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- “Milwaukee’s NPR” Embraces AoIP
Jason Rieve in the Technical Operations Center. This is excerpted from the ebook “Sweet New Studios 2026.” Last September, 89.7 WUWM “Milwaukee’s NPR” set out to replace an older TDM-based system with a Telos AoIP infrastructure to serve four studios. It also wanted to rework its technical core to support those rooms and to improve redundancy in its air chain. WUWM was founded in 1964 and is licensed to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; it is operated by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science. Its studios are in Chase Tower in downtown Milwaukee, Wis. Studio Engineer Jason Rieve led the project for the station, with integration and system architecture by Summit Technology Group. “We needed to modernize and reduce our old systems to a more reliable system that can be more easily accessed remotely, allowing the freedom to work from anywhere,” Rieve said. The job included installing the Telos Axia StudioCore engine, Axia iQ consoles and Axia xNode2s. A view from behind the console in Studio A. WUWM opted to use its existing furniture, which was in excellent condition and had been customized to fit the rooms and workflows. Summit Technology Group’s AirLux Studio Signaling product mounted on a wall outside Studio B. Summit deployed its own AirLux Studio Signaling product, which takes cues from Axia Pathfinder to signal the on-air or recording status of each studio. New EV RE320 mics and studio monitors are mounted gracefully on Yellowtec Mika arms, providing a fresh and modern look. “The hard part was going to be how to completely remove ALL of our infrastructure and replace it, while still staying on air,” Rieve said. “I believe that was the biggest challenge. It was amazing how many boxes of wires were removed.” WUWM’s “Lake Effect” Studio console and under-table equipment rack. We asked whether WUWM is seeing the kind of studio trends we’ve noted elsewhere. “Yes,” Rieve said. “More and more our studios are used just for interviews. We no longer need to have tape decks, record players or DAT machines, since everything is online. Moving to an AoIP solution will allow us to be more fluid as things progress in our industry.” The work was done while staff and air personalities were actively occupying the space. It was also overlaid by an automation upgrade and hardware refresh, said Summit President Paul Stewart. A rackmounted monitor in… [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - Ex-Biden Spox on Fox Calls on American People to Unite Behind Military During Tr...
Former Biden administration spokesman John Kirby, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, joined Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on Thursday to discuss the ongoing U.S. operation against Iran. During the conversation, Kirby urged Americans to rally around the military now that the U.S. is in the war, regardless of whether or not they believe it is justified. MacCallum began the conversation, “It’s good to have you. I heard you say earlier today that in one of your earliest missions in the Navy, you were in the Strait of Hormuz, protecting it in the Reagan administration. When you look at how much the world has changed, you know, what can you bring to that experience? And the questions that sit before us now—as there are concerns about mining the strait and shutting it down—what can you tell us?” “The thing that worries me the most right now, Martha, in terms of the strait—remember, the Strait of Hormuz is only 20 to 25 miles wide at the narrowest point, and there’s about a six-mile what we call traffic separation scheme that kind of runs down the middle of it. So it’s a narrow way in and out. It’s a very, very dangerous choke point,” Kirby replied, adding: But the thing that worries me most right now are the drones. I’m not too worried about the mine laying. You’ve seen that CENTCOM has gone after their mine-laying capabilities. They can’t drop mines from the air. They can only do it from the sea, from surface vessels, and as your reporter just rightly noted, many of those surface vessels have been destroyed. And my sense is that Central Command has been focused on the Iranian Navy threat quite intensively for the last few days, and I think that will continue going forward. But it’s the drones that can fly low and slow and are hard to detect that can actually help shut down traffic in the strait itself, and that’s a whole different level of complexity to go after because they have thousands and thousands of them. Convoy missions are possible. The U.S. Navy knows how to do it better than any other navy in the world, and I did do it a long time ago—our capabilities were different then, but it can be done. It’s labor intensive, Martha. It’s resource intensive. It requires a lot of ships and a lot of time,… [TheTopNews] Read More.52 mins ago - ‘You’re Trying to Bait Me!’ GOP Pollster Laughs Off Idea MAGA Doesn’t Ba...CNN’s Kasie Hunt presented Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson with a quote by a former Trump staffer claiming social media was more accurate at predicting American support for the Iran war than traditional polls. Hunt played a clip of former White House staffer Caroline Sunshine on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “Social media is a more accurate representation of public sentiment,” Sunshine said. “You can track it in real time versus polling. So this idea that 90% of the coalition supports [the war] just quite literally isn’t possible. When you look at the wide swath of people — independents, moderates Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, young men — who all joined President Trump’s coalition specifically because they were really excited about the promise of no new wars.” “So, she claimed social media’s more accurate than—” “Yeah, that was bait! You’re trying to bait me. I see what’s going on here,” Anderson said with a chuckle. “But no, I would like to know what you are actually seeing in your numbers about how Americans are feeling about this and what you think the real sense is,” Hunt said. “There is no doubt that there is a swath of the American public that is a typically younger piece of the puzzle that is very skeptical of the American projection of power abroad,” Anderson said, continuing: Younger Republicans tend to look more askance at it. They don’t remember the Cold War. They don’t think as highly of what America could do abroad. But we’re talking about a difference between 80% and 90% support among Republicans. It’s very small differences here, because by and large, Donald Trump still has an awful lot of sway with his base. I think if it was anybody but Donald Trump pursuing this, there would be a lot more sort of backlash among those young Republicans saying, “Yeah, I don’t know about this.” But right now, how you feel about Donald Trump basically dictates how you respond to a poll about this war. Watch the clip above via CNN.The post ‘You’re Trying to Bait Me!’ GOP Pollster Laughs Off Idea MAGA Doesn’t Back Trump in Iran first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- ‘They’re Just Lying’: Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly Trade Scathing Attacks a...
