Telos Systems was founded in 1985 by Steve Church, a talkshow radio host and engineer who was dissatisfied with the poor quality of the on-air telephone calls on his shows. He was also an engineer determined to do something about it. The resulting Telos 10 telephone interface system was the first talkshow phone system with digital hybrids and DSP-based processing to create high-quality phone calls on-air, and was a great success, inspiring Steve to build a business to make and sell the systems. Telos Systems has since become the industry leader in broadcast telephone systems, setting the performance benchmark for the industry.
