Once upon a time in radioland, back even before Motorola’s Martin Cooper made his epoch-making phone call to Bell Labs’ Joel Engel in 1973, telephones and the radio station had a complicated but prized relationship. “Call-in” radio shows, in many different varieties, were common (and cheap to produce).
But somewhere along the line they faded away as a standard and the need for “hybrids,” the magic box that connected a telephone call to the radio console and show host, faded as well. Hybrids can still be found and the rise of digital/IP technology has made connecting the phone to the console a natural pairing and one that has merely scratched the surface of possibilities.
Yet that natural match that has been notably unexplored for the most part.
At the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas, Wheatstone allowed telephone software developer NeoGroupe’s Founder Philippe Halin the use of an LXE IP console to demonstrate the possibilities that IP networking and digital phones can create.
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