Screenshot via YouTube Ben Shapiro pulled no punches on Thursday in going after Megyn Kelly after she tore into him the day before and accused him of trying to brand her as an anti-Semite. Kelly went after Shapiro while defending Piers Morgan, whose show Shapiro sharply criticized for platforming vehement anti-Semites, labelling it the “‘Jerry Springer‘ of politics.” Shapiro’s barbs at Kelly came as he was taking questions from his viewers on his show. “Josh says, quote, ‘Dear Ben, I’ve been watching a lot of your adversarial interviews lately, and I’ve noticed that once they run out of arguments, they always fall back on the Israel issue.’ Yeah, I noticed that, too,” Shapiro began, reading more of the question: ‘I noticed this especially in Megyn Kelly’s defense of Tucker Carlson, where she claimed that your issue with him and recently her all boiled down to Israel, which I believe is an incorrect characterization. They just find it convenient to blame Israel instead of facing the actual points you are making. My question is: How do you deal with people like this? People who, anytime you disagree with them just say the reason you disagree with them is because of Israel? I like the way Matt Walsh said it: People that are Israel first, but from the opposite direction—meaning the first thing they care about is being anti-Israel. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. “So yes, they’re lying. Megyn is lying, and so is Tucker. I mean, period. They’re just lying, OK?” Shapiro replied, adding: I started originally criticizing Tucker Carlson for his economic programs back in 2018. And then in the more modern, post-Fox iteration of Tucker, I started criticizing Tucker over his going to Russia to sniff the bread and kiss Vladimir Putin’s ass. My generalized critique of Tucker in the last few months has been one: he hosted and glossed over a Nazi, Nick Fuentes, which doesn’t have to do with Israel. It has to do with glazing a Nazi, Nick Fuentes. And then I did a speech at Heritage in which I went through the fact that Tucker Carlson is in no way, shape, or form a traditional conservative and he’s a conspiratorial near-anarchist at this point, seeking to tear down the fundamental ideas and institutions of the United States. Go watch the Heritage Speech. I believe Israel is mentioned once in a 35-minute speech… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Scott Jennings Accuses Democrat of ‘Cheering Against American Success’ in Te...CNN’s Scott Jennings accused former Democratic congressman Joe Cunningham of cheering against American success in Iran during a tense throwdown on Thursday afternoon. In an appearance on The Arena, Cunningham argued that there is “not much appetite at all” for President Donald Trump’s operation in Iran. “Number one, I mean Scott talked about success — how is that defined? Because first it was described as regime change, and then it was suppressing terrorism. On the back end, you also have, fresh in everyone’s mind, Iraq and Afghanistan, and my generation, who just do not wanna go into a war without clear cut objectives to which Americans don’t feel directly threatened,” continued Cunningham. “And on top of that, the billions of dollars we’re spending every single week, which ultimately could add up to trillions of dollars to our national debt, there’s just a lot of reasons to kind of view this as a bad idea. And I think it’s-, I just don’t think the appetite’s there, and I don’t think-” “I don’t understand your vibe. We’re at war with people who have been at war with the Western Civilization for 47 years, and you appear to me to be, you know, sort of cheering against American success. I hate to break it to you, but for 47 years they have killed American troops, maimed American personnel, waged war on the civilized world,” interjected Jennings. “They have missiles, they have drones, and they told our own negotiators they have material for 11 nuclear bombs. Does this not seem imminent to you?” “This is a false choice, Scott, you push,” fired back Cunningham. “You can be against Iran, all the terrorism they support, you can be against Maduro and toppling them — let me finish, let me finish — but when it comes down to strapping your kids and sending them off to war, and spilling their blood, and adding billions and trillions of dollars to our national debt whenever we have our problems here at home. Health care is out of control, our roads are crumbling. We have a lot of problems here at home.” Watch above via CNN.The post Scott Jennings Accuses Democrat of ‘Cheering Against American Success’ in Tense CNN Throwdown first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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Online audio, podcasting, and AI are the stars in this year's The Infinite Dial presentation from Edison Research. Click to read our coverage and download link for the presentation deck. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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