Here’s our history, briefly:

Michael (Mike) Patton, the founder and owner of MP&A, has been hanging around radio stations since he was in high school in the early 1970s in Jackson, MS, including the legendary WZZQ. After escaping from Mississippi State University in 1976, Mike’s first full-time radio chief engineer’s gig was for several radio stations in the Columbus, MS area. In 1977, he moved to Baton Rouge, where he served as the CE of WXOK, a stand-alone AM station (my how times have changed). He learned a great deal from the late Charles Ellis while working for him in Lafayette, LA, in 1978 and 1979, but then moved back to Baton Rouge for a brief stint as an oilfield instrumentation designer.

Hanging out his shingle as a contract engineer in 1982, he 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 137 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 high-power FM facilities.   Along the way, Michael and his associates have installed, tuned and/or repaired almost every make and model of broadcast gear.

MP&A has employed as many as 10 people at several points (especially after Hurricane Katrina, when we were heavily involved in getting the broadcasters of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast back on their feet), and at others, it’s been only Mike and one other hard-working assistant. There have been lean years and boom years. But through it all, we have striven to provide our customers with the best and most innovative repair, design, installation, and other consulting services we possibly could.