Career of the Month: An Interview With Broadcast Engineer Glenn Leffler

by: Megan Sullivan

Broadcast engineers maintain radio stations—their job is to keep stations on the air and making money. From rewiring a station’s equipment to fixing a transmitter on a mountaintop at 3:00 a.m., these engineers make sure that we, the listeners, can count on music streaming from our favorite stations. As a teenager, Glenn Leffler never dreamed that his desire to be a musician would spark a career in broadcast engineering. Now—running a business, teaching classes at local colleges, and recording his own albums—he is grateful that his passion for guitar and gift for electronics paved the way.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2010Stock # tst10_077_09_66Volume 077Issue 09

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