Note from a happy customer!

We always like notes like this to start off our work week!  It makes the Monday "blahs" mysteriously vanish!  We recently got this note from one of our customers in Southern California:
"We are a religious broadcaster, and every weekday we have a call in program that the senior pastor and an associate pastor host. The senior pastor had a mini stroke and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks. The day he got out of the hospital he wanted to be on the air. We had an old POTS codec that we hurridly got set up, but we weren't happy with the delay and the quality, so we ordered the ACCESS rack and portable units and had them overnighted. By the next day we were on the air from his house using the ACCESS units and many of the listeners (and staff here at the station) thought he had come in to the studio. In fact, we had some staff walk by the studio to see if he really was in the studio.

Anyway, thanks for making a great product that works."
--
Marcos O'Rourke, CBRE, CBNT
Engineering
K-Wave Radio
KWVE-FM, KWVE(AM)

Chair
Orange County Emergency Communications Committee

From Harlem to Hilversum...ACCESS goes on the road...er...bike path!

Harlem - Recently, Radio DJ Giel Beelen mounted his bicycle and made a special trip to work. From his bicycle, which was built into a riding radio station, he set out to do his live radio show during his morning commute. He rode his bike from Harlem to the studio in Hilversum, a distance of 48 kilometers (that's about 30 miles) while broadcasting his morning show live to listeners all over the Netherlands. Giel hoped to arrive in the studio before 9, where the Norwegian singer Marit Larsen was that morning's guest.

The idea started in a conversation with Dutch singer Marco Borsato about the National Sportsweek. Giel promised the singer to practice sports a bit more. A bit later, when traffic reader Kees Quaks pointed out to Giel that it was possible to take the bike to your work, Giel decided to make his word reality. Giel used the Comrex ACCESS for the high quality audiolink to the studio. He could be followed on his journey live on Radio 3FM (national radio).

Thanks to our friends at Triple Audio for sharing this story and for providing great service and support for Comrex customers in the region!

Moby in the Morning...Live from Nashville

Comrex is live at the Country Radio Seminar with nationally syndicated morning show, Moby In The Morning. You can listen live at: http://streaming.1061wngc.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=WNGCFM

We'll be here February 25th and 26th from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST. We LOVE getting up at 3 a.m. No, really! :-)~

Comrex Provides ACCESS for Breaking & Entering Christmas

Rob Chickering, VP of Operations for the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show, has been a friend of Comrex for many years.  Recently, just got his first ACCESS for the show and its been a game-changer in many regards.

Below, you can see and hear Kidd's "Breaking & Entering Christmas" which took place on December 21st using the ACCESS Portable. 



Rob writes us, "All I wanted for Christmas was cool Access.....
we got it just prior to our kidds kids day contribution broadcast and there it began to make a difference in our on air product. We were live from the southwest airlines headquarters for 4 hours and it sounded amazing, as good as ISDN and just as solid. There was no way I was getting an isdn line installed at that location so Access was the only choice and it rocked!

Next big use was yesterday for our Breaking and Entering Christmas. every year we find a family in need though a letter written from a friend. This year it was a young couple living in a trailer in Keller Texas. This becomes a real technical challenge because part one of the broadcast begins at a location away from the home where we stage on air talent and crew. No power no internet no land lines.Then once the family has left the house we roll. The access stability and portability kept the host on the air throughout the process. From set up to "break in" to reveal to the family. The quality was amazing and the unit was stable for over 3 hours on 3g AT&T. We took the unit back outside and gave them a car later all on the air. This year crappy cell phone audio didn't reduce the experience to the listener. We had folks commenting that they felt like they were there while this great Christmas gift took place.

Please pass along to all involved in developing this product that this makes such a difference in the lives of folks. It brings radio back to people! Thank you guys for being a great company that makes amazing products for us in the trenches."

Rob Chickering

VP, Operations

Yea Network/Kidd Kraddick In The Morning


Hear the audio by clicking HERE!