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Michael Patton & Associates is a radio broadcasting systems integrator and equipment repair firm, providing in-shop equipment repair, on-site transmitter rebuilding, AM & FM facility design & construction, and AM DA equipment and site design, construction & maintenance services to AM & FM stations all over America and abroad. MP&A is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work, and strive to achieve the highest standards of reliability and safety while keeping the prices our clients pay reasonable.
History
Established in 1980.
Michael Patton, the founder and owner of MP&A, has been in the radio engineering field since he was in high school in the early 1970s. He has has been in the contract engineering business since 1983 and is proud to have served radio stations and group owners all over the United States and abroad since then. Michael Patton & Associates was born in 1988; since then MP&A has built over 135 radio studios, including over 30 digital facilities, plus numerous AM and FM transmitter facilities from the ground up, from translators all the way up to 50 KW AM DA sites and multi-station 100 KW FM facilities. Along the way, Michael and his associates have installed, tuned and/or repaired almost every brand and every model of broadcast gear.
Meet the Business Owner
Michael P.
Business Owner
Michael grew up in Jackson, MS, where he began doing engineering work for radio stations while still in High School. After college, he moved to Baton Rouge, where he has lived ever since. Michael has been a consulting engineer since 1982, and during that time has had many milestones, including building the first 50 KW AM in Honduras, building an island-wide chain of FM transmitters in Jamaica, writing several custom computer programs for antenna matching network design, and presenting many papers as well as serving on many panels at NAB and SBE engineering conferences. He is especially proud of his work with AM broadbanding antenna networks, AM directional antennas, and digital studio design & construction.