The Tyler Woodward Project
by Tyler Woodward
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Burnout, Fear, and Getting Back to Broadcast Engineering
Burnout, Fear, and Getting Back to Broadcast Engineering
About this podcast
A broadcast engineer's podcast about the tech that owns you, the radio industry that shaped him, and the childhood junk drawer that started it all.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 53 episodes
- Burnout, Fear, and Getting Back to Broadcast Engineering · 26 min · Episode 48In this episode, Tyler shares his recent career transition from a broadcast network engineer role back to field engineering, reflecting on his experiences and challenges in the…
- Could Radio Make a Comeback by Learning from Vinyl and CDs? · 25 min · Episode 47The conversation explores the resurgence of physical media, particularly vinyl, CDs, and cassettes, and discusses the growing consumer preference for ownership over subscription…
- Meta's AI gave a stranger his home address · 25 min · Episode 46Meta's new Muse AI agent handled a Facebook Marketplace sale for a guy named Matt Rob, and it gave a complete stranger his home address without asking first. The guy shows up…
- Supra 89.7 thinks the atmosphere is out to get them · 18 minA low power FM station in Valdosta, Georgia has a real interference problem. Instead of accepting the engineering explanation, they decided to accuse broadcast engineers, large…
- Kids turned NPR's comment section into a secret group chat · 23 min · Episode 45Kids are not going to stop talking to each other just because you blocked an app. I get into the story of how a group of teenage girls turned NPR's podcast comment section on…
- Stop selling radio like a fire extinguisher · 17 min · Episode 44Radio loves patting itself on the back for showing up during hurricanes and tornadoes. I grew up in Florida watching cones of uncertainty aim at my house, so I get why that story…
- Diesel prices don't just hit truckers, they hit your cell and radio signals · 17 minDiesel prices are all over the news right now, but everyone's talking about it like it's just a trucking story. It's not. I'm a broadcast engineer, and I'm here to tell you…
- Why the whole country is about to hear that emergency alert tone at once · 10 min · Episode 43On November 17th, every radio and TV station in the country is going to interrupt whatever you're doing with that awful screeching tone. I'm breaking down what that nationwide…
- Radio can't out-Spotify Spotify, so stop trying · 24 min · Episode 42Radio keeps trying to beat Spotify at being Spotify, and it's losing, because that was never a fight it could win. I lay out why the actual advantage terrestrial radio has always…
- Fiber powered is a lie: how ISPs sell you coax and call it glass · 38 min · Episode 41There's a box on my basement wall where light turns into internet, and most people paying for "fiber" don't have anything close to it. I break down the term "fiber powered," why…
- Stop renting your own life back from Google, Apple, and Meta · 34 min · Episode 40Everyone repeats the line that the cloud is just someone else's computer, and then keeps handing over their whole life to it anyway. I get into what that actually means once you…
- Nobody can actually hear lossless audio, including you · 21 min · Episode 39That lossless badge on your music app feels like a promise, until you realize it's probably not reaching your ears at all. I break down what lossless, lossy, and high res audio…
- You don't own your movies, your games, or your music · 25 min · Episode 38Tyler digs into why phones, earbuds, and even video games are suddenly going backward, dumb phones, wired earbuds, and vinyl are all trending up while smartphones and streaming…
- Shrinkflation is a lie: how companies used inflation as cover · 17 min · Episode 37Ever notice your chip bag feels lighter but somehow still costs the same? Tyler's had it with companies calling that inflation when it's really just shrinking the product…
- What actually killed Blockbuster (it wasn't Netflix) · 26 min · Episode 36Tyler takes a trip down memory lane through video rental stores, sparked by a random Nova Scotia reunion and his kid watching a video store simulator game on YouTube. He walks…
- Why internet radio got too expensive for regular people · 19 min · Episode 35Tyler breaks down why running a small internet radio station went from a fun hobbyist project in 2009 to a legal and financial minefield today. He walks through what changed…
- The MySpace bug that taught a generation web design · 19 min · Episode 34Tyler digs into the one MySpace bug that accidentally taught a whole generation how to code: that infamous About Me box that let you paste raw HTML and CSS to completely override…
- My hobby became my job, so I'm blowing up the format · 14 min · Episode 33Tyler hits pause on the usual format to explain why he's blowing up the show again. He walks through the moment he realized his supposedly personal podcast had quietly turned…
- STL Redundancy: Radio's Forgotten Infrastructure Crisis · 19 min · Episode 32The STL, or studio to transmitter link, is the unglamorous connection that keeps a radio station on the air, and when it fails everything goes dead silent even if every other…
- Plex vs Jellyfin: The Real Cost of Self-Hosting Media · 15 min · Episode 31Plex just tripled its lifetime pass price and put remote streaming of your own files behind a paywall, so this episode digs into what it actually takes to switch to something…
