The console is set up this morning in Central Park, and there are three Comrex codecs there for reporters in the field: studio, Barclays Center, and at the mile 20 marker. The anchors are there in Central Park. There’s a talent station for the producer sitting about 20 feet from the board op so she can independently switch between the codecs, talk offline to the reporters in the field, and control which feed appears in each side of her headphones.

We had several calls figuring out how to give the producer exactly what she wanted. The scripts evolved after every rehearsal. I took the last call on Wednesday morning in an Uber coming from the airport, heading to another install. I explained how to change a few things to give the producer what she needed, and the iHeartMedia engineers made it happen.

I’m proud of this broadcast, even though the primary part I worked on was the backhaul and the customer did the heavy lifting. But that’s what my job is: help people understand how to use our equipment to make good radio. Photo is from last night, courtesy of iHeartMedia engineering.