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eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, June, 2009 "Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level." - Alexander Haig
************************************ * RADIO BONNAROO IS ON THE AIR: For the third year in a row, the Bonnaroo Music Festival (www.bonnaroo.com), a four-day event that generates over 100 hours of networked radio content for stations across the USA, is powered by Axia networks and consoles. One of the reasons: Axia networks go together so easily (audio, logic and PAD all routed over CAT-5 using standard Ethernet) that it's easy to construct a broadcast studio in the field in a minimum amount of time. Read what Bonnaroo contract operations manager (and WRLT-FM, Nashville Chief Enginer) Tom Hansen has to say about Axia's role at Bonnaroo by visiting www.AxiaAudio.com/news/ . Subscribe to eNews
* TECH QUESTIONS? NO PROBLEM, WE'RE AWAKE: Broadcasting is a 24/7, 365-days-a-year business. Just because it's 5PM doesn't mean the chief engineer is off-duty. So why should your broadcast equipment company head home? Now, broadcasters with Telos and Omnia get the same round-the-clock technical support Axia clients have enjoyed for the last year. That's right, 24-hour free technical support, every single day of the year. Make a note of our 24-Hour Support Line at +1-216-622-0247 -- chances are you'll never need it, but isn't it good to know we're here? * CMT KICKIN' WITH AXIA: MTV Networks’ Country Music Television (www.cmt.com) has purchased Axia Element mixing consoles and routing gear for use in their Nashville studios. Did you know that there are now over 1,500 Axia IP-Audio-powered studios on the air around the world? Not bad for a company that's only 6 years old. Among the equipment CMT purchased are two 20-position Element 2.0 consoles, each paired with one of Axia’s new PowerStation integrated console engines, which won two major awards at NAB 2009 (more on this below). Visit www.AxiaAudio.com/powerstation/ to find out how PowerStation can help speed your next studio build. * TELOS SYSTEMS EXPANDS EUROPEAN SUPPORT: It's no secret that broadcasting in Europe, both private and state-owned, has been exploding of late. With all this action, the time seemed right to add a new way for our European clients to contact us. Enter Karl Breidis, our new European Sales Director, a broadcast pro who's new to the T/O/A team, but certainly not the industry. Karl will be available from his office in Riga, Latvia to provide technical assistance, product training and answer any questions you may have regarding Telos, Omnia and Axia gear. In fact he's eager to hear from European clients, so feel free to drop him a note at karl@telos-systems.com . * AXIA POWERSTATION WINS AT NAB: PowerStation, introduced at NAB 2009, was the winner of both Radio World's "Cool Stuff" and Radio magazine’s "Pick Hit" awards for its seamless integration of audio I/O, console CPU, mixing engine, Ethernet switch and redundant backup power into a single, fanless chassis. PowerStation can be easily networked – up to 4 can be daisy-chained without the need for an external core switch – or deployed to power standalone studio consoles. The first orders for PowerStation are already in: Cumulus will install them in their newly-revamped Cincinnati cluster. Curious? See your editor's 2-minute PowerStation video on Radio World's CoolCast at http://tinyurl.com/powerstation . (You can also find this link on the Axia homepage.) * NEWS FROM THE FIELD: Who's getting new gear? Here's a sample of some recent shipments.
* UPCOMING EVENTS: Come by and see Telos, Omnia and Axia folks at these upcoming shows:
* LATEST TECH UPDATES FROM TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA:
* TECH TIP: CHANGING OMNIA ONE PROCESSING STYLES: Roger Karwoski, Engineer at the University of Missouri's KBIA-FM in Columbia, writes: "I am considering the purchase of three Omnia ONE processors. When visiting Omnia at the NAB booth I was told that the difference between the "Multicast Digital Processor" and the "FM Digital On-Air Processor" was just the software load. Did I understand this correctly? If so, would it be possible to order the units with BOTH of these software setups available on each unit? (It would make it easier to change out units for emergency usage.)"
* COOL LINK: If you're geeks like we are, you may have an iPhone. And if you do, you're probably looking for cool apps all the time -- also just like we are. One that came to our attention recently is from Audiofile Engineering, and it's called "FiRe - The Ultimate Field Recorder for iPhone." Audiofile claims that this software is the first HQ stereo recording app for iPhone, complete with stereo bargraph meters, live waveform display, onscreen rec timer and even the ability to insert track location markers. At $5.99 it seems like a steal to us. Check out www.audiofile-engineering.com . Until next time, Cheers! Clark Novak Special Pre-NAB eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, April, 2009 "It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent." - Marcus Tullius Cicero ************************************
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* For instance, the newest streaming software from Omnia, Omnia A/XE Processed Audio Encoding for Windows. Now, we can hear you saying "Audio processing and encoding in one package? Nobody's ever done that before..." Exactly! Why should you need to have multiple software packages, perhaps even on different PCs, to get your streaming audio processed and encoded? Omnia A/XE lets you do both in one application. It seamlessly integrates with other audio applications, encodes directly to multiple formats, and also feeds many popular streaming encoders should you so desire. A/XE audio processing includes all the goodies you'd expect adjustable wideband AGC with a three-band compressor/limiter, IIF EQ and low-pass filter, and a precision look-ahead final limiter to prevent clipping. You can see in our Streaming Solutions center. * Speaking of streaming, there's also the Zephyr iPort MPEG Gateway which is now shipping. With this 2RU rackmount hardware, broadcasters in different cities can share multiple channels of broadcast audio as easily as if they were in the same building, using a single QoS connection. Eight stereo MPEG codecs produce 8 bi-directional or 16 one-way channels. iPort has Livewire built in, so it only needs a single CAT-6 for connection to your audio network. If you don't have an IP-Audio network yet, that's no problem - just pair it up with an Axia Audio Node for audio I/O. iPort can also be used for any application where you want MPEG encoding and/or decoding for transmission over IP channels, such as satellite uplinks, Internet streaming, broadcasting to mobile phones, STL links and audio distribution systems. (We're sure you can come up with a few more applications on your own, too.) * The Omnia ONE Studio Pro is the newest member of the best-selling Omnia ONE audio processor family. Why "studio"? Well, broadcasters have told us that they could really use a lower-delay audio pre-processor for applications where absolute peak limiting isn't needed -- such as production studios, television studios, mastering labs, et cetera. In keeping with our history of innovation, Studio Pro is the first studio processor with a four-band compressor / limiter - pretty cool! This gives you extremely precise and accurately defined control of pre-processing for music, spots, remote feeds, or for just a touch of "sweetening" wherever it's needed. And, like the other members of the Omnia ONE family, Studio Pro can easily be switched to other processing software - for AM, FM or Multicast processing - with a simple software download. * We're bringing a new Telos broadcast talkshow system that is sure to raise some eyebrows. We know it sounds like hype, but the Telos VX truly is the next-generation multi-studio phone system. It's Livewire-enabled for use with Axia IP-audio networks, and can also use standalone Axia Audio nodes to interface with traditional audio infrastructure. Capabilities? How about a dedicated Telos hybrid on EVERY line? Line-sharing between studios using just a simple Web interface for setup? A totally scalable, IP-based architecture lets start small and add capacity and phone stations to suit your budget and your requirements. Along with all this is a new IP-based VX Director phone set and VX Assistant Producer software application, each with advances that make handling and routing great sounding calls easier than ever. You've really got to check this out. * You may already have heard the buzz about the new Axia PowerStation, the new all-in-one IP-Audio console system that combines analog, digital and microphone I/O, a console power supply, DSP mixing engine and network switch into one easy-to-deploy package. Setting up PowerStation is super simple, since all components are now in one box: connect your studio gear with standard CAT-5 cables, connect an Element console with just one cable, name your sources with a browser, and you’re ready for air. PowerStation can be the heart of a standalone studio, or part of a larger Axia network; Simple Networking capabilities let you daisy-chain up to 4 PowerStations for easy multi-studio installation without a separate core switch. And it’s built to deliver rock-solid 24/7 reliability, hardened with industrial-grade components and redundant power capabilities. We predict that lots of people will soon find out just how easy it is to set up an IP-Audio console/router system using PowerStation. * More new Axia gear: 4 new Router Control Panels. The Single Router Selector, Dual Router Selector and X-Y Router Control Panel occupy only 1RU of rack space and have easy-to-use OLED displays and rotary selection controls that route any source to a desired destination instantly. There's also a brand-new 8-Button OLED SoftSwitch panel with bright, legible displays that you can read from across the room. Of course, there's a whole family of Axia Router panels that you can place wherever they're needed, in racks, turrets or in desktops, including 5-, 10- and 15-button Film-Cap Switch Panels, and 9- and 17-button SmartSwitch Panels with dynamic text and backlight colors. PathfinderPC Routing Control software lets you build custom routing applications to map to the button panels, from simple point-to-point routes to multi-point scene changes that can reconfigure an entire facility manually, at a specified time, or in response to an event trigger. * Finally, for you audio processing geeks (you know who you are), Omnia President and founder Frank Foti will be delivering a white paper entitled "CLEANER...Yet Still Loud!" as part of the Radio Engineering Forum in the Las Vegas Convention Center on the opening day of NAB, Monday, April 20th, from 1:30 to 2:00pm, in Room S228. Frank says that "Broadcast audio processing for conventional transmission (FM and AM) has reached extreme levels. Most methods available today are capable of creating LOUD competitive signals, usually at the noticeable and perceptible expense of quality. What can be done again to raise the bar?" As you might expect, Frank has an answer, and you'll get to hear about it - and HEAR it, via one of his famous audio A/B demonstrations. Additionally he'll talk about how this new method of processing can be used for other applications in addition to conventional FM and AM broadcasting. We hope you'll make the time to attend. See you at NAB! Clark Novak * LINEAR ACOUSTIC WINS AT THE OSCARS: The newest member of the Telos family, Linear Acoustic, picked up a win of their own recently: The 81st Academy Awards(R) ceremony was broadcast with the help of Linear's e2 Multichannel Audio and Meta-Data Distribution System. "Having great 5.1 surround sound accompany HD pictures is a necessity with an event of this magnitude,” said Tad Scripter, Engineer In Charge for the Academy Awards. Read more at www.LinearAcoustic.com/pdf/OSCARS_PR_V2.pdf. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, March, 2009 "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey, Sept. 4, 1918 - Feb. 28, 2009 ************************************
* T/O/A GOES GREEN-ER: In an effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle, we're transitioning to paperless invoices! Beginning on March 1, 2009 all invoices will be automatically e-mailed to our clients in PDF format on the first business day following shipment; we'll no longer mail paper copies. If you think you might need to update the billing e-mail for your company, please contact Roxanne Bain (paperlessly, of course!) by telephone at +1.216.241.7225 Subscribe to eNews
* AXIA SIGNS 8BC: Welcome to our latest Livewire Partner, 8BC Ltd., a leading provider of broadcast audio solutions based in the Czech Republic. Clients of 8BC (www.8bc.com) will now be able to purchase Axia IP- Audio networking components bundled with and customized for use with 8BC’s radio automation products. More and more broadcast suppliers are choosing to become Axia partners, making products that talk directly to Axia IP-Audio networks. See the latest additions to our Partners page at www.AxiaAudio.com/partners/ . * TELOS ON THE BIG SCREEN: Check out the latest film from Uma Thurman and you'll get an eyefull - of Telos phone gear. In her just-released UK film "The Accidental Husband", Uma plays a talk radio host using - what else? - Telos Desktop Directors and Assistant Producer call-screening gear to interact with her callers. Just another instance of art imitating life, we guess; Telos talkshow systems have been the preferred equipment of demanding radio stations for years. Check out the full line at www.Telos-Systems.com/products/ . * AXIA LAUNCHES GIANT CLIENT PHOTO GALLERY: You've probably heard that there are already well over 1,000 Axia consoles powering radio studios around the globe. Now you can see them in their own showcase! Hundreds of client photos can now be seen online at http://clients.AxiaAudio.com . Bonus: install the CoolIris plugin from www.cooliris.com to get a virtual, dynamic Photo Wall in your browser. If you've already got CoolIris installed, just click the logo that appears when you mouse over any photo thumbnail. * ZEPHYR IPORT NOW SHIPPING: The 2RU box with eight stereo MPEG codecs is now on it's way to your market. Zephyr iPort can be used for any application where MPEG encoding and/or decoding is needed over a QoS- controlled IP connection; it connects directly to your Axia Livewire network. Don't have Axia yet? Pair iPort with an Analog or AES node for standalone use. Users are already raving about iPort: Igor Zukina, Director of Engineering at Streamcom, told us that "[Our] challenge was to build a 256x256 audio routing network among 23 remote stations across an IP WAN using a UDP router. Nearly impossible with other IP codecs, but the Zephyr iPort made the job look easy. Sounds great. Doesn't miss a beat. They even encode the Internet streams at the radio stations using the latest AAC-HE codec!" Learn more at www.Telos-Systems.com/zephyr/iport.htm . * AXIA BECOMES AN ICON: That is to say, Axia marketing geeks have created a set of Axia icons for Windows Vista and Stardock / Rocketdock users. Cool for customizing the folders where your Axia dox reside, or creating a Dock category for your Axia apps. You can download them in a ZIP file from www.AxiaAudio.com/downloads/ ; they're at the bottom of the page under "Miscellaneous Downloads". * NEWS FROM THE FIELD: Who's getting new gear? Here's a sample of some recent shipments.
* UPCOMING EVENTS: Come by and see us at:
* LATEST TECH UPDATES FROM TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA:
* DISCREPANCY SHEET: Radio
lost a true legend when Paul Harvey's mic went silent for the last time.
Your editor wasn't even born when Harvey first took the mic for his
daily show syndicated on ABC Radio Networks; he was truly a lifelong
presence for many of us who grew up listening to the radio. The editors
at TIME magazine have prepared a fitting memorial to the man with "the
rest of the story;" worth a read at
http://tinyurl.com/b9u574 . eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, January, 2009 "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
************************************ ************************************ * PROCESSING POWER PACKS PAPUA: As part of a recent aid project, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently purchased 36 Omnia ONE audio processors for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) of Papua New Guinea, to be used for satellite program distribution. 19 Provincial centers around the country, including FM, AM Medium Wave and AM Shortwave stations will be downloading content to supplement local programming. "The performance specifications, the ability to change modes with firmware and the silence detection with changeover to alternate programme source were all good selling points...to convince the client of the benefits of the Omnia ONE," reports Wayne Wilson of TE(PNG). Find out how the Omnia ONE can benefit you at omniaaudio.com/omlt . Subscribe to eNews
* AXIA ON-AIR IN IRELAND: The
land of Saints and Scholars has begun networking audio with IP and
Ethernet. Wilton Radio Ltd.’s new youth-oriented station, i105-107, has
just signed on in Ireland, and it’s powered by Axia networks and
consoles. The installation consists of three Element-powered studios,
two for on-air use and a third production studio. See photos at
http://forums.axiaaudio.com/viewtopic.php?t=199 . (And if you
search YouTube for i105, you'll find plenty of in-studio video showing
their new Element consoles!)
* UPCOMING EVENTS: Where we'll
be. Come by and see us!
* TECH TIP: Setting optimum
input levels on an Omnia processor - With normal program audio, the
Input Gain Master should be adjusted so that the input bargraph meters
are hitting from about -15 to –12 dBFS on regular peaks or a little
higher. These are true peak-reading meters and will not read correctly
on steady-state tones. The Master Drive control on the Omnia 5EX, 6EX
and 6EXi (located after the input bargraph meters) should be left at 0.0
dB if the reference 0VU level of the equipment feeding the Omnia is +4
dBu. This will provide optimum headroom throughout the Omnia. The Master
Drive will need to be adjusted if your system's reference level is not
+4 dBu. For example, a setting of –4.0 dB would be used if your
reference level is +8 dBu and +4.0 dB if your reference level is 0 dBu.
This control may also need to be adjusted if you do not have sufficient
gain reduction in the WB AGC, the input audio feeding the Omnia is
pre-processed or if you wish to bypass the WB AGC section and have too
little gain reduction in the multi-band AGC section. Once set properly,
you should see about 10 dB of gain reduction on the WB AGC gain
reduction meter with normal program audio at your 0VU reference. It is
normal for the WB AGC gain reduction meter to continue to show gain
reduction even when the WB AGC section is bypassed. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, December, 2008 "A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one." - J.P. Morgan
************************************ ************************************ * RADIO FREE EUROPE BUILDS WITH AXIA: Out with the old and in with IP Audio! Radio Free Europe is installing 49 new Axia Element consoles and an Axia IP-Audio routing network in their new Prague studios. Coinciding with a move to a new location, the new studios will come online to feed RFE programming throughout Europe in early 2009, joining Axia installations in Bangkok and Washington, D.C. belonging to sister Radio Free Asia. Want to find out why Element has become so popular? Check out www.AxiaAudio.com/element/ Subscribe to eNews
* WW1 GETS XSTREAM: Westwood
One has just added 55 Zephyr Xstream ISDN Codecs to 76 already in
service, giving the program provider a total of 131 Zephyr Xtreams
feeding syndicated satellite programming, Metro Traffic afilliates, and
other content distribution services. Approximately 70 of the Zephyrs are
coding audio for Westwood One's IP based satelite distribution system
MAX. Check out the flexible Zephyr Xstream at
www.Telos-Systems.com/zephyr/
* LATEST UPDATES FROM TELOS/OMNIA/AXIA:
* TECH TIP: BACKUP AND
RESTORE OF PATHFINDER SERVERS eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, October, 2008 "Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers." - Edward Shepherd Mead
************************************ ************************************ * TAKE A TOUR OF THE FUNKHAUS: We're sure you'll enjoy this video featuring Radio Sudtirol in Bolzano, Italy, operating from a new 'Funkhaus'. Built to be funk friendly, the open-layout of the facility allows its users easy access to multiple Element Control Surfaces for on-air, pre-production and interviews. Grab a hefeweizen, settle into your lederhosen and bask in the warm glow of Ethernet audio at http://tinyurl.com/sudtirol . Subscribe to eNews
* Z/IP MIXER SHIPPING SHORTLY:
The first reviews are in on the award-winning Telos Zephyr/IP (Z/IP, for
short) IP Codec, and they're all good. “The Zephyr/IP is really what
professionals like me have been waiting for in terms of transmitting
high-quality audio over commonly available IP links.” Tom Hansen, Chief
Engineer WRLT-FM. Now the newest addition to the Z/IP family is coming
your way: the new Z/IP Mixer, a new portable field version of the
Zephyr/IP that includes a full-featured, four-input digital mixer,
customizable headphone feeds, and the helpful full-color graphical
interface that's helped make the original Z/IP such a hit. Want to find
out more? Head over to
* TECH TIP: Having problems
making an ISDN connection with someone in another city? Try dialing
1010222 + 1 + area code + number to force it through MCI. There is a
good chance this will get your call to go through. We've got plenty more
tips at eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, August, 2008 "Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day
************************************ * IS OMNIA ONE THE BEST-SELLING AUDIO PROCESSOR EVER? Well, not yet. But it certainly is on a great pace towards achieving that status. With over 1,500 now at radio stations just two years after its NAB introduction and fans raving on bulletin boards and listservers everywhere, Omnia ONE certainly does seem to be a favorite of broadcasters everywhere - whether AM, FM or Netcaster. If you haven't checked it out yet, visit OmniaAudio.com/omlt/ for the whole story. Subscribe to eNews
* AXIA GOES NASCAR: "One engineer was able to go from sealed boxes to wired studio in about 40 minutes," says Doug Watson, CE of Motor Racing Network, radio home of NASCAR racing. The quote is from Tom Vernon's story about MRN's new Axia router / console installation in the newest issue of Radio World. If you haven't got your copy yet, check it out online at http://tinyurl.com/6hjrsl . * ZPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING: Zephyr/IP, in case you haven't heard, is the advanced-technology IP Codec from Telos' famous Zephyr family of broadcast codecs. Maybe you've seen it at NAB, or read the reviews. Maybe you've been waiting for a really reliable codec for Internet remotes. Well, remote season is hard upon us, and Z/IP is now shipping at a special introductory price of $3,995.00 (US MSRP) - that's nearly $2,000.00 off the standard list price - but only until October 15th. Read all about Z/IP at Telos-Systems.com/ZephyrIP/ ...then call your dealer. * ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Telos, Omnia and Axia representatives are out and about. Here's where they'll be next:
* NEWS FROM THE FIELD Who's getting new gear? Here's a sample of some recent orders:
* TECH TIP – AXIA ELEMENT REMOTE LINE SELECTOR
* DISCREPANCY SHEET: I've
decided to rename the "fun links" section. Why "Discrepancy Sheet"? When
I was on the air in the bad old days, the discrep sheet, hanging on its
clipboard in the corner, was where we wrote down all the little,
inessential studio stuff that we really didn't want to bother the
engineer with. (The big stuff was another story, of course!) So it
seemed the right name for this section of eNews, which has historically
been something of a catch-all of ideas gone sideways. Telos / Omnia / Axia eNews Pre-NAB Edition, April, 2008
************************************ eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, February, 2008
"The production of useful work is strictly limited by the laws of
thermodynamics. The production of useless work seems to be unlimited."
