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Alan Jurison is a veteran broadcast consulting engineer who is active in national broadcast technology issues. He is a member of the NAB Radio Technology Committee (NABRTC) and National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) and was senior operations engineer for iHeartMedia’s Engineering and Systems Integration Group from 2011 to 2024. His opinions are not necessarily those of his employers, the NABRTC, NRSC or Radio World.
Guest Commentaries
The Story of the FM IBOC MP11 Mode
This extended service mode offers more than 146 kbps usable digital HD Radio throughput
Headlines
Best Practices for RDS Subcarrier Injection
With dashboards using so much data, it’s important to maintain proper injection levels
News and Business
Update on NRSC RDS PI Codes
The chairman of the NRSC Metadata Usage Working Group explains recent changes
Tech and Gear
Check out the NRSC PI Code Allocation Website
The committee worked with NAB Pilot to devise A PI code assignment for each...
Tech and Gear
NRSC Adopts IBOC Time and Level Alignment Guideline
“Comprehensive, collaborative” document attempts to consolidate industry knowledge
Tech and Gear
Maintaining Proper HD Radio Time Alignment
A proactive approach is required to stay within spec
Industry
The Need for Automatic Alignment of HD Radio Diversity Delay
Audible blending artifacts are the top complaint from auto manufacturers and consumers regarding the...
News and Business
MetaPub Looks to Get in the Stream
Centralized platform for public media distributes program metadata coincident with real-time streams
News and Business
Measure Diversity Delay and Correct for It
This article appeared in the recent Radio World eBook “HD Radio Evolves,” and is...
News and Business
Ensure the Security of Your RDS
What can we learn from recent security attacks or compromises of RDS encoders?
News and Business
New Program Codes for RBDS, HD
More tuners should recognize Spanish-language, hip-hop formats
Columns and Views
Raise FM IBOC Power Further
Let’s reevaluate higher digital levels to better replicate analog coverage
News and Business
Field Observations of Elevated FM HD
Now is the time to reexamine increasing digital power to 10 percent
Tech and Gear
It’s All About the U.S. Dollar Sign
The mystery of getting the $ symbol to display properly in RDS is solved
News and Business
Artist Experience and Album Art Via HD Radio
The Clear Channel deployment experience
News and Business
So Who Is Raising Digital Power?
Preview this session exploring FM HD IBOC power levels
News and Business
HD With Artist Experience, Close Up
Engineer looks at implementation of AE and RDS in GM vehicles
News and Business
Fixes for Common RDS Problems
Monitor your data displays and tweak them when formats change
News and Business
RDS Displays Should Make Sense
Here are techniques that can be applied to all of your metadata delivery platforms
News and Business
Comrex Access Works With 4G LTE
User Report: At the races and the fairgounds, wireless broadband makes the broadcast a...
News and Business
RT+ Needs Vendor, Station Support
More stations abroad back RT+ than do in the United States
News and Business
Let’s Demystify RDS ‘Radio Text Plus’
RT+ can give stations an ‘MP3 player feel’ by showing song, title, artist separately
News and Business
NRSC: Concise Display Text Is Best
Alan Jurison takes a closer look at recently issued guidelines for stations and manufacturers
News and Business
Insignia: A Glimpse of Artist Experience
NS-HD02’s audio works fine but visuals are a work in progress
News and Business
RadioText Plus Holds Promise
It enables stations to tag phone numbers, websites, text campaigns & addresses