Brad Hallier Named Hod Humiston Award Winner
The 2025 Hod Humiston Award for Sports Broadcasting winner is Brad Hallier with Ad Astra Radio in Hutchinson. Brad Hallier has covered high school sports with Ad Astra since 2017, calling area high school football, basketball, baseball and softball games. A veteran of the print journalism industry, Hallier also writes for Ad Astra’s website. Hallier has taught journalism at […]
Glen Grunwald Named Oscar Stauffer Sportscaster of the Year
The KSHSAA Oscar Stauffer Sportscaster of the Year award winner is Glenn Grunwald, KWBW Eagle Radio in Hutchinson. The now two-time recipient of the Oscar Stauffer Sportscaster of the Year award, Glen Grunwald has been the “Voice” of the Hutchinson Salthawk sports and the Hutchinson Monarchs Summer Collegiate Baseball Wood Bat League for Eagle Media […]
KFH History
THANK YOU to Charles Frodsham for supplying the information below! Broadcaster extraordinaire Don Anderson served KFH as chief announcer, master of ceremonies of live programs, and program director from 1949 to 1961 when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Photo from November 1948, two months after the sign-on […]
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 12, 2022 to March 18, 2022
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, and a look ahead at an important deadline next week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. New FCC sponsorship identification rules that impose obligations on almost […]
How to Survive in a Small Market
Kevin Thomas is the owner of WDKC(FM) “KC101 FM” in Pennsylvania’s Tioga County, a station where radio spots cost only a few dollars and the biggest community in the coverage area consists of a few thousand residents. He’d like Radio World to share more tricks and “hacks” to help broadcasters in tiny markets. “All small-market […]
A New FM+HD Radio Architecture
In 2020 Nautel participated in a demonstration that described a new approach to HD Radio time alignment. We asked Chief Technology Officer Philipp Schmid for an update. Radio World: First let’s summarize what was demo’d. Philipp Schmid: In response to industry demand, Nautel, in cooperation with Telos Alliance, demonstrated a new FM+HD Radio transport architecture […]
NAB Show Exhibitor Insight: Riedel Communications Inc.—Joyce Bente, President/CEO Riedel – The Americas
Bente shares her thoughts on the upcoming NAB Show
U.K. DAB Multiplex Relicensing Plan Gains Support
A report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee of the House of Commons agrees with the recent decision by the U.K. government to renew automatically current DAB multiplex operator licenses. In January, the government proposed allowing broadcast regulator Ofcom to renew the two national commercial radio multiplex licenses until year-end 2035 without going […]
Wurl Partners With ScreenHits TV to Deliver FAST Channels
The launches begin in the U.S., UK, Germany and Latin America as part of ScreenHits TV’s global expansion
New Rules on the Identification of Foreign Government-Provided Programs Affects All Broadcasters – Now in Effect
The FCC this week announced that broadcasters must now comply with new rules designed to identify when programming is run on U.S. stations that was provided by a foreign governmental entity pursuant to a lease of airtime. While this seems like a narrow purpose, the new rules will impose a burden on broadcasters. Because of […]