* SOMETHING NEW: When speaking of the Omnia ONE FM audio processor for multicast broadcasting, Omnia President Frank Foti says, “People keep asking me how we got such a powerful four-band FM processor into such a small box; they want to know what we left out. I tell them, ‘Everything’s there; nothing’s missing; we know a few things about audio processing.’” Four-band AGC, wideband automatic gain control and leveler, a separate four-band limiter with precision crossover, and Omnia’s famous final limiter/clipper, all for $2,995 US. See OmniaAudio.com/omlt/ for more. Subscribe to eNews
* SOMETHING ELSE NEW: Omnia Audio is now shipping the space-efficient Omnia.8X audio processor (US list price $4995), which packs the power, punch, and purity of eight discrete three-band Omnia stereo-audio processors into a single 3-1/2-in.-high networked box that simultaneously processes eight stereo-audio channels. Audio enters and exits on a Livewire Ethernet port, ready to connect to an Axia IP-Audio network. If you don’t yet have an Axia network, you can pair the Omnia.8X with an Axia Audio Node for stand-alone I/O on traditional XLR connectors. For more details, check out OmniaAudio.com/o8x/ . * NEWS FROM THE FIELD!
* TECH TIP: TELOS TWO, TWOx12 AND SERIES 2101: We’ve recently made some improvements that may affect your Telos TWO, TWOx12, and 2101 Studio Interface and Extended Hybrid.Some units contain power supplies that have a manufacturing defect; our power-supply vender has released a new version of this supply to correct it. All units shipped in the last six months should have the new-style power supplies. To make sure you get the best performance from your gear, you’ll need to visually inspect the power supply to make sure it is the latest revision. Open your unit and find the
six large capacitors behind the 8-pin Molex connector. The brand on
those caps should say “Nichicon”. No other brand of cap is acceptable.
Also, on the new supply, two of these six caps are 1-cm taller than any
other caps in the supply. FUN STUFF:Your editor is hoping that maybe the readers can provide him with some input on the DTV conversion a year from now. He has never had cable or satellite TV because he doesn't watch a whole lot of TV (he’s a radio guy), so he’s been hoping that over-the-air DTV reception might prove adequate. He’s heard, however, that DTV’s 8-VSB (eight-level vestigial-sideband)-modulated signals are not receivable without an outside antenna in most locations. He lives in a fairly high location--near the top of a hill that’s 200' or more in height and only about 10 miles from the two most likely transmitter sites. So he’s soliciting advice from you on finding out how likely he is to be able to get adequate reception. Firsthand knowledge is preferred, but even if you simply recommend Web sites where he is likely to find useful answers to his questions, this query will have accomplished something worthwhile. Please send replies and comments to: newsletter(at)telos-systems.com . We’ll share answers in the next edition. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, July, 2007 "More than ever, the creation
of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it
receives from reality." - Robert A. Baker Subscribe to eNews
* PATHFINDER PC 4.0 NOW
SHIPPING: Lots of Axia clients have already found that PathfinderPC
software is an essential tool for your Axia IP-Audio system...now it's
even more so with Version 4.0. New features, more functionality, and
it's a free upgrade for prior users. Among the many nifty things in 4.0:
an enhanced version of our graphical "Stacking Events" editor that does
away with the hand-scripting that other packages force on you. Also,
full control of Element consoles' VMIX virtual mixers, the ability to
create custom virtual "button panels" that can be run from computer or
mapped to Axia accessory panels, and support for custom graphics on Axia
LCD control panels. See the full feature list at
http://www.AxiaAudio.com/news/pr/2007_pathfinder4_0_release.htm and
send emails to inquiry (at) axiaaudio.com if you've got questions.
* TECH TIP: GETTING MORE FROM YOUR OMNIA-5FM
BROADCAST LINK eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, June, 2007 “A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking." - Martin H. Fischer
************************************ * FANTASTIC FOUR: Linear Acoustic, a big name in audio processing for television, has become the new fourth member of the Telos family. Linear President Tim Carroll made the announcement at the NAB2007 convention, saying "We have spent five years developing successful digital audio processors and infrastructure products for the international television community. There are clear and exciting synergies with what we are doing and their capabilities.” More info: www.linearacoustic.com Subscribe to eNews
* WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF ROOM ON THE MANTLE: NAB 2007 was very kind to us. We won 4.5 awards for new products: two Radio World "Cool Stuff" awards for the new Omnia ONE audio processor and the Telos Zephyr/IP codec, a Radio Pick Hit for our new Nx12 phone system, and a NAB2007 STAR Award for Linear Acoustic's StreamStacker-HD audio distribution system. The “half-an-award”? Axia partner AudioScience received a Radio Pick Hit for their new ASI6585 sound card, the first anywhere with a Livewire-only interface; perfect for connecting to Axia systems (so we figure we get 50% of the credit! Check www.audioscience.com for details). * SPEAKING OF AWARD WINNING
STUFF: We've got a slew of new product releases. The Omnia ONE for
Multicast is shipping now, with an FM version scheduled shortly.
Omnia.8X, Telos Zephyr iPort and Telos Nx12 are shipping 3rd quarter
2007. The Zephyr/IP will ship 4th quarter 2007 – good to know if you’re
preparing CapEx budgets now. Find out more about these new products by
visiting * NEW ELEMENT SOFTWARE: Keep your Axia Element system up to date with v1.1.13.13a software, just released! It adds some new functionality for greater control when using PathfinderPC software to automate switching in your Axia network, and also fixes some minor GPIO command issues. Download it free from www.AxiaAudio.com/downloads , and be sure to get StudioEngine software v2.4.7 at the same time - they need to be installed together. * NEWS FROM THE FIELD Who's getting new gear? Here's a sample of some recent orders: Omnia audio processing is
giving ears a Swedish massage at: Axia is powering new studios
at: Telos Zephyrs are getting
audio from here to there at: Telos broadcast phone systems
are putting people on air at: * TECH TIP – TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
* COOL BROADCAST LINK: This week's link may be familiar to you, but it's got a new twist. Scott Fybush and Garrett Wollman, the lovable radio geeks behind "North East Radio Watch" and the "Tower Site of the Month" calendar have updated the Boston Radio Archives (www.bostonradio.org) with new photos of studios and transmitter sites from all over the country…including several Boston-area AM sites, the Fessenden Centennial celebration, and many historic Los Angeles hilltop broadcast sites. Visit http://gallery.bostonradio.org to get your transmitter site photo fix. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, April, 2007 - Pre-NAB Edition! * WELCOME TO NAB: We realize that not all of you will make it to Las Vegas this year, but we hope that the information in this email will be interesting to you nonetheless. We're debuting lots of new gear that we'll tell you about further down; and if you _are_ coming to NAB, you can see it in the Telos / Omnia / Axia booth in the North Hall. Look for us in Booth N7726. Subscribe to eNews
* NEW PRODUCTS: The guys in R&D have really outdone themselves this year. Here's what we'll be unveiling at NAB:
* CHURCH, FOTI & SACKS HOST
BEC SESSIONS: Steve Church, Frank Foti and Marty Sacks will all be
hosting session at the NAB's Broadcast Engineering Conference. Steve
presents "Building Broadcast Audio on IP" April 14th at 11:30 AM; Frank
talks about "Sonic Tonic for Audio Coding" on April 16th at 2PM; Marty
presents "Packets Everywhere: How IP-Audio and Ethernet Are Transforming
Modern Radio Facilities" on April 17th at 11:30AM. Check your NAB
program guides for locations.
We look forward to seeing you
at the show! eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, September, 2006 SEE YOU AT THE AES: We'll be
attending several of the sessions at the upcoming AES convention in San
Francisco, October 5 - 8. If you're going and you catch a glimpse of one
of us, be sure to stop us and shake our hand!
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* A BIG WELCOME FOR MIKE UHL AND
JIM ARMSTRONG: It's not every day that you get to welcome home two old
friends, so we're doubly honored to have Mike Uhl and Jim Armstrong join
the Telos / Omnia / Axia team. Mike Uhl, long known for his work at PR&E
and SAS, says "It's time to replace all those BMX consoles. IP Audio is
the most efficient and reliable method of studio infrastructure
available." Mike will be the "go to" guy for stations West of the
Mississippi for all Telos produc ts, including Omnia & Axia. Likewise,
Jim Armstrong is well-known from his time spent as a representative for
Burk, Gentner and SAS, and will be representing our gear East of the
Mississippi. If you'd like to read the press releases about Mike and
Jim, visit
www.AxiaAudio.com/news/ . Drop 'em an e-mail and say "howdy" at
jarmstrong@telos-systems.com
and
mikeuhl@telos-systems.com
.
* TECH TIPS: SAVING MONEY ON
ISDN LINES
APPROACHES
DETAILS
OTHER ISSUES
Got a question for Tech Tips?
Email us. Of course we answer all questions, but if we use yours in
eNews, we'll send you some cool Telos/Omnia/Axia swag too. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, June, 2006 * THE DAVE RAMSEY SHOW ADDS A NEW ELEMENT: Well-known financial talk host Dave Ramsey (www.daveramsey.com) is the latest to choose Axia IP-Audio networking to power his studios. Dave's recent multi-city deal with Cumulus Media was the perfect reason for a studio upgrade, and Axia IP-Audio technology, along with an Element modular studio controller, turned out to be the perfect fit. The new console hit the air on June 15th (check out the cool custom show logo on the Element display screen - a neat capability possessed by every Element console). Axia Element control surfaces are scalable from 4 to 40 faders and offer a host of customizable functions designed to make life easier and more error-free for jocks and board operators. Check out www.AxiaAudio.com/surfaces/ for more information. Subscribe to eNews
* MARTY SACKS RETURNS! It's
always good to welcome back a familiar face. Marty Sacks, formerly
National Sales Director for Telos / Omnia from 1999 - 2003, has returned
to the family after spending time at ERI and Radio Ink. Marty fills the
new Vice President's post at our Axia division, where he'll be
overseeing the explosive growth Axia has been experiencing. Says Marty,
“Axia is the fastest growing console company in the industry…It's
wonderful to be back!” drop him a line at
marty@AxiaAudio.com
.
* TECH TIPS: "Can my Zephyr
Xport talk to my Classic Zephyr?"
Got a question for Tech Tips?
Email us at cnovak@AxiaAudio.com. Of course we answer all questions, but
if we use yours in eNews, we'll send you some cool Telos/Omnia/Axia swag
too. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, January, 2006 * OMNIA ON WLS...: When a station like ABC Radio's WLS chooses your audio processor over all the others on the market, folks take notice! The legendary Chicagoland station (www.wlsam.com) is using an Omnia-5EX HD+AM audio processor, and Warren Schulz likes it a lot. "Having the ability to affect audio processing with such great detail in control is a huge benefit. With Omnia-5EX, WLS is the king of the hill.” Maybe your AM could benefit by upgrading to Omnia? Visit www.omniaaudio.com/am.htm to read more. Subscribe to eNews
*...AND ON KLZ: Another Omnia success story from the Mile High City, where Crawford Broadcasting's KLZ (www.z560.com) has also upgraded to Omnia as part of their HD Radio conversion -- Omnia-5EX HD+AM is the world's only AM audio processor that's ready for HD Radio, with two simultaneous processing paths (one for analog AM, the other for HD). Chief Engineer Ed Dulaney told us “Everyone that has heard our AM HD Radio signal says it sounds as good or better than FM!” People love to talk about their Omnias - read more client comments at www.omniaaudio.com/buzz/ . * BSI BECOMES AXIA PARTNER: The latest delivery system provider to become an Axia partner is BSI, makers of Simian and WaveCart playout software. This means that BSI clients with an Axia audio network can use our IP-Audio Driver to stream content directly from their playout PCs to the routing network via Ethernet - without multiple sound cards, D/A conversions, or multi-cable connections. BSI is just the latest in a growing list of Axia partners; click www.axiaaudio.com/partners/ to see the full list. * 300,000 PHONE CALLS!: That's how many connection attempts were placed to Howard Stern's toll-free line on his first day at Sirius Satellite Radio. 130,000 of those in the first hour alone! Luckily, Sirius uses a Telos Series 2101 Multi-Studio Talkshow System. The 2101 system plugs right into T-1 and E-1 digital lines, allowing management of up to 120 incoming call circuits across as many as 32 studios. Mike Schweizer of Improbable Missions Force was on hand, and he told us that the 2101 was definitely up to the task, even in the face of what he called "crushing" call volume. Read the whole story at http://tinyurl.com/a6u94 . * NEWS FROM THE FIELD: Who's getting new gear? Here's a sample of some recent orders:
* TELOS, OMNIA, AXIA ON THE ROAD: We're planning now for a few road trips in 2006. Here's what's lined up so far:
* TECH TIP - USING A TELOS HYBRID OVER GSM: This week's Tech Tip comes from one Ali Rasheed in Abu Dhabi: "How do I connect a Telos ONE or Telos TWO telephone hybrid to a GSM network?"
Got a question for Tech Tips? E-mail it to clark@telos-systems.com .If we use it in eNews, I'll send you a new Telos, Omnia or Axia T-shirt. * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Our first news item above, regarding WLS, put us in mind of one of our favorite websites: www.wlshistory.com , created by well-known Chicago voiceover artist Scott Childers. The site traces WLS' history from its sign-on in 1924 by original owners Sears, Roebuck through the Top 40 days to the inception of the News/Talk format. Lots of sound bites, too! eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, October, 2005 * REGARDING THE FUTURE OF
RECORDED MUSIC: There are probably a lot of you reading this who have by
now caught the Surround bug. Here at Telos / Omnia / Axia, it seems
nearly all of us have, Telos founder and CEO Steve Church among the
first. Forthwith, some related observations from Steve: Subscribe to eNews
* MULTICAST IS
EVERYWHERE: Multicast is surely the main HD Radio focus at the moment
and we have a new Omnia processor made to order for it. Bits are being
sliced pretty thin for these additional multicast channels, and you need
all the help you can get from the processor to make them sound good.
We’ve been doing a lot of research into this topic, combining forces
from our Telos codec engineers and the processing tweakers from the
Omnia side. The result is Sensus, a technology that anticipates what the
HD codec will do and adapts the processing to best deal with it. There’s
a lot of power in this combined "codec conditioner" and dynamics
processor. You can order the new Omnia Multicast with Sensus right now:
the Omnia part number is 2001-00191 and the list price is $4,310.00 (US
MSRP). Omnia Multicast begins shipping December 9, 2005. Read more about
it at http://tinyurl.com/d95fn . "In my
situation I basically need the DB15's to end up in different locations
spread throughout my millwork and a couple of racks. My thought is that
the Winford really suits that type of distribution as it accommodates
each DB15 individually. (There's also a new StudioHub breakout for the
Axia GPIO that looks perfect for bringing out all the connections to ONE
specific location.) By using these I’m still able to keep the soldering
iron COLD for yet another part of this install. I can use pre-made DB15
to DB15 cables to connect from Axia to the breakouts, then make up
whatever short cable I need to hit the device from the breakout. Pretty
cool!"
eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, September, 2005
**************************************************** * CPB, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has $500,000 in grants available to non-commercial stations affected by the hurricane. These funds are available _immediately_ for emergency repairs and generator fuel. Contact CPB directly at (202) 879-9600. Website: www.cpb.org * The National Association of Broadcasters has teamed with the American Red Cross, and has radio and TV PSAs for disaster relief available for stations wishing to air them. Radio PSAs of :10- to :30-second duration can be downloaded directly from www.nab.org/publicservice/Relief/ ; TV stations can get a free overnight dub of video PSAs by e-mailing Sarah Roberts at sroberts@nab.org . * The FCC's Media Bureau has temporarily changed some of its normal procedures to help broadcasters knocked off the air by Katrina resume service. FM and TV stations in the affected area can erect temporary towers without prior FCC authorization. AM stations can resume broadcasting using single-wire horizontal or vertical antennas or non-directional vertical elements of directional arrays. Temporary authority requests can be submitted by e-mail. Many filing and regulatory deadlines have also been extended. See the FCC homepage at www.fcc.gov for a complete list of special procedures. * Many broadcasters have joined with the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org) to raise funds for disaster relief. Stations who want to put a Red Cross donation banner on their websites can get them from www.redcross.org/psa/bannerorder/index_GenDS.html . * FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Administration, has posted a web page listing 23 certified charitable organizations accepting donations of cash and/or volunteer labor for the relief effort, which may be useful for stations passing information to their listeners. Web link: www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473 * Information on obtaining Federal assistance for citizens affected by the disaster is available online at http://disasterhelp.gov . This site includes a "friends and family registry" that can assist in reuniting friends and loved ones separated during the storm. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, August, 2005 * "YOU WON'T FIND MULTIPAIR
HERE": That's the name of the article Buckley Broadcasting's VP of
Engineering, Tom Ray, wrote about his new Axia-powered studios at New
York City's WOR Radio (www.wor710.com).
"The WOR analog signal sounds great. The WOR-HD signal sounds fantastic.
It appears that the Axia SmartSurface and Livewire system was a good
choice for WOR," says Tom, whose Radio World article also talks about
the lack of multipair cabling, multiple automatic mix-minus generation,
and how he built an entire production studio single-handedly in just 6
hours. You can read the rest at
www.axiaaudio.com/news/AxiaRWUS072005.pdf (PDF viewer required).
* AND EVEN MORE ABOUT WOR: When a story's this big, everybody covers it! Radio featured WOR on the cover of its July issue, wherein Tom Ray notes that "With the ability to route data, we should be able to start taking advantage of Program Associated Data in the near future." Didn't catch it? Browse to http://beradio.com/systemintegration/radio_redefining_heritage/ and take a look at more WOR studio pictures. * UPGRADE YOUR OMNIA TO "EXI": Omnia's new "EXi" audio processing is a serious hit. Here are a couple of comments we've gotten lately: "I knew the Omnia would make a difference, but Holy Cow! I never expected it would make THAT MUCH difference!" "I've never heard anything else that could get the low end so massive and the high end so clear at the same time." Part of the "EXi" secret is Omnia's exclusive new LoIMD Clipper that kills IMD distortion, so you can crank it up and keep it clean, too. "EXi" also adds integrated Diversity Delay for HD Radio(tm) broadcasters. New "EXi" processors have been shipping for several weeks; any Omnia-6, Omnia-5 or Omnia-4.5 can be upgraded to "EXi" status as well. Just e-mail support@omniaaudio.com to find out more. * AXIA PATHFINDER PC v3.10 RELEASED: PathfinderPC users, take note: Version 3.10 has just been released and is available for download. This new version adds the ability to have PathfinderPC send an e-mail alert for any event you choose, and also adds automatic database backup to prevent hair-tearing moments. You can find the download link (and links to all other Axia software downloads) at www.axiaaudio.com/downloads/ . * TWOx12 GETS USER RAVES: There's been a lot of praise flying lately for the Telos TWOx12 12-line talkshow system. Maybe you saw this one on the boards: "I've got four [TWOx12's]... The "Assistant Producer" software and the Ethernet TCP/IP interface on the TWOx12 is very slick. I can see and even control the talk studio phone systems from my engineering office computer. More impressive, you can take your talk show on the road or have a remote host, via ISDN, for example, and they can connect to the studio TWOx12 via an Internet connected computer and remotely put calls on the air and send and receive text messages too." Could TWOx12 help solve your on-air phone troubles? Read more at www.Telos-Systems.com/2x12/ . * RHYTHME FM GETS NEOWINNERS: Canadian broadcaster Cogeco Radio-Television's Rhythme FM stations (www.rythmefm.com) will soon be organizing their contests and tracking winner data with NeoWinners Contest Management Software. NeoWinners lets you schedule contests for multiple stations using a cool drag-and-drop interface, stores winner data (phone number, name, prizes won and more), keep track of prize stocks, automatically generate winner lists, and much more. And NeoWinners stores its contest and winner data in a centralized, networked database, so there's never a question about who won what or when. NeoWinners can even integrate with Telos TWOx12 and Series 2101 multi-line phone systems. Find out more at www.telos-systems.com/winners/ . * TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA ON THE ROAD: Meet us at these upcoming events:
* TECH TIP - ZEPHYR XSTREAM: Question: "I just connected my new Zephyr Xstream to Ethernet and I'm trying to use its web remote control, but it keeps asking for a password. I've looked in the manual, and there's no mention of a password. What's up?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: We've all got big, feature-rich software audio-editing packages in our production rooms. But sometimes you only need a basic editor for a news or dubbing station, or for the PD's desktop computer. And you don't want to pay another software license fee (we're all running SPA-legal shops, right?). If this sounds familiar, you may find the free open-source Audacity software a good fit. It's available for Windows, Mac OS 9 and OS X platforms, and for Linux/UNIX users, and has some expensive-software features like large-file support, individual sample waveform editing, hum/hiss removal, FFT filtering, and support for file resolutions up to 96 kHz/32-bit. You'll find it at http://audacity.sourceforge.net . eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, July, 2005 * TECHNOLOGY IS GOOD, PROFIT IS
REALLY GOOD: Conclave 2004 begins this week on the 21st of July in the
Twin Cities. If you have folks from Programming or Operations attending,
be sure to remind them that they can get the whole scoop on HD Radio at
Frank Foti's Conclave session with Don Kelly and Dave Robbins, entitled
"Begin The Revolution: HD Radio For Fun And Profit." Frank and his
co-hosts will give your programming people a thorough understanding of
what HD Radio is and what it isn't, and how they can use HD Radio to
increase listenership and revenue. And Frank will demonstrate HD
Surround in all its glory! The two-part session takes place Friday, July
22; visit www.theconclave.com
for more details.
