Letter: Sept. 11, 20 years ago

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Mark Persons is a frequent contributor to Radio World. Paul, excellent editorial about 9/11 (radioworld.com, “Memories of 9/11 Haunt Me Still”). Thanks for telling your story of that fateful day when 2,996 innocent people died. We all remember where we were that morning. I heard a news bulletin come over […]

Dielectric’s Proposal Is on FCC Agenda

FM antenna manufacturers and users may soon be able to use computer modeling to verify the patterns of directional antennas. The Federal Communications Commission meeting agenda for November includes consideration of a proposal to do just that. As we reported earlier, antenna maker Dielectric has urged the FCC to take this action. [Read: Dielectric Expects […]

Seven Initiatives for Racial Justice in Media

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council recently sent wrote to the acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission with “seven compelling initiatives” that it said the FCC could take to advance diversity and inclusion in mass media. It noted that the FCC was the first federal agency to require its licensees to practice employment […]

After the Masks Come Off

What will radio infrastructure and workflows will look like when the pandemic is done? It’s safe to assume that the landscape of radio will never be quite the same than it was before the pandemic. Remote and hybrid approaches will be much more common. But what does that mean for radio workflow and infrastructure? We […]