My audio engineering career began in high school. After studying electronics, I passed a series of written exams earning my First Class Radiotelephone Operators License from the Federal Communications Commission. That led to my first broadcast engineering job. I helped build a new commercial AM radio station from the ground up, starting at the tall red and white towers. The work involved connecting coaxial cables and all the wiring to the radio transmitter which arrived unassembled on wooden pallets. Next, came building on-air and production studios with all the studio gear plus wiring a newsroom filled with police scanners, AP and UPI wire service printers and typewriters.
To earn my way through college, I worked at a powerhouse AM/FM/TV station. As a fulltime, properly-compensated IBEW broadcast engineer I was responsible for assembling, wiring, maintaining and operating studio and transmitter broadcast equipment. The audio path went from on-air microphones, turntables, cart tape machines, reel-to-reel tape recorders, all the way through the audio processing chain, studio to transmitter links, on out through the broadcast towers to listeners across many states tuned-in for music, news, traffic reports, weather updates and commercials.
Broadcast audio work has offered me the opportunity to live and work in many great places. I’ve also been able to travel extensively covering 48 states and dozens of countries. In addition to my ever-evolving broadcast audio skills, I have enjoyed a long on-air career as a radio reporter doing news, sports, traffic and weather for many fine radio stations and most every U.S. radio network plus some notable international broadcast outlets. My on-air career highlight has been as a CBS News Radio Correspondent. In more than 25 years of contributing to award-winning network radio reporting I covered an amazing number and variety of big news stories across the country and overseas. I’m grateful to have worked in radio during some of the greatest times in broadcast history.
In the years when I mostly worked in radio, I also applied my passion for audio to the TV side of broadcasting. Being a sound mixer/recordist, in the field, in the studio and in a variety of setup locations, I easily interface with cameras and other video equipment, lighting and grip gear. Location audio production work combines my comfort in most any setting with my technical proficiencies. I know my way around. Understanding how things work helps me operate my audio gear effectively and efficiently. I respect tools of the trade and have assembled a fine collection of pro audio gear which I enjoy using to get the best available audio, whenever, wherever.
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