A while back I was invited to visit high school radio station WKHS in Maryland to help celebrate its 50th anniversary. I was impressed with the station, the inspiration it generates among students, the enthusiasm of its professional manager and its practice of involving students with the Society of Broadcast Engineers.
These achievements are all the more notable given the stories we hear constantly about how young people aren’t interested in radio anymore and how some high school and college administrations question the value of their broadcast licenses.
So I asked our Nick Langan to drive to the Eastern Shore, spend time at the station and tell you about it; you can read his article here. I enjoyed it and think you will too. Are you involved in a school radio station that is connecting with students? Drop me a letter to the editor at radioworld@futurenet.com.
(Side note: When I visited WKHS and browsed its small collection of legacy broadcast equipment, I found myself looking at a console that I had sold to the station back in 1987 when I worked for Radio Systems. Here I was looking at the same piece of hardware almost 40 years later as it sat on the “retired” shelf. It was an … interesting moment.)
From our latest issue we also have a piece from our longtime columnist Mark Persons about applications of Ohm’s Law. This was prompted by the strong ongoing interest we’ve had in a story about that topic that Mark had written five years ago and that remains available on the Radio World website. As I told Mark, there are concepts in radio engineering that will seem very basic to many readers but that we want to explore for the benefit of others who may not be familiar with them.
And we also have two stories about the expected impact of the incoming Trump administration on the FCC and broadcast regulation. Randy Stine gathers observations from Washington-based attorneys and others. And Ed Czarnecki of Digital Alert Systems adds his views about that in our opinion section.
I hope 2025 holds great things for you and for our industry.
