Not long ago, Dave Brown, DOE/CE for Hubbard Radio West Palm Beach, was struck by a sudden realization. Actually, it was more like a lightning bolt. The microwave tower on the studio rooftop had taken a direct lightning hit that spared the STL but took out the VistaMax downline on which all console routing and busses depended. Suddenly, there was no studio routing, no easy way to do remotes... no fun of any kind. “The program busses all talk to the VistaMax and everything routed through it, so it was not a matter of unplugging it and walking away. We had to extract everything out of it and go forward,” he said. Dave brought in a couple of I/O Blades as the back-end for existing VistaMax consoles, which got things moving along so they could manage remotes, route feeds, and create a few salvos. “That saved our butts – we still do a lot of remotes to places like Disney World,” he commented. He then contacted the studio experts at RadioDNA to start on his next studio project ...
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