Award-winning engineer had cancer
Longtime radio engineer and consultant Gary Kline has died.
According to several colleagues, he had been fighting cancer.
Kline was probably best known in the industry from his tenure as an engineering executive for Cumulus Media, which he joined in 1999 and where he rose to become senior VP of broadcast engineering. He left Cumulus in a reorganization in 2016.
Since then, Kline worked to build a consulting business, offering advice to companies about audio processing, studio design, RF optimization and enterprise services. He was sought after as a speaker at industry events, and his bylined articles appeared in often in publications…