* MANUAL LABOR: The gnomes have
been hard at work updating User's Manuals for Telos and Omnia products.
Omnia-6 owners will find a manual update which includes information on
the new Omnia-6EXi models with integrated HD Radio Diversity Delay and
LoIMD Clipper. For Omnia-3 owners, the updated manual includes all
Omnia-3 models: FM, AM, NET (for coded audio applications such as the
Web, satellite transmission or HD Radio Multichannel streams) and FM
Turbo. You'll find these new manuals at
www.omniaaudio.com/support/manuals.htm .
* TECH TIP - SERIES 2101: "I've just ordered a Telos Series 2101 talkshow system and I need to order PRI. Do you have any guidelines for how to do so?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Searching for parts for old consumer gear? Sometimes you can tear your hair out trying to find replacement bits to keep equipment running. A friend recently turned me on to www.partstore.com , a huge clearing house of parts for electronics, computers, appliances and more. Searching is easy, by manufacturer and model number - within 60 seconds, I'd found 10 pages of parts for my beloved Sony CRF-1 shortwave receiver. Sorry, no Ampex 601 parts available :) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: 5.1
surround sound for HD Radio has occupied a lot of print space recently;
it almost seems that 5.1 on FM is all but assured. But if you're just
beginning to examine how multichannel audio is delivered to consumers
(and by extension, will be delivered to radio), it can be quite
confusing: what's the difference between DVD-A, SACD, DTS and others?
What's a DualDisc? And how will Blu-Ray affect these standards? Telos
founder Steve Church has written a handy "survival guide" titled
"Surround Cuisine For Newbies" that's just appeared in the June issue of
Radio Guide (www.radio-guide.com).
Don't have a copy? You can read it online; just visit
www.telos-systems.com/news
, or click http://tinyurl.com/excl5
for the direct link (PDF viewer required). Thanks to Barry Mishkind and
Ray Topp for allowing us to archive this article online.
* FROM THE MAILBAG: Thanks to all the Omnia-6 users who've written us lately with great stories about Omnias. Here's a sample of some e-mails we've received recently: "I knew the Omnia would make a difference, but Holy Cow! I never expected it would make THAT MUCH difference!" "Thanks to Omnia, our TSL increased by one-third in the last book. It's amazing how clean it sounds." And finally: "We could never get the bass right with our old O**** processor. It just never thumped like it should have. Since I put the Omnia-6 online, I can hear when one of our listeners is driving down the street... our PD is ecstatic!" Got an Omnia story to tell? E-mail clark@OmniaAudio.com . * NEW OMNIA SOFTWARE ONLINE: Omnia-6EX users, take note: Version 7.1 software and Omnia-6 Remote v7.1 have just been released. The latest software for all Omnia products is always online at www.omniaaudio.com/support/updates.htm ; to find out if the new software is right for your application, e-mail our support team at support@omniaaudio.com before installing. * NEW SMARTSURFACE FIRMWARE ONLINE: SmartSurface users can find the latest firmware upgrades for SmartSurface (v2.49.53) and the Axia Studio Engine (v2.3.27a5) at www.AxiaAudio.com/downloads/ . New features include enhanced Show Profile creation and editing, and enhanced GPIO functions. Check with our support team by emailing inquiry@AxiaAudio.com to determine if this software update is right for you. * FRANK FOTI RETURNS TO THE CONCLAVE: Attendees of last year's Conclave Learning Conference in Minneapolis were left wide-eyed when Omnia president Frank Foti let them hear just how powerful music in Surround Sound can be - and tantalized them with the possibility of HD Radio in 5.1. There have been lots of developments in HD Surround since then, and Frank will be heading back to the Conclave this year with an over-the-air demonstration of Coded-Discrete surround. If your Program Director, Music Director or Operations Manager is attending Conclave 2005, be sure to have them attend Frank's session with iBiquity's Don Kelly and Infinity's Dave Robbins, entitled "Begin The Revolution: HD Radio For Fun And Profit." The two-part session takes place Friday, July 22; visit www.theconclave.com for more details. * TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA ON THE ROAD: Meet us at these upcoming events:
* NEW GEAR GUIDE: Every week, more Telos, Omnia and Axia equipment goes into radio stations worldwide. Here are a few of the folks getting new goodies this week:
* TECH TIP - ZEPHYR XPORT: From our Support e-mail account comes this question: "I just bought a Zephyr Xport with the ISDN option. Can it talk to my classic Zephyr (you know, the black one)?"
* BROADCAST LINKS OF THE WEEK: With FM surround being such a hot topic, plenty of folks have been searching for information on what content is available in SACD, DVD-A and DTS multi-channel formats. Here are a few we've found useful: www.sa-cd.net lists SACD releases from all manufacturers around the world; over 3100 titles and counting! DVD Audio Daily (www.dvdaudiodaily.com) reports on new releases and industry news relating to DVD-A. And www.dts.com/entertainment jumps to DTS Entertainment's listing of multichannel DTS audio discs. Have a favorite of your own? Write and let us know. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, June, 2005 * MIKE TOCCO TALKS PROCESSING:
New York is perhaps the world's most competitive radio market. With nearly
70 radio signals in-market, it's imperative that your signal stands out.
Maybe that's why an overwhelming number of New York stations have switched
to Omnia audio processing to create their signature sound. "Even though
WSKQ's loudness keeps up with the New York market, our
time-spent-listening has improved because our processing doesn't fatique
our listeners," says Mike Tocco, Chief Engineer of SBS Broadcasting's New
York stations. He describes his experiences with his Omnia-6s in the
current edition of Radio World; we've archived it for your convenience at
www.omniaaudio.com/news/articles.htm (Acrobat reader required).
* MAKING SURROUND FM-STEREO
COMPATIBLE: The biggest buzz in HD Radio circles these days has to be the
issue of 5.1 Surround. There are lots of different opinions on how this
can be accomplished, but one thing's for sure: any future surround
standard for broadcast must be compatible with the existing FM-Stereo
standard. Omnia founder Frank Foti has written a new White Paper
discussing this subject, entitled "5.1 Surround Sound Compatibility Within
HD Radio and The Existing FM-Stereo Environment." Check it out on the
Omnia website at
www.omniaaudio.com/tech/ .
* TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA ON THE ROAD: Meet us at these upcoming events:
* BROADCAST LINKS: With FM surround being such a hot topic, plenty of folks have been searching for information on what content is available in SACD, DVD-A and DTS multi-channel formats. Here are a few we've found useful: www.sa-cd.net lists SACD releases from all manufacturers around the world; over 3100 titles and counting! DVD Audio Daily (www.dvdaudiodaily.com) reports on new releases and industry news relating to DVD-A. And www.dts.com/entertainment jumps to DTS Entertainment's listing of multichannel DTS audio discs. Have a favorite of your own? Write and let us know. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, May, 2005 * WOR, NEW YORK, SIGNS ON WITH
AXIA: If you haven't already heard the news, New York's legendary
WOR has commissioned
their new Manhattan digs, signing on their Axia-powered studios at 111
Broadway on May 2nd. WOR has a lot of history, being one of the oldest AM
stations in New York City (on the air since 1922), the nation's first CBS
affiliate, and the world's first AM HD-Radio broadcaster. Now, WOR and the
WOR Network is the first broadcaster in NYC to build studios using Axia
IP-Audio Network technology. Tom Ray, WOR's longtime DOE, told us that
"The installation was very simple. Being able to use off-the-shelf CAT-6
cable for all connections - audio and interconnect network - is something
we really appreciate." Want to read more about it? Browse
www.AxiaAudio.com/news/ and
click on "WOR Is On The Air."
* SPEAKING OF TOM RAY: The folks
at Telos, Omnia and Axia join the broadcasting community in congratulating
Tom, who has just been promoted to Vice President/Corporate Directory of
Engineering for Buckley Broadcasting (read more at
http://tinyurl.com/dnwe6). Tom's association with Buckley goes a long
ways back - his first radio job was at a Buckley station in 1977!
Congratulations for a job well done! (By the way, we can't help noting
that the press photo of Tom issued by Buckley's PR department shows him in
front of a rack of brand-new Axia gear - see for yourself at
www.wor710.com/photos/tom_ray_1.jpg .)
* TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA ON THE ROAD: Meet our representatives at these upcoming events:
* TECH TIP OF THE WEEK: "Where can I find the latest software downloads for my Telos, Omnia and Axia gear?" I like this question, because it's an easy one to answer. You can find the latest software on the Telos, Omnia and Axia websites. Bookmark these links for quick access:
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* HEAR 5.1 BROADCAST OVER LIVE
FM: The buzz about Surround Sound for FM HD Radio is enormous, and Telos,
Omnia, Axia and our friends at Fraunhofer Labs and Bose have teamed up for
a live demonstration of distinct 5.1 using FhG's "Coded-Discrete"
technology; the only 5.1 FM proposal that results in the listener hearing
distinct multi-channel audio (instead of a matrixed scheme, like the old
'70's Quad tech). There will be two demonstrations: One in the Axia and
Telos / Omnia booths (Booths N3616 and N2816 in the Radio Hall), and one
in the NAB Surround Pavilion (Booth C3607D in the Central Hall), where
you'll be able to hear 5.1 FM in the comfort of an Acura MDX SUV. You owe
it to yourself to hear how good 5.1 FM can sound! eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, March, 2005 Special Issue: Steve Church's CeBIT wrapup! (As he does every year, Telos founder Steve Church investigated the goings-on at CeBIT. This issue of eNews brings you Steve's look at what's on the technology horizon --Ed.) CeBIT is the world's biggest
technology exhibition, with 480,000 visitors jostling to get a peek at the
wares on display from 6,270 exhibitors. I've made the annual trek for the
past few years because it's the best place on Earth to try to understand
what is going on in the world of communications, computing, and consumer
technologies. Subscribe to eNews
The exhilarating part was the explosion of networking technologies that we can use to build modern studio facilities. Ethernet and things to plug into it were everywhere - as if some natural force was causing every ecological niche to be filled. Switches, routers, phones, interfaces, servers, WiFi, WiMax, iPods and other players, a bewildering variety of PCs, optical links, Telco central office gear, on and on, aisle after aisle. This is certainly the age of the network, and you'll see our contribution to this phenomenon at the NAB next month, where we'll show you how to use computer networks to build a studio facility and airchain that is both cheaper and more capable than the old-fashioned way. Our long-time partner, the public German Fraunhofer laboratory, inventors of MPEG MP3 and AAC, had a big display in the Future Park hall. They announced that DIVX will use MP3 Surround as the next-generation audio codec for their video software and that more announcements are soon to come. The surround part of this is the same technology that we are proposing for HD Radio, so it was good to see this traction. It means that chips will be coming with the surround decoder built-in. They also had their new surround headphone technology called Ensonido on display. This takes a 5.1 channel input and creates a surround experience *on normal stereo headphones* using head-related-transfer-functions. I convinced the FhG guys to let us demo this at the NAB, so you'll soon have a chance to check out this system for yourself if you'll be in Las Vegas. It seems this tech will be coming to MP3 players soon and may be a catalyst for surround music for the masses. Of course, this could also work to deliver surround to broadcast listeners on headphones. Americans invented the PC and the Internet, and vendors like Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco still dominate the "value chain", but one cannot fail to be impressed by the amazing variety of PC-related products on offer from Asian outfits. Endless booths with cases, coolers, cards, boards, monitors, supplies, drives, keyboards, speakers, DSL boxes, wireless stuff. Perhaps the most impressive thing that caught my eye was the tiny PC on a card from VIA. About the size of a credit card, it runs standard Windows and Linux applications. I also loved the computerized sport shoes that adjust their sole elasticity to the surface upon which they are running, and the jacket with MP3 player buttons built-in to the sleeves. The power of creativity was everywhere to be seen and is a vivid reminder of what people can accomplish when they are using their imaginations. One comes away with a feeling of tremendous respect for human inventive capacity and optimism for the future. But for our industry, there are developments that look worrisome. The iPod is today's Walkman. You remember that the Walkman started as a cassette player, but quickly went on to include an FM radio. The iPod doesn't have one, and almost no other MP3 player does either. At the same time, there are now docks that let you use your iPod as a substitute for your car radio and home stereo. Supposedly, these docks are going to be in some original equipment car radios by next year. Over in the red-hot mobile phone exhibits, you could see a bunch of them sporting integrated MP3 players and download services to fill them are getting started. (Motorola was rumored to be introducing one that would work with iTunes, but seems it was postponed.) No FM radios. At the consumer electronics exhibits, flat-screen TVs with surround speaker set-ups were the norm. No FM radios. There were some demonstrations and a lot of buzz about a new category of living room product called "HDD DVD" to be introduced later this year. These are DVD player/recorders with a hard drive and some intelligence. At first glance, this might look a bit like TIVO, but HDD DVD is much more - or much less - depending on how you look at it. HDD DVD will allow you to record programs, sports events, movies, etc., and cut your own DVD's for storage. Unlike TIVO, HDD DVD will not have a monthly charge. The unit is always standing-by to record your favorite programs. When you are ready to watch them, an on-screen menu shows you what was recorded. You click a button to view only what you want to view and in what order. In what could be a blow to TV stations and networks, commercials can be automatically deleted. These are supposed to be $299 at Walmart by this Christmas. A similar, but more powerful product is the PC-based "home media center". These are usually built around Microsoft's media software, but there are also Linux-based products. Microsoft says they have already sold a million software packages. A bunch of Asian companies were showing sleek devices with TV tuners, DVD drives, hard disks, and network interfaces - wired and wireless. As with the HDD DVD boxes, you can record and play TV, but most also let you download music and video from the Internet and you can have terminals around your house that tap into the programs stored on the unit's hard drive. But FM tuners? Nope. (I'm guessing that Howard Stringer - a content guy - being named Sony CEO is going to heat up this category in a big way as he searches for new ways to "synergize" programs and technology.) More than a few people are sounding off on radio's distressed future lately, and that alarm surely needs to be sounded. But we also need to keep things in perspective. Will media centers and iPods kill radio? I don't think so. Human nature is working against it. When I got my first car CD player, I loved it. Rotated all my favorite discs through the car - for about two months, when boredom set in and radio's right-now news and talk variety won me back. Even ad-laden music stations were better than CDs because they offered the element of surprise and the chance to hear something new. The story repeated a couple years later when I got an MP3 disc player in the car. All the fresh stuff on my PC was fodder for on-road listening, so it was back to recorded music - for awhile. Couple of months later, and the radio was on more than the player. Broadcast radio is an effective way to connect audio producers and consumers. It's a tech that works without hassle and everybody has a receiver. Despite complaints about today's radio being repetitive and stale, it's probably true that programmers have pretty well figured out how to appeal to mass-market listeners. But, just as thousands of small-signal AM stations were marginalized as FM caught-on in the 70s and 80s, so might FM suffer a similar fate under pressure from satellites, iPods, networked media centers, MP3-enabled mobile phones, surround music DVDs, and all of the mutations and combinations of these themes sure to be coming. While listeners are mostly still with us, the technology world is finding nothing compelling in today's radio broadcasting. What can we do to reverse this? To start, we need to get our transmission tech up to date. Everything media-related is already, or soon will be, digital. Radio is going to be an analog orphan if we don't get HD Radio on the air everywhere. Digital machines need to eat digital food. Once we have that in place, broadcasters and manufacturers can go on to collaborate to invent devices that have internal storage to make a new hybrid that includes traditional radio programming, "podcast" downloads, and MP3 playback. As listeners, we often want to actively choose, but we are also happy at times to be in a passive just-play-me-something or tell-me-something mood. And we usually want the comfort of a human connection and knowing that we'll be on top of important news. A hybrid device that lets this happen in a flexible way would energize gadget inventors and listeners alike. NPR's Tomorrow Radio is a step in this direction, and the FCC's decision to allow HD streams to be divided into multiple channels will let these experiments get underway. But there is so much more unexplored potential. In addition to dedicated radio receiver/iPod devices, we should work to get HD tuners into media centers. Then we could tag our on-air programs as well as offer special record-only ones to let a listener build the personal "radio station" she wants, including targeted advertising. She could listen at home or load up her iPod for the road. We could integrate elements downloaded via mobile phone channels or the Internet. We could collect fees for downloads. We could offer ad-free programming, for a price. We don't have a lot of bandwidth on HD radio, but local storage and clever engineering can work around that limitation. As to the immediate future, I suppose we'll see a proliferation of spoken-word radio formats as a competitive reaction to all the music delivery alternatives. Probably a lot of talk is going to move from AM to FM and there'll be yet more of it coming to sliced-up HD channels. For those stations staying with music, we need to get a capable surround system on the air so that we don't get beaten because of an obvious and correctable technical deficiency. All the home-theater-in-a-box systems you see on consumer electronics shop floors should have HD surround tuners in them - and many probably would if we were transmitting this signal today. (You'll see the first live demo of the FhG/MPEG/Telos/Omnia surround system in our booth at this NAB, too.) Again, we need this upgrade to keep both technology developers and listeners on-board. Don't we want all those media center terminals to be able to receive our radio broadcasts in the kitchen, bedroom, etc.? Don't we want to defend clock-radio listening, perhaps the last place in the home where radio is still routinely used? Don't we want radio tuners in today's home listening systems? Don't we want a way to get our programs into iPods? To protect our future, don't we need to be perceived as "cool" by techies and teenagers? As always, change offers both challenges and opportunities. As computing and networking become ever more a both rival *and* an enabler to our industry, I wonder where we will end-up. These are, indeed, interesting times. -- Steve Church eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, January, 2005 * RADIO GUIDE "COVERS" AXIA: Have you seen the January issue of Radio Guide? Yes, that's a big, beautiful SmartSurface highlighting the cover story, "IP-Audio Distribution Moves Into the Studio." As Radio Guide Editor Barry Mishkind writes, "As more and more stations transition to or plan for digital audio plants, it is important to understand the technologies that make it work." This article (written by yours truly!) gets you "under the hood" to see just it's possible to move broadcast audio over Ethernet. Don't have a copy? You can request one at www.radio-guide.com . Subscribe to eNews
* WCBS-FM UPGRADES TO OMNIA: You've probably heard the recent news that 14 of the Top 15 FM stations in the Big Apple are Omnia users, including #1-rated WLTW-FM. You may not have heard that Infinity oldies powerhouse WCBS-FM is the latest to upgrade to Omnia processing. PD Dave Logan tells us "We absolutely love the massive sound we get with the new Omnia-6 digital unit. It's aggressive but forgiving, with plenty of spectrum and punch." Who else is using Omnia? Check out a partial list at www.omniaaudio.com/buzz/users.htm . * CHICAGO TALKS WITH TELOS: A Series 2101 Multi-Studio Talkshow System will power talk programming at Bonneville Radio's Chicago cluster, which includes WLUP, WILV, WTMX, WDRV and WWDV. Series 2101 is the world's only broadcast phone system designed specifically for large, multi-studio installations (such as Clear Channel Los Angeles, XM Satellite Radio, and Entercom Seattle, to name just a few). If you're planning a big facility move and need a broadcst phone system that will handle as many as 120 incoming call circuits across 32 separate studios, browse www.telos-systems.com/2101/ to discover more about Series 2101. * SABC STANDARDIZES ON ZEPHYR XSTREAM: Great news this week from Johannesburg, where the South African Broadcasting Corporation (the national broadcaster of South Africa) has replaced all of their broadcast codecs (nearly 20 in all), standardizing on Telos Zephyr Xstream. Since its introduction, Zephyr has become the "gold standard" for ISDN codecs, relied up worldwide by broadcasters for the best sound quality - using MPEG Layer 3, MPEG AAC and AAC Low Delay - and the most reliable operation. Check out www.zephyr.com to find out more about the capabilities of Zephyr Xstream and its POTS+ISDN companion, Zephyr Xport. * NEW GEAR GUIDE: Every week, more Telos, Omnia and Axia equipment helps broadcast pros take control of their audio. Here are a few of the folks getting new goodies this week:
* TELOS / OMNIA / AXIA ON THE ROAD: Meet our representatives at these upcoming events:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP: LIGHTNING TIME: It's that time of year again: one thing you can count on during winter storms is lightning strikes. Are you prepared? Even if you think you are, there are some things about surge suppression you may not know. For instance, did you know that uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) may not protect against surges? Or that once a surge suppressor has done its job, it needs to be replaced? For a comprehensive look at protecting your valuable gear against nature's little power spikes, read our White Paper www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/surge.htm . * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Misplaced that user manual? Can't find it anywhere? Maybe it's at Usermanual-Online. Here's a link submitted by our own Rolf Taylor: "I found this searching for a manual for a Yamaha Surround Decoder I bought on eBay. They seem to have lots of other stuff. Plus they seem to be quite sophisticated, automagically testing each link, thereby maintaining the usefulness of the site." Check out www.usermanual-online.com . * NEW ENEWS ARCHIVE PAGE ONLINE: Looking for a link or a story from a back issue of eNews? Our entire archive has now been captured online for your convenience at www.zephyr.com/enews/ . Also, if you have a friend you think would enjoy eNews, send them to www.zephyr.com/enews/ to subscribe (or e-mail us with their subscription request at subscribe@telos-systems.com ). eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, December, 2004 * IT'S A HELLUVA TOWN: You may have heard that more of the US’ Top 100 FM stations use Omnia than all other brands combined. And we're pleased to report that New York City, the #1 radio market with more than 19 million radio listeners, is definitely an Omnia town. Run down the ratings list and you'll find that 14 of the Top 15 FM stations in the Big Apple are Omnia users, including Clear Channel's #1-rated WLTW-FM. (Can #15 be far behind?) Read our press release at www.OmniaAudio.com/news/ for the whole story. Subscribe to eNews
* NEW YORK'S NEWEST OMNIA STATION: Infinity's WCBS-FM, where legendary programmer Dave Logan tells us "We absolutely love the massive sound we get with the new Omnia-6. It's aggressive but forgiving, with plenty of spectrum and punch." Omnia users are pretty vocal about their love for their processors; to hear more of what they've told us, check out www.OmniaAudio.com/buzz/ . * FROM THE MAILBAG: We got a great e-mail this week (from a station we can't name), with comments about the new Omnia-3fm Turbo audio processor: "I Just purchased the Omnia-3fm Turbo a couple of days ago, and let me say this... W O W !! Unbelievable !! The difference is NIGHT and DAY !! This little box really does PACK a PUNCH. I am using one of your factory presets named 'HUMOR ME,' since I think that preset applies to a diverse mix of music. Sincerely, {Name Witheld}. P.S.: THIS THING IS L O U D !!!!" Find out more about the new 3-band Omnia-3fm Turbo at www.OmniaAudio.com/o3fm/ . * UPDATE ALERT: Axia users, firmware updates are available online for your Audio Nodes, Router Selectors and GPIO nodes available to download. Browse to www.AxiaAudio.com/download/ to see the newest updates and installation instructions. This is also where you'll find the latest Axia brochures, user manuals and other Axia tech information - bookmark it and check often for updates, or use the link at the bottom of the page to be notified by e-mail when new info is available. * NEW GEAR GUIDE: Every week, more Telos, Omnia and Axia equipment helps broadcast pros take control of their audio. Here are a few of the folks getting new goodies this week:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP: This week's question: "I'm expecting delivery of my new Zephyr Xport later this week. Anything I need to do to my Xstream or my phone lines to be ready?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Just received from our friends at Fraunhofer labs is news that they've released a free demonstration version of their MP3 surround encoder/decoder - the very same technology used in the Telos / Omnia HD Radio surround sound demonstrations you've heard at NAB, R&R and elsewhere. The software enables you to encode and decode fully backward-compatible 5.1-channel MP3s on your Windows 2000 or XP computer, and even comes with a plugin for Winamp. There are several 5.1 WAV files you can download for experimentation, too. Download it at www.mp3surround-format.com . (Don't forget: you'll need a soundcard that supports 5.1 output to hear the multi-channel output.) * NEW ENEWS ARCHIVE PAGE ONLINE: Looking for a link or a story from a back issue of eNews? Our entire archive has now been captured online for your convenience at www.zephyr.com/enews/ . Also, if you have a friend you think would enjoy eNews, send them to www.zephyr.com/enews/ to subscribe (or e-mail us with their subscription request at subscribe@telos-systems.com).
eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, November, 2004 * YOUR AUDIO CARD IS OBSOLETE: Since the dawn of personal computing, man has sought ways to liberate audio from beige boxes (remember AdLib cards?). Over the years, some pretty sophisticated (read: expensive) audio cards have been created, especially for broadcast applications. But if you love the idea of never having to touch another PC card to get air-quality audio from your workstations, check out the Axia IP-Audio Driver. It's a software driver for Windows PCs that lets you send and record pure digital PCM audio using the PC's Ethernet port -- eliminating noisy D/A conversions that normally happen inside the EM-heavy PC case. If you have an Axia IP-Audio network, you can send and receive digital audio directly from the network; there's even an 8-by-8 version for use with audio delivery systems from Axia partners like Enco, Prophet Systems and Scott Studios. Read more at www.AxiaAudio.com/soundcards/ . Subscribe to eNews
* UPDATE YOUR MANUALS: Speaking
of the Axia IP-Audio Driver, you'll find a newly-released manual update
for that and a handful of other Axia products at
www.AxiaAudio.com/downloads/
. Telos manuals are at
www.telos-systems.com/support/manuals.htm , and you'll find Omnia
manuals at
www.OmniaAudio.com/support/manuals.htm . Bookmark them and check back
often for newly-released revs - our manual-writing gnomes are working
full-tilt!
* SEE US AT OAB: If you're
coming to Columbus for the Ohio Association of Broadcasters conference, be
sure and look for Omnia's Frank Foti, who will be demonstrating 5.1
Surround for HD Radio. The date is Monday, November 15, and you can
register at www.oab.com .
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Here's a cool free utility we've found for those who produce audio on PC workstations. It's called "DriveTime," and it tells you how many minutes of audio storage space is on your hard drive! Enter a sample rate for WAV files, and you instantly know how much recording time you've got left. Get it from http://tinyurl.com/6ewlh . eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, October, 2004 * RADIO GETS TURBO-CHARGED: The new Omnia-3fm Turbo audio processor is getting great reviews from broadcasters. "You have a damn good processor," says Ray Toney of WQTP-FM. "I really like the smooth, open sound." From David Hood at WENS, Indianapolis: "You can really hear the difference... Omnia-3fm Turbo is smoooooooth!" And Peter Stewart, who wrote a review of Omnia-3fm Turbo in the current issue of Radio Guide, calls it "Absolutely outstanding." Read up on the new Omnia-3fm Turbo at <www.OmniaAudio.com/o3fm/> Subscribe to eNews
* BSW IS NEWEST AXIA DEALER: Broadcast Supply Worldwide, the highly-successful Washington-based audio equipment supplier, is the latest in the growing corps of Axia Audio representatives. "Axia's technology expands into a bold new area of broadcast engineering to offer a complete, integrated studio solution, customizable using an easy 'building block' approach," said Tim Schwieger, BSW President. "Our customers have indicated a willingness to deploy new technology, and Axia products are right on target." See the full story at <www.axiaaudio.com/news> * HD RADIO IN SURROUND IS A HIT: The Omnia booth was mobbed at the recent NAB Radio Show in San Diego with folks crowding in to hear live, over-the-air HD Radio broadcasts in discrete 5.1 Surround Sound using Fraunhofer coding technology. Some comments: "Wow... that's amazing! There's absolutely no channel leakage!" "You guys are actually broadcasting this? I thought we were much further away than that." "Wait til our production guys hear about this!" and "This sounds fan-[expletive deleted]-tastic!!" Want to know more about surround on HD Radio? Read our background paper at <http://tinyurl.com/4nmzf> (PDF viewer required). * MANUAL UPDATES: We've posted several updated User's Manuals in the last week or so. You'll find a new Omnia-3fm manual with coverage of the new Omnia-3fm Turbo at <www.OmniaAudio.com/support/manuals.htm>, and new versions of Axia Microphone Audio Node and GPIO Node manuals at <www.AxiaAudio.com/downloads/>. * NEW GEAR GUIDE: Every week, more Telos, Omnia and Axia equipment helps broadcast pros take control of their audio. Here are a notable few of the folks getting new goodies this week:
* ROAD TRIP: The folks from Telos / Omnia / Axia are out and about. Here's our latest schedule:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP: This week's question: "I am looking to order a new Super Auto Answer (SAA) board. I see on your price list that you have 3 revs now, What's up?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: With all the talk about 5.1 audio for FM, there's lots of interest in production tools that can handle multi-channel files. One that we know of is Adobe Audition (formerly Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro). Want to play with creating multi-channel audio productions? There's a 30-day trial edition of the Audition software on the Adobe website at <www.adobe.com/products/audition/> . * 5.1 FOR FM RADIO - WHY DOES
IT MATTER? By now you've heard the buzz in all the industry trades about
multi-channel audio on the FM band. We at Telos / Omnia / Axia are
committed to furthering the quality of broadcast audio in every way
possible, so the idea of bringing FM radio into the multi-channel arena
grabbed us from the get-go. Why? Because, as Steve Church and Frank Foti
have written, FM radio desperately needs to keep pace with the
technological changes that have transformed the rest of the consumer audio
space - home theater, in particular, has conditioned listeners to expect a
higher level of audio experience. And broadcasting FM in 5.1 channels will
allow our industry to meet - even exceed - those expectations.
eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, September, 2004 * PROPHET SYSTEMS BECOMES AN AXIA PARTNER: We're proud to tell you that the latest audio delivery system provider to become an Axia partner is Prophet Systems (www.prophetsys.com). What does this mean? Simply put, Prophet's NexGen digital delivery system will now "speak" directly with Axia IP-Audio networks, eliminating sound cards for users of NexGen and Axia systems, and enabling ultra-tight integration of delivery software with studio systems. "This is great!" says Mogan David of Federated Media's WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana. "One thing that really interests me is Axia's sound-card replacement capability. Using Axia and Prophet, I can wire up 8 sources into and out of my automation system with one Ethernet cable! That alone saves about two days worth of work." Want to read more? Go to www.AxiaAudio.com/news/ . Subscribe to eNews
* PUTTING THE "WOW" BACK IN
RADIO: It's nice when folks in your own hometown give you a little love.
So imagine how thrilled all the Telos, Omnia and Axia folks were when the
Cleveland Plain Dealer profiled us, using the headline above. To read the
article, point your browser at
http://tinyurl.com/4es8m for the story. (You can also get a PDF from
our website at
www.telos-systems.com/news/pdf/plaindealer.pdf .)
* FROM THE OMNIA MAILBAG: If
you haven't heard, there's a major new upgrade for Omnia-3fm users. New
software adds three-band AGC to the already potent Omnia-3fm,
"turbo-charging" your audio with even more power - that's why it's called
"Turbo!" Here's a great letter we got about the new Omnia-3fm Turbo from
David Hood of Emmis' WENS-FM (www.real971.com)
in Indianapolis, Indiana: "We love the controls! Omnia-3FMT is smooooooth.
We have a soft rock format; the Country preset plus a few minor
adjustments works perfectly for us...and you can really hear the
difference the 3 bands make." And David adds "BTW, good service and good
products; you guys will be around for the next 100 years!"
* TECH TIP, #24: This question
from one of our US clients: "We're going to be broadcasting remotely on
Election Day, and there are several stations that want to pick up our
feed. How can we use the Zephyr Xport or the Zephyr Xstream to send one
signal out to mutilple stations?" eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, August, 2004 BGS BECOMES AXIA DISTRIBUTOR: We're pleased to welcome Broadcasters General Store (www.broadcastdealer.com) as an Axia representative. "We feel that everyone will be able to take advantage of Axia networking. We see it being used in small college stations, as well large station clusters," says Buck Waters, BGS' Sales Manager. Read the whole interview at http://tinyurl.com/49vws . Subscribe to eNews
* LOGGING, SKIMMING,
TELESCOPING: "I'd recommend ProFIler to anyone," says Jim Davies of WSUI
and KSUI, the radio stations of Iowa University. ProFiler isn't just an
audio logger: it's an MP3-based skimmer that makes easy work of
telescoping airchecks or assembling station composites; there's a secure
"live listen" capability that lets PDs, GMs or consultants hear program
audio live over the Net as it's being encoded too. "Our program directors
are delighted that we have this ability," Jim tells us. ProFiler software
runs on Windows 2000 or XP Pro computers, and it's reasonably priced too.
Read what Jim Davies has to say at
http://tinyurl.com/6keq6 , then see all ProFiler can do for you at
www.telos-systems.com/profiler/ .
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: If you loved Soul music, there's a good chance you had more than a few Stax Records discs in your collection. Soul music is such an important part of American music and radio history, in fact, that there is now a Museum of American Soul Music, located in the refurbished Stax Records HQ in Memphis, Tennessee. Check them out online at www.soulsvilleusa.com . Where else could you see Isaac Hayes' '72 Eldorado? eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, July, 2004 * AXIA ANNOUNCES A PRO AUDIO ETHERNET ADAPTOR: Imagine a device that could take the analog audio output of any pro audio device, instantly turn it into studio-grade 24-bit digital audio that can be sent, along with hundreds of other audio channels, over standard Ethernet cables. What could you do with something like that? Cut down on miles of wiring, for one. Get rid of distribution amps. Make a routing switcher for about half the cost of a hardwired system. Sound interesting? Want to know more? Read here: www.AxiaAudio.com/news/ . Subscribe to eNews
* IP-AUDIO IN THE NEWS: In case
you didn't notice, Audio over IP is hot stuff; everybody's talking about
it. In fact (drum roll, please), I predict that IP-Audio networks will
replace discrete wiring in broadcast facilities within 5 years. In Tom
Vernon's July 14th Radio World article, Axia President Michael Dosch says
that an inexpensive Ethernet switch has switching power equal to a TDM
router 20 times its cost. Haven't seen the article? We've archived it for
you at http://tinyurl.com/57ckk . * SERIES 2101 TALKSHOW SYSTEM
GOES LIVE IN LA: Over the past several weeks, Clear Channel's Los Angeles
radio stations (which include KIIS-FM, KBIG, KYSR and KFI) have been
moving into their new condolidated facilities. With around 20 broadcast
studios and voiceover stations, they needed a broadcast telephone system
that could handle the immense anticipated call volume, could be centrally
controlled, and was reconfigurable to suit changing needs. Clear Channel
chose the Telos Series 2101, the world's only whole-plant broadcast phone
system. Series 2101 is scalable: it can handle just a couple of studios
and phone lines, or as many 32 studios and 120 phone lines. Sound
interesting?
www.telos-systems.com/2101/ for more info.
To find out why broadcasters
prefer Telos Talkshow Systems, visit
www.telos-systems.com/products/ .
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Remember "Monitor", NBC's long-running weekend radio anthology program? Well, a lot of people still do, and we've found a tribute site with photos, stories and airchecks that will bring it all back to you. Visit www.monitorbeacon.com for a blast from the past. eNews from Telos / Omnia / Axia, June, 2004 * AXIA AUDIO LIVES: We heard from many attendees that the Axia display was the most visited place in the Radio Hall at NAB, and nearly as popular at AES. The Axia name and logo were unveiled for the first time at these events, and the crowds took notice... as did the press. Our favorite photos from the NAB show are on display at Japan's Tech-Ex website -- notice the caption on the third photograph, underneath the picture of Axia President, Michael Dosch. Subscribe to eNews
* NAB VISITORS' COMMENTS ABOUT AXIA: "I think that you folks did a terrific job with this system." "It's a great idea. This is very well done." "I am impressed with the look and feel of what you have put together. We'll have a lot to talk about back [at headquarters]." And just one more: "I really love it. It's great!" But tradeshow visitors aren't the only ones singing the praises of Axia. Read on... * AXIA USERS SPEAK: A few quotes from Axia clients: "It's a great product, and in fact I have already recommended it to our company's regional engineer," says John Riccio, CE of Clear Channel's Ashtabula, Ohio station cluster. "Installation is a tremendous time and material saver over conventional studio wiring," asserts Mark Manolio, CE of Cleveland State University's WCSB-FM. And Marc Johnson, CE of WEGL-FM at Auburn University, tells us that "The equipment was straight out of the box and on the air in a matter of hours. The installation could not have gone smoother... Our operators enjoy the capabilities and flexibility that [the] Axia system provides." Read more here . * AND DID WE MENTION? From the URL above, you've probably figured out that Axia's brand-new website is active. Here you'll find the information you seek about Axia - how it works, what you can do with it, how it can benefit your station. We'd love to hear your feedback on AxiaAudio.com: send your comments to Inquiry@AxiaAudio.com . * WHAT IS IP-AUDIO? Imagine sending dozens - even hundreds - of digital stereo audio signals between rooms, studios or even buildings using Ethernet. Uncompressed, linear PCM audio, with extremely low delay. To find out how it all works, and about Livewire, the technology that powers Axia audio networks, read the informative white paper by Steve Church, "Ethernet For Studio Audio Systems," at www.Axiaudio.com/tech/ . * NEW AXIA PARTNERS: Some major names in the broadcast community are teaming up with Axia. Digital delivery system leaders Enco Systems and Scott Studios are providing playout systems that are Axia-compatible. Radio Systems' StudioHub+ modular connection components plug 'n play with Axia components. And broadcast facilities provider Balsys Technology has become an Axia integrator. Want to be a partner? Visit www.AxiaAudio.com/partners/ to find out more. * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Audio networking, of course, is nothing new: AT&T implemented the first crude audio bridge at the tail end of the 19th century. For history buffs, Thomas White's excellent "United States Early Radio History" website has a wonderful recounting of the development of the earliest radio networks; you can find it at http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec019.htm . * TIME HAS COME TODAY: Can't put it off another day. We've had an incredible response to our Zephyr 10th Anniversary Celebration bundle offer - the one that can save you $1,800.00 or more on the purchase of a complete Zephyr Remote Bundle, with the award-winning Zephyr Xstream and Zephyr Xport. But all good things come to an end, and so must this offer: June 30 is your last day to take advantage of these Birthday savings. Check out www.zephyr.com and then call your Telos dealer before time's up. * YOU'RE SURROUNDED: Chances are you've heard the latest buzz: Surround Sound for FM HD Radio; discrete, 5.1-channel audio that can be broadcast in the HD Radio channel and decoded by the home or car listener for the full multichannel experience. You may have heard the Telos / Omnia 5.1 demonstration at the NAB Convention (http://tinyurl.com/32o55); in their current issue, Radio magazine gives a Technology Honor "Pick Hit" award to Multi-Channel IBOC Audio. And Kenwood has stated they plan to implement 5.1 for FM HD Radio in their calendar 2005 model radios. * WHY MULTICHANNEL HDFM MAKES SENSE: Telos' Steve Church and Omnia's Frank Foti recently authored a position paper explaining why 5.1-channel broadcasts make sense for FM HD Radio: "Listeners get something compellingly new and interesting. They already know about 5.1 from their exposure to home theater and could readily imagine the benefits of having that experience in their cars. FM radio stations again take the lead in offering a superior audio technology... Programmers and production directors get to create cinematic high-wow-factor promo pieces to breathe new life into programming." Sound interesting? Read more at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/ . * PD'S SPEAK 5.1, TOO: Telos Systems' Denny Sanders was a Program Director and air talent for many years at Cleveland's legendary WMMS and WMJI. He lays out the facts about 5.1 from a PD's perspective, letting your programming people know exactly why multichannel FM is worth paying attention to. His paper, called "5.1 Surround: For Real On Radio?" is also at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/ ; download it for your programming folks today. * A CHANCE FOR YOUR PROGRAMMERS TO HEAR FM 5.1: If your PD, MD or OM is going to the Radio & Records Convention in Los Angeles next week, tell them to look for the Omnia 5.1 Demo just behind the lobby bar at the Beverly Hilton. With Frank Foti at the helm, they can hear exactly how 5.1 will sound on their FM station, from music to production to station jingles. Heck, we'll even buy 'em a beer for stopping in to listen. * WOR CHOOSES OMNIA FOR AM HD RADIO: When a legendary station like New York's WOR chooses a new audio processor, that's news... especially when they switched from another brand. In a recent Radio World User Report, Tom Ray says "Do we like the Omnia 5-EX on WOR? Definitely... Foti hit a home run with this processor. I put it into the rack with a spot welder, and if he thinks he’s going to get this one back, he’s sorely mistaken." What makes Omnia-5EX HDAM so special? For starters, it's the world's only AM processor that can process Conventional AM and Digital AM signals at the same time. For another, it sounds great! Find out more about Omnia-5EX HDAM at www.omniaaudio.com/o5am/ , then read Tom Ray's article here. * COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU: Here's a list of some upcoming appearances by Telos / Omnia / Axia:
* LINK OF THE WEEK: With all the buzz about 5.1 for FM and multi-channel audio in general, a great portal to learn more is www.quadraphonicquad.com . Originally begun as a forum for collectors of quadrarphonic recordings, it's now a clearinghouse of information on multi-channel music releases, be they DVD-A, SACD or DTS. You'll find plenty of information on the state of modern Surround (and some interesting discussions on the fine points of older multichannel formats as well). eNews from Telos / Omnia, April, 2004 * From Steve Church, writing from Hanover, Germany: "I just got back from CeBIT, the huge tech product exhibition. Of course, I was keeping my eyes peeled for anything interesting to broadcasters. The focus of the show is computing, telephony, networking, and digital photography, so you have to look a little 'sideways' to see developments that are useful to our world. Here's what I thought was hot..."
