Your radio station has been streaming online for some time, but does it really sound so good that your listeners stick with it? Are you using the best codec available? What should you consider for hardware? Can you just feed your FM station processed audio to your stream encoder? 

Longtime audio processing guru Greg Ogonowski of the Modulation Index “StreamS” Audio Encoder will address these questions and more in an online Zoom meeting on Tuesday, March 17, at 11:30 AM PDT.

Register in advance for the Zoom Link (ignore the wrong meeting date on that site if it’s still there).

Many thanks to the SBE Chapter 47 in Los Angeles for organizing this meeting.

About Greg Ogonowski

(Stolen from MellowRock.com) Greg started his broadcast career at WWWW in Detroit in the early 70’s. By 1985, he was tasked with rebuilding the Heftel cluster in Los Angeles (we’re honestly not sure what that is, but it sounds impressive).  He went on to form his own audio processing company, Gregg Laboratories, that produced AM/FM processors that threatened the leading producer, Orban, so much that they hired him!  Greg would form the PC Products division at Orban and was the first to license the HE-AAC codec, then called aacPlus, for streaming.

At the end of 2014, Orban spun off the PC products division to Greg’s existing consulting company, Modulation Index, LLC. Greg developed a new streaming audio encoder using HLS and MPEG-DASH to reduce costs and improve reliability and quality. He would also be the first to license the new xHE-AAC codec and has already completed work on using HLS with xHE-AAC. Over the years, Greg has developed a reputation for improving both audio processing and audio streaming.

Thank you for participating in this year’s holiday luncheon. Glen Thompson of Piper Digital and Tony McDaid provided door prizes, RF Specialties of California and Bext subsidized the meal. A good time was had by all.

We’ll explore all things Comrex, including a discussion about their new product, FieldLink and the issue broadcasters face with frequencies related to wireless mic/IFB. Chris Crump will be presenting with context and a history lesson.

Many of us might not quite remember the early days of Comrex. The first products produced by its founder, John Chaney, in Sudbury, Massachusetts were some of the television industry’s first wireless mic and IFB devices. They were used on Broadway, by the NFL, and by television stations all over the United States. A lot has changed since then, including the problems with frequency congestion that caused a shift in product line focus in the late 60s. We’ll discuss the issues that broadcasters, especially at sporting and live concert events, face when trying to do sideline or in-the-stands reporting in addition to covering some new solutions being offered by Comrex and other vendors.

About Chris

Join us Wednesday, November 19 at 11:00 PT on Zoom. This meeting was organized by Chapter 9, Phoenix. 

ZOOM LINK HERE

Artificial Intelligence and cloud technology are rapidly evolving as we progress through 2025. As an industry, both are vital topics to keep up to date on and ultimately adapt to. Andrew Scaglione explains what’s already possible to achieve in broadcasting using AI and the cloud, including global case studies.

Andrew Scaglione is in his fourth year as Radio.Cloud’s account director, responsible for global business development with a focus on the US market. Andrew has been in the industry for a decade-plus and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to Radio.Cloud, Andrew worked for G Networks/Sun Broadcast Group/Envision Networks in Cleveland, and was a TV and radio sports reporter/anchor in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Join us Tuesday, October 14, at 11:30 AM via Zoom. This meeting organized by Chapter 47, Los Angeles. 

REGISTER HERE