Antenna Audio

Antenna Audio is a company that produces audio tours and multimedia interpretation for many museums, art galleries and other clients around the world. The company has offices in London, San Francisco, Paris, Rome, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Bangkok and elsewhere. The UK head office is in Bermondsey and the US head office is in Sausalito, California.

The company won the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation category) in 2003.

Antenna Tours began as a division of Antenna Theater, a performing arts organization founded in 1980 to create original work exploring new forms of theatrical experience. The group's founder, Chris Hardman, developed Walkmanology for the Antenna Theater's first production, High School, which premiered at Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, California, in 1981. Antenna Audio's first major audio tour was for the infamous Alcatraz Island penitentiary in San Francisco bay, which is still being used today.

In 1998, Antenna Tours merged with Arts Communications and Technology (ACT), an audio technology company in London founded by Iain Burton, a pioneer of the use of portable communication devices, to form Antenna Audio. It was acquired by Discovery Communications in 2006, who on March 29, 2007 announced their intent to sell Antenna Audio to Cox Communications as part of a multi-billion dollar transaction. "Travel Media’s ownership of Antenna Audio was initially part of the deal, but was later excluded by mutual agreement of the two parties."

External links

• Company website
• Company information and supplier information from the Museums Association