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title: TWiRT 423 - Talk Radio Talent & Tech with Walter Sabo | Telos Alliance
description: Walter Sabo has consulted some of the most successful talk shows and networks for years. Now he joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack for a conversation about what’s wrong with today’s talk radio, and how engineers can play a role in bringing listeners, success, and ratings to radio programming.
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## TWiRT 423 - Talk Radio Talent & Tech with Walter Sabo | Telos Alliance

By [The Telos Alliance Team](https://blogs.telosalliance.com/author/telos-alliance-team) on Dec 14, 2018 3:41:00 PM

# TWiRT 423 - Talk Radio Talent & Tech with Walter Sabo

Walter Sabo knows talk radio. He’s been consulting some of the most successful talk shows and talk networks for decades. Now Walter joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack for an enlightening conversation about what’s wrong with today’s talk radio, and how engineers can play a key role in bringing listeners, success, and ratings to great radio programming.

 

Show links:  
[Bad College Radio - a parody presented early in the Sterling on Sunday show for Dec 9, 2018 The Usual Edition - a parody of public radio - starts at 52:22 on the Dec 9, 2018 Sterling show](http://waltersterlingshow.com/services/listen-walter-m-sterling-show/)[Walter M. Sterling - web site](http://waltersterlingshow.com/)[QGoLive - remote broadcasting software](http://qgolive.com/)Digigram Q-Mic

Guest:  
[Walter Sabo - Talk Show Influencer & Host on Westwood One](https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltersabo/)

Hosts:   
Chris Tobin, [IP-Solutionist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ctobinnyc/)[Kirk Harnack](http://about.me/kirkharnack), [The Telos Alliance](https://www.telosalliance.com/), [Delta Radio](http://www.deltaradio.net/), & [South Seas Broadcasting](http://www.southseasbroadcasting.com/)Follow [TWiRT on Twitter](http://twitter.com/twirtshow) and on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pages/TWiRT-This-Week-in-Radio-Tech/154534786156)TWiRT comes to you from [The Telos Alliance](https://telosalliance.com/) Studio in Nashville, and is brought to you by [Broadcasters General Store](http://bgs.cc/), with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at [BGS.cc](http://bgs.cc/). By the Ruby console from Lawo. See Lawo in your future at lawo.com/twirt. And by [Angry Audio](https://angryaudio.com/) - audio problems disappear when you get Angry at [AngryAudio.com](https://angryaudio.com/)

 

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