Radio World Buyer’s Guide articles are intended to help readers understand why their colleagues chose particular products to solve various technical situations. This month’s articles focus on automation, traffic and billing.
The reach of WYSO(FM) expanded when the station relocated its transmitter to a new tower site 10 years ago. That project, managed through JMS & Associates, opened the NPR member station to more than 2 million potential listeners from its new position between Dayton and Cincinnati.
The station was sold by Antioch College in 2019 and is now licensed to Miami Valley Public Media.
On the studio side, there is WYSO’s well-established ENCO DAD automation system, now in use for more than 25 years. Jim Stitt, president of JMS & Associates, has worked with ENCO and WYSO over time to update the technology, modernize its workflow and ensure WYSO staff remains up to speed.
“DAD has always been a very straightforward and intuitive system,” said Stitt. “That remains true whether working remotely or in the studio.”
JMS & Associates is now at work on WYSO’s new studio facility. The ENCO DAD ecosystem will expand with the deployment of WebDAD, which provides browser control for DAD automation and is used for remote production work including voice tracking.
“There is a lot of voice tracking work,” said Stitt. “They do a lot of production for local news and public affairs, and there is a performance studio where they do multi-track music recordings of live bands and later edit pieces into a larger production. It’s about to grow as our new studio facility prepares to launch.”
Stitt says WYSO’s facility will house two on-air studios, one production studio, an event space with a stage, and four edit booths all connected via a WheatNet AoIP network.
“We’re going to achieve a lot with the DAD and WheatNet integration,” he said. “That integration will also include the TOC, server room and several network blades for importing other sources into the facility.”
