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We know a company's history is important
- it is the foundation of the trust and success that we have
built with our
clients in Canada and the USA.Our founder's story tells it all
and it is why more and more Canadian and American broadcasters turn to
Ron Paley Broadcast for their radio station's automation and
studio systems design, installation and support.
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Ron and Ted Paley co-founded with
John and Harry Hildebrand,
Century 21 Studios in Manitoba
in 1968, to service a niche in the
professional audio and multi track
recording industry. From there,
their passion for professional audio
and radio bloomed into a long
standing dedication and reputation
in the industry.
Since their founding of Century
21 Studios, Oakwood Audio Labs
Ltd and OMT Technologies Inc,
Ron and Ted Paley have been involved
as distributors and turnkey
integrators of automation, broadcast
and recording equipment, studio and
transmitter design and installation
worldwide.
In 2007, Ted and Ron Paley formed
Ron Paley Broadcast to embark in
the distribution of new age
broadcast products such as digital
audio storage systems, air and
production studio control surfaces
and routers, devices and products
that require networks, computers and
software and the expertise to make
all a working system.
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1968:
Ron and Ted co-founded with John
and Harry Hildebrand, Century 21 Recording
Studios and installed first
professional 8
track multi track recording
studio in Winnipeg
1970:
Ron & Ted Paley founded Oakwood
Audio Labs Ltd to distribute
broadcast and recording products to
the industry in Canada. |
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1971: Obtain exclusive marketing
rights to distribute TASCAM in Canada
1972:
Opened professional concert sound system
rental division – won a major contract with
the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition to
provide recording and on site sound services
from 1972 - 1990. |
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Oakwood Audio
Winnipeg, MB - 1970 |
1973: Oakwood sound system and
personnel services were selected by The
Bobby Vinton Show to provide touring system
and stage personnel for Vinton’s appearances
in Las Vegas, Tahoe, Reno and other USA
based night clubs, state fairs and
festivals.
1974: Century 21 Studios builds a
Tom Hidley "Westlake "Quad Sound" Recording
Studio" in Winnipeg with 24 Track Studer and
48 Channel Neve Recording console.
1974: Opened Oakwood Audio Hi-Fi
Stereo showroom to market top end home
entertainment and recording equipment. The
store was better know as the
"The Inconvenient Stereo Store" and its
manager Ernie Klem was known as "Weird
Old Ernie".
1975:
Won an award as Canada’s largest dealer
sales from Teac / Tascam
1976: Century 21 Studios builds a
2nd State of the Art Recording Studio next
to its Westlake room in Winnipeg using a 36
Channel Soundcraft Console and MCI 24
Channel Recording.
1978:
Won an award as Canada’s largest dealer
sales from Studer / Revox
1984:
Awarded the sound systems, venue mixing and
large venue sound systems for the Papal
Visit of John Paul the II to Winnipeg and
surrounding venues.
1988:
Awarded the supply of sound equipment & operating
personnel to Olympic Square Stage for the
1988 Calgary Winter Olympics
1988:
Awarded the supply of broadcast equipment
for the Broadcasting Media Centre at the
1988 Calgary Winter Olympics
1988:
Sold and Installed the very first radio
digital based mass storage audio system -
D.A.M.S. to Moffat Communications in
Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton & Edmonton |
1989: First
Canadian pro audio distributor to publish a
120 page buyer catalogue.
1991:
Issued Vol.2 of the Oakwood Catalog, another
120 page effort
1989:
Signed exclusive Canadian marketing rights
to Media Touch Systems automation software
and systems
1990:
First Canadian installation of MediaTouch at
OZ-FM St Johns, NF
1992:
Designed, sold, integrated and installed the
world’s first 4 station Super Cluster "Duopoly" MediaTouch automated digital system for
Okanagan Skeena Broadcasters in Penticton, BC
with affiliated stations in Summerland and
Osoyoos, BC.
1993: Ron Paley becomes President
of MediaTouch Systems Inc, Salem, NH.
1994:
Acquired the ownership and world rights to MediaTouch
technology and moved the operations of
MediaTouch from Salem, New Hampshire to
Winnipeg, MB Canada.
1995: Founded OMT
Technologies Inc. a new corporation that
managed Oakwood Audio and MediaTouch
divisions.
