Radio Engineer Ed Dulaney Dies – Radio World

Regional manager for Townsquare also had worked for Crawford and Salem

Ed Dulaney, a longtime radio engineer, has died. 

His wife Vicki posted on LinkedIn that Dulaney had passed on Tuesday. The cause was not given.

Colleagues are remembering him as a mentor and a caring man.

Dulaney was regional engineering manager for Townsquare Media, which he joined in 2009; in that role he was chief engineer for its stations in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Lawton, Okla., and he worked with the engineers in 14 other markets in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Just last month Dulaney was honored with the Stephen H. Schott Award during the Texas Engineers Dinner at the Texas Association of Broadcasters conference.

According to his LinkedIn bio, Dulaney “started in this crazy business” in the summer of 1978, working as the assistant to the engineer at KROD in El Paso, Texas. He worked at several radio and TV stations in Texas and New Mexico; then for two years in the 1990s he managed the engineering department for Salem Media for three stations in Denver and two in Colorado Springs.

He joined Crawford Broadcasting, where for 13 years he managed engineering for six AM radio stations in Denver and in Colorado Springs. He subsequently was director of engineering for Rocky Mountain Radio before coming to Townsquare.

Martin Stabbert, senior vice president of engineering for Townsquare, said Dulaney was a valued member of the company’s technical team. During virtual meetings of the engineering team, he said, Dulaney often would present helpful educational segments that became known as “Ed U.” 

“He was very hands on and would never ask someone to do anything he wasn’t willing to do himself,” Stabbert said.

Cris Alexander, director of engineering for Crawford Broadcasting, said, “Ed was our Denver market chief engineer for many years before moving to Texas. He was a first-rate engineer and programmer. He pioneered the use of Ethernet over microwave in the broadcast environment and came up with many other creative uses of technology during his tenure with Crawford. It was my great pleasure to have Ed in our employ, and he was also a good friend.”

Engineer Mark Simpson of Cumulus Media posted on LinkedIn that Dulaney “was a very happy and caring man. He truly cared about those that he worked with.”

Dulaney held certifications from the Society of Broadcast Engineers including CPBE, AMD and CBNT.

Describing his career on his LinkedIn bio, Dulaney wrote: “Along the way I’ve met some incredible people whose talents and expertise have helped me become the engineer I am today. So now I continue to look for ways that I can help others the same way. Radio isn’t the same business it was 45 years ago, and it is up to us to help educate and grow the future engineers in this field so that they are equipped to continue the legacy that our mentors began over 100 years ago.”