This year, we celebrate 20 years of 25-Seven Systems, and some first-person reflections are in order to tell the story of a little company that has had a profound impact on the broadcast industry. Like most company biographies, this one is really about a group of people who came together to build first one thing, then another, setting off on a path that eventually led to our forever home as part of Telos Alliance. What held it together wasn’t a single genius or a big pile of money, but the creativity and personal glue of a self-selected team.

Topics: Radio, Audio Time Management, 25-Seven, Broadcast Technology, Voltair, Tech History, Program Delay Manager, 2025

By Mark Ruddy, WVIA Radio, Pittston, PA.

In 2023, WVIA started the process of looking for a replacement for our radio infrastructure, moving away from our 18-year-old audio routing console system and modernizing to audio over IP. 

Topics: Radio, IP Studios, AoIP studios, Axia Quasar, 2025

By Nicklas Strömberg

Mad Men Media AB is a Swedish radio production company that has been operating multiple FM radio stations across Sweden since 2013. In late 2024, MMM was awarded a national radio license in Finland—an achievement won in fierce competition against several domestic and international media companies.

Topics: Radio, Zephyr, Axia Pathfinder Core PRO, omnia enterprise 9s, Axia Quasar, Axia Altus, Telos VXS, 2025

Australian broadcaster Josh Agnew's journey from a precocious child with a passion for radio to a prominent figure in Tasmania's media landscape is an inspiring story that exemplifies the impact youthful ambition can have when coupled with unwavering dedication and a true love of the joy that well-crafted radio can bring to listeners.

Topics: Radio, Omnia, 2025

Nearly everything can be virtual now. Why not radio airchains?

Virtualization is a hot topic, not just in the broadcast business, but in scores of industries. Years ago, Telos Alliance made the strategic decision to migrate our solutions to virtual models that leverage the IT industry, the Internet, ubiquitous computing, state-of-the-art cyber security mitigation, and open standards and practices. 

Topics: Radio, AoIP networking, virtualization, infrastructure

New Telos Alliance products bring home the trophies

This has been a big year for new product introductions from the Telos Alliance brain trust, and we took an armload of them to IBC 2023. Once the engineers' ideas start flowing, it's hard to hold them back - so we packed up all those bright ideas and brought them with us to Amsterdam to see what you thought of them. Turns out you (and the trade press) were pretty impressed - we brought home 5 Best Of Show awards from 3 major publications.

Topics: Streaming Audio Processing Encoders, Radio, Television, Infinity VIP, Omnia Forza, Axia Altus, Awards

Why Streaming Should Be in All Radio Stations

Juan Punyed (Director of Sales, Latin America and Canada) of Telos Alliance was interviewed by “TVyVideo + Radio” in the article “Streaming Debe estar en el 100% de la Radio en Latam.” We’ve translated the article here for his unique insights.

Topics: Radio, streaming, Minnetonka Audio, Z/IPStream

Media Max Chooses 25-Seven Program Delay Manager to Keep Offensive Content Off the Air

In these turbulent times, keeping the FM airwaves free of offensive material is more important than ever before. Media Max, one of Kenya’s largest broadcast networks needed a robust, networkable profanity-delay solution to keep the content on their six radio stations free of questionable or profane content.

Topics: Radio, Broadcast, Omnia, pdm, mediamax, profanity delay

Declipping 101: How to Open Up Your Sound

“The times have changed” has been a common phrase used to describe most parts of the technological world, and this is no exception to the world of sound. Today, music that is being released bares very little sonic resemblance to what has been released in the past.

Topics: Radio, perfect declipper, Omnia, plug-in, declipping

Radio 4.0. The New Frontier of Audio Design

This article was (roughly) translated from Italian from this article by Newslinet from April 13, 2019. Frank Foti (Executive Chariman of Telos Allaince, former engineer of Z100 and founder of Omnia) talks about how there is no perfect audio set-up, only those best-suited to your format. 

After the popularity of the first piece, we return to talk about sound and sound processing with Frank Foti, one of the world's leading experts in this regard. He is former chief engineer at Z100 New York and is now Executive Chairman at Telos Alliance, a world-leading audio company, which has granted us at NL with an exclusive interview.

Topics: Radio, Frank Foti, tech tips, Omnia