Finding our WAY in Radio
Telos Alliance gear clicks for Way Media Group
IP audio is clearly the best infrastructure for a broadcast plant, but whose system should you buy? For Jon Garrison, Southern Regional Engineer for Way Media, the choice was clear. The company was planning an upgrade to four studios in its Nashville facilities. "We looked at several of the leading brands," Garrison told us, "but we went with Axia because it offered the best price point and it does everything we want."
Z/IP Server Indicators: What do they really mean?
Timothy Schultz, station engineer for California Lutheran University's KCLU, writes: "What does it really mean when looking at the ZIP Server, when an entry is Green or Red? I thought it meant a Z/IP ONE was on line and available or not, but in my limited testing, it doesn't seem to track reality; I can successfully Call devices that are Red."
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Inside Telos: A Chat with Marty Sacks
All of us at the Telos Alliance share with our clients a fatal attraction to radio, as well as a passion for making great audio. But that's not all we do. Many of us have other hobbies and interests that might surprise you. From time to time, we'll profile members of the Telos Alliance and what they do when they're not inventing the next generation of broadcast audio gear.
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KHOWL Radio Runs with the Big Dogs
KHowl is small-market radio with a big-market sound
The radio bug bit Wolf Korgyn early in life, and he has been infected ever since. "The first time that I visited a radio station, I was about seven years old," recalls Korgyn. "Right away, I knew I wanted to own and operate one." Many years later, he started an LPFM operation, and that's when he discovered Omnia audio processors. "We were running an Omnia-3FM Turbo, and it was like liquid gold. With the FM3 and 100 watts, we sounded way better than the larger group-owned stations in the market."
NBC's 5.1 audio provided courtesy of Linear Acoustic®
Cool fact: Over 219 million Americans tuned in to enjoy the 2012 London Summer Games - making it the most watched event in US television history. Extra cool fact: Every second of the audio heard by those viewers was monitored through or processed by a Linear Acoustic product!
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Vintage Audio: "Stop, hey, what's that sound?"
One of the endangered sound-makers at the Museum of Endangered Sounds look long enough and you can find a museum for just about everything technical. Thanks to the work of assorted packrats and hoarders, our geek history is being saved from the dumpsters. Many of the artifacts however, are in static displays, no longer in working condition. When that happens, the sounds that went with the equipment are often lost forever.
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Radio Tech: Less Wire, More Efficiency
Kirk Harnack Cuts through the Tangle
We've all seen it: the cable tray so full that it looks as if it might overflow and spill to the ground at any second. Or the wall of punch-blocks that stretches the entire length of the TOC. And who could forget that tangle of wires leading from the ceiling to the rack that resembles the product of a 5-year-old with Play-Doh and a spaghetti press?
Read More"Surrounded" by Olympic Caliber Audio
NBC's 5.1 audio provided courtesy of Linear Acoustic®
Cool fact: Over 219 million Americans tuned in to enjoy the 2012 London Summer Games, making it the most watched event in US television history. Extra cool fact: Every second of the audio heard by those viewers was monitored through or processed by a Linear Acoustic product!
Old World Meets the New Tech
Another new distributor has joined the Axia Audio network of worldwide representatives: Magnetic Media, of Poznan, Poland. Piotr Kubacki, Magnetic Media’s owner and General Manager, took a few moments to speak with Axia’s Clark Novak.
IP links: Ready for STL?
Your STL is your lifeline. Everything you are travels over that STL. Ideally, the STL should be a “nailed up” connection, whether via microwave, or leased lines. It should be always there, always on.
But, because of the rising costs of leased lines and other “nailed up” lines such as a T-1, or switched lines such as ISDN BRI, some stations are looking for an alternate path for their STL. If the station is willing to accept the slight risk of audio (and sometimes control) interruption in STL usage, a connection from ISP to Internet, and back to ISP can be considered.
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