CeBIT is amazingly big - something like 6x the NAB. When I was not peering and poking my fingers at the cool products, I was thinking how vast is the human imagination and ability to invent. All the tremendous variety on display was the result of arranging the few base materials found on or under the surface of the Earth in novel ways. While some humans - guided by extreme political or world views - want to destroy, many, many others want to create. That, for me, was the truly the most important story of the show. Subscribe to eNews
* TWOx12 - ON AIR LEFT, RIGHT & WORLDWIDE - Is there anything about which Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Al Franken could agree? YES! The TWOx12 Talkshow System! New TWOx12 users include Ryan Seacrest, The Washington Journal, CNBC, and Air America. Radio France is standardizing their on-air phone operations with TWOx12 systems. YLE Radio in Finland is using TWOx12 as well. Other broadcasters standardizing on TWOx12 and Zephyr Xstream include TRT, Macedonian Radio, and CBC. * TELOS / OMNIA ON THE ROAD: Kirk Harnack is building frequent flyer miles while going to:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP, #23 - Audio level-setting. Every audio device, whether it's analog or digital, has an audio noise floor and an audio clipping level. Good engineering practice dictates that we set audio levels into and out of each device such that we enjoy the maximum performance each has to offer. If you've ever watched "The Price Is Right" on TV, you have an idea of how level-setting is best accomplished. If the audio level is too low, it gets lost in the noise (other low-price guesses). Too high and the audio is clipped, creating awful distortion (and losing our turn in the game). So, we want to adjust our audio levels such that we're using all the available voltage or bits, without running out of either. Most analog devices show us audio level using VU meters. Digital devices have peak-reading meters. It's important to note that these different meters show us different things. A VU meter does not indicate peak level - we must mentally add some "headroom" to accommodate for peaks. A peak-reading meter does indicate peak levels. No fudge-factor is necessary. The peak level shown is, indeed, the highest audio level present. No headroom" above that peak level is needed, as long as the peaks never try to exceed full scale, or 0 dBfs. * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: One more "find" from Steve Church at CeBIT - A Digital Swiss Army Knife. www.swissbit.com/hauptea82.html?nv=2261&spr=2 eNews from Telos / Omnia, March, 2004 * Streaming, Logging, Listening - Groups are adopting ProFiler. ProFiler will not only log station audio to hard drive, it will also stream live audio at standard bit rates over private or public IP networks. One PC in a market, plus a couple of ProFiler cards and software, is all it takes to log a station cluster's audio. Programming executives can listen to live audio from any station and compare what's airing now with past days' programming - checking for trends or problems. You can log some shows at a high bit rate for making daily promos, while other dayparts can be either logged or not logged at low bit rates for spot verification. ProFiler is a private logging and streaming solution, designed to assist PD's, traffic departments, and engineers check on current and historic station audio. See more at www.telos-systems.com/profiler . Subscribe to eNews
* ISDN ENVY: What would you pay for ISDN - when you want it and where you want it? Broadcast engineers in the Los Angeles, CA, area are getting full ISDN service for "about $30 per month!" Installation is generally a flat $250 fee with just a 5 day lead time. At a recent SBE meeting in Burbank, engineers described how easy, convenient and reliable ISDN service is from Verizon, their Local Exchange Carrier (LEC). It turns out that in Los Angeles, Verizon operates an "Entertainment Division" which handles all kinds of circuits related to the entertainment industry. Pricing is quite reasonable and business is brisk. "ISDN remotes with Telos Xstreams are commonplace," according to Dennis Martin, Chief Engineer for Emmis' KZLA and KPWR. Helpful information about ISDN is on Telos' Tech Talk page... www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/ . More information about ISDN is linked from www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/links.htm . * THEY'RE EVERYWHERE: Remote Broadcasts with Zephyr Xstream: Congratulations to more members of the Telos Zephyr and Xstream family! Some are new members and others are adding to their fleet of ISDN and POTS connected Xports and Xstreams. Telos welcomes new additions at the British Broadcasting Company; KKBT, Los Angeles; KMPS, Seattle; KZOL, Fresno; KDKA, Pittsburg; KTHX, Reno; KTNQ/KLVE, Los Angeles; WHB/Royals Radio Network, Kansas city; WKTU, New York; Cumulus, Nashville; KKDA, Dallas; and the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. (If you're passing out cigars, I'll be at the Telos/Omnia display at NAB in Las Vegas.) * TELOS / OMNIA ON THE ROAD: Kirk Harnack is building frequent flyer miles while going to:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP, #22 - RTFM! - At Telos and Omnia, "RTFM" means "Read The FREE Manual". All Telos and Omnia equipment manuals are available for free download, any place there's an Internet connection. Save them to hard drive. Put them on your own network server. You can even print one out - or just the page(s) you need. Telos manuals are linked from www.telos-systems.com/support/manuals.htm . Omnia manuals are linked from www.omniaaudio.com/support/manuals.htm . These manuals are all in Adobe PDF format. Manuals for our "legacy" equipment are scanned. Manuals for newer equipment are fully searchable (which is good, because they're BIG). * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: EUonline is a Journal of Public Radio Technology from National Public Radio. Access to many items requires registration. Some articles are availble without registration. http://www.npr.org/euonline/index.html . eNews from Telos / Omnia, February, 2004 * LIVEWIRE GOES LIVE: The very first radio station with Telos Livewire technology has signed on: WEGL-FM at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is so happy with their Livewire-connected studio and Telos SmartSurface control surface that they've constructed a web page with photos of the installation, and a video as well! Visit wegl.premiersounddj.com to see the pix and vid. Subscribe to eNews
* BIG BOY RELIES ON XPORT AT POWER 106: Emmis' KPWR-FM is the Number-One-rated station in Los Angeles, so even though morning show host Big Boy needed time away to recuperate after surgery, he didn't want to miss a single day on the air. Problem solved: Big Boy's engineers equipped him with a Zephyr Xport, which allowed him to do his morning show from the comfort of his hospital room! Xport is the perfect on-the-go remote codec: aacPlus coding delivers 15kHz audio over any POTS phone line; an ISDN option lets you use Low Delay MPEG AAC for even more superior quality. There's a built-in two-pot mixer for mic and line inputs - you can even connect to a laptop using the Ethernet port and send digital audio directly into your Xport. To find out more, browse www.zephyr.com . * SPECIAL SAVINGS ON ZEPHYR XSTREAM & XPORT: If you'd like to put Zephyr Xport to work at your station, there's no better time than now. We're celebrating Zephyr's 10th birthday by offering special pricing on Zephyr Xstream/Xport bundles that will put the latest coding technology to work for you and save you hundreds of dollars at the same time. Visit www.zephyr.com for details. We've extended this special offer until June 30th, but don't put off ordering - demand is heavy. * NEW OMNIAS HAVE INDUSTRY BUZZING: Last issue we announced our new Omnia-5EX processors for AM and FM. Both processors incorporate Omnia-s unique dual processing structure: You can process your conventional AM or FM audio streams PLUS HD Radio, DAB, DRM, satellite or other digital streams - all in the same box! (Omnia-5EX HD+AM especially made folks sit up and take notice: it's the world's ONLY audio processor that can process for digital AM broadcasting.) Radio magazine made mention of this, as did Radio World, and the newsgroups have been buzzing as well. You can read more about Omnia-5EX HD+AM at www.omniaaudio.com/o5am/ , and Omnia-5EX HD+FM at www.omniaaudio.com/o5fm/ . * NEW OMNIA-6EX PRESETS FOR DOWNLOAD: From time to time, our DSP engineers, working with our clients, perfect a new processing preset for specific format applications. We've just added the latest to our Omnia-6 Preset Gallery - a preset for eclectic stations whose programming includes rock, jazz, talk, r&b, etc. If you own an Omnia-6, check out the Preset Gallery by visiting www.omniaaudio.com/o6ex/ - just click "Download" from the left-side menu. * TELOS / OMNIA ON THE ROAD: Meet our representatives at these upcoming events:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP, #21 - This week's question: "I just upgraded my Zephyr Xstream to the latest software version, and now I can't use the HTTP administration feature - the Xstream's webserver is asking for a password. Why did this show up all of a sudden, and what do I do?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: In his wanderings across the World Wide Web, our founder, Steve Church, occasionally happens on some truly unbelievable websites. His latest "find" is Altmann Micro Machines, who offer an amazing product: a lacquer which, when applied to amplification ICs, purports to remove harmonic overtones from being generated, invoking instead a warm, "tube" sound. Visit www.altmann.haan.de/tubeolator/ to read the details. (Don't laugh too hard.) eNews from Telos / Omnia, January, 2004 * OMNIA INTROS WORLD'S FIRST DUAL-PURPOSE PROCESSOR FOR ANALOG & DIGITAL AM: Over the years, Omnia audio processors have been responsible for a lot of "firsts:" first 96 kHz digital broadcast audio processor, first multi-band look-ahead limiter, first six-band broadcast limiter, first non-aliasing composite clipper, and more. Now, as reported in Radio magazine, Omnia leads the pack again with the world's first AM/Medium Wave audio processor capable of processing for digital broadcasts! Omnia-5EX HD+AM comes standard with twin parallel processing paths: one for conventional AM and Medium Wave broadcasts; the other for DAB and HD Radio. With Omnia-5EX HD+AM, you can have the advantage of giving your AM station an immediate audio upgrade for your conventional signal, while "future-proofing" your audio chain for digital broadcasting. For more details, see our press release. Subscribe to eNews
* ...AND A NEW DUAL-PURPOSE FM PROCESSOR TOO: There's a new Omnia for FM, too: the Omnia-5EX HD+FM. Like its big brother, the Omnia-6EX, it features the market-winning signature sound that's the choice of more Top 100 FM stations in the US than all other brands combined. It's also packed with new processing algorithms, more user controls, more pure clear highs and deep, phat bass than ever before. And of course, Omnia-5EX HD+FM also has the unique dual processing structure for conventional and digital FM that is making Omnia the talk of the industry. Read more at www.omniaaudio.com/news/ . * THINKING ABOUT HD RADIO?: Omnia's President, Frank Foti, knows HD Radio inside and out. He's made a thorough study of just what's required for a radio station thinking about taking the leap into digital broadcasting, and has laid out the requirements in a new HD Radio Checklist. You can read it online or download the free PDF from the Omnia website . * MICHAEL REAGAN GETS XSTREAM: As we celebrate the 10th birthday of the Telos Zephyr, the ranks of Zephyr users continue to swell with well-known names. The latest personality relying on a new Zephyr Xstream is Talk America Radio Network personality Michael Reagan. Mr Reagan's shows are heard not only on Talk America affiliates, but also by subscribers of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio, so pure, clean audio quality is paramount. Zephyr Xstream also lets you connect to the widest possible variety of 3rd party codecs, thanks to the wide variety of coding choices: MPEG AAC (MP4), Low-Delay AAC, Layer 3, Layer 2, and G.722 . Visit www.telos-systems.com/zephyr/ to learn more. * SPECIAL SAVINGS ON ZEPHYR XSTREAM & XPORT: Would you believe that there are now more than 10,000 Zephyrs, Zephyr Xstreams and Zephyr Xport codecs in studios and remote kits around the world? We're celebrating Zephyr's 10th birthday by offering special pricing on Zephyr Xstream/Xport bundles that will put the latest coding technology to work for you and save you hundreds of dollars at the same time. Visit www.zephyr.com for details. * TELOS / OMNIA ON THE ROAD: Meet our representatives at these upcoming events:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP, #20 - BEATING THE ELECTRIC KILLER: One thing you can count on during winter storms is lightning strikes. Are you prepared? Even if you think you are, there are some things about surge suppression you may not know. For instance, did you know that uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) may not protect against surges? Or that once a surge suppressor has done its job, it needs to be replaced? For a comprehensive look at protecting your valuable gear against nature's little power spikes, read our White Paper www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/surge.htm . * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: If you rebuild old gear, you're eventually sure to run up against obsolete transistors that must be replaced. The University of Washington has compiled a fast, easy-to-use online cross-reference: simply poke in the ID of the old transistor, and the newest equivalent is supplied. Bookmark www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/parts/cross.html . * SPECIAL SAVINGS ON ZEPHYR XSTREAM & XPORT: Would you believe it's been 10 years since the first Telos Zephyr debuted? Now there are over 10,000 Zephyrs, Zephyr Xstreams and Zephyr Xport codecs in studios and remote kits around the world. We're celebrating Zephyr's 10th birthday by offering special pricing on Zephyr Xstream/Xport bundles that will put the latest Zephyr technology to work for you and save you hundreds of dollars at the same time. Visit www.zephyr.com or details. * PRIVATE RADIO BOWS IN TUNISIA: And Telos and Omnia are there. Radio Mosaique FM, Tunisia's first privately-operated radio station, signed on recently with a signature sound sculpted by an Omnia-3fm audio processor and a host of Telos broadcast phone gear, including a TWOx12 Talkshow System. Read more about it at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * MAJOR LEAGUERS CHOOSE TELOS: Zephyr Xstream and Zephyr Xport have proven irresistable to major sports franchises, who insist on Zephyr to help ensure great-sounding, reliable play-by-play broadcasts. Recently we told you about Rich Eisen's new Zephyr Xport, used on "NFL Total Access" on the NFL Network; the San Diego Chargers likewise rely on Zephyr Xstream and Zephyr Xport in their remote cases. Major League Baseball likes Zephyr too: The Arizona Diamondbacks recently ordered a Zephyr Xstream MXP remote codec with four-input mixer. Visit www.telos-systems.com/zephyr/ for details on these award-winning codecs. * aacPlus IN THE NEWS: As reported in Radio World Online (http://tinyurl.com/ypovn), RealNetworks Inc., makers of RealPlayer software, revealed at CES that they have become the newest licensee of aacPlus coding technology, joining Apple, Samsung and other big names. Of course, aacPlus is at the heart of Zephyr Xport, the portable POTS+ISDN codec that delivers 15 kHz audio over ordinary POTS phone lines. Hear the difference Xport with aacPlus coding makes -- click www.telos-systems.com/aacplus/ to compare for yourself. * TOP SFO STATIONS CHOOSE ZEPHYR: Lots of Zephyr activity in San Francisco lately, where ABC Radio's #1-rated News/Talk powerhouse KGO just received a Zephyr Xport and 4 Zephyr Xport codecs; across the dial, Univision's KSOL gets 5 rack-mount Zephyr Xstreams and a portable Zephyr Xstream MXP for use in on-location remote broadcasts. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #19: The start of the new year is a good time to make sure your Telos and Omnia software is up to date. If you haven't checked lately, there's an easy way to find out if your software is current: click www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm for a complete list of Telos and Omnia products and their most current software versions. * BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Lightning strikes aren't the only thing that can play havoc with a broadcast facility's power systems - sometimes the problem comes right from the utility! Longtime LA radio engineer Paul Sakrison recounts how a utility failure nearly took Infinity's KFWB off the air, and how near-disaster was averted. Visit www.sakrison.com/radio/KFWB3.html to read the whole story. eNews from Telos / Omnia, November, 2003 * KUDOS FOR OMNIA-6EX: "We've had Omnia-6EX on the air for a couple of weeks. It's wide, loud and clean... I've never heard the bottom end sound like this! Wild 100.3 has never sounded better," says Dan Kieley, Program Director of Infinity Broadcasting's KRBV-FM (Wild 100.3/Dallas). He's not the only one singing the praises of the latest Omnia: we've received lots of raves (from folks who won't let us print their names for competitive reasons)... here are just a couple: "We won't be using the HD Radio processing for a while, but Omnia-6EX makes our analog signal sound better right now!" "I have never heard anything as clear and open as this... you fellow really trumped yourselves with this one." "Classical listeners tend to disike processing; Omnia-6EX is very subtle... we can process for better in-car listening without them noticing." Read about Omnia-6EX here. Subscribe to eNews
* FREE SOFTWARE UPDATES FOR XSTREAM, XPORT, TWOx12: For new subscribers who may have missed last week's announcement, there are new software updates for owners of Zephyr Xport and Xstream, and for Telos TWOx12 Talkshow System users. New v2.02 software adds G.722 coding to Xport; v2.71 software gives Zephyr Xstream the latest low-bitrate-optimized Low Delay AAC algorithms from Fraunhofer, and v3.26 software updates TWOx12 systems to the latest Telos control code. If your gear is connected to the Internet, just use the update function from the front panel menu; if not, download the updates from www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm . * NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE BUYS XPORT: Broadcasters are really taking a shine to Zephyr Xport, the POTS+ISDN codec with aacPlus coding that gives stunning 15 kHz remote audio over analog or ISDN connections. The latest "Big League Broadcaster" to become an Xport believer is the NFL Network, who will use their Xport for Rich Eisen's "NFL Total Access" show; they took delivery of their new Zephyr Xport this week. Hear the difference Xport with aacPlus coding makes -- click www.telos-systems.com/aacplus/ to compare aacPlus with MP3 * ELECTRONIC INK: Telos and Omnia made news recently in Radio World (www.radioworld.com) with the announcement of our new Omnia A/X audio processing software for Windows (http://tinyurl.com/u3fh) and our addition of G.722 coding in Zephyr Xport (http://tinyurl.com/u3m3). Our thanks to Radio World for helping spread the word! * aacPlus IN THE NEWS: According to reports from Radio magazine (www.beradio.com), XM Satellite Radio now has over 1 million subscribers (http://tinyurl.com/u3oj). That's a whole lot of people... and when they listen to XM, they hear programming encoded with aacPlus (sometimes called MP4, or High-Efficiency AAC). They're not alone, either: Digital Radio Mondiale also uses aacPlus, and iBiquity's new HDC codec incorporates the Spectral Band Replication technology that is at the heart of aacPlus. Find out more from our White Paper, "So What's The Big Deal About aacPlus?" at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/allaboutaacplus/ . * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #18: This week's question: "Our station's talkshow system is based on the Telos Direct Interface Module. I can only dial out from the hybrid Bank 1 (top row) on the Switch Console that is connected to my Direct Interface Module; is there a way to dial out from hybrid Bank 2 as well?" "
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: A debate has raged for years among broadcasters regarding which Top 40 station should hold the title of "All Time Best." West Coasters favor KHJ; in the North it's WLS or CKLW; but New Yorkers think the crown should go to "Musicradio 77, WABC!" We take no sides in the issue, but our Denny Sanders loves the WABC tribute site at http://musicradio.computer.net/ . Be sure and check out the weekly music surveys - every issue from 1960 to 1982! eNews from Telos / Omnia, October, 2003 * NEW OMNIA-6EX AUDIO PROCESSOR DEBUTS: "We've had Omnia-6EX on the air for a couple of weeks. It’s wide, loud and clean... I've never heard the bottom end sound like this! Wild 100.3 has never sounded better," says Dan Kieley, Program Director of Infinity Broadcasting’s KRBV-FM (Wild 100.3/Dallas). Omnia-6EX is the "future-proof" FM processor -- not ready for HD Radio yet? That's alright - your Omnia-6EX will be ready when you are: its unique parallel processing structure routes audio from the mixer section to separate output stages for Digital FM (HD Radio, DAB, Eureka-147) and conventional FM. The FM section receives distortion-controlled final limiting with pre-emphasis, and has an upper-frequency response of 15 kHz; the DAB section uses a multi-band Look-Ahead final limiter to precisely control peak output and has user-selectable frequency response all the way up to the full audio bandwidth of 20 kHz. Get more details here. Subscribe to eNews
* ZEPHYR XPORT ADDS G.722: Zephyr Xport, the portable POTS+ISDN codec with aacPlus coding, has won praise for its ability to send 15 kHz audio to any Zephyr Xstream using either ordinary POTS phone lines or, optionally, ISDN. Now, Xport becomes even more versatile with the addition of G.722 capability! When outitted with the ISDN option, Xport can now connect to any Zephyr Xstream using Low-Delay MPEG AAC for clear, clean low-delay remotes... OR connect with any 3rd-party ISDN codec using G.722 coding. Read more at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * aacPlus AND DRM HEARD FROM USA: 20 US broadcasters began digital broadcasting using the Digital Radio Mondiale system last weekend, according to Radio World. The DRM system relies on aacPlus coding - the same coding found in our Zephyr Xport POTS+ISDN codec - to transmit superb audio at low bit rates. You can get a taste of what aacPlus sounds like compared to traditional Layer 3 coding by visiting our online comparison page at www.telos-systems.com/aacplus/ . * SOFTWARE UPDATE FOR ZEPHYR XSTREAM AND XPORT OWNERS: Zephyr Xport users can get the new G.722 functionality, free, simply by upgrading to new Zephyr Xport v2.02 software. Zephyr Xstream users - there's new software for you, too, with new MPEG AAC-LD algorithms straight from Fraunhofer Labs that are optimized for even better quality at low bit rates. If your Zephyr has a connection to the Internet, just use the update function from the front panel menu; if not, download the updates from www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm . * NEW SOFTWARE FOR TWOx12, TOO: TWOx12 Talkshow System users also have a software update waiting for them: Version 3.26 software updates your TWOx12 to the latest Telos control code. Use your front-panel update function, or download the v3.26 updater from www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm . * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #17: This week's question: "I am currently running four Desktop Directors with my TWOx12. Can I add a fifth?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Occasionally engineers run up against the need for an obscure tool of some sort. Specialty Telecom tools and acessories can be especially tough to source -- Multiline caller ID? Telephone RFI filters? Telos' Rolf Taylor has a source you might check out for hard-to-find Telecom stuff: www.sandman.com . Your Editor especially likes the "Ringing Phone Magnet" (See "Accessories, Part 2.") * ZEPHYR WINS AT NHK: Big news from Japan this week, where NHK (www.nhk.or.jp/) -- the Japan Broadcasting Corp., Japan's most respected public broadcaster -- has purchased 4 Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceivers. According to spokespeople, the big factors were Low Delay MPEG AAC (which lets remote talent interact with studio folk without that annoying "cell phone" time lag) and the simplicity of using Zephyr Xstream. Read more at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * IS YOUR REMOTE SOFTWARE UP-TO-DATE? Remote control of on-air processing has become a "must-have" for many broadcasters, especially when the transmitter site is located far away or in an inaccessible area. It's essential that you have the latest version of Omnia Remote software to take advantage of all the remote capabilities of your processor; for the latest versions, go here and click "Latest Software". * LIVEWIRE GETS RAVES AT NAB: Steve Church's "Ethernet For Studio Audio Audio Systems" workshop at NAB was well attended, and traffic to our Livewire Demonstration Suite was brisk; the idea of live audio networking over IP seems to really ignite a spark in broadcast engineers. "This makes perfect sense... why didn't I think of it?" and "This will save us tens of thousands in routing equipment alone" were just a couple of the comments we received. If you didn't make the show, you can sign up for Livewire information updates at www.telos-systems.com/livewire/ ; we'll immediately email you a free eBrochure with detailed information on this exciting technology. * NEW ARTICLE ON HD RADIO PROCESSING: "Audio processing can be a great tool in the broadcast environment. Sadly, it can be misused too... when it’s abused on conventional FM and AM signals, distortion occurs. In the HD realm, misuse will generate exaggerated coding artifacts." Frank Foti talks about how to get the best out of HD Radio in a new article published in September's Pro Audio Review. Read it here. * FRANK FOTI TO SPEAK AT AES IN NEW YORK: The "Who's Who" of Audio Processing (according to Radio World, www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=3740) includes Frank Foti, who will be participating in the "Audio Processing for Broadcast" session at the upcoming AES show in New York this week. Telos' Greg Shay will also be participating in a Tutorial on Audio Networks; check your show schedules for times and places. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #16: This week's question: "When I conference two or more callers on a single hybrid, I sometimes get a 'hum' that seems to be a result of the conferencing operation. Is this in my hybrid? How do I fix it?"
