The answer to the ever-shrinking engineering pool is (drum roll, please) more I/O. That was just one takeaway from our second Studio Master Class hosted by Jay Tyler with panelists Rob Bertrand, CEO for Inrush, and Alex Bonello, Insoft (HDVMixer).  

Have you noticed that the word community seems to be finding its way into every single conversation about radio these days? Okay, not every conversation, but hear us out. When it comes to resourcefulness, nothing comes close to the ambition and will of a community station. Read on about Territory FM’s new WheatNet IP studios and let us know if we’re right.

Erik Utter could have been talking about any station when he described the great operational divide between the music side and the news/talk side of the radio business. But, in fact, he was talking about NPR Jazz station KNKX in Tacoma-Seattle, which we happen to know something about as the AoIP manufacturer of choice for the pubcaster’s $5.9 million studio relocation project. Here, our Dee McVicker asks Erik about the challenges of building studios for these two often opposing views, along with the rising popularity of performance studios for visiting artists, plus trends in TOCs, consolidating studios, and what’s happening in that other great divide (between audio and video).

Q: How easy would it be to use scripting as a way to add onto my facility?

Join us at NAB New York, booth 833, October 22 and 23. We’ll be there with the latest AoIP, plus a new streaming appliance, console and so much more.

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