After three decades in broadcast engineering, Alan Jurison is moving to the world of wireless. He has joined Verizon as an RF design engineer in Syracuse.
The veteran broadcast engineer worked for 13 years at iHeartMedia, most recently as senior operations engineer. Prior to that he worked for companies including Citadel and Pilot Communications.
Earlier this year Jurison began consulting work for Quu Inc. He will continue in an advisory role on a part-time basis. Meanwhile he will step down from his role as chair of the National Radio Systems Committee’s IBOC Standards Development Working Group.
At Verizon his work will focus on the Verizon Wireless Upstate New York network.
“Companies like Verizon have been valuable partners to the broadcast industry,” he wrote in a post on LinkedIn, “providing wired and wireless connectivity and helping radio evolve into digital ecosystems, extending AM and FM signals beyond their original footprints and bringing radio content into spaces that would have been lost. I am excited to connect people through technology, a passion I have always pursued and will continue well into the future.”
Jurison noted that listeners now consume radio more and more via streaming “on desktops, laptops, smartphones and smart speakers.” He wrote that the connected car and visual dashboard “represent our newest frontier, one that we should all embrace and be excited about the opportunities that brings.”
Jurison received Radio World’s Excellence in Engineering Award in 2024.
