The Geerlings, the father and son team whose videos about broadcast facilities we’ve featured before, are out with a new one. And it pulled in more than 440,000 views in little more than a week.
The personable family duo provide a 44-minute visit to the transmitter and tower site of 50 kW AM station KMOX in St. Louis, owned by Audacy. Broadcast engineers will enjoy getting a peek at the infrastructure, while newbies looking to learn a bit about AM engineering will find it insightful. One viewer commented, “I’m a radio amateur, and for me this was the equivalent of a Cessna private pilot getting a tour of a 747.”
[Read Nick Langan’s profile of them earlier this year.]
In the series, Jeff interviews his dad about cool broadcast stuff like how radio works and what it’s like to visit tower sites. Joe is a broadcast engineer, in his fifth decade in the St. Louis market. He was market chief for CBS Radio and is the director of engineering for Covenant Network. Jeff has spent 15 years as a software architect and developer. He founded Midwestern Mac LLC and is active in open-source software communities. Joe first appeared on a video on Jeff’s YouTube channel to install a Raspberry Pi IP KVM in a Covenant Network studio. That collaboration led to the series; their channel has 21 videos now.
Watch the new edition below. (Joe Geerling is also one of the RF experts who provided input for Radio World’s latest free ebook on trends in transmission.)
