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After the New Year, Fully Modulated becomes The Tyler Woodward Project, my personal home for broadcasting, Linux, networking, cybersecurity, audio over IP, and open source tech talk, with the same feed, same host, and updated branding.
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Tunwall Radio will close following Steve & Leslie Tunwall's retirement, leaving a legacy of innovation and heartfelt engineering for FM, AM, and TV transmitters across North America—including a custom solution with cable routing, PLC and SNMP for our own stations.
Microsoft's chaotic Windows Update system wastes valuable time for broadcast engineers. Add forced obsolescence through TPM requirements, and it's a disaster.
Windows 10 support officially ends on October 14, 2025. For radio and TV stations, that is not just an IT problem. It is a potential on-air disaster waiting to happen.
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A reflection on gratitude in broadcasting, tracing a career journey from early audio work to network engineering, and celebrating the mentors, colleagues, and listeners who keep radio resilient.
C-band once powered broadcast feeds with outstanding reliability. As spectrum shifts, stations need a blend of satellite, fiber, and cloud connections, automated failover, and active monitoring for uninterrupted delivery and resilient service.
Most people hear AM radio and think of a thin voice cutting through static, not music that lands with weight and space. That assumption is learned, not inevi...
SiriusXM's 48 kbps bitrate makes satellite radio sound compressed. Why spectrum scarcity and the 2008 merger keep audio quality so low.
Learn how to protect your radio station's Barix audio codecs from hijacking attacks with VPN tunneling, firewall configuration, and IoT security best practices.
When AWS collapsed last Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox, and half the internet with it, most people saw an inconvenience. As a broadcast network engineer, I saw a nightmare scenario—one that's about to get worse as the industry pushes critical systems, including emergency alerts, into the cloud.
MTV wanted control. The Box Music Network gave it away. For a wild stretch of the 1990s, anyone with a couple bucks and a phone could decide what hit the TV next. No cable subscriptions, no corporate gatekeeper—just pure viewer choice, live and local, years ahead of streaming.
Charlie Ergen made his name betting against the odds. Before launching his satellite TV empire, he was counting cards at Vegas tables, always seeing three ...
Before Spotify, before iTunes, before the industry knew how to handle digital, one Metallica song slipped out of its box and changed the way radio — and th...
Turn on your radio one day and hear the same song playing over and over again. Come back a few hours later and it is still there. By the next morning, you ...
Radio microphones have shaped the sound of broadcasting for nearly a century, evolving from massive, temperamental ribbon giants to today’s sophisticated d...
The King of All Media strikes again. Howard Stern pulled off one of his most elaborate pranks yet, convincing major news outlets and fans that he was leavi...
The Midwest Regional Broadcasters Clinic is just around the corner, and I couldn’t be more excited. Running September 15-17, 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin, th...
Remember when HD Radio was supposed to revolutionize how we listen to music? All those promises about “CD-quality sound, no static, no fuss” that would mak...
HD Radio had everything going for it. Industry backing, government approval, real technical innovation, and a genuine solution to analog radio’s problems. ...
It’s 1964, and if you’re a young person in Britain who loves rock and roll, you’re pretty much out of luck when it comes to radio. The BBC controlled almost ...
National Radio Day happens every August 20th, but nobody knows why. Explore the mysterious origins of radio's unofficial birthday and why it matters.
When a tornado came within 250 yards of KMOX's tower, the engineer who just turned 40 that day drove through storm-damaged roads to get the station back on air. This is radio resilience when communities need it most.
Linux is the air you breathe in broadcasting. You may not always see it, but without it nothing moves. Discover the free tools saving broadcast engineers thousands while delivering enterprise-level performance.
Remember when TV stations had actual local engineers who knew every inch of their equipment? Now they're managing 5 stations via VPN. The corporate takeover of local TV didn't just change what you see—it transformed how signals reach your screen. #BroadcastEngineering
Remember when TV had room for alien conspiracy theorists AND high school poetry clubs? Public access television was America's most radical media experiment—and we let it fade away without a fight. What did your town's public access legend look like?
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Every year, radio stations flip to all-Christmas music. It's a ratings goldmine for some, a format placeholder for others, and exhausting for the DJs.
KNAC, the legendary LA rock station, returns to the airwaves in California's High Desert on Halloween. Will nostalgia bring back the attitude?
Radio isn’t just about music, talk shows, or static-ridden background noise on a road trip. When it’s done right, local radio is the heartbeat of the communi...
If you have given up on AM and FM in favor of streaming in the car, there is some good news. TuneIn is now delivering real-time emergency alerts inside its a...
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“Audacity 4 will feature a complete remake of the UI and is still quite some ways out.” Two and a half decades after its first release, Audacity is abou...
Radio engineers live in a world where uptime is everything. A transmitter drops, a microwave link goes dark, or a firewall port gets blocked—and too often yo...
Radio stations spend serious money to make sure they never go dark. Dead air isn’t just awkward, it’s expensive. For decades the solution has been purpose-bu...
