gilbert, Performance Studios | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Jan 28, 2014 11:15:00 PM

TWiRT 198Brett Gilbert, Performance Studios

Decades ago, all radio stations had “performance studios.” Local musicians and actors would perform for some or all of the broadcast day. Today, only a few radio stations have performance studios and even audience seating areas. Brett Gilbert, Director of Engineering at Clear Channel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Chris Tarr, DoE for 88Nine in Milwaukee, share thoughts and stories about these spaces. Plus, Brett introduces us radio engineers to stage lighting with a quick discussion of the technologies involved.

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Show, Tell and Dial - Smile Radio Talk Show Calls | Telos Alliance

Show, Tell and Dial - Smile Radio Talk Show Calls | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Jan 18, 2014 3:36:00 PM

TWiRT 197Show and Tell and Dial and Smile - Radio Talk Show Calls

GFQ founder and host Andrew Zarian discusses his thoughts and recommendations on Ethernet routers, and Kirk introduces the authoritative book about the history of Phone Phreaking, “Exploding the Phone” on this episode of "This Week in Radio Tech."

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Metadata and More in Audio Engineering | Telos Alliance

Metadata and More in Audio Engineering | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Jan 10, 2014 6:36:00 PM

TWiRT 196Metadata and More in Audio Engineering

Wisconsin Public Radio Engineer Kevin Trueblood and Chris Tarr of 88Nine Radio Milwaukee are talkin' metadata with Kirk Harnack on "This Week in Radio Tech."

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Radio Trends with Rob de Santos | Telos Alliance

Radio Trends with Rob de Santos | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Jan 8, 2014 8:00:00 AM

TWiRT 195Radio Trends with Rob de Santos

Exactly what is radio these days? Popular Communications columnist Rob de Santos discusses radio trends on "This Week in Radio Tech" with Kirk Harnack.

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Direct-Dialing your Z/IP ONE IP Audio Codec | Telos Alliance

Direct-Dialing your Z/IP ONE IP Audio Codec | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Dec 28, 2013 1:43:00 PM

Look inside with SysLogDirect-Dialing your Z/IP ONE IP Audio Codec

Willem Hoekstra of Media Utilities in the Netherlands writes: "I've got a Z/IP ONE client who wants to connect Z/IP ONE codecs on a private network completely autonomously, without the Directory and NAT Traversal services provided by the Telos ZIP Server. Is that possible?"

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A Visit to 4 Times Square | Telos Alliance

A Visit to 4 Times Square | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Dec 14, 2013 11:17:00 PM

TWiRT 194A Visit to 4 Times Square

Chris Tobin shows us the FM combiner room at 4 Times Square – a main transmitter site for some and a backup site for other New York City broadcasters. Plus, Scott Fybush is here with transmitter and tower stories, a radio discussion board, and his 2014 Tower Site Calendar.

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From A to B via IP Audio | Telos Alliance

From A to B via IP Audio | Telos Alliance

By The Telos Alliance Team on Dec 13, 2013 12:33:00 PM

From A to B via IP Audio

Sacramento's K-LOVE loves Axia xNodes

K-LoveSometimes, a leaky roof can set a surprising chain of events in motion. Just ask Alan Guthrie, Engineering advisor for K-Love, 99.5-107.3. “The landlord informed us that the roof of our building needed to be replaced. That, in turn, meant our satellite receiving dish had to come down, and we had to find a temporary location for a new one.”

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