Hank Mahler Dies, Was Innovator for CBS Technology Center

Henry “Hank” Mahler Influential media engineer Hank Mahler has died. Among his contributions to the broadcast industry, he was part of the team at the CBS Technology Center in Connecticut that designed and built the CBS Laboratories Audimax and CBS VoluMax, two audio processors that became widely used in radio and TV. His passing, on […]

GatesAir Adds Native Livewire Support to Intraplex Ascent

GatesAir has added native Livewire+ IP audio networking to its Intraplex Ascent cloud transport platform. This means Intraplex Ascent can ingest and output multiple audio channels directly via IP without the need for conversion equipment, which the company said adds scale and efficiency for radio broadcasters that manage many digital audio channels between studios. Future support is planned […]

Inside the Oct. 13, 2021 Issue of Radio World

Get an orange vest. Give the pickup truck a tuneup. And go top off your genset … For readers who live in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is coming! Also: Business is booming at Technical Service Group. … Larry Langford is troubleshooting distortion on a client’s FM translator. … Tula has a nifty combo mic/recorder. … […]

Engineers to Be Honored at GABCON

Radio and TV broadcasters in the state of Georgia are gathering to celebrate the engineers in their midst. The Georgia Association of Broadcasters will honor three engineers at this year’s GABCON, the largest gathering of radio and TV broadcasters in the state, set to be held Oct. 22–23 in Atlanta. This year the association will […]

Broadcast Partners Names Schaller to Sales Post

Manufacturer Broadcast Partners named Roland Schaller to a post where he’ll work to expand the company’s international sales. “After spending the first half of his career in internet and telecommunications in technical and marketing roles, he moved to broadcasting in the field of satellite and terrestrial broadcast hardware and software, in presales and sales roles,” […]

Orban Announces XPN-Enterprise

Orban announced the Optimod XPN-Enterprise ecosystem. The company describes it as a customizable, Linux-based processing platform with capabilities for centralized contexts, particularly broadcast groups that run multiple stations or clusters and/or streaming services. “It provides Orban’s proprietary OptiCloud processing for up to eight FM and eight HD/DAB+/Streaming processing channels in a 1 RU package and […]