RTL Today Radio Deploys StudioTalk
From the Who’s Buying What page: RTL Today Radio in Luxembourg has deployed a BCE StudioTalk visual radio system. The automated system integrates the station’s branding, synchronizes with RTL’s automation and broadcasts on its website. “In less than three months, Broadcasting Center Europe installed the solution in RTL Today Radio studio, including the cabling, infrastructure […]
Pahigian Moves on From Baltimore
Cary Pahigian (left) and Dan Joerres Cary Pahigian plans to step down as president and general manager of Hearst Television’s two Baltimore radio stations. Dan Joerres will add those duties. He is president and general manager of WBAL(TV) and has worked as Pahigian’s collaborator on joint radio-TV initiatives, including Baltimore Ravens football. “Joerres will oversee […]
NCAA Tournament Advertising: Use of Trademarks and … One More Thing (2022 Update – Part 1)
With the 2022 NCAA Collegiate Basketball Tournament about to begin, as faithful readers of this blog know, broadcasters, publishers and other businesses need to be wary about potential claims arising from their use of terms and logos associated with the tournament (see, for instance, our articles last year about this same time, here and here). […]
StudioHub Introduces ‘World Panel’
Angry Audio’s StudioHub Universal Interface — aka “World Panel” — is for broadcasters who need to put audio from personal devices on the air. “This 1 RU stereo device provides convenient interfaces for multiple types of I/O, enabling quick connection of nearly any kind of audio gear to your mixing console,” it said in its […]
Comcast Boosts Broadband Speeds in the Northeast
Comcast’s Northeast Division boosts speeds of most popular tiers in Maine through Virginia for many customers
RFE/RL Suspends Physical Operations in Russia
The RFE/RL Moscow Bureau in January, Prior to the Shutdown Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said it has suspended its operations in Russia. It said it took this step after local tax authorities initiated bankruptcy proceedings against RFE/RL’s Russian entity last week and police intensified pressure on its journalists. “These Kremlin attacks on RFE/RL’s ability to operate in Russia […]
MRMC Recruits Graeme Kelly As Head Of Broadcast Products
Kelly joins MRMC after more than a decade of work at Grass Valley
BBC Shortwave to Ukraine? Yes, of Course.
Dear Editor: I am “shocked, shocked” to hear that BBC is using shortwave to get news and information into Ukraine and Russia. After abandoning shortwave as outdated and not necessary, one only has to look at the current conflict in Eastern Europe to see the value of shortwave. We’ve all embraced the modern technologies as […]
Broadcasters Blame Big Tech for Diversity Deficits
Broadcasters are pushing back hard on the Federal Communications Commission’s potential restoration of the mandate that broadcasters file data on the diversity of their workforces and that the data be available to the public, including by blaming Big Tech for some of broadcasting’s diversity recruiting problems. The annual collection of Form 395-B data on workforce composition (race […]
Marshall to Debut High Bandwidth NDI PTZ Camera at 2022 NAB Show
The Marshal Electronics high bandwidth camera with NDI|HX3 and full-NDI is designed for broadcast applications