Episodios

  • TWiRT Ep. 712 - Fun with AI Inspires Broadcast Engineers - Matt Aaron & Anthony Kuzub

    TWiRT Ep. 712 - Fun with AI Inspires Broadcast Engineers - Matt Aaron & Anthony Kuzub
    Sep 6 2024
    The rise of AI-generated lyrics and music is giving engineers something to chuckle about. But could this “easy creativity” inspire other engineering solutions? Kirk drew a comparison with photographer Jeremy Cowart and his use of an LED wall to produce 60 different portraits in 60 seconds. Anthony Kuzub, an engineer at CBC in Canada, pointed out the AI that’s involved with lighting a new studio, matching accent lights to the video monitor feeds. Matt Aaron is programming a fully-AI streaming station that’s playing “Broadcast Engineers Gangster Rap”. Are these just passing curiosities? Or are they signals of technologies and techniques to come for broadcasting and content creation?
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    1 h y 11 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 711 - Today's Summit of Technology with Paul Stewart

    TWiRT Ep. 711 - Today's Summit of Technology with Paul Stewart
    Aug 30 2024
    Most every piece of equipment we use, or software we depend on began with an idea and a dream - a dream to help ourselves and others do their jobs better, faster, easier. Or perhaps to provide a service, or improve an existing one. Paul Stewart started Summit Technology Group with this motivation in mind as well. Paul and his company provide software and services with new features, conveniences, and efficiencies. Exactly what many broadcast engineers are looking for. Chris Tarr and I are talking with Paul about the software and services he’s bringing to broadcasters.
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    1 h y 8 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 710 - Live from the CCBE in Toronto, Canada

    TWiRT Ep. 710 - Live from the CCBE in Toronto, Canada
    Aug 25 2024
    The CCBE conference encompasses two days of professional broadcast engineering career development. This includes carefully-chosen paper presentations, an expo hall, and an awards dinner and ceremony honoring leaders in the broadcast engineering profession. We got to meet with and converse with leaders in the Central Canadian Broadcast Engineers group, plus Canadian engineers and leading equipment manufacturers.
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    1 h y 9 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 709 - Satellite Network Operations with Marcos O'Rourke

    TWiRT Ep. 709 - Satellite Network Operations with Marcos O'Rourke
    Aug 16 2024
    Have you wondered what goes on at the Network Operations Center of a satellite distribution network? We sure have, and our good friend, Marcos O’Rourke, joins us to talk about it. Marcos is now the Engineering Manager at Linkup Communications. We’ve followed Linkup’s rising star in the satellite communications business and watched as this company has grown to serve a lot of the broadcast industry. Marcos gives a brief history of the NOC in Denver, Colorado, and shares pictures of their operations and IT center.
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    1 h y 5 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 708 - Engineers Live at the ABA in Birmingham

    TWiRT Ep. 708 - Engineers Live at the ABA in Birmingham
    Aug 9 2024
    It’s Radio Convention season and we’re bringing some of the Alabama Broadcasters Convention to you. Live from the Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort, we’re meeting with engineers and radio equipment reps as this ABA Convention draws to a close. One of our highlights is visiting with Steven Westbrook from the Alabama Historical Radio Society. We also get cameo appearances from Bob Mayben, Jeff Welton, and Jim Armstrong. Join us for some fun conversation while we learn a few things about both new and old technologies and some personalities that shaped - and are now shaping - radio tech.
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    1 h y 3 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 707 - Broadcast Rules without Chevron Deference

    TWiRT Ep. 707 - Broadcast Rules without Chevron Deference
    Aug 2 2024
    A Google search on “SCOTUS and Chevron Deference” returns a lot of breathless headlines, prefacing pearl-clutching stories of near-calamitous changes in the way Federal agencies can carry out their missions. Indeed, one dissenting Supreme Court justice wrote that this ruling, “will cause a massive shock to the legal system.” The ruling will eventually affect some broadcast Rules from the Federal Communications Commission, but communications attorney, David Oxenford, predicts less dramatic effects on broadcast Rules and station operations. To clarify the Chevron decision and it’s likely effects on broadcasters, we interviewed Oxenford for this episode. We also get commentary from Larry Fuss, President and CEO of several multi-station radio broadcasting companies, and co-host, Chris Tarr. Join us for an informative episode of TWiRT as we discuss broadcast Rules in light of the SCOTUS decision on Chevron Deference.
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    1 h y 12 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 706 - Crowdstruck by CrowdStrike

    TWiRT Ep. 706 - Crowdstruck by CrowdStrike
    Jul 26 2024
    As we are all very aware, being a technical person or layman, the recent CrowdStrike outage caused disruptions on a myriad of computer systems worldwide, affecting multiple industry sectors and millions of people in some way, shape, or form. Approximately 8.5 million devices were affected, leading to outages in various sectors, including airlines, healthcare, and financial institutions. Some broadcasters were affected, but it seems most radio broadcasters were spared. Why is that? What crippled many very large industries had relatively little impact on radio station operations. Three experts join this TWiRT episode: Shaun Dolan, Kyle Walker, and David Smedley. Together we’ll uncover how Crowdstrike affected some broadcasters, and we’ll learn about some best practices for IT security.
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    1 h y 14 m
  • TWiRT Ep. 705 - Clever Ideas from the Workbench with John Bisset

    TWiRT Ep. 705 - Clever Ideas from the Workbench with John Bisset
    Jul 19 2024
    Radio’s beloved John Bisset is back! Author of the “Workbench” column is Radio World magazine, John is bringing us the best ideas from engineers since his last appearance on TWiRT, over six months ago. John’s Workbench columns are found at this aggregation page at https://www.radioworld.com/tag/workbench. Plus, Chris Tarr just drove 2,800 miles to buy a LOT of broadcast equipment.
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    1 h y 12 m