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by Guy Wire
RW Online's Masked Engineer
Until our new data system is fully integrated, please
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for articles prior to September 1, 2006.
Who is that masked man? It's Guy Wire, who, with his trusty soldering iron and riding astride his cluster's remote van, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the radio way. Guy Wire is the pseudonym of a veteran engineer who prefers to remain anonymous. He welcomes your comments and questions. E-mail him at: gwire@imaspub.com.
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Ouch! Radio Hunkers Down
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Industry Simultaneously Faces Many Challenges and Declining Revenues
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by Guy Wire, 4.09.2008
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Station employees everywhere know these are tough times for radio.
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Guy’s 2008 Forecast (and Surprises)
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Our Visionary Cowboy Test-Drives a Sync-Equipped Ford and Makes Bold Predictions
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by Guy Wire, 2.12.2008
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Making room for a new calendar as I did in January prompts a look back on how our industry grappled with the past year’s challenges and what’s likely to occur moving into the new year.
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Battle for the Band: AM IBOC Under Siege
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Nighttime Hash Complaints Slow Deployment & Operation of HD on AM Band, Raise Doubts About Success
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by Guy Wire, 12.12.2007
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The interference fallout of full-time AM HD operations has been scattered and largely anecdotal. According to reports in RW, only one formal complaint has been filed as of this writing. By the time you read this, there likely will be others.
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Time of Reckoning Nears for HD Radio
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With a Stalled Rollout and Little Support From the Big Three, Are Industry Insiders Starting to Doubt HD?
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by Guy Wire, 10.10.2007
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It’s beginning to seem like a long time ago when many of us started laying plans to add IBOC digital transmission to our stations.
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iPhone: Smart Phone Worth Waiting For
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It Offers Indisputably Cool Functions and Aesthetics, But the Second-Gen Model Likely Will Cut Price, Bugs
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by Guy Wire, 8.20.2007
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The panting over the most hyped smart phone on the planet will subside but one thing is for sure. It is indeed a very cool personal electronic pocket servant that has mesmerized Apple lovers, students, geeks and even broadcasters.
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NAB2007: North Hall Redo, HD Hits Mainstream
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by Guy Wire, 6.06.2007
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The annual NAB rite of passage on the desert has come and gone for broadcasters.
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New Options for Pirates and LPFM
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Should the Commission Make It Easier to Obtain Community Licenses in Small Towns?
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by Guy Wire, 3.28.2007
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Harry Reid's FCC intervention is provoking new thinking on LPFM licensing and how more pirate stations might become legal.
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Guy's Predictions for 2007
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Among Them, Adoption of HD Transmission Standards, First HD Portable Sets, Possible Satellite Merger
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by Guy Wire, 2.21.2007
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It seems obligatory to reflect on the year past and extrapolate industry trends while peering ahead to make predictions for the coming year.
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Radio Makes Room for WiMax
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Developments May Alter the Broadcasting Landscape, But Radio’s Strengths Will Keep It Viable
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by Guy Wire, 12.13.2006
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It would seem that quite a few engineers in our business are giving up on any future for radio. To them, WiMax is a torpedo dead ahead that is poised to sink radio broadcasting and its 90 years of legacy service.
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Let’s Have AM Improvement With Clout
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The NAB’s Translator Proposal Will Provide AM With Some Long-Overdue Relief. Even More Should Be Done
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by Guy Wire, 10.18.2006
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It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have a proposed rule making initiative that will give the AM service some long overdue help of real significance.
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Satellite in Trouble as HD Grows
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HD Radio Sales May Be Slow, But XM and Sirius Stocks Decline and Subscriptions Plateau
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by Guy Wire, 8.23.2006
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As the hot summer months course through the 2006 calendar, we are beginning to see a number of important evolving events and clues emerge that preview how the competing forces of satellite radio and HD are likely to fare in the future.
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NAB2006 Abuzz Over IP, HD Rollout
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by Guy Wire, 6.05.2006
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Vendors Tout Audio Over IP, IP-Based Remote Control for Transmitters, Emergence of HD Radios
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Work Smart to Support the Radio Family
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Facing an Increasing Number of Programming Streams, Staff Is Encouraged to Focus on Efficiency
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by Guy Wire, 4.05.2006
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A recent RW editorial cited the recent population explosion of radio channels in our industry (March 29). No longer is a radio station only one on-channel AM or FM signal. With the advent of Web streaming and HD, radio facilities all over the country have created new channels and are now facing the challenge of supporting them with additional and alternate content to reach new audiences.
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HD Tabletop Received With Eagerness
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Clean HD Multicast Performance in a Table Radio Finally Arrives With the Boston Acoustics Recepter
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by Guy Wire, 2.22.2006
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It seemed like it would take forever, but consumers finally got their first taste of a real tabletop HD Radio just in time for Christmas.
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Can Radio Fight the ‘Internet Revolution’?
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Let’s Not Give Up on the Grand Old Medium Just Yet
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by Guy Wire, 12.14.2005
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Almost every day we read and hear about the impending demise of radio. Terrestrial radio. The radio we’ve all enjoyed and depended on for the past 85 years.
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AM IBOC Tries to Get Past the Noise
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by Guy Wire, 10.19.2005
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Will Interference Problems Derail AM's Digital Upgrade?
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The Great AM Debate
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by Guy Wire, 8.25.2005
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Guy Defends His Proposals to Thin the Population of a ‘Herd Full of Cripples’
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Let's Save the AM Band
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by Guy Wire, 5.24.2005
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Guy Wire Says It's Time to Reorganize AM's Family Living Arrangements
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5.1 Surround Sound Music Needs a Jumpstart
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by Guy Wire, 3.31.2005
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It's Time to Move Toward a Standard for Radio
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Keeping Score on Satellite Radio
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by Guy Wire, 2.09.2005
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The Dog Star suddenly looks like a balloon in search of a pin.
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