* ATTENDING NAB? SEE STEVE CHURCH: NAB attendees, don't forget that Telos Founder Steve Church will be kicking off the "Digital Radio Certification Workshop" at NAB on Thursday morning. Steve will be helping broadcasters consider the benefits of using established network protocols to network the dizzying variety of digital and analog sources found in the typical broadcast facility, with what's sure to be a lively Q&A session afterward. We hope you'll take time to attend; time and place are as follows:
* DOWNLOAD OUR FREE WHITE PAPER: If you aren't attending NAB but would like to find out more about how Ethernet can be used to transport live audio around broadcast plants, check out Steve Church's White Paper on the subject. You can read and/or download it free. * AN NAB INVITATION FROM TELOS: You can see Livewire, the award-winning Telos system for Live Audio over Ethernet, in a personal demonstration at the Telos Hospitality Suite at NAB. Drop by and we'll answer all your questions about this remarkable new standards-based audio networking technology. Here's where we're at:
* OMNIA-6 VERSION 7.0 SOFTWARE: We're pleased to announce a major new software upgrade for Omnia-6 audio processors - Version 7.0 software, loaded with all sorts of new capabilities and features to help you craft your station's "signature sound." Dan Kieley, Program Director at Infinity's WIld 100.3 in Dallas, Texas (US Market #5), told us "Wild 100.3 has never sounded better. It’s wide, loud and clean... and I've never heard the bottom end sound like this!" Contact Omnia for details on obtaining your upgrade. eNews from Telos / Omnia, September, 2003 * ZEPHYR XSTREAM TAKES OFF: Lots of broadcasters received new Zephyr Xstream ISDN Tranceivers this week, including those listed below. Why is Xstream so popular? Visit www.zephyr.com and find out.
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* MAD FOR OMNIA: Athens, Greece's MAD TV broadcasts rock 'n roll throughout the Greek Isles, so audio quality is important for them and their viewers. It's no surprise that they chose Omnia to upgrade their audio: "Only with Omnia-6 did we have the tools to help us construct the perfect sound," says General Manager Anderas Kouris. Visit our press room to read more. * IN THE MAILBAG: "We purchased Omnia to improve the bandwidth and loudness of our signal. Everyone said it would (especially engineers who had used it). I found the product to be exactly as advertised. It's the best processor by far!" That quote is from Dave Lingafelt, President and General Manager of WXRC-FM in Newton, North Carolina, after the purchase of his new Omnia-6fm. Dave traded in his old on-air processing as part of our "Trade-In, Trade-Up" offer, so he also gets a new Omnia-3 *free* for doing so. * BROADCASTERS BUZZING ABOUT SBR: Now that iBiquity has formally announced its new HD Radio codec (HDC, short for "High Definition Codec"), the listserves and trade publications have been filled with rave reviews about HD Radio's 20 Hz - 20 kHz frequency response and the clarity of HDC (see this link for a summary). While iBiquity isn't saying exactly what HDC is comprised of, they have said that SBR (Spectral Band Replication) is part of the mix -- the same technology that's part of the aacPlus coding Telos uses to achieve amazingly clean, clear audio in the Zephyr Xport POTS + ISDN codec. Industry insiders agree that SBC is a pretty signficant breakthrough in coding technology (which is why Telos uses it). We've prepared a special White Paper to get you acquainted with SBR and aacPlus. Read and download it for free at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/allaboutaacplus/ . * OMNIA IS A TV STAR: "Omnia-6CD solved all of our on-air processing problems." High praise from Alain Charest, Director of Engineering at Montreal's MusiquePlus and Musimax, serving more than two million Quebecois daily with music television programming. Charest, determined to wring every last drop of high-quality audio from tiny TV speakers, found that Omnia-6CD, our high-end audio processor designed for recording studios, helped him do just that. Charest told us "we were able to make small television speakers deliver 'kick-ass' hi-fi sound!" Read the entire story here . * STEVE CHURCH TO SPEAK AT PHILLY NAB: A reminder for attendees at the upcoming NAB Radio Show: join Telos' Steve Church for "Ethernet For Studio Audio Systems," part of the NAB Digital Radio Certification Workshop, to be held on October 2nd. Ethernet will be the next "big thing" for interconnecting studio complexes large and small. How will it work? Steve's workshop will help make it all clear. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #15: This week's question: "What are the telephone numbers for Telos' Zephyr test line, and how should my Zephyr be set up when calling the test line?"
* BROADCAST LINK OF THE WEEK: Occasionally, remote broadcasts take you to some pretty distant locales. And if you've ever had to track down a contact at a telephone company in a nation outside your own, you know what a chore it can be. Telos' Rolf Taylor told us about "Goodman's Bookmarks," a site that -among other things - lists contact information for 67 International telco providers. Check out www.gbmarks.com/intl.htm . eNews from Telos / Omnia, August, 2003 EDITOR'S NOTE: Following recent press coverage of digital radio issues, Telos has been inundated with calls and e-mails from broadcasters wanting to know more about recent developments in MPEG audio coding, particularly AAC. So this issue of eNews is dedicated to pointing our readers at some articles, news items and product applications which may be of particular interest. * THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING: There's no doubt that the big buzz in the audio coding community these days is about MPEG AAC - the heir apparent to MP3 technology. With MP3 now a decade old, it's natural that broadcasting is searching for the next jump up in coding efficiency and audio quality. MPEG AAC seems to be "it": Canada's Communications Research Centre (www.crc.ca) performed double-blind testing of MP2, MP3, AC3, PAC and AAC coding and declared AAC the winner: "The highest audio quality was obtained for the AAC codec." Read the CRC's findings for yourself at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/00222.pdf . Subscribe to eNews
* WHY AAC IS BETTER THAN MP3: "The idea that led to AAC was to start fresh... to combine the best work from the world's leading audio coding laboratories. The result was quality indistinguishable from the original," writes Telos President Steve Church. MPEG AAC is in fact 30% more powerful in terms of coding efficiency than MP3 - resulting in better audio at much lower bit rates. Steve's entire paper is found at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/aacpaper_2/ and features tons of in-depth details about how MPEG AAC delivers superior sound. (By the way, MPEG AAC is incorporated in every new Telos Zephyr Xstream - see www.zephyr.com .) * WHAT IS SPECTRAL BAND REPLICATION, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Spectral Band Replication, or SBR, is a technology that works with existing codecs - like MPEG AAC - to allow even more efficient coding at low bit rates by removing parts of the encoded audio prior to transmission and then reconstructing the removed parts at the far end. SBR combined with AAC is called aacPlus, and it has 30% more coding power than "plain" AAC - which as you remember is itself 30% more efficient than MP3. aacPlus has been called "the most efficient low-bitrate codec on Earth." Telos' Rolf Taylor has explored the intricacies of aacPlus and has written an excellent paper entitled "So What's The Big Deal About aacPlus?" Read it at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/allaboutaacplus/ . * AAC, SBR AND DIGITAL RADIO: If aacPlus and SBR sound familiar to you, it's probably because they've been all over industry publications lately. XM Satellite Radio chose aacPlus last year as the backbone of its satellite transmission system; Digital Radio Mondiale has just signed on throughout Europe using aacPlus (www.rwonline.com/reference-room/iboc/02_arw_drm.shtml), and iBiquity has just announced the identity of their new "mystery codec" for AM HDRadio - "HDC", which uses SBR technology and was developed in conjunction with Coding Technologies (www.codingtechnologies.com), the same company responsible for aacPlus. In fact, iBiquity's Jeff Jury was quoted in Inside Radio (www.insideradio.com) as saying that the new "Spectral Band Replication" codec is "a huge step forward, and others concur: Radio World's Guy Wire cites very complimentary reviews of the new iBiquity codec (www.rwonline.com/reference-room/guywire/gw-08-28-03.shtml). * HEAR aacPlus FOR YOURSELF: aacPlus is so good, in fact, that we've chosen it to power our new Zephyr Xport POTS+ISDN codec - the award-winning portable with mixer that sends full 15kHz mono audio to your Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceiver using an ordinary POTS telephone line. We've set up a special Xport Demonstration Line so you can hear just how good aacPlus sounds over ordinary POTS phone lines. Just dial our Demonstration Line with your Zephyr Xstream; Details and instructions are at www.telos-systems.com/xport/ ; click on the banner that says "Hear Xport With aacPlus Now!" * THE BUZZ ABOUT AAC: In his User Report for Radio World, Michael Black writes "Audio quality was outstanding. aacPlus provides great fidelity... [We] were amazed to hear how good the Xport sounded using POTS." Jefferson Pilot's Gary Blau, in a post to BNet (www.broadcast.net) said that "aacPlus is the future"; and Bob Orban writes in his paper "Maintaining Audio Quality in the Radio Plant" that "Advances beyond AAC will take considerable time to develop and will offer only incremental improvements in data rate." eNews from Telos / Omnia, July, 2003 * WE GET LETTERS: "Whenever I'm in a competitive market and given the charge to make our properties the leader in on-air presence and clarity, there is only one choice - and you're it!" That's from Geary Morrill, Technical Manager for Fairfield Broadcasting. He purchased a new Omnia-6fm for WQLR-FM, and is taking advantage of our Omnia-6 "Trade In, Trade Up" offer to exchange his old Optimod for a new Omnia-3fm. Subscribe to eNews
* TELOS IN THE NEWS: This month's (July 2003) issue of Radio features two Facilities Showcases: NPR's new West Coast Facilities in Culver City, and Clear Channel's new consolidated studios in Cleveland. We're pleased to note that both of these excellent facilities feature Telos telephone and ISDN equipment: 1A2 Talkshow Systems, high-performance Telos ONE and Delta 100 POTS hybrids, and Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceivers with MPEG AAC. You can check out these articles at http://beradio.com/browse_back_issues/index.htm#issue . * LISTEN TO ZEPHYR XPORT LIVE: By now you've probably heard all about Zephyr Xport, the award-winning portable codec with mixer that sends full 15kHz mono audio to your Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceiver using an ordinary POTS telephone line. The secret to this amazing performance lies in the custom DSP modem tech Telos developed for Xport, and in its use of aacPlus coding - the same coding method chosen by XM Satellite Radio and Digital Radio Mondiale. Now you can hear the quality of Xport audio by dialing our Zephyr XPort Demonstration Line with your Zephyr Xstream. Details and instructions are at www.telos-systems.com/xport/; click on the banner that says "Hear Xport With aacPlus Now!" * "JUST ZEPHYR IT TO ME": Since 1993, Telos Zephyr has become one of the most successful digital broadcast products ever. In fact, over 70% of broadcasters in North America alone trust Zephyr daily for reliable transmission of critical audio. Here are just some broadcasters who've received new Zephyr Xstream codecs over the past two weeks:
Visit www.zephyr.com for more information on the Zephyr Family of audio transceivers. * OMNIA USER SPEAKS: "My best audio experiences have started with Omnia." That's what Cameron Adkins, Engineering Manager for Citadel Broadcasting's WKDF-FM in Nashville, Tennesee, told us recently. Along with dozens of others, Cameron has just taken advantage of our "Trade In, Trade Up" offer by purchasing an Omnia-6 audio processor -- and now, we're sending him a FREE Omnia-3fm. You can get a free Omnia-3fm too: for a limited time, purchase a new Omnia-6fm or Omnia-6HDFM and we'll give you a FREE Omnia-3fm (with the trade-in of your old on-air processor). For details and trade-in forms, visit www.omniaaudio.com/special.htm . But hurry - this offer will end soon. * aacPlus AUDIO CODING IN THE NEWS: Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), the European digital radio consortium, just launched its service during the recent World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva (see Radio World's article at www.radioworld.com/reference-room/special-report/04a_rw_drm.shtml ). DRM uses aacPlus audio coding as its codec due to its low-bitrate versatility; aacPlus has been called "the best low-bitrate codec on Earth." That's exactly why Telos put aacPlus in Zephyr Xport - the world's only POTS codec with aacPlus. Find out more about aacPlus and Zephyr Xport at www.telos-systems.com/xport/ . * REMOVING THE "SWISHIES": Coding artifacts and transcoding (cascading layers of compression/decompression that can occur in today's digital transmission chains) are on everyone's mind lately. In the July 16 issue of Radio World (www.rwonline.com), Sirius' Mark Kalman suggests that "carefully pre-processing audio... can improve the delivered sound quality." As the company that introduced Layer 3 (MP3) technology to the world, Telos / Omnia agrees; in fact, Frank Foti has written two white papers on the subject: "Audio Processing for DAB and the Internet" and "Broadcast Signal Processing & Audio Coding: Are We Trying to Mix Oil And Water?" * FRANK FOTI GUESTS AT CONCLAVE: This Friday, July 18th, Omnia's Frank Foti joins Susquehanna's Max Turner to helm the "IBOC Nuts & Bits" breakout at the 2003 Conclave at Marriott City Center in Minneapolis. Engineers, encourage your programmers to attend this session explaining the "technology [of] HD Radio, and the potential impact that it will have on our industry." Visit www.theconclave.com for more details. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #14: This week's question: "My talkshow screeners like to use headsets. Can I use them with my TWOx12 / Series 2101 Desktop Directors?"
* SO, WHY UPGRADE TO OMNIA?: Brad Hart, CE for Jefferson-Pilot's Denver stations, just upgraded to Omnia-6fm on Churban-formatted KQKS-FM, and he has this to say: "The PD loves it. He would strangle me if I pulled it out... The Omnia 6 has truly made a huge difference in the way KQKS sounds." Read what others are saying about Omnia. * GOING DIGITAL? CONSIDER ETHERNET: That's the title of Steve Church's recent Guest Commentary in Radio World. "Today's Ethernet is not your Grandfather's Ethernet," he writes, and he's right: modern Gigabit Ethernet "could scale from very small (two terminals connected to each other) to thousands of channels for the most sophisticated facility." Read more about the upside of Ethernet over traditional hard-wired studio networking methods; download the full article here. * EDUCATIONAL STATIONS CHOOSE TELOS: Collegiate radio facilities continue to standardize on Telos telephone and ISDN equipment. This week, Boise State University (Washington) gets their new TWOx12 Talkshow System; Montana State University gets a Telos ONE digital telephone hybrid, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison receives their new ONE-x-Six Talkshow System. Educational broadcasters tell us they prefer Telos because in addition to better on-air quality, students get training on the same equipment they'll later encounter in "real world" radio stations. * TELOS / OMNIA SPEAKS: Be sure to mark your calendars for these upcoming appearances by Steve Church and Frank Foti:
* FACTORY RECONDITIONED EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE: From time to time, we receive inquiries from our clients asking whether the Telos and Omnia gear used at trade shows, demonstrations, etc. is available for sale. The answer, normally, is "no," but from occasionally some reconditioned items do become available -- and now is one of those times. If you're interested in finding out about Telos or Omnia products that have been "zero-timed" and reconditioned by the factory, click here to see what's available. Quantities are extremely limited, so when they're gone, they're gone. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #13: This week's question: "Do you have any tips on how to save money on phone installation charges?"
* BROADCASTING LINK OF THE WEEK: If you're like us, your interest in the history of our industry's technology borders on obsessive. In that spirit, this week's link is to the Early Television Foundation and Museum, an Ohio organization dedicated to preserving, in working form, the history and apparati of TV's beginnings. Their site has lots of information on the invention of television, and features photographs of their collection (which includes such important pieces as a 30-line, mechanical-scan TV built by British pioneer John Logie Baird in 1928). Click www.earlytelevision.org and bathe in the warm glow of the phosphor tube... (Thanks to Bob Gonsett's CGC Communicator for the link) eNews from Telos / Omnia, June, 2003 * CUMULUS MEDIA LOVES OMNIA-6FM: Check out page 49 of Radio World's (www.rwonline.com) June 4th US issue for an excellent review of Omnia-6 by Cumulus Media's Corporate Director of Engineering, Gary Kline. "When it comes to creating a competitive advantage for programming and management," says Gary, "probably the most important tool in my audio toolbox is the Omnia-6fm processor." Mr. Kline knows his way around an airchain: he's responsible for nearly 270 radio stations across the US. If you haven't yet seen his review, we've archived it at here. Subscribe to eNews
* TELOS GETS EDUCATED: Lately we've lots of college and high school radio facilities reaping the benefits of Telos telephone and ISDN equipment. They tell us that in addition to better on-air quality, students get training on the same equipment they'll later encounter in "real world" radio stations. This week, WJSL/Houghton College (New York) and Neodesha High School (Neodesha, Kansas) take delivery of Telos ONE-x-Six Talkshow Systems; WBAR/Barnard College (New York), KAPU/Azusa Pacific College (Los Angeles), WNKU/Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights) and WNCU/North Carolina Central University (Durham) all receive Telos ONE hybrids. * NEW TELOS/OMNIA DISTRIBUTORS: We welcome our newest representatives, TQT Electronics in Viet Nam, and T.E (PNG) Ltd. in New Guinea. Visit www.telos-systems.com/dealers/ and www.omniaaudio.com/dealers/ to find the Telos or Omnia distributor nearest you. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #12: This week's question: "Can I share the telephone lines used by my TWOx12 between 2 studios, or am I limited to just one studio?"
* PARIS GETS TWOx12: Skyrock (www.skyrock.fr), the French broadcasting giant, has just purchased four Telos TWOx12 Talkshow Systems -- the only multi-line broadcast phone system that works directly with either ISDN or POTS telephone lines. Clients like Skyrock and Talk America tell us they love TWOx12 because of the clear, clean caller audio provided by ISDN phone lines and our exclusive Digital Dynamic Caller EQ -- DSP processing that adapts to and "sweetens" callers so they sound their very best. Find out about the advantages of TWOx12 at www.telos-systems.com/2x12/ . * MORE TWOx12 IN THE NEWS: This month's Radio magazine spotlights Cumulus' new studio complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, touching on the challenge of consolidating four stations into a single facility. Prominent in almost every facility photo is Telos TWOx12 Multi-Line Talkshow gear. "The programming department demands high quality telephone calls... so we incorporated the Telos TWOx12 ISDN [system] into each of our studios," writes Cumulus' Dave Supplee. Several Zephyr Xstream ISDN transceivers reside in the new Harrisburg complex as well; read the article and see the pics at http://beradio.com/ar/radio_bridging_digital_divide/index.htm . * PUBCASTER GETS OMNIA: Radio Kansas (www.radiokansas.org) becomes the most recent Public Radio broadcaster to upgrade processing to Omnia-6fm. From Hutchinson College in Wichita, Radio Kansas' three signals provide News, Classical and New Age programming to more than one million Kansas residents. Why did this public broadcaster choose Omnia-6fm? "We demo'd it, and liked its smooth sound," says Director of Engineering Ric Jung. * OMNIA-SG GOES TO SEOUL: 10 Omnia-SG standalone digital Stereo Generators have been purchased by the Korean Broadcasting System, South Korea's national broadcasting service. KBS is the nation's key radio outlet, with 25 radio stations providing network programming to 48 million potential listeners. KBS' new Omnia-SGs will allow them to control audio processing from the network head-end, keeping FM stereo generation where it belongs - at the transmitter. If you've been looking for a way to keep audio processing easily accessible, at your studio, while maintaining optimal stereo generation, perhaps Omnia-SG is your solution. * COMING SOON TO A TOWN NEAR YOU: Telos/Omnia will be making multiple appearances around the US and Canada in the coming weeks:
* STEVE CHURCH TO SPEAK AT NAB RADIO SHOW: Telos founder Steve Church will be among the noted speakers at the NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia in October, hosting a Digital Radio Certification Workshop on Ethernet for Studio Audio Systems. With all the attention our new Livewire audio-over-Ethernet technology (ftp://ftp.telos.cc/telos/brochure/LivewireBrochure-150.pdf) has been getting, this is one session you'll want to attend. Visit www.nab.org/conventions/radioshow for information on the show. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #11: This week's question: "What's the best setting for input levels on my Omnia-6 and Omnia-4.5 audio processors? I want to make sure I'm getting the best performance possible."
