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ZoneCasting Prepares Further Field Trials, Eyes Official Launch
Radio World reports that GeoBroadcast Solutions, the company behind “ZoneCasting” technology, will commence long-term field trials on a station in southeast Florida this fall and is preparing for a...
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CEA Throws iBiquity a Bone?
One of the factors that’s hindering the proliferation of digital radio broadcasting in the United States is the reluctance of consumer electronics manufacturers to actually commit to making HD...
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CEA Throws iBiquity A Bone?
One of the factors that’s hindering the proliferation of digital radio broadcasting in the United States is the reluctance of consumer electronics manufacturers to actually commit to making HD...
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Radio Advertisers’ Digital Dilemma
Broadcasters are touting the fact that, after a multi-year slump, advertising revenue is looking up. The Radio Advertising Bureau reports that advertisers dropped more than $3.7 billion (estimated) on...
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Diverging Perspectives on the Future of AM
Nobody really quite knows what the National Association of Broadcasters’ AM Task Force is up to, but speculation surrounding their work has sparked some interesting discussion about the state and...
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FCC Agents Expand Online Prowling
It’s already well-established that FCC field enforcement agents use the internet to collect information for busting pirate radio stations – visiting station web sites, Facebook pages, and the like...
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A Weekend at the Wave Farm
Last weekend I had the distinct honor and pleasure of attending the first-ever Transmission Arts Colloquium, hosted by free103point9 – a non-profit organization whose mission is devoted to advancing...
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FCC Goes Gangbusters on Jammers
On the heels of admonishing a half-dozen people for hawking cell-phone and GPS jammers on Craigslist earlier this month, the FCC unveiled a new web portal and toll-free hotline for reporting the use of...
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Human Rights Radio Turns 25
On November 26, 1987, Mbanna Kantako founded WTRA, an unlicensed microradio station broadcasting from the John Jay Homes in Springfield, Illinois. Legally blind and in his twenties at the time, Kantako...
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VOA’s Radiogram Brings New Utility to Shortwave
The Voice of America is set to launch a new communication service on shortwave radio with interesting implications for information flow in crisis situations or under repressive regimes. Called...
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Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Saved from Eviction
Good news from Madison: Governor Scott Walker used his line-item veto power for good late last month and struck a provision that would have evicted the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism...
View ArticleRadio’s Digital Dilemma Out the Door
Today I sent Routledge the manuscript for Radio’s Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the 21st Century. 81,221 words over eight chapters, 285 typescript pages in all. The publisher’s new synopsis: Radio’s...
View ArticleCBS Radio Shills for Fracking in Pennsylvania
From the bullsh*t propaganda department: on August 15th, CBS Radio’s Pittsburgh cluster (KDKA-AM, KDKA-FM, WDSY-FM, and WBZZ-FM) will "host" the Marcellus Shale Festival at an outdoor music venue in...
View ArticleThe Health of Radio: By the Numbers
With what seems like increasing frequency, media-pundits are dropping rhetorical bombs riffing on the notion that radio is dying. This inevitably sets off a tizzy within the radio industry itself. But...
View ArticleRadioDiscussions Killed By Greed
It certainly hasn’t been a kind year for online radio discussion sites. For more than a decade, one of the most vibrant sites online to talk about U.S. broadcasting of all stripes was...
View ArticleLeaving the Ground? Shut It Down
This story flew under my radar, probably because it was published in USA Today, which is not necessarily known for its in-depth investigative journalism. The bottom line: f*cking with your smartphone...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Radio First Termer
Clyde David DeLay died last week of acute respiratory distress, just months after having significant heart surgery. He was 63. DeLay was better known to the world as “Dave Rabbit,” the slick-tongued DJ...
View ArticleRadioDiscussions Sheepishly Restored
A curious e-mail hit my inbox this weekend announcing the resurrection of RadioDiscussions.com. Once a mainstay of online discussion about U.S. broadcasting, the site suddenly disappeared in December...
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