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Durst engineer earns excellence award.


John M. Lyons, an assistant vice president and director of broadcast communications for The Durst Organization, is this year's recipient of the 2006 Radio World Excellence in Engineering Award. This award, granted by the editors of Radio World, a newspaper for radio managers and engineers, recognizes outstanding achievement in engineering.

Lyons has worked in the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications.  for more than forty years and is credited with spearheading many major communications projects. Most notably, after the devastation of the WTC WTC World Trade Center, see there  tragedy-, he worked with the Empire State Building, 4 Times Square and various other broadcasters and contractors in an effort to restore broadcasting operations for all WTC stations.

In 2002, as manager of communications and broadcast operations at 4 Times Square for The Durst Organization, he was responsible for removing a 132-foot master FM antenna tower and replacing it with a 385-foot master TV and FM antenna tower that has the ability to accommodate all TV and FM stations licensed in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. . He has held his current position since 2005 and is responsible for the communication needs of the entire 10 million-square-foot Durst portfolio.

Most recently, Lyons spent two years developing a state-of-the-art communications system for first responders that benefit New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 firefighters and EMS personnel and, protect Durst's tenants and properties. The first responder system is installed in 4 Times Square and the entire Durst commercial portfolio. One Bryant Park project The Bryant Park Project is the name of a new morning news show from NPR National Public Radio. The show's name is derived from Bryant Park in New York. It is hosted by Alison Stewart and Luke Burbank. , the 2.1 million-square-foot Bank of America tower Bank of America Tower is the name of several buildings: United States
  • Bank of America Tower (Albuquerque) in New Mexico
  • Bank of America Tower (Boca Raton) in Florida
  • Bank of America Tower (Jacksonville) in Florida
 currently under construction, will have the system in place before occupancy in 2007.
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Date:Nov 22, 2006
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