Backbone Networks creates professional online broadcast stations and radio networks through our cloud-based infrastructure, production and automation software, syndication tools and streaming distribution. We take care of the technical part of broadcasting — making it easy for you to operate 24/7 using integrated radio automation, produce live remotes, stream to a worldwide audience, and automatically create listener logs and reports. You can simply focus on delivering your message and your content, using equipment as basic as “a Mac and a mic”.
In addition to building turnkey, commercial talk radio and sports stations, Backbone operates the largest network of college, university and high school student-run online radio stations (IBS Student Radio Network). Broadcasters get everything they need, including Backbone’s unique cloud-based broadcast and automation infrastructure, allowing easy content sharing among stations and “invisible delivery” of digital content from third-party syndicators.
Your Station Anywhere The broadcast-from-anywhere, live remote capability of Backbone’s infrastructure is what enables professional broadcasters to simplify their event-based Internet radio production.
What differentiates Backbone is our integration of all the tools necessary to run a powerful station while eliminating so much of the complexity and cost normally associated with broadcasting.
Contact Information
290 Turnpike Rd #5-321
Westborough, MA 01581-2843
Phone: 844-4-BACKBONE (+1 844.422.2526)
Email: info@backbone.com
Management Team
Richard Cerny, CEO, President, Founder
As a long-time serial entrepreneur, Richard Cerny has helped change the way remote broadcasting is done. First, by developing fiber and optical cable technologies at Corning and Valtec; second, with vertically targeted electro-optical, laser-based fiber television and digital cinema production systems as CEO and co-founder of Artel and Telecast Fiber Systems; and most recently through Internet cloud-based technology at Backbone Networks.
His career includes many “firsts”, including the development and introduction of the first commercial single mode fiber, the first fiber optic cable, the first operational fiber optic communications installation, the first commercial digital fiber optic telecommunications trunks (both DS1 and DS3), the first commercial RS232C data links up to the first 100Mbps local area networks, and several others. His industry-changing remote television production systems are still in use for news, sports and entertainment by all major U.S. television networks, ESPN, Olympics Broadcasting, the U.S. White House and both houses of Congress, as well as network broadcasters around the globe. His company’s developments were central to the development of High Definition and 3D television and digital cinema teleproduction, including televised sports and feature films, such as James Cameron’s Avatar.
George Capalbo, CTO, Vice President
With a powerful background in both software and broadcast systems development, George Capalbo uniquely understands how broadcasting works and where it needs to go. His father, George Capalbo, Sr., was Chief Engineer and Vice President of RKO Radio nationwide and a recent inductee to the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. George, Jr.’s software experience spans network software development for Prime Computer, Inc. and Index Technology, as well as coordinating live broadcast events, such as Woodstock ’94, for Telecast Fiber Systems, where he served as director until the company’s sale in 2009.
George applied his combined software and broadcast technology for other companies, as well, including Digital Equipment Corp. and Formula One Racing, where he developed remote broadcasting technology, specializing in virtual signage. George is designer, architect and prime developer of the integrated production, automation and streaming software and technology of Backbone Networks.