TWiRT 596 - Home and Away with the New Orleans Saints

It's off-season for the NFL, but this is when broadcasting's remote engineers prep for the Fall season. Robert Carroll is the Game day Engineer & Producer for the New Orleans Saints Radio Network. No matter whom you cheer for, behind-the-scenes engineering is physically demanding and requires quick, clear, and creative thinking as well. Robert Carroll joins Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack on TWiRT.

Show Notes:
New Orleans Saints Radio Network
We mentioned IDB Communications several times. Here’s a brief history of IDB - a company that many broadcasters depended upon for remote communications.
ISDN was fondly recalled in this episode. Here’s some info on this nearly-gone telco service.
REMI - Remote Live Production - explained by LiveU

Guest:
Robert Carroll - Gameday Engineer & Producer, New Orleans Saints Radio Network

Co-Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 595 - Trending Radio Tech with Gary Kline

When leading broadcasters are “pushing the envelope”, Gary Kline is usually there to find out how and why. And wherever possible, Gary shares that business and technical knowledge with other engineers.  We caught Gary just long enough between international broadcast conferences to tell us what’s going on with leading broadcasters in other parts of the world.  He joins us from the Ryan Seacrest studios at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. 

Show Notes:
Radiodays Europe - 2022 Conference just completed
Radiodays Europe - 2023 Conference will be in Prague
Paris Radio Show - June 2 & 3, 2022

Guest:
Gary Kline - Founder, Kline Consulting

Hosts:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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Nautel and the regular Transmission Talk Tuesday series of online engineering roundtable events.
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TWiRT 594 - Virtual Radio Automation in Orbit

It’s happening! WideOrbit is now demonstrating their radio automation, running in a Linux cloud computing instance, along with a virtual audio mixing console from Axia. Voice-tracking is easy to do, but going live is just as simple.  Brad Young and Dub Irvin from WideOrbit are here with Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack, discussing and demonstrating this virtual infrastructure technology. 

Show Notes:
WideOrbit Automation for Radio
Axia iQs software audio mixing console

Guests:
Brad Young - Sales Manager, Wide Orbit Automation for Radio
William "Dub" Irvin - VP, Wide Orbit Radio Automation

Co-Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 593 - RF Propagation Mapping with Doug Vernier

Doug Vernier, Consulting Engineer and founder of V-Soft, is talking to us about RF signal propagation and the incredible maps that reveal your coverage area in so many ways.  We'll examine over a dozen real-world signal maps to compare FCC contours vs. Longley-Rice coverage. Plus Doug shows us the huge differences between your station’s “coverage area” with and without accounting for “interference areas”. 

Show Notes:
The RF Maps we showed during the show are also viewable in this album on Google Photos.
Doug Vernier’s V-Soft website with his software offerings and example outputs.

Guest:
Doug Vernier - President and CEO at Doug Vernier Telecommunications Consultants

Co-Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 592 - Live from NAB 2022 in Las Vegas

What a joy to see old friends and colleagues - and make a few new friends, too!  The annual NAB Show had to take two years off due to the worldwide pandemic. And, due to the timing of the pandemic onset, it’s been three years since the last NAB Show in Las Vegas since 2019. Attendance was reported to be about half of 2019’s turnout, and the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) added a huge new section - the West Hall. Somehow, between customer meetings, SBE functions, and conference papers, we managed to corral thirteen guests on this episode of TWiRT! This is an hour well-spent, as you’ll meet some of the best and most clever people in broadcasting. Plus, Chris Tarr joins us from his home office in Mukwonago, Wisconsin. 

Guests:
Bill Bennett - Media Solutions & Accounts Manager at ENCO
David Bialik - Owner, David K. Bialik & Associates
Simon Jackson - Chief Executive Officer, AVC Group, Auckland, NZ
Christian Brenner - Founder at GMC & GTA & NexCast - owner of radio.cloud
Andrew Scaglione - Account Director at Radio.Cloud
Chriss Scherer - Member Communications Director at Society of Broadcast Engineers
Joe de Max - Founder and Developer at Central Control
Egor Tyagunov - Business Development, Europe, CIS & APAC
Jesus Mantoo - VP Sales India and MENA for AVC-India
Jim Ragsdale - Executive Director for the Society of Broadcast Engineers
Dan McQuillin - Managing Director at Broadcast Bionics
Jim Offerdahl - Chief Engineer at Offerdahl Broadcast Service, Inc
Geary Morrill - Regional Director of Engineering - Midwest at Alpha Media USA

Co-Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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Nautel and the regular Transmission Talk Tuesday series of online engineering roundtable events.
Angry Audio - with StudioHub cables and adapters. Audio problems disappear when you get Angry at AngryAudio.com. 
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TWiRT 592 - Live from NAB 2022 in Las Vegas