WHEAT NEWS DECEMBER 2025

No doubt, 2025 will have plenty to say about radio. But first, we’d like to offer our quiet observations on one notable radio station. KEXP FM, the student-run station at the University of Washington in Seattle, captured our imagination more than a decade ago. KEXP FM had moved into a new WheatNet IP audio networked facility in December of 2015, and at the time, we marveled how different this little college station was from all the others. KEXP FM was, and still is, known for its influence on the local music scene in Seattle, complete with live, in-studio performance events ...

When it comes to consoles, we like to say that we’re building the plane while flying it. Our ability to change things on the fly is one of the perks of having engineering and manufacturing under one roof. Now, more than 50 years later, we have thousands of Wheatstone and Audioarts consoles on the air around the globe. Here’s a quick flyover as we start our 52nd year in console manufacturing, as observed by John Davis, our lead tech support engineer who commissions dozens of WheatNet studios every year ...

There is no universal language for streaming metadata. Getting song titles, ad insertion triggers and other metadata from your studio out to the CDN and onto listener devices requires a translator proficient in a variety of metadata tags, types and formats. Fortunately, we speak metadata. Our development engineer Rick Bidlack explains ...

If the end of Windows® 10 support has you out shopping for a new streaming PC this holiday season, we have a better idea. Switch to Wheatstream Duo and the reliability of a true Linux streaming appliance for not much more than the cost of a replacement PC. Read on ...

CE Don Stevenson takes us on a quick tour of the ScreenBuilder touchscreens he’s created for Reach Media/Radio One in Dallas. “It’s turned into a tool that’s almost like a Swiss Army Knife for us,” said Stevenson. In this video, he demonstrates touchscreens for on-air monitoring from the TOC, for repurposing a studio for more than one use, and for adding a small work surface in an edit room ...

Year in Search 2025 A little bit of love for our broadcast engineers Gear Patrol’s best audio gadgets of 2025 ...