About

Hi, I'm Tyler Woodward

I'm a broadcast network engineer who's spent two decades chasing the same obsession: how a signal gets from a transmitter to your ears. From a cassette deck in my childhood bedroom in Tampa to running networks for public media stations across the Midwest, I've worked nearly every corner of the industry, on the air and in the rack room. The Tyler Woodward Project is where all of that comes together.

A few things about me

Tampa to La Crosse

Born and raised in Tampa, now settled into actual Wisconsin winters.

Broadcast Engineer

Day job is keeping transmitters, networks, and signals from falling over.

Linux Nerd

Comfortable in a terminal, and happiest when something's running on Debian.

Home Lab

A closet of servers doing more work than they probably should.

Dad

The reason "good enough" stopped being an acceptable answer.

Music

Rock and pop punk are home base. Current favorite band: The Warning.

From the host

The Tyler Woodward Project is a show for elder millennials watching the things they trusted get quietly stripped for parts, at work, in the economy, and on the radio dial. Everything that used to just work seems to be breaking in the same slow, deliberate way, and somehow that keeps getting called progress.

Some weeks that's the economy: why the 401k replaced the pension, why the raise never quite keeps up with rent, why the math you were promised as a kid stopped checking out somewhere along the way.

Some weeks it's straight-up nostalgia: burning a CD, the video store clerk who actually knew movies, the small stuff that got deleted while nobody was looking and nobody asked if we wanted it gone.

And some weeks it's radio, since I've spent enough of my life around it to know exactly why every rock station plays the same seven songs. That started at five years old, when my mom bought me my first AM/FM radio, and it took hold for good growing up locked into Tampa's WFLZ during the Power Pig era, recording myself on a cassette deck and playing radio alone in my bedroom. My first paid gig came years later on WRQT 95.7 The Rock and WKTY in La Crosse, and from there I worked my way from the air studio into engineering, chasing the systems behind the signal instead of just the sound of it.

I've got the industry background, but this isn't an industry show. It's nostalgia without the rose tint and disillusionment without the doom-posting, just one guy who grew up on dial-up and AM/FM static thinking out loud about what happened to the stuff that used to work.

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