History and Founder
The company was founded in 1985 by radio station engineer and talkshow host (WFBQ, WMMS) Steve Church. Its inaugural product was a telephone interface based on digital signal processing, the first application of such technology to radio studio equipment. In 2010 Church received the National Association of Broadcaster's (NAB) radio engineering award. Church stepped down as CEO of Telos in January 2011 and died on September 28, 2012 after a three-year battle with brain cancer.
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