Take a virtual tour of the WFSU Public Media broadcast center including our Kirk Collection of antique radios, TVs, and music instruments; the WFSU-FM radio studios; and the WFSU-TV television studios.
Learn about the progression of audio and video technology from analog to digital. See early devices like Thomas Edison phonographs, a teletype device for telegrams, a transistor radio, Ma-Bell and rotary telephones, and cathode ray tube television.
Take a peek inside the TV control room and learn the basics of a studio, camera, teleprompter, and video switcher.
Guided by TV Production Manager Paul Dam.
CORRECTION (1 minute into video:) It is a crystal radio, not a transistor radio.