Once set properly, you should see between 10 and 15 dB of gain reduction on the WB AGC gain reduction meter with normal program audio at your 0VU reference. It is normal for the WB AGC gain reduction meter to continue to show gain reduction even when the WB AGC section is bypassed. eNews from Telos / Omnia, May, 2003 * MR XSTREAM GOES TO WASHINGTON: Washington, D.C.-based Radio One has purchased a Telos Zephyr Xstream MXP (with built-in mixer) to produce its programming for XM Satellite Radio. Radio One's Satellite One division programs five XM channels with music and talk programming, and plans to use their Zephyr Xstream for remote broadcasts. XM consulting engineer Ed Bukont tells us "We intend for the unit to be a 'Jack-of-all-remotes.' It will be used for both music and speech remotes, as well as a loaner to talk show talent. The idea behind the Xstream purchase is that we can make [remotes] as simple as possible [using] one box, without an engineer." With the friendliest user interface in the industry, could Zephyr Xstream help simplify your remotes? Browse www.zephyr.com to read more and instantly download our eBrochure. Subscribe to eNews
* OMNIA-6FM GAAN NOORDEN: The
latest addition to our International list of Omnia users is The
Netherlands' Radio
E-FM, Eindhoven, broadcasting with a new Omnia-6fm. Simon Poels of
Radio E-FM writes "We are finally happy with the sound and loudness!
...The remote software is a blessing. I could sit back in my living room,
with my laptop, and listen for hours, making minor adjustments to the
settings in the studio." What else do users say about their Omnias?
Read more comments
online.
ISDN users in the US should note that there are still a few isolated areas where ISDN is not available. In this case, you should be able to get "Switched 56" service to use with your Zephyr family product. If you need to use a mode that uses two "B" channels, you would need two of these "Switched 56" lines; see your Telos equipment Users Manual for more on this topic. * CUMULUS CHOOSES OMNIA AND BGS: Cumulus Broadcasting, the 2nd-largest broadcaster in the US with more than 260 radio stations, has chosen to standardize on Omnia audio processing. Gary Kline, Cumulus' corporate Director of Engineering, says "One of the reasons for the success of Cumulus is the high quality of product we produce... Omnia and BGS have also become successful by providing high quality products." Cumulus will purchase its Omnia gear exclusively through Broadcasters General Store. Read the whole story here. * CUMULUS PREFERS TELOS, TOO: While making Omnia their chosen audio processing platform, Cumulus has also named Telos Systems as a "preferred supplier" of ISDN codecs and broadcast telephone systems. Little wonder: Telos pioneered the application of Digital Signal Processing to telephone hybrids, and the Zephyr ISDN Transceiver has become the industry standard -- the most successful digital broadcast product ever. Find out more about the Zephyr family of advanced remote broadcast tools and browse the full line of Telos phone gear. * BROADCASTING FROM EUROVISION? Here's a special note for stations who will be taking Zephyrs to the Eurovision song contest in Riga, Latvia on May 24. We've had a few people ask us if Latvia has ISDN, and if it works with Zephyr. The answer to both questions is: Yes. The telephone network is fully modern and your Zephyr will operate perfectly with it. Not only do we have a number of Zephyr users in Latvia, we have a Telos office in Riga that happens to be about 200 meters from the Eurovision site. The contact for technical information or for ordering an ISDN line (for accredited journalists) is:
Mr. Harjis tells us that there will be some ISDN lines in the press center; you can order more by contacting him. And if you'd like to contact the Telos office in Riga while you're there, we are at 33A-15A Valdemara Iela, telephone +371 750.5580. * OMNIA ROCKS ROMA: Rome, Italy's Radio Globo is using their new Omnia-6fm to rock the Eternal City. Radio Globo is the #1 most-listened-to local station in Italy's capital city, so when it became time to upgrade their processing, they chose Omnia to help maintain their competitive edge. In fact, a number of important Italian broadcasters rely on Omnia: Radio Flash, Idea Radio and Modena Radio City, to name a few. Who else uses Omnia? Find out here. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #9: This week's question: "I am currently running four Desktop Directors with my TWOx12 talkshow system. Can I add a fifth Director?" --->ANSWER: Yes, you can. Since Version 2.O software, TWOx12 has supported up to eight Desktop Directors. In order to provide interfaces for the fourth through eighth Directors, you will need to install a second Desktop Director card (Telos part #1701-00022); you will also need an Extended Power Supply (Telos part #2091-00001) to power each new Director. To purchase the cards and/or power supplies, contact Telos directly at +1 216-241-7225; you can also obtain them from any authorized Telos representative. * FUN RADIO LINK: Broadcast.net's Barry Mishkind, long known to Radio World readers as "The Eclectic Engineer," maintains The Broadcast Archive, an excellent resource devoted to "collect and preserve historical and current information, graphics, printed materials, and whatever else can be accumulated to help radio enthusiasts, researchers, and students find information on the background and history of the industry." You'll find useful engineering software, a little bit of humor, and a whole lot of historical info. Browse www.oldradio.com . * OMNIA GETS CROWNED: Recently
Omnia partnered with
Crown Broadcast,
makers of innovative FM transmitters, to produce an Omnia audio processing
card that can be installed directly into Crown transmitters. At the NAB in
Las Vegas, the results of this partnership - the Crown/Omnia DP3 Audio
Processor - won the Radio World "Cool Stuff" award for its unique
implementation. Now Crown FM and FMX transmitter owners can have genuine
3-band, 48kHz Omnia audio processing built-in to their transmitters. How's
that for close-coupling? Read the whole story
here . eNews from Telos / Omnia, April, 2003 * BIG NEWS FROM NAB, PART 1: If you were one of the many who visited the Telos / Omnia booth at NAB, you saw Livewire, the new Telos technology for conveying live, uncompressed broadcast audio over Ethernet; if you didn't make it to NAB, you've probably heard about it. The judges for Radio magazine and Radio World certainly did; Livewire earned both a "Cool Stuff" award _and_ a "Pick Hit" for it's innovative new approach to networking the broadcast studio. For more information, read our press release at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . Subscribe to eNews
* BIG NEWS FROM NAB, PART 2: Omnia garnered a second Radio World "Cool Stuff" award in conjunction with Crown Broadcast for our "Omnia Inside" project, which provides genuine Omnia audio processing as an integral part of Crown's FMX series of LPFM transmitters. No fuss, no muss - simply power up and select a preset to get that clean, clear "major-market" Omnia sound. Read more by browsing Crown's website. * LIVEWIRE EXPLAINED: Want to find out the details about Livewire? Telos founder Steve Church and Director of R&D Michael Dosch both presented excellent, in-depth White Papers at NAB on the subject. Read "Ethernet for Studio Audio Systems" and "A Network-Enabled Radio Console Architecture" for a look at the technology and philosophy behind Livewire. * VERSION 3.0 SOFTWARE FOR TWOx12 TALKSHOW SYSTEMS: A free software update is available for the Telos TWOx12 Talkshow System, and we're pleased to announce that among its many features is one TWOx12 owners have clamored for: the ability to manage phone lines for two separate studios. Users can choose to use TWOx12 in traditional 12-line, single studio mode, or new Dual-Studio mode, which allows division or sharing of incoming lines between two studios. Users can install the new software by using the front-panel update feature (if your TWOx12 is on an Internet-connected network) or download it here. * OMNIA REDUX: We've noticed that during the rush to NAB, things sometimes get lost in the shuffle. So, at the risk of repeating ourselves, we'd like to present again some news we didn't want to let slip by: In 2000, the highest-billing radio station in the US used Omnia audio processing. In 2001, it happened again. Now, for the third consecutive year, Omnia users top the BIA list (www.bia.com) of the biggest revenue generators in America. One on each coast, as a matter of fact: New York's WLTW-FM and Los Angeles' KIIS-FM, both confirmed fans of Omnia audio processing, accounted for more than $125 million in revenue for 2002! Read the whole story here . * TELOS AND OMNIA IN THE NEWS: Twice, in fact. Be sure to check out the April 23 issue of of Radio World magazine; on Page 10 you'll find Frank Foti's "Audio Processing Primer for HD Radio", an in-depth examination of processing issues from an HD-Radio perspective. And in the April issue of Radio magazine, see Page 30 for Rolf Taylor's "What's In An Interface?", a plain-language explanation of the various ISDN interfaces in use around the globe. (You can also read it online at http://beradio.com/ar/radio_whats_interface/ ). * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #7: This week's question: "I have a Zephyr designed for use outside of North America. Can I use this product in the USA and Canada? --->ANSWER: Yes, with a small amount of work. Most Zephyr family products sold outside the USA have only a single 8-pin (RJ-45 style) "S" interface. To use these in the USA, you'll need an external NT1. Luckily, most Telos Zephyr rental partners can provide NT1s. * OMNIA USERS IN THE GREEN: In 2000, the highest-billing radio station in the US used Omnia audio processing. In 2001, it happened again. Now, for the third consecutive year, Omnia users top the BIA list (www.bia.com) of the biggest revenue generators in America. One on each coast, as a matter of fact: New York's WLTW-FM and Los Angeles' KIIS-FM, both confirmed fans of Omnia audio processing, accounted for more than $125 million in revenue for 2002! Read the whole story here . * FROM THE MAILBAG: We love it when our clients call or e-mail us. The latest missive comes from Jeffrey Gill of Autumn Hill Studios in Franklin, North Carolina: "You can count me as a rabid Telos fan. This new Zephyr Xstream is terriffic! I got the rack version with the mixer in it (a Zephyr Xstream MXP - Ed.). I can use one Zephyr to send from any of our four voice booths, and in dual mode we can do two feeds at once from one codec!" Zephyr is the most popular family of ISDN transceivers in the world. Find out why Zephyr owners are so enthusiastic by visiting www.zephyr.com . * TELOS GETS (DIGITAL) INK: Last week, Radio World Online previewed one of the exciting new products we'll be unwrapping at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas: Livewire, a revolutionary new approach to networking broadcast studios. If you missed their story, you can read it at www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=2852. Be sure to visit us at NAB in Booth N2618 to see this fascinating new technology for yourself. If you aren't attending NAB, be sure to sign up for information at www.telos-systems.com/livewire/ . * ISDN FOR STL: We've received inquiries from stations wondering about the feasibility of using Zephyr/ISDN connections to replace marginal line-of-sight transmission links. Here's a broadcaster who's done it: Nashville's WAY-FM Media Group, whose network is heard in seven states around the Southwest, uses two Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceivers running MPEG AAC coding to deliver perfect stereo audio to their local transmitter. "This is the best our station has ever sounded," according to Chief Engineer Jim Turvaville. MPEG AAC is the coding method adopted as an ITU standard for delivering "indistinguishable output from source" at 128 kbps. Read more about MPEG AAC in the "Tech Talk" section of the Telos website at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/aacpaper_2/ , and read more about WAY-FM's Zephyr implementation at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * LISTEN AND COMPARE HD RADIO AT NAB: Omnia is pleased to announce that we will be providing visitors to our NAB booth with a demonstration of HD Radio using our newest audio processor, Omnia-6HDFM. This will be a great opportunity to hear, firsthand, the difference between Analog and Digital FM radio. Be sure to to visit the Telos / Omnia booth at NAB and hear the difference for yourself! * SPEAKING OF NAB: We wouldn't dream of missing it. You can see all the new Telos and Omnia gear at NAB 2003, Las Vegas, 5-10 April, Booth N2618. And don't forget that Steve Church, President of Telos Systems, and Michael Dosch, Director of Product Development, will each give papers outlining Audio over Ethernet technology at the NAB session entitled “Radio Audio Forum,” Tuesday April 8, from 1-5:30PM. * USEFUL LINK OF THE WEEK: If you're like us, attending NAB can be somewhat... overwhelming. There's so much to see, and it's easy to get turned around. Radio Magazine (www.beradio.com) has made navigating the Show a bit easier with their FASTtrack program, which puts the entire NAB exhibitor's list and their show floor locations into a handy application for your PDA. There are versions for Palm and PocketPC users, and the download is free at http://fastrack.beradio.com/fasttrack_download/index.htm . eNews from Telos / Omnia, March, 2003 * ZEPHYR XPORT NOW SHIPPING: Zephyr Xport, the highly-anticipated POTS + ISDN codec, recently began shipping to clients all over the world. Zephyr Xport is a portable companion to the industry-standard Zephyr Xstream ISDN transceiver; with its custom modem and superior aacPlus coding technology, Xport has gathered much praise for its ability to deliver FM-quality audio using just a standard POTS phone line. Zephyr Xport has an available ISDN option as well . . . making it the perfect field codec for whatever type of phone line is available at your remote site. Find out more by reading our press release at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . Subscribe to eNews
* A TWOx12 FOR EACH COAST : What do Los Angeles' #1-rated Country station and the State University of New York's New York Network have in common? Each have recently purchased TWOx12 Multi-Line Talkshow Systems from Telos. Emmis Communication's KZLA-FM has just fired up TWOx12 in their Burbank facility, while Sony is set to install a TWOx12 system in NYNet's Empire State Plaza studios which are slated to open in May. TWOx12 has become popular due to its extremely clear, consistent caller audio - just one of the benefits of using ISDN for call-in lines instead of POTS. Users also love the icon-based visual call management, which takes the guesswork out of fast-paced talkshow production. Find out more at www.telos-systems.com/2x12/ . * OMNIA-6 PRESETS, REDUX: A couple of weeks ago, we announced that new processing presets for Omnia-6 audio processors were available for download from our website. Since that time, these downloads have proven extremely popular! So, we'd like to mention for the benefit of our newest eNews subscribers that new presets for Classical, Jazz, Talk and Hit radio formats can be downloaded free of charge; just choose "Presets" from the "Downloads" menu. * WE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Telos and Omnia will be attending both the Audio Engineering Society convention in Amsterdam, and the National Association of Broadcasters Spring convention in Las Vegas. We look forward to seeing you! Here's where we'll be:
* WEEKLY TECH TIP, #6: This week's question: "I have a Zephyr product that's configured for use in the USA. Can I use my Zephyr in other countries?"
* COOL LINK: Web portal About.com hosts an interesting sub-site dedicated entirely to inventors, inventions and this history of inventing. Navigate to http://inventors.about.com/ for an alphabetical index to biographies of famous inventors, and feature articles on inventions from ball points pens to the water cooler. * OMNIA FOR HD RADIO: The new
Omnia-6HDFM has got a lot of people talking lately. Omnia-6HDFM processes
both HD Radio and FM-Analog audio at the same time - ensuring seamless,
great-sounding transitions in the analog-to-digital blend mode of HD Radio
receivers. Since Omnia-6 employs modern 96 kHz, 24-bit sampling, it's the
only US-built audio processor that can support HD Radio's full 20 kHz
bandwidth. Best of all, if you own an Omnia-6fm, you can easily upgrade it
with HD Radio functionality without sending it back to the factory. For
details,
read our press release, and visit the
Omnia-6HDFM page. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #5: This week's question: "My talent monitors off-air, and they tell me their voice sounds different in their headphones since we switched to digital processing. Is there anything I can do?"
eNews from Telos / Omnia, February, 2003 * WELCOME TO OMNIA COUNTRY: During our preparations for last week's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, we confirmed that many of Country Radio's leading stations -- like top-rated KPLX-FM in Dallas, WKHX-FM in Atlanta and WYGY-FH/HD (the US' first HD Radio Country station) have already upgraded to Omnia audio processing -- and more are doing so every day. Click Here for the rest of the story. Subscribe to eNews
* NAB IS ON THE HORIZON: Telos Systems President Steve Church has a special note for everyone attending (or wondering whether they should attend) Spring NAB.
* NEWS FROM ALL OVER: NPR's Washington, D.C. headquarters just purchased five new Zephyr Xstream ISDN Transceivers. Bonneville's WDRV-FM/Chicago ordered an Xstream, too; so did Hollywood's voiceover casting specialists, Voicecaster.com . What makes Zephyr Xstream so popular? Perhaps it's the crystal clear audio delivered with state-of-the-art MPEG4-AAC coding, or maybe the ease of Web-enabled remote control, or maybe it's the fact that Zephyr is the "universal codec" -- in use worldwide wherever exceptional audio quality and mission-critical performance are required. Find out more about Zephyr Xstream and it's new companion, Zephyr Xport -- the portable POTS + ISDN codec -- at www.zephyr.com . * WE GET INK: Italy's MilleCanali Magazine recently reviewed the Omnia-6fm audio processor and proclaimed it "La Stella" -- "The Star." To read their complete review in Italian, click here . Dozens of top Italian Radio and TV broadcasters use Omnia to grab and hold their listeners, like the Radio Globo Network, DeeJay TV's satellite music network, and Rome's Radio Flash. Who else uses Omnia? Click here to find out. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #4: This week's question: "I replaced my classic Zephyr with a brand-new Zephyr Xstream. The Xstream sounds fantastic, but I can't seem to receive incoming calls on Line 2. What am I doing wrong?"
* USEFUL LINK: The engineers at Salem Radio Labs have developed some really useful software for broadcasters using the GNU/Linux operating system to power their facilities. The latest is Call Commander, a "high-performance call screening and management system" that is free under the GNU Public License, and works with Telos TWOx12, ONE-x-Six, 1A2 and Direct Interface Talkshow Systems. If you've been wishing for Linux-based call screening software, check out www.salemradiolabs.com . * WINDY CITY SOUL: The latest major broadcaster to install a Telos Series 2101 Multi-Studio Talkshow System is Clear Channel, who chose Series 2101 for its 7-station cluster in Chicago. Dan Mettler, Clear Channel's Regional Engineering Manager, loves the flexibility Series 2101 gives him: [We can] put any station into any studio, and quickly reassign the station's call-in lines to that studio." Series 2101 is used by such major broadcasters as XM, Sirius, Virgin Radio, Radio One, Infinity Broadcasting and CSPAN; it uses T1 or E1 lines and is scalable to fit your needs: up to 120 lines across 32 studios! Want to find out more? Read our news release at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * GET READY FOR HD RADIO: More and more broadcasters are readying themselves for HD Radio, and Omnia is ready too. Omnia-6HDFM is a precision audio processor with a unique dual architecture that routes audio from the mixer to separate, simultaneous conventional FM and HD Radio output stages. While the FM side processes audio using the proven, market-dominating algorithms of the Omnia-6fm, the HD Radio side delivers full 20 kHz bandwidth and employs a special look-ahead final limiter designed to condition audio especially for bit-reduced encoders. For more about Omnia-6HDFM, read Frank Foti's special letter. * WE GET INK: Radio World Online has noted the sale of Telos TWOx12 Talkshow Systems to Wisdom Radio at www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=2617 . Look for more coverage of Wisdom Media in upcoming Radio World issues... Legendary KIIS-FM/Los Angeles Chief Engineer Mike Callaghan has written a review of his Omnia-6fm for Radio Guide. If you haven't seen it, click here to read the complete article. * WEEKLY TECH TIP, #3: This week's question: "The Telephone company said I need to provide an "IOC Code" when ordering ISDN or there will be a "custom configuration" charge. What are they talking about?"
* WISE CHOICE BY WISDOM RADIO: West Virginia's Wisdom Media has picked Telos TWOx12 to power the talkshow segments aired on Wisdom Radio, the Health-and-Wellness channel beamed to thousands of listeners daily over Sirius Satellite Radio. What makes TWOx12 unique? The ability to use digital phone lines for incredibly clear, clean caller audio, and exclusive Status Symbols call-handling icons, to start. Read more at www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * WE GET LETTERS: Our quote of the week comes via e-mail from Jay Stevens, Operations Manager/Program Director of KEDG-FM in Alexandria, Louisiana: "My Omnia is kicking a** -- no one can come close." Apparently Jay is happy with the results his Omnia-6fm is delivering! Do you have comments about your Telos & Omnia gear? Write clark@telos-systems.com and let us know. * PARLATE ITALIANO? Telos Zephyr Xstream is the world's most popular ISDN transceiver, thanks to its rock-solid reliability, leading-edge MPEG AAC and Low Delay AAC-LD coding, and ability to connect to almost any third-party codec. The latest glowing review comes from Italy's Millecanali Magazine (www.millecanali.it); Our Italian-speaking readers can view it at www.telos-systems.com/news/default.htm#Clippings . * WEEKLY TECH TIP: This week's question: "I love my TWOx12. It sounds fantastic, but some of my callers are too loud or too soft. What do I do?"
