Inside the Feb. 2, 2022 Issue of Radio World
Workbench explores how an Octopus can help you check components. The FCC continues its recent explorations of how to improve EAS while, separately, a campaign is underway to encourage more countries to use Common Alerting Protocol. Fred Baumgartner says ATSC 3.0 could be a radio content provider’s Holy Grail. Thresa and Michael Gay offer a […]
Mailbag: The Lucky 13
The plaque outside WSTA noting the station’s role during and after Hurricane Hugo (click to embiggen) Jeff Hugabonne forwarded this picture of the plaque outside WSTA(AM) in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. As the plaque notes, “The Lucky 13” was the only station to remain on the air in the wake […]
BBC Studios Joins Broadcast Coalition to Combat Piracy in the U.S.
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy is providing the BBC’s UK channels with help against piracy
The Tech Behind Comcast’s Accessibility Efforts
Integrating accessibility throