TWiRT - Christmas 2009

'Twas the Night at the Site

Written by James G. Withers
Used by permission of the author and Radio World 

Merry Christmas!

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TWiRT - Christmas 2009

TWiRT 12 - India Radio

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York

This week's guest is Elliot Stechman from Mumbai, India.  Elliot has worked with Adlabs - a huge communications conglomerate in India - as well as Times Radio Group's Radio Mirchi

We discuss ...

NextMedia and Citadel file for bankruptcy protection.

Listener question:

I would like to hear how anyone can justify using iBiquity digital "HD" instead of advocating DRM. iBiquity is proprietary and expensive while DRM is open. If iBiquity ever gets to be the sole digital system and the FCC decides that we must go digital the FCC license would become a pre-approval for the licensing authority, iBiquity. If you do not pay iBiquity then you may not broadcast.
December 19, 2009 | James Johnson

Product Pick of the Week - BudTrap

Great gift is Scott Fybush's Tower Calendar for 2010.

Merry Christmas!

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TWiRT 12 - Radio India

TWiRT 10 - War Stories

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

Stories.  Horror stories.  Teachable moments.   I'll never to that again.  And some humorous stories, too.

This is one fun episode!

TWiRT is supported by
The Broadcasters Desktop Resource
Violet Microphones 

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TWiRT 10 - War Stories

TWiRT 8 - Studio Buffet

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info
Colleen Kelly - TWiT Network IT Director

This week it's a Thanksgiving Studio Buffet.

We'll discuss the connection layout of a radio station from sources to transmission.  How does it connect together?  What's the sequence?  What mics are popular?  What audio console features are important?  And some words about audio processing, too.

TWiRT is supported by:
The Broadcasters Desktop Resource http://www.theBDR.net
Violet Microphones http://www.violetusa.com

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TWiRT 8 - Studio Buffet

TWiRT - Episode 5 - Future Radio

Kirk Harnack - Telos, Omnia, Axia
Tom Ray - Buckley Broadcasting & WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Chief Engineer, Entercom, Milwaukee

Special guest from Melbourne, Australia: Peter Smerdon, Contract Engineer,  formerly Chief Engineer for 3MP and SEN 

- CBS Radio Distributes WFAN, KROQ, WBZ, KSCF to More Markets Using HD2, HD3 Channels

- Remembering Don Markley and Louis King

Listener questions...

Brian Urban asks..

What is the future of radio? 

If HD Radio isn't the answer, what is?

From Peter Smerdon of Australia

Hi Kirk,
One of my areas of concern is transcoding errors in digital radio (some people call it cascading - or duelling - algorithms).
What do you now do for outside broadcasts (remotes) in this brave new world of digital radio, now that we all have been driven to codec solutions for remote site connections?
Are artifacts proving noticeable?
Cruelly, human voice (which is the majority of content coming down the "line" from the remote) seems to expose more coding artifacts than other content.
Is aptx better, being ADPCM vs the other Perceptual Coders (MPEG LII and LIII and AAC etc)?

TWiRT - Episode 5 - Future Radio