A love and aptitude for broadcast engineering, combined with a passion for story-telling puts Marcos O’Rourke in a unique position. He’s single-handedly educating and entertaining our community of broadcast engineers and enthusiasts. O’Rourke’s YouTube channel, Socal Broadcast Engineer, has over two thousand subscribers and about 250 videos. While these numbers are modest in the YouTube creator community, they’re huge in our relatively small broadcast engineering base. Plus, O’Rourke’s efforts drew the attention of the Society of Broadcast Engineers this past year, which is honoring him as “Educator of the Year”. Marcos joins Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack to look at a few fascinating videos and get a behind the scenes look at how he records and edits them.
Show notes:
- What does it take to lift a new generator to the roof?
- The dangers of transmitter sites
- Tour of one of the oldest stations on the west coast – KNX 1070
- My process in making a video
- Socal Broadcast Engineer – YouTube channel
- We discussed LUTs and how they’re used in video production
- SBE announcement of Marcos O’Rourke receiving the James C. Wulliman Educator of the Year award for 2022
Guest
Marcos O’Rourke – Broadcast Radio Engineer and Chief Engineer at KWVE-FM
Hosts
Chris Tarr – Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
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