Fred Gleason

As a broadcast engineer since the 1970s, Fred Gleason has been developing custom applications for the broadcast industry for years. He saw Salem's need as a prime opportunity to develop a new type of audio delivery system designed to work as a broadcast appliance, that would handle long-form formats as elegantly as music formats. Fred determined that developing this application on a Linux platform using the open source software model would be ideal. Linux is ideally suited because of its stability, security and legendary reliability. Opening the source code allowed for some of the top broadcast software developers worldwide to contribute to this project, while at the same time keeping development costs at a minimum.