About us:

Michael Patton & Associates is a radio broadcasting systems integrator, providing facility design, construction, contracting, rebuilding and 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 of Firm:

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 facilties, 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 facilties.   Along the way, Michael and his associates have installed, tuned and/or repaired almost every brand and every model of broadcast gear.

MP&A Today:

As of fall 2009, MP&A is proud to employ, in addition to Mr. Patton, one field/CAD engineer (Lynn Dortch), two field technicians (Johnathon Chelette and Justin Dominguez), a bench technician/IT guru (Jordan Garcie) , an office manager (Sean Witt) and a bookkeeper/marketing director (Jane Patton).  At need, however, all of our employees can pick up a field meter or a cable and bend their considerable talents to the project at hand--including yours.

 Current Offerings:

While we continue to offer a comprehensive array of engineering services to radio stations, our emphasis currently is on the following areas:

*AM DA phasor & ATU equipment design and fabrication,

*AM ND and DA transmitter site construction, tuning and proofing,

*Custom AM/FM transmitter site controller design and fabrication,

*FM transmitter site construction,

*TX module & equipment repair in our shop.

*AM & FM Transmitter rebuilding and retuning,

Please click on the links above to see details of these services.  Also, follow the links at the top of the page to see our other services offered.

Look Around:

Please feel free to browse the rest of our site; on the side are links where you can read a bit about several of our notable past projects and see pictures of many of them, where you can learn more about our staff, check out our references and send us a message.  Whether you are an owner or manager, a station engineer, a group chief, or a consultant, I hope that you will contact us if we can help you with your next radio engineering project.

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