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Ron Paley's
Oakwood Audio
Catalog's Vol. I & II
Another first in Canadian Broadcasting
Ron Paley
designs the first 4 Station Automation
Duopoly in 1992
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1997:
Revolutionized radio automation systems by
being the first to use embedded audio codecs
in its software making the MediaTouch
product truly non-proprietary. MPEG 1, 2 and
MP3, Windows Media WMA and REAL record, edit
and play on any generic Windows compatible
sound card.
1998: Completed sales of
iMediaTouch to major US radio broadcasters,
CBS New York, Boston and Philadelphia, Radio
One Baltimore and Washington, Delmarva
Broadcasting in Wilmington DE and Jefferson
Pilot in Fort Lauderdale FL.
1999:
Awarded the supply of iMediaTouch
Quicpix Software and computer systems for
all 29 venues at the Pan American Games in
Winnipeg.
1999:
Won a NAB Show "Cool Award" for the
first showing of the multi channel, multi
tasking iMediaLogger software that
revolutionized audio logging for radio.
2000:
Won a NAB Show "Cool Award" for
developing and showing the iMediaAdcast
software that allowed terrestrial
broadcasters to simultaneously send a
different ad to Internet broadcast when a
terrestrial ad was played.
2001:
Completed a four year development
project in the conversion of DOS based
MediaTouch to modular and IP based
iMediaTouch with the release of iMediaTouch
Version 1.x. Ron and Ted Paley encouraged,
supported and financed the revolutionary
development proposed by Scott Farr VP
Development for building blocks in 32bit
Microsoft Windows for database, codecs for
audio, TC/PIP friendly for Internet and Wide
Area and an outstanding GUI rich in graphics
for its software products.
2001:
OMT Technologies, goes public and is
placed on the TSX-Venture Exchange.
Ron and Ted Paley are major
shareholders and also appointed to the Board
of Directors of OMT Inc Public Corporation
trading on the TSX Venture Exchange,
Toronto.
2002:
Oakwood Broadcast, the hardware
division, is sold to its direct management
and employees and Oakwood becomes a private
company. Carol Paley, Rick Ciwko and Darrin
Paley depart with Oakwood Broadcast while
Ron and Ted Paley remain with OMT.
2004:
Ron Paley joins forces with Gary
Hooper of HP Services of Thornhill, ON and
they build Canada's first AES-EBU radio
facility for CanWest Global Communications
in Kitchener, ON. All audio paths in the
iMediaTouch automation system, Wheatstone
digital air consoles, STL air processor and
exciter are all AES-EBU in and out. The
sound is simply outstanding. 91.5 FM "THE
BEAT" soars to the top of the ratings in the
Southern Ontario radio market.
2006:
Ron Paley with Darrin Paley of
Wheatstone Corporation demonstrate at NAB
Las Vegas the first iMediaTouch automation
system in North America to run 8 channel
stereo record and play-out using off the
shelf iMediaTouch Version 2 software with
Wheatstone Audio Over IP drivers, "no audio
cards" and the Wheatstone Bridge Router and
a G4 surface console. In addition
iMediaLogger software used the 8 AoIP record
channels for
24/7 recording - all products ran went non
stop for the entire show.
2007:
Ron Paley and OMT as a sub contractor
to Azcar of Toronto, closed one of its
largest installations of iMediaTouch
automation for American Forces Radio of
Riverside, CA. OMT to provide all broadcast
automation software, hardware and custom
development for the KLOTZ audio consoles and
many programming features unique to AFRTS.
2007: Ted Paley retired from OMT in 2004,
then joins Ron Paley Broadcast a
company founded by Ron Paley to serve the
radio industry with design, integration and
installation of the new media hardware and
software for radio studios. RPB was
appointed as the exclusive Canadian Wheatstone dealer
with Ted Paley as its Business Manager. |
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Vorsis M-1
The M1 is Vorsis's flexible and easy to use - digital mic
processor. It offers pre-sets, security,
networkability, all digital framework, and easy to set up
parameters.
Either from the front panel, or from the GUI- all individual
parameters of the M1 can be controlled to give each voice talent his
or her own sound, at the press of a button. Find
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