The Telos Alliance has announced that WWSU(FM) at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, is the recipient of an Omnia.11 FM/HD Radio/DRM audio processor.
According to the announcement the company “partnered with the College Radio Foundation, asking college radio students, engineers, and faculty across the U.S. to tell us why they needed new audio processing…” The foundation selected the winner.
The winning entry, submitted by Larkin Smith, WWSU student engineer and general manager, outlined the sad story of how the station’s transmitter and tower were damaged in 2009 by Hurricane Ike. The incumbent Omnia.3 was silenced and left the station with “only 1990s-era limiting gear to manage their signal.”
Smith added that the dated equipment’s handling of contemporary “brick-wall limited and compressed” material “sounds rough, distorted, fatiguing… the hardware simply was not designed for modern program material.”
Telos Alliance Audio Production Senior Director of Sales for the U.S. and Canada Jim Armstrong said, “Telos Alliance is absolutely thrilled to award WWSU a new Omnia.11 to bring their audio processing into the modern era. We believe that college radio is vital to training the air talent, engineers, and programmers who will take radio into the future. We support its mission, and we hope other manufacturers will do the same!”
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