TWiRT 177 - Christian Vang: Challenge Accepted

Christian Vang, an engineer at ESPN Audio Technology Group, was asked to install an on-air talkshow system. The catch? The control room, talent studio, and call screeners are all in different cities, separated by hundreds of miles. “Challenge accepted!” Vang replied. Christian tells the story along with great advice for engineers to expand their skills and value.

SOME RESOURCES

SIP Communications for Dummies by Peter Gregory
VoIP for Dummies by Timothy V. Kelly
Electronic and Radio Engineering by Frederick E. Terman
Terman wrote several texts about radio engineering, the earliest dating from 1932.
Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters by Jon Acuff

HOST

Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com
Follow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnack

GUEST

Christian Vang, ESPN Audio Technology Group
Friend Christian on Facebook

Follow TWiRT on Twitter – @TWiRTshow

TWIRT IS SPONSORED BY

The Telos VX Broadcast VoIP System

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TWiRT 177 - Christian Vang: Challenge Accepted

TWiRT 176 - SMPTE from Sydney

We’re on location in Sydney, Australia, for the SMPTE Conference and Expo. We’re learning about a bevy of audio, video, and streaming technologies from cameo guests such as Tom King, Chris Dredge, John Abdnour, and Goran Tomas.

GUESTS

Michael Day, SMPTE Board Member and Tech Solutions Manager at Network Ten
www.ten.com.au

John Abdnour, Nautel
www.nautel.com

Jay Tyler, Sales Director, Wheatstone
www.wheatstone.com

Tom King, President, Kintronics
www.kintronic.com

Hal Buttermore, Sales Engineer, Linear Acoustic
www.linearacoustic.com

Goran Tomas, Product Developer, Telos Alliance
www.telosalliance.com

Chris Dredge, Sales Director, On-Air Solutions
www.onair.com.au

Special thanks to:
On-Air Solutions for studio space and Internet bandwidth. www.onair.com.au
Audio Products Group for AKG microphone.   www.audioproducts.com.au

HOSTS

Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com
Follow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnack

Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA - www.musicamusa.com

Follow TWiRT on Twitter - @TWiRTshow

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TWiRT 176 - SMPTE from Sydney

TWiRT 175 - Chris Tarr: It Took About 2 Hours

Moving a studio or building a new one? Chris Tarr is doing both and shares timely advice for studio success. A big, multi-studio move at Entercom, Milwaukee, is just about complete, and the dust is still flying on Radio Milwaukee’s move to a new home, complete with performance studio and coffee shop. Chris tells you how he’s doing it, what he’s learned, and what to watch out for.

Entercom-Milwaukee’s 99.1 The Mix – Chris’ studio for this TWiRT: http://www.991themix.com/

Radio Milwaukee’s construction update page: http://building.radiomilwaukee.org/blog/

HOSTS

Chris Tarr, Director of Operations & Engineering at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Follow Chris on Twitter - @thegeekjedi

Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com
Follow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnack

Follow TWiRT on Twitter - @TWiRTshow

TWIRT IS SPONSORED BY

The Telos Hx6 talkshow system.

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TWiRT 174 - Dan McQuillin & Beyond Listeners

Radio broadcasting’s one-to-many model isn’t broken, but it certainly needs an update. TV pushed radio out of the living room; iPods and smart phones pushed radio out of the pocket. But radio still engages us in ways that social media doesn’t. Dan McQuillin, founder of Broadcast Bionics, describes the kind of compelling listener interaction that radio broadcasters must engage in.

Dan’s “Beyond Listeners” presentation at nextrad.io - http://youtu.be/ayD8xjS_GKc
Broadcast Bionics - http://bionics.co.uk/
Follow Dan on Twitter – @bionicsdan

HOSTS

Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA - www.musicamusa.com
Chris Tarr, Director of Operations & Engineering at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com

TWIRT IS SPONSORED BY

The original audience interaction tools, Telos multiline talkshow systems.

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TWiRT 173 - Billy, You Are a Hero

VoIP is coming to a station near you. It’s mature technology at work in over 80% of new enterprise telephone systems. With a little research you can be a can be a hero at your station. Reduce operating costs and add flexibility. SIP (the most popular VoIP protocol) is one of the most useful and exciting technologies available to terrestrial and Internet broadcasters. Broadcast engineers, who are naturally curious about new technologies, should download Blink from http://www.icanblink.com, set up a free SIP account, and have fun with SIP.

HOSTS

Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA – www.musicamusa.com
Mike Phillips, Host of Computers 2K Now, Audio engineer, microphone fanatic, equipment reviewer, author, public speaker, investor. – @mcphillips , mikephillips.me
Bill Putney, Technology Consultant – @NavionPilot

TWIRT IS SPONSORED BY

The Telos VX Multi-Studio SIP Talkshow System. Visit http://telos-systems/vx

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