TWiRT 206 - Sixteen Streams and What do You Get?

Doug Rowe is an engineer at Minnesota Public Radio.  His title is one that we’ll see more often: Media Production Systems Manager. As radio stations, groups, and networks depend on digital media distribution, more engineers like Doug are needed; not only to keep everything working, but to develop the infrastructure for the workflows needed by talent and content creators.  Doug talks with Chris Tarr and me, helping us understand the new responsibilities involved at a highly-connected, digitally-delivered network operation.

Guest:
Doug Rowe, Media Production Systems Manager, Minnesota Public Radio

Hosts:
Chris Tarr, Director of Engineering, 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems
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TWiRT 206 - Sixteen Stream and What do You Get?

TWiRT 205 - NPR Labs' Rich Rarey

Rich Rarey’s name is synonymous with audio engineering at NPR, and has been for over 30 years.  Now, Rich is the Director of NPR Labs, the USA’s only not-for-profit broadcast technology research and development center.  Rich joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack with broadcast engineering tales from the past, and fascinating looks at an award-winning NPR Labs project in progress now.

Hosts:

Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems

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TWiRT 205 - NPR Labs' Rich Rarey

TWiRT 204 - Mute it, Kirk!

Kirk has a transmitter problem related to operation during antenna icing conditions.  Between Chris Tobin’s help and ideas from the TWiRT chat room, I think we’ve got a solution!  Plus, Chris Tobin explains how transmitter muting and safety lockouts are USED in multi-transmitter master antenna sites.

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Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems

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TWiRT 204 - Mute it, Kirk!

TWiRT 203 - Dave Supplee on Studio Wisdom

Dave Supplee is the market engineer for the Cumulus radio stations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He’s also a key go-to guy when new studios need to be built or refurbished.  From studio design to wiring techniques, Dave shares his years of studio-building wisdom, plus transmitter site advice on this episode.

Guest:
Dave Supplee, Cumulus Market Director of Engineering, Harrisburg, PA

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Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems
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TWiRT 203 - Dave Supplee on Studio Wisdom

TWiRT 202 - Engineering Hacks

hack n. an inelegant but effective solution to a problem

Often there’s more than one way to solve an engineering problem. There is usually the normal approach, and then there are one or more “hacks”. Some hacks are elegant and others – not so much. In this episode, Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack discuss radio engineering hacks – unusual yet effective ways to fix and use broadcast equipment.

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Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems – www.telos-systems.com
Chris Tobin, IP Solutionist

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TWiRT 202 - Engineering Hacks