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Commentary
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Thought-provoking opinions by industry professionals and observers from the pages of Radio World.
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Radio World Finds a New Home
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by Paul J. McLane, 8.01.2007
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As Alan Cohen put it, "in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
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Editorial: Indecency Rules Need to Go
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8.01.2007
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It's timely that a federal court has called into question part of the FCC's indecency policy.
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EAS Poised for Massive Overhaul
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Radio World Urges All Interested Parties to Participate in the Rulemaking Process
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7.18.2007
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Few broadcasters have not complained about the shortcomings of EAS. For more than 50 years, our government-imposed emergency alerting systems have tried and too often failed to fulfill their collective intended mission and benefit to the public.
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The Digital Forest Looks Pretty Green
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by Paul J. McLane, 7.04.2007
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The FCC’s latest report on digital radio is interesting reading, a concise summary of IBOC’s regulatory history and of issues likely yet to be contentious, such as subscription services, new public interest obligations and digital copying limitations.
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Opinion: Open Up the Online Option
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7.04.2007
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Technology continues to push the envelope of broadcast automation in the area of “command and control.”
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HD Marketing: Time to Go ‘Big-League’
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The Radio Industry Has Not Launched a Major-League Marketing Campaign to Promote HD Radio. The Time Is Now.
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by Paul J. McLane, 6.20.2007
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HD Radio broadcasters need to stop congratulating themselves for their promotion of the format so far and get serious about the Herculean task in front of them.
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Opinion: Engineers Dissed Again
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Is No Engineer Really Good Enough to Make the ‘Top 30’?
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6.20.2007
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Among the top 30 young people in radio, none are engineers.
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Letter: Rod Moses and Radio Goldfield
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by Rod Moses, 6.20.2007
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Guy Wire wrote about me and Radio Goldfield in Radio World Engineering Extra ("New Options for Pirates and LPFM," April 4). I'd like to provide a different perspective on this case, which has generated so much attention.
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Parity Check
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6.06.2007
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Rights fees have been paid by Webcasters since 2002 and by satellite radio essentially since its inception, yet terrestrial radio broadcasters are exempt from them for over-the-air programming.
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Embrace Internet Radio; It’s Here to Stay
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Barnabas Road Media Encourages Broadcasters to Get Online
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by Paul Gathard, 5.23.2007
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Isn’t it good to learn Internet radio is not beyond the financial reach of most non-commercial radio simulcasters subject to the new CRB copyright rates? Isn’t it good to know interesting survival techniques exist for commercial radio simulcasters in spite of the new CRB copyright rates?
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Opinion: SBE’s DRB Is OK
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A New Set of Initials to Put After Your Name
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5.23.2007
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When you hear the word “importer,” do you conjure a trans-national corporation that traffics in foreign cars, beers and cheap watches?
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‘What You Need to Know to Do the Job’
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Tenth Edition of Engineering Handbook Reflects a ‘Digital Technology Sea Change’
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by Paul J. McLane, 5.09.2007
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It’s a whomper, all right.
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What’s Behind AM Receiver Performance?
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by Larry Langford, 5.09.2007
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While engineering is my first love, I spent most of my years in the radio business earning a paycheck as a pretty good investigative street reporter, but even those skills have not helped me to answer a basic question concerning AM radio.
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More Ads, Less Choice and Higher Rates
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If You Like What You Hear on the Satellite Now, You Might Wish to Oppose This Merger
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by Paul J. McLane, 4.25.2007
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“Here is my take,” Lee Tabor e-mailed me.
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Google Goes on the Offensive
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Company Says Audio Ads Product Will Increase Demand for Radio Inventory
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4.11.2007
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In response to industry concern that its Audio Ads Web-based purchasing process for radio ads could deflate rates, Google is saying the company's involvement in broadcast eventually will increase demand for radio commercial inventory.
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It's Lonely at the Mountaintop
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The Death of an Engineering Colleague Makes Me Rethink Industry Practices
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by Tony Lopez, 4.11.2007
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Doug Wilson and I had a few things in common. These included a transmitter site in Rye, Colo., and a frustration of trying to reach it during winter months.
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Editorial: Merger? Two Words: Get Real
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by Paul J. McLane, 3.28.2007
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The proposed satellite merger is an absurd idea and a waste of regulators’ time.
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Public Okay With Lower AM Bandwidth?
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NRSC Studies Listener Perceptions of AM Bandwidth Changes for ~30 Receivers
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3.28.2007
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Over the past two years, the AM Broadcasting Subcommittee of the National Radio Systems Committee has been studying the effect of reducing bandwidth on AM transmission systems, trying to determine answers to several questions:
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Editorial: A Good Day to Be a Pirate
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Issuing STAs Under Pressure From Politicians Is Not the Answer
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3.14.2007
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Late last summer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, contacted the FCC seeking to allow an unlicensed broadcaster on the air.
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Encoding for Ratings in the PPM World
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What Engineers Need to Know About the Portable People Meter System
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by David Forr, 3.14.2007
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Broadcast engineers in the top 50 radio markets will have new responsibilities when Arbitron switches each market from ratings based on paper-and-pencil diaries to ratings collected electronically by the Portable People Meter system.
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