Beasley Media Group has moved a 50 kW FM station in Florida onto the Super Hi-Fi platform.
The station is WPBB, “98.7 The Shark,” in Tampa.
“The move marks the first deployment of this technology on a 50,000-watt FM primary signal,” according to Super Hi-Fi.
“The entire station will now be capable of full remote operations from a laptop literally anywhere worldwide, providing unprecedented flexibility and efficiency.”
It said humans will program the station music and host, but that Super Hi-Fi’s AI-enabled cloud-based system will be used throughout the programming, management, voice-tracking, updating and delivery workflow.
“The entire station has ‘moved to the cloud,’ with Super Hi-Fi’s enterprise-grade stream delivered directly to a modern, optimized transmitter-based playout system,” the supplier said. It describes its platform as providing “a new way to deliver radio.”
It quoted Beasley CEO Caroline Beasley saying the technology “enables us to deliver our broadcast in a cloud-to-ground approach that streamlines operations and prepares the stations for the future.”
Two weeks ago, as we reported, Super Hi-Fi announced that Audacy is using the operating system on an FM signal in Denver; it called that the first commercial FM “exclusively scheduled and automated with artificial intelligence in the cloud.”
