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Fred Loucks shares his AV journey and advocacy for effective monitoring solutions in the AV industry.

James King and Steve Greenblatt welcome Fred Loucks, Founder of Hyperscale AV, to discuss his AV journey, background in theater and show control, and his passion for effective monitoring solutions for the AV industry. Fred Loucks can be reached via email, fred@hyperscaleav.com, or on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-loucks/. Hyperscale AV can be found at hyperscaleav.com. Fred's article Monitoring A/V Sucks can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/monitoring-av-sucks-what-you-can-do-hyperscaleav-fc6ec/ Fred is teaching a three-day class on AV monitoring at InfoComm26 called Applied Monitoring for AV Systems TD05 https://www.infocommshow.org/2026-sessions/applied-monitoring-for-av-systems?&filters.stream=design-and-integration-1&searchgroup=libraryentry-2026-sessions. To join the conversation or have your question answered on a future episode, join the Ask The Programmer group on LinkedIn and post a message, leave a comment, or reach out to us @AV_JamesKing or @stevegreenblatt on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, or Bluesky, and be sure to include #AskTheProgrammer. The Ask The Programmer podcast can be found at @AVProgrammerPod on X/Twitter or on Bluesky as…

People in this episode

Hosts: James King, Steve Greenblatt

Guest: Fred Loucks

Topics covered

• AV industry
• monitoring solutions
• theater background
• show control
• AV advocacy

Keywords

• AV monitoring
• theater
• show control
• Hyperscale AV
• InfoComm26

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hyperscale AV, LinkedIn, InfoComm26

Books & works: Monitoring A/V Sucks

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