About this episode

Tim Berry discusses the operations and history of WUOT-FM, including its music library and technical upgrades.

Our guest on This Week in Radio Tech episode 809 is Tim Berry, Chief Engineer at WUOT-FM, the public radio station at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. WUOT combines NPR news with classical and jazz music, much of it still played live from CDs and occasionally from the station’s enormous collection of LPs. Tim gives us a tour of the control room, performance area, technical center, and an extraordinary music library that also includes thousands of historic 78 RPM records. We’ll see one of Tennessee’s earliest Audio over IP installations, built around Axia Livewire technology and operating for about 15 years. Tim also maintains more than 20 analog and digital amateur radio repeater sites throughout East Tennessee. Join us for a fascinating look at preserving broadcasting’s rich history while planning the technical upgrades that will carry WUOT into the future.

People in this episode

Guest: Tim Berry

Topics covered

• public radio
• broadcasting technology
• music library
• audio over IP
• radio engineering

Keywords

• public radio
• WUOT-FM
• Tim Berry
• audio over IP
• broadcasting history
• music library
• NPR

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WUOT-FM, NPR

Products: Axia Livewire

Places: Knoxville, Tennessee

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