We couldn’t resist…
Wheatstone recently conducted a Q&A with Erik Utter, a U.S. radio studio infrastructure installation vet. His newest firm is Seattle-based Utter Systems.
The interview content includes discussing approaches to talk vs. music content radio station studios, “the challenges of building studios for these two often opposing views, along with the rising popularity of performance studios for visiting artists, plus trends in TOCs, consolidating studios, and what’s happening in that other great divide (between audio and video).”
He offers these thoughts on visual radio: “Then there’s visual radio, which has changed a bit recently. Early on it was mostly talk formats doing visual radio. That’s still a thing but now, in the bigger markets, there seems to be some modest investment in performance studios to bring in artists, shoot a video for YouTube, and drive more people to the station. That has been heating up over the past five years, especially in noncommercial, but we’re now seeing this in the commercial sector to some degree.”
He adds this on AoIP: “On the sound side, the tech is fairly well mature now. Audio over IP has been going on for some time. It’s mature, it’s stable, we’re all comfortable with it. Go into any small station even, and it’s a big shrug.”
There’s much more in the wide-ranging interview so check it out.
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