WHEAT ROADIES

Closer to home, Townsquare Media facilities across the U.S. are running studios from Glass LXE touchscreens in lieu of fixed consoles. There’s not a physical fader in sight. Here is a shot of a Townsquare Utica studio that Jay snapped while there recently, and another of studio control up on the big screen.

Speaking of screen time. John stopped in on the Bell Media studios in Montreal, where he ran across this I/O Blade that had been running nonstop for 1,156 days. After more than three years of continuous operation, the Blade was paused briefly while John rebooted the WheatNet IP system for a software update.

Meanwhile, Jay popped into the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, where our L-12 IP audio console is getting some NHL and NBA game action—as is this screen on the right that taps into the WheatNet IP system there. It takes extraordinary AoIP intelligence to bounce between live plays and commentaries, track mics and mix minuses, bring up the right associated connections, and keep it all real as basketballs and hockey pucks fly.

By the way, WheatNet IP also happens to be the IP audio network for Skyview Networks headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, which distributes sports content to more than 13,900 affiliate radio stations.

Next stop: Entravision in Denver, where Jay snapped these shots of our trusty G5 consoles and WheatNet Bridge Routers, the precursor to AoIP back in the day.

These were put in service in 2004, and they’ve been through it all—moved across town to a new home and endured countless hours of operation, several engineer changes, and more coffee spills than we care to know. Yet here they are, still serving Entravision like champs!

On the other side of the ocean, Jay stopped in to see how WheatNet IP was doing at Good News Community Radio in South Africa (left), and crossed another ocean to Sydney, where he found this helpful virtual production workstation (right) made with WheatNet IP ScreenBuilder tools for Crocmedia.