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NAB Unveils 2026 Marconi Radio Award Winners
WIVK(FM) in Knoxville wins legendary station award, Boston's WBMX(FM) wins major market station award
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Registration Opens for 2027 PREC
Association of Public Radio Engineers seeks session proposals and expands scholarships
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Georgia LPFM Operator Keeps Pushing for More Power
The Valdosta Alliance believes 100 watts can't withstand interference
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Montclair State Shines at National Student Media Convention in Philly
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Former WCBS GM Rod Calarco Dies
The veteran broadcast executive spent 28 years with CBS Radio
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What New FAA Tower Advisory Means for You
SBE's Ched Keiler helps us with updates in the FAA’s latest obstruction marking and...
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The Geerlings Gaze Into Their Crystal Ball for Radio
Joe and Jeff offer radio station owners advice on cybersecurity and AI
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Phil Joiner, Philadelphia Area RF Sales Engineer, Dies
In the 2000s, he was chief engineer of Mercer County Community College's WWFM
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The Latest Class of Radio Royalty Is Unveiled in Chicago
The Radio HOF inducted Shotgun Tom Kelly, Helen Little, Rickey Smiley, Boomer Esiason and...
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The Radio Club of America Announces 2026 Award Recipients and Fellows
Dr. Andrea Goldsmith is the first female recipient of the Armstrong Medal
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Station Logs Catch Alaska EAS Test
A reminder to broadcasters to set incoming test filters before November's nationwide test
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John Bisset, Engineer and Educator, Has Died
We mourn the loss of the author of Radio World's Workbench
Business and Law
FCC Totals: Commercial AM and FM Licenses Dip
Check out our interactive graph with the last decade of station totals
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AM Radio Revived in the Desert: Local Owner Resurrects Yuma’s KBLU
Derek Egeberg tells us how he put 560 AM back on the air
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Vigeant to Lead Pennsylvania’s WPSU
Following WHYY’s acquisition, former WITF executive takes the helm as GM
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Vermont Association of Broadcasters to Honor Bob Shotwell
Engineer and WXXX(FM) co-founder Howard Ginsberg will be inducted into VAB Hall of Fame
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Former Los Angeles AM Radio Site Primed to Become 300 Homes
The Valley Village valuable land houses three-tower array 710 AM used for 80 years
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FCC Freezes Minor Modification Filings for LPFMs, Translators
The freeze is in effect until the close of the November translator window
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Can the AM Radio Car Mandate Beat the Congressional Clock?
The Senate has taken a recess before midterms
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NFCB Names Serah Mead and Gretchen Aston-Puckett Co-Directors
National community radio association transitions to new leadership structure
Programming and Sales
NAB Opens Crystal Radio Awards Entry Window
The awards are open to NAB radio member stations
Global
Russia to Dismantle and Rebuild Moscow’s Shukhov Tower
Broadcast operations at the site were terminated in 2002
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Hispanic Target Media Cancels 10 FM Radio Licenses
The stations were in California, Florida and Texas
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FCC Honors Enforcement Bureau Trio With Engineering Award
Nathan Bohne, Adam Wofford and Eric Krueger developed Project PERMIT
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State Broadcasters Want the FCC to Ease Into Software-Based EAS
Functioning alerting hardware should stay in place, they wrote
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Broadcast Radio Releases Myriad 7 Public Beta
The playout software update includes improved listener engagement tools
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Together, the Geerlings Make Complex Tech Accessible
Joe and Jeff, father and son, have built a devoted video audience
Programming and Sales
World College Radio Day Celebrates the Endurance of Student Media
The WCRD global marathon kicks off from the Marshall Islands
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FCC Moves Vacant Western Michigan Allocation Up the FM Band
The cancelled Cumulus-owned WLAW(FM) had occupied 97.5 in Whitehall
Products
Echo SDR iOS App Offers Live Transcription in Paid Tier
The app aggregates KiwiSDR, OpenWebRX, WebSDR and FMDX webservers
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Listeners Back Their Favorite Public Stations More Than Ever
Jacobs Media's Public Radio Techsurvey finds they do so despite affordability crisis
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GeoBroadcast Solutions Is Now Aktira in Ownership Change
Backed by $60 million of capital, it is offering a no-upfront-cost model
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FCC Rejects Texas LPFM Hopeful for “Sidestepping” Ownership Questions
It sent an LOI to the Jourdanton nonprofit
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Radio, At Its Best, Is Unscripted
Radio Is a Foreign Country's stream takes listeners on a journey to different cultures
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Longtime FCC Engineer Larry Olson Dies at 86
His tenure included leading the FCC's AM rulemaking
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Audacy’s Iconic Chicago AMs Now Diplex From Des Plaines
The previous WSCR/WBBM transmitter site in Bloomingdale had been sold
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FCC Dismisses 36 LPFM Applications for Ties to “Prohibited” LPFM Network
Wade Rathke said filings from 14 states were part of "a network of support"
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National Student Media Convention to Take Philadelphia
Anabella Poland helps us preview the show's 79 sessions, career fair mixer and tours
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K-Love Names Dee Sethmajhi as Chief Technology Officer
Former Oracle exec will lead the ministry's engineering, digital and data
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Rev. Billy Burrell, WCON North Georgia Voice, Dies at 96
According to Friends of Georgia Radio, "Sunshine Melodies" was longest-running show hosted by same...
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Texas Radio Hall of Fame to Honor JAM Creative Productions
Founders Jonathan and Mary Lyn Wolfert will receive the George Baches Award