08/28/2026
No studio? No problem.
In this new Radio World feature, Beasley Media Group’s engineering team shares how they're running live shows, voice tracking, and even entire station clusters from anywhere with an internet connection — hotel rooms, client sites, even a laptop at the NAB Show. The secret? WO Aurora, powering their shift to distributed, cloud-based operations.
The results speak for themselves:
- Live football coverage from the field — no ISDN, no codecs, no board op required
- Stronger security, since sensitive data never touches an unmanaged local network
- Easier voice tracking and remote production from anywhere
- Faster response in emergencies, just grab a laptop and a mic, get to the scene, go live
As Lamar Smith, Beasley’s Director of Corporate Engineering, put it, this isn't about doing more with less — it's about giving talent and engineers better tools, and watching stations get back to doing more live radio because of it.
Read the full story:
At Beasley Media Group’s music radio stations, on-air and production staffs increasingly work in distributed environments.