Columns and Views
Columns and Views
The BMC Plan to Remap and Revamp Radio
Proposal Advocates Converting Underutilized TV Spectrum to Expand the Broadcast Bands
Columns and Views
A Heritage Project for DR Archives
In Denmark, a Big Radio Organization Embarks on an Ambitious Preservation Job
Columns and Views
Editorial: The Wag in Radio’s Long Tail
Overlook the Potential of Multicasting at Your Own Risk
Columns and Views
Enjoy Podcasting While You Can, Kids
Internet-Based Venues That Require More Than the Usual Flick of the On/Off/Record Switch Have...
Columns and Views
Radio Must Focus on Today’s Consumers
Why I Said Video Was Framed and That Radio Actually Committed Suicide
Columns and Views
Editorial: Could Radio Use Channels 5 & 6?
Industry Should Take a Patient Look at BMC's Idea, Not Dismiss It Immediately
Columns and Views
2008 Radio World Excellence in Engineering Award
Jeff Littlejohn of Clear Channel takes the honors
Columns and Views
Listeners Aren’t Easily Impressed
Think You Are Better Than Average? You Have to Exceed Expectations.
Columns and Views
The Lost Art of Backtiming
We're living in the age of the lost art of radio backtiming. It wasn't...
Columns and Views
Products That Work, Out of the Box
The case in point involved FM transmitters from a familiar brand. He felt the...
Columns and Views
Editorial: Staying the Digital Course
If HD Radio continues to get better, cheaper and more widely available, we believe...
Columns and Views
Getting Big AM Sound — Correctly
To the detriment of AM, almost gone is the old crusty chief engineer who...
Columns and Views
A Simple Lock Check Pays Dividends
This is a good time to check site security locks before the really bad...
Columns and Views
Radio ’72: The New Collectors
To those who came of age in the 1970s, vintage radio collections can also...
Columns and Views
Think of AM Towers as Vertical Real Estate
AM towers are vertical real estate. Tower leases can provide their broadcast owners with...
Columns and Views
Looking at Radio’s Business Future
What’s the role for the sales manager of the future? What about the ever-changing...
Columns and Views
Making the Most of Ad Sales
Radio stations are working harder and harder to retain advertising dollars and expand ad...
Columns and Views
Brush Up on Broadcast Regs on Friday
Internet royalties, streaming, the possible return of the Fairness Doctrine and, RIAA-backed legislation that...
Columns and Views
Rehr, Pogue Speak to a Bright Future
Rehr: “There is an exciting world of opportunity before us. It is the beginning...
Columns and Views
Give Credit Where It’s Due. Please.
When this year's class of the Richard M. Fairbanks Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of...
Columns and Views
Financing Stretches the Budget
This concept sounds simple enough, yet many broadcasters, large and small, struggle with the...
Columns and Views
Editorial: Care and Study: More on the Power Increase
As multicasts began to roll out in various markets, it didn't take long for...
Columns and Views
LPFM: Like It or Not, They’re Here
While I have some concerns about technical standards and potential interference issues, most of...
Columns and Views
D Block: Part of an EAS Solution
SBE Sees 'Once-In-a-Lifetime Opportunity' for the FCC to Support Data Capabilities of CAP-Enhanced EAS.
Columns and Views
And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen: WWII
While World War II-era radio waves continue to bounce out to the far reaches...
Columns and Views
Watch Out for These Legal Landmines
If this weren't the case, you'd be seeing a lot more fines for improper...
Columns and Views
C’mon Baby Light My Fire (Alarm)
Although this sensor doesn't take the place of smoke and fire detectors, it can...
Columns and Views
ITA FM-250B Is Alive at 45
It would be a challenge, but I could definitely see it working again. Two...
Columns and Views
Small Digital Recorders Lighten Load
Units are small enough that there is now (this is my news director gene...
Columns and Views
A New Paradigm for Small-Market Success
Companies are now on the hunt for a “category-killer” model for small-market radio, and...
Columns and Views
Butter Spins a Texas Radio Tale
Along the way he interviews a range of performers and newsmakers: fiddle players, singers,...
Columns and Views
Editorial: Found in Translation
Depending on whom you talk to, we might see the new rules adopted in...
Columns and Views
Guard Against Copper Theft
Tim’s pictures are a good reminder to carry a camera. In addition to documenting...
Columns and Views
Opinion: AM-DA Rule Changes Are Way Overdue
AM radio is perhaps the most challenged of broadcast services. Its vitality has been...
Columns and Views
BBG Should Enhance SW, Not Replace It
Comparing apples to apples, the Internet is actually less cost-effective at present.
Columns and Views
Session Offers a Lot to Process
CBS Audimax. Fairchild Conax. The Discriminate Audio Processor. Optimod 8000. The CP-803. Audio...
Columns and Views
Hide Studio Cables, Don’t Break the Bank
Cable runs inside buildings that weren’t designed to house radio studios don’t have to...
Columns and Views
Radio Finds Ways to Do More With Less
For many old-timers and battle-scarred vets in this business it wasn’t too long ago...