Company History

About Antenna Audio

For more than 20 years, Antenna Audio has been the leading provider of audio and audio-visual interpretation to museums, exhibitions, historic sites and visitor attractions around the world. Today, we distribute more than 20 million tours every year and have a network of 16 offices around Europe, North America and Asia, currently employing around 350 full time staff.

A dedicated team

Our skilled team of writers, producers, storytellers, sound engineers and marketing professionals is dedicated to providing our clients with the highest quality creative, programming, equipment solutions and service. Our goal is to create an emotionally and intellectually engaging experience for visitors. Over 70 million people worldwide have experienced an Antenna Audio tour at more than 800 sites, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Alhambra, London's National Gallery, the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the Alcatraz Cell house, and Elvis Presley's Graceland.

Our roots

Antenna Audio was created by a merger in 1998 of Antenna Tours with London-based Arts Communication and Technology (ACT), and thus married the production experience of Antenna Tours with ACT's expertise in the development of new audio technologies.

Antenna Tours was a division of Antenna Theater, a performing arts organization founded in 1980 to create original work exploring new forms of theatrical experience. Using the techniques developed by the Theater, Antenna Tours grew to become America's leading producer of interpretive audio tours. ACT was founded in London by Iain Burton, and pioneered portable communication devices, including the world's first talking translator, winning numerous awards for ground-breaking technology firsts in the audio tour market.

The future

Acquired in April 2006 by Discovery Communications, Inc., Antenna Audio is now part of the leading real-world media brand on all platforms. Discovery Communications is the number-one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Joining Discovery Communications, Antenna Audio now offers its clients unprecedented access to Discovery´s expansive archives, premiere marketing channels, and established distribution networks.