* OMNIA-6 GETS EXTREME: "We need an energetic, exciting sound... we decided that Omnia-6fm had the best sound and the most features of all the processors tested." So says Lauri Tuisku, Technical Director for Finland's Radio eXtrem, the Dance/Rock format of Radio Finland. Read more about it here. Who else is using Omnia? Find out here. * TELOS TALKSHOW SYSTEMS MOTOR ON IN THE MOTOR CITY: Millions of listeners tune in each day to ABC Radio's Mitch Albom, author of the New York Times Bestseller "Tuesdays With Morrie." Mitch's daily show originates from the studios of legendary WJR-AM Detroit, where callers reach the air courtesy of a Telos 1A2 Talkshow System with Telos 100 Delta DSP hybrids, controlled with Assistant Producer call screening software. Telos Talksow Systems are the choice of major personalities such as Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Bruce Williams, Bill O'Reilly and many more. TO find out more about the Telos 1A2 Talkshow System, visit www.telos-systems.com/1a2/ . * FORGET YOUR PASSWORD? One of the most-asked questions at Omnia Technical Support has to do with password security on Omnia audio processors. "How do I reset my security passwords, and what do the different security levels do?" We've put the answers to these questions and more into a handy online document that covers security issues for all Omnia audio processors; just click here for these and other useful tips. * HD RADIO IN THE PUBLIC EYE: As HD radio begins to enter the mainstream conciousness, stories educating the consumer about digital broadcasting are increasing in print and electronic media. As an example, we point to the clipping sent to us from the Jackson, Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger concerning the digital conversion of AM Talk station WJNT-AM. We've archived it for you here. By the way, that's an Omnia-3am audio processor displayed prominently in WJNT's equipment rack. * COOL LINK : Our fascination for old broadcast gear and consumer electronics knows no bounds. If you're like us, check out this week's Cool Link, "Total Rewind," submitted by Dennis Michaels of Glastonbury, England. "Total Rewind" showcases home video technology, from the early German TelDec discs and RCA Selectavision machines to the present. www.hypernova.co.uk/total_rewind/ . eNews from Telos / Omnia, January, 2003 * VIVE LA FRANCE!: We are pleased to welcome SAVE DIFFUSION as Telos / Omnia representatives in France. Since 1988, SAVE has earned a deserved reputation as one of France's foremost broadcast equipment suppliers, with NRJ, Towercast, Groupe Europe and RTL among their well-known clients. Paul Guibouret, General Manager of SAVE, tells us that they will be showing Telos and Omnia products at the upcoming Radio Operator’s Exhibition in Paris from 2 to 5 February; visit their website at www.savediffusion.fr . For a complete list of Telos and Omnia representatives in over 175 nations, see www.telos-systems.com/dealer/ and www.omniaaudio.com/dealers/ . * OMNIA DOMINATES NATION'S CAPITOL: This week we received the good news that Washington, D.C.'s WPGC-FM topped the Arbitron ratings in the just-released Fall, 2002 survey - for the 6th consecutive book - adding to the lengthy list of market-leading radio stations who rely on The Omnia Sound. 2 of D.C.'s Top 3 FM stations are Omnia users - as are 8 of New York's Top 10 FMs, 7 of Chicago's Top 10, and 8 of the Top 10 in Houston. To read the full text of our press release, browse click here. * 4FM PURCHASES OMNIA.SG: The 4FM Group (www.4fm.be), one of Belgium's largest broadcasters, has just purchased 16 Omnia.sg digital stereo generators for use in their extensive FM network. Omnia.SG is a standalone digital stereo generator that lets you keep stereo generation at the transmitter (where it belongs) and audio processing at the studio (where it's convenient). Could Omnia.SG make life easier for you? Click here to find out. * COOL LINK OF THE WEEK: As a child of the '60's, I grew up fascinated by the grainy black-and-white television images of Earth sent back by Apollo astronauts. Today's orbital imagery is much improved; check out this fantastic image of Earth at night as seen from the orbital Space Station, courtesy of NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg . It's a big image (almost 400k), but the view is definitely worth the wait. * ZEPHYR COMES TO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: Universities and other educational facilities have enjoyed the ease of sending high-quality audio over ISDN with Zephyr for years; college athletic departments are particularly fond of them for airing play-by-play of sporting events. University of Iowa's WSUI is the latest to reap the benefits of Zephyr Xstream MXP, with its built-in four-channel stereo mixer. “I couldn't be more pleased with the results from the Zephyr Xstream," says Chief Engineer Jim Davies. To read more, visit www.telos-systems.com/news/ . * CNBC PURCHASES TELOS ONE+ONE HYBRIDS: Our friends at Dale Pro Audio in New York City tell us that CNBC, the business news channel of NBC News delivered to over 80 million homes in the US and Canada, has purchased 18 ONE+One dual telephone hybrids; this increases CNBC's ONE+One total to 80. The units will be installed in new facilities in New Jersey to provide IFB to reporters and anchors. The versatile ONE+ONE dual telephone hybrid is perfect for high-quality conferencing and distance learning as well; it combines two Telos ONE DSP hybrids with a mix-minus matrix in a single convenient rack-mount chassis. To learn more about the Telos ONE family of all-digital telephone hybrids, download the eBrochure at www.telos-systems.com/one/ . * SEE YOU AT THE SHOW(S): Telos & Omnia will be visiting several broadcasting conventions in the month of February: - February 7-11, see us with Broadcaster's General Store at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Nashville, Tennessee. - February 18th, Telos' Kirk Harnack teams with Al Salci of Sierra Automated Systems to present "The AES Primer" to the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in Lansing, Michigan. - February 19-21, see the Telos / Omnia exhibit at the Country Radio Show in Nashville, Tennessee. * QUOTE OF THE WEEK: From Domagoj Zaric, Technical Manager, Radio Vallis Aurea, Pozega, Croatia: "We recently bought an Omnia-3fm and we were really shocked what that thing can do. We are now the small, local FM station with the biggest sound around. You really did a great job!" Every day, more broadcasters switch to Omnia audio processing to gain the competitive edge. Who else is using Omnia? Click Here to find out. * FREE HD RADIO PRIMER ONLINE: Last week, we told you about our new White Paper called "Audio Processing & HD Radio" which explores the differences between traditional RF broadcasting and its digital counterpart. It was a popular download... so popular, in fact, that sheer volume took our server offline. We've beefed things up now, and we're glad to say that you can download this informative free White Paper by Clicking Here. * TO IP OR NOT TO IP: Networked broadcast audio is becoming a common buzzword these days, and it seems no technical gathering is complete without a discussion of its merits; comments on the issue by Telos founder Steve Church and other industry leaders featured in Radio World's 2002 IP Supplement are worth reading to gain a better understanding of the issue. If you missed this article, we've archived it here, along with other interesting magazine reprints. * COOL SITE: Over the past decade, broadcasting and computing have becoming inextricably intertwined; many engineers are also "code jockeys" or do double duty as IS managers. As with anything, the computing world has developed its own lexicon, and "The Jargon Dictionary" is a humorous yet accurate compendium of such, complete with etymology. You'll find it at http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ . * NUMBER ONE IN NEW YORK: You may remember how, in December, we released our survey of the Top 10 rated US markets, which showed that major broadcasters are upgrading to Omnia audio processing at a record pace. (If you missed this story, click here to read all about it.) Now we've learned that New York's Number One radio station, WLTW-FM, has placed #1 in the Arbitron Ratings for the 5th consecutive book -- using Omnia audio processing! We congratulate our friends at WLTW, and invite you to read more. * TELOS CABLE GUIDE REFERENCE ONLINE: Sometimes, the hardest part of installing new phone gear can be constructing cables with modular connectors. Was that the red with white trace on Pin 1, or the white with red trace? To help simplify things, Telos has a new Customer Service Bulletin, "Modular Cable Guide - Reference for modular telephone connectors used in Telos products", with descriptions of the modular connectors commonly used in Telos hybrids and talkshow systems. Download it free by clicking here. * HD RADIO SEMINARS: Is your station or group thinking about HD Radio? You can get a head start by attending one of two presentations on Digital Audio Processing for HD Radio. One is at the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters (TAB) Convention in Nashville, Tennessee and is part of a day-long HD Radio conference on Tuesday, January 14, at the Maxwell House Hotel. A second session will take place in Columbia, South Carolina, at the SCBA Winter Convention on Thursday, January 16, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia. Visit www.tabtn.org or www.scba.net for information on how to attend. * FREE HD RADIO PRIMER NOW ONLINE: Omnia Audio has been involved in testing and development of HD Radio since -- well, since before it was called HD Radio! Lately, we've been receiving lots of questions about what needs to be considered when setting up a processing chain for digital broadcasting. Frank Foti's new white paper, "Audio Processing & HD Radio" explores the whys and wherefores of processing for digital transmission. Read and download it by clicking here. * TELOS IN THE NEWS: The December issue of Radio Magazine highlighted the newly-built studios of Talk America Radio Networks, home to personalities like Barry Farber, Bruce Williams and more. You may have noticed, in photos of the studios, the Telos Zephyr Xstream codecs and TWOx12 Talkshow System featured prominently in the equipment racks. “We’ve had a lot of comments on the improved audio quality since we moved into new studios. Certainly our Telos TWOx12 is a big part of that,” says Jerry McDonald, assistant engineer and recording studio consultant. “And we’re using Telos Zephyr Xstream codecs – about twelve of them – to bring in show hosts from around the country.” If you missed the article, you can read it online at http://beradio.com/ar/radio_new_talk_town/index.htm . eNews from Telos / Omnia, December, 2002 * OMNIA IN THE NEWS: Recently we issued the results of our survey of the Top 10 rated US markets, which showed that major broadcasters are upgrading to Omnia audio processing at a record pace. It seems our findings shook a few people up! In case you missed it, Radio World Online has devoted a special page to this topic, at www.radioworld.com/reference-room/special-report/marketing_claims.shtml . * LETTERS FROM THE FIELD: Here's a letter we received from Steve Legerski, Operations Director at Salem Communications' WKNR, Sportstalk 850:
How do you use your Telos and Omnia gear? Send your stories to clark@telos-systems.com . * OMNIA DOMINATES MUNICH:
Broadcasters everywhere are switching to Omnia audio processors; the
latest two are Munich, Germany's privately-owned Radio Arabella and Radio
Charivari -- making Omnia the processor of choice on 4 of Munich's Top 5
FM radio stations. Who else is using Omnia? See for yourself
by clicking here. Subscribe to eNews
* RADIO ONE SIGNS ON "HD RADIO" WITH OMNIA: Radio One's Detroit, Michigan flagship WDMK-FM (www.1027kissdetroit.com) flipped the switch on DAB service using an Omnia-6dab digital audio processor. Omnia-6dab is the only IBOC audio processor that can handle the DAB entire audio spectrum from 20Hz to 20kHz; read more here. * KASU-FM PURCHASES ZEPHYR
XSTREAM: Arkansas State University will soon have two shiny new Zephyr
Xstream ISDN Transceivers, which will be used to broadcast live concerts
held at various venues around the ASU campus. Powerful MPEG AAC coding
helps ensure that remotes are of the very highest fidelity, whether rock,
jazz, bluegrass or classical. Read more about MPEG AAC and download the
new Zephyr Xstream eBrochure at
www.telos-systems.com/zephyr/ . * Top Broadcasters Upgrade to Omnia: A recent survey of America's largest and most competitive markets (#1 to #10 Arbitron rated) reveals that over half of the Top 100 highest-rated FM stations in the US have selected Omnia audio processing -- including New York's WLTW, the highest-rated FM in the #1 market, and KIIS-FM, America's highest-billing radio station (according to Duncan's American Radio). To find out more about one of the main secrets to these stations' success, click here. * Telos Talkshow Systems go to
India: As India's radio industry continues to privatize, important
broadcasters are choosing Telos talkshow systems to upgrade their
facilities. India's largest multimedia publishing group, India Today (www.indiatoday.com),
have chosen Telos TWOx12 talkshow systems for their Radio Today FM
service, heard in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. You can find out more about
TWOx12 at
www.telos-systems.com/twox12/ ; read our White Paper,
"ISDN for Studio Call-In Talk Systems" for an in-depth look at this
revolutionary technology. eNews from Telos / Omnia, November, 2002 * There's Grease All Over That Zephyr Xstream: Birach Broadcasting's WGOP, Washington D.C., is the new home for syndicated personality Doug Tracht - better known as the Greaseman. When building Doug's new studios, WGOP chose Zephyr Xstream as their ISDN codec because of its reliability and clear, clean audio. Read more about Zephyr Xstream and the new Zephyr Xport POTS codec at www.zephyr.com . * Hot New Omnia Software: Did you know that new Omnia-6 and Omnia-4.5 software is available? Make sure you are up-to-date by clicking here . You'll find the latest software versions, information on how to update, and the latest remote control downloads. * "We purchased an Omnia-6 to change from an Optimod to a more competitve processor. We are on the air with the Urban presets. The Omnia was a trouble free installation...very user friendly." -- Jay Stevens, Operations Manager, Kiss 106.9 (KEDG-FM), Memphis, Tennessee. * Omnia-6 users: Do you have the latest software? Version 6.1.5 is now available for Omnia-6. Call or e-mail Omnia Customer Support for details -- please click here for contact information. * Sony Pictures' Playboy Studios have purchased a Telos Series 2101 Multi-Studio Talkshow System. Series 2101 is the only comprehensive solution for managing broadcast-quality phone lines within large facilities, and uses ISDN PRI telephone lines to control up to 120 calls across 32 studios. Visit www.telos-systems.com/2101 for full details. * "Thanks to Telos, my life is Paradise." Fred Holub, Chief Engineer at Infinity's KLSX, Los Angeles, relies on Telos Zephyr for his station's numerous remote broadcasts. See www.zephyr.com for details about the new Zephyr Xstream and Zephyr Xport codecs. >>> Telos and Omnia have been ardent supporters of the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame since inception -- after all, we can walk there from our Cleveland HQ! The world's greatest repository of Rock memorabilia and knowledge can be seen and searched online at www.rockhall.com . And if you visit the "secret studio webcam link" at www.rockhall.com/radiostudio/ , you can see, in the rightmost equipment rack, the Zephyr Xstreams and TWOx12 Talkshow System relied on by visiting air personalities from around the world. eNews from Telos / Omnia, October, 2002 * "The more I listen to it, the better I like it.” That's what users are telling us about Omnia-4.5am, the newest Omnia audio processor for AM and medium-wave broadcasters. Read more about it and download our Electronic Brochure by clicking here . * Los Angeles' KCRW-FM, home of "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and Public Radio International's "To The Point", has purchased a Telos Series 2101 Talkshow System. Series 2101 is tailor-made for large broadcasting facilities; it can handle up to 120 callers using PRI telephone lines. Visit www.telos-systems.com/2101/ to find out more. * Omnia-6fm debuts in Roma! Italy's Radio Globo (www.radioglobo.it), the #1 hit radio station in Rome, now uses Omnia-6fm for audio processing. Find out why top broadcasters around the globe choose Omnia-6: Click here for FAQs, electronic brochures and more. * Crawford Broadcasting's KBRT-AM is the latest Los Angeles station to put Omnia-3am on the air, and its sound is getting rave reviews. Omnia-3am sounds smooth, mellow and full while giving AM stations incredible clarity and loudness. Find out more and download the e-Brochure here. * Software Updates: Telos TWOx12 and ProFiler users, get your free software updates at at www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm While you're there, use our Software Version Checker tool to make sure all your Telos and Omnia products are up-to-date. * According to Graham McHutchon, senior sound supervisor at BBC News, the Telos Zephyr Xstream is “in a class of its own, the only codec really worth having for main broadcast ISDN.” Read the entire article in the September edition of Radio World International, or visit www.telos-systems.com/news/xstream.htm . *
Omnia-6dab is
on the air: Susquehanna's WYGY-FM in Cincinnatti, Ohio commenced full-time
IBOC operation last week after the installation of their new Omnia-6dab
audio processor. "Bring on the HD radio receivers. Thanks to Omnia-6dab,
we are ready," says Norm Philips, Susquehanna's Director of Technical
Operations. Read more about Omnia's DAB involvement by
clicking here . >>> Convert is one of those little utility programs that make you wonder how you ever did without it. Want to convert pounds to milligrams? Joules to watt-hours? Degrees to radians? Convert does all this and LOTS more, and it's free! Download it at www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/ . eNews from Telos / Omnia, September, 2002 * Greater Media is the latest purchaser of a Telos Series 2101 Multi-Studio Talkshow System, to integrate telephone in their newly built Detroit studio cluster. Broadcasters with large market clusters find Series 2101 ideal for managing large installations with lots of on-air and production rooms. To learn more, visit www.telos-systems.com/2101/ . * Telos TWOx12 Talkshow System users: Version 2.02 Software is now available. If your TWOx12 has an Internet connection, simply choose "Software Update" from your System Settings menu. You can also download the installer package from www.telos-systems.com/support/software.htm . * When technical help is needed, who should you ask first? Telos' Marty Sacks shares his opinion in a Radio World Guest Editorial. Click Here to read the entire article. >>> Cool Radio Link: If you love old radio gear like we do, you'll love www.amradios.com . This site sells everything from authentic refurbished radios and replicas to modern retro versions. Great photo gallery. "Caution: High voltages in old tube radios can cause harm and/or death." Subscribe to eNews
eNews from Telos / Omnia, August, 2002 * What do Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly have in common? Even though these two radio conservatives go head-to-head for listeners around the U.S. every day, each one uses Telos Talkshow Systems for the clearest, cleanest caller audio. Visit www.telos-systems.com/2x12/default.htm to find out more about the latest in sophisticated digital talk equipment. * Now Shipping! Telos ProFiler, the automated program archiving system, is being shipped to clients this week. This versatile software logger lets you store up to four stereo audio streams as time-stamped MP3 files for efficient storage, easy compilation of airchecks and quick sharing via e-mail or FTP. Find out more at www.telos-systems.com/profiler/default.htm . * Omnia-6fm has just debuted on a well-known Infinity station in San Francisco (sorry, we can't reveal their call letters). Why have so many top-rated stations in major markets switched to Omnia-6? Click here to see what users are saying. * How much does radio like our TWOx12 Talkshow System? Well, All India Radio liked it so much, they purchased 20 for use at Radio City FM's New Delhi studios. TWOx12's powerful digital signal processing delivers clear, clean caller audio - and connects to POTS or ISDN phone lines for maximum fidelity. Find out more at www.telos-systems.com/TWOx12/default.htm . * Omnia-6fm owners: Get a Video Tutorial from Frank Foti on setting up your Omnia-6. Click here for a modem-friendly video stream. * See us at the Show: Telos and Omnia will be showcased in Seattle at the NAB Radio Show, September 12 - 14. Visit the Broadcast Electronics, Broadcaster's General Store and Harris Broadcast booths to see what's new. >>> Fun Radio Link: There's been a lot of strange audio devices over the years... anyone remember Sony's Elcaset? RCA Nuvistor tubes? Quadraphonic headphones? We recently found a page paying homage to the MacKenzie Repeater, a prehistoric forerunner of today's instant-access playback boxes. Check it out at www.reelradio.com/reports/mackenzi.html . What other odd radio gear do you recall? Let us know. eNews from Telos / Omnia, July, 2002 * Series 2101 and TWOx12 Users: Version 2.0 software is now available for download! Version 2.0 offers several new features and performance enhancements. Get it for free at www.telos-systems.com/support/default.htm . * "Telos/Omnia continues to advance the art of processing." That's what Greg Savoldi, Director of Engineering for Clear Channel's Columbus, Ohio region says in his Omnia-6fm User Report for Radio World. Read the whole article by clicking here. * Telos and Omnia welcome Sound & Vision Pvt. Ltd. as our official representatives for Sri Lanka. Find a complete listing of Telos dealers at www.telos-systems.com/dealer/default.htm and Omnia dealers by clicking here. * As broadcasters discuss DAB, audio compression and choice coding algorithms has become a hotly debated topic. Read why we believe MPEG algorithms to be optimal for DAB, as outlined by Telos' Rolf Taylor (and printed in the July 17 issue of Radio World) at www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/compression.htm . * Omnia-3fm comes to Japan at Radio Hikone FM, a new radio station in Japan's Shiga prefecture. Construction is nearing completion and sign-on is slated for September, 2002. Hikone FM chose Omnia-3fm for its "high quality and cost effectiveness." Find out about the advantages of Omnia-3fm by clicking here. * ISDN is an incredibly useful broadcast tool... that can sometimes be hard to understand. To help you navigate the ins and outs of ISDN, we've compiled a helpful Telco and ISDN Glossary that defines everything from "AMI" to "X.21". Bookmark www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/isdngl.htm . >>> Useful Website: www.whatis.com . Information Technology is filled with three-letter acronyms and newly-coined phrases. To find out what a computing-related phrase really means, t | |
