[BC] Future of Radio Eng. /was/ Computer based audio

[Steve]

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Steve Newman
Steve Walker Productions
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sid Schweiger 
  To: broadcast at radiolists.net 
  Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:55 AM
  Subject: Re: [BC] Future of Radio Eng. /was/ Computer based audio


  >>In IT work, there is no "thinking outside the box".<<

  Listen here, sonny.  (I've always wanted to say that.  Gack.  I guess it
  really is true...you do eventually become your parents.)

  This is one IT manager with over 35 years of broadcast engineering under
  his belt, and you couldn't be more wrong.  If you read some computer
  industry periodicals (and I'm not talking about the consumer pap like PC
  World or PC Magazine, although they are good for some things) you see IT
  managers doing the exact same sort of problem solving and innovation
  that broadcast engineers do, every single day.  In fact, with government
  regulation of businesses on the increase, IT is deeply involved in
  addressing most, if not all, of the issues businesses have with
  regulatory compliance.  None of these solutions appear in textbooks, nor
  are there the equivalent of Elmers in IT because as a discipline it
  hasn't been around for long enough.  Solutions have to be invented, and
  it's happening every day.

  And as for broadcast engineers, those who don't learn IT *now* are soon
  going to be out of work...permanently.  I see the equipment arriving at
  work, and almost all of it now contains something that wasn't there when
  I started in broadcasting...an Ethernet port.  We're now testing the new
  Comrex box which does remotes over the public Internet, and the sound
  quality is outstanding.  The Audemat-Aztec HDRadio monitoring equipment
  has Ethernet connections and an embedded web page interface.  Burk
  remote controls are now ported to PC software via serial port
  connections.  I could go on, but I think it's self-evident that the two
  disciplines are merging rapidly.



  Sid Schweiger
  IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
  WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
  20 Guest St / 3d Floor
  Boston MA  02135-2040
  Phone: 617-779-5369
  Fax: 617-779-5379
  E-Mail: sid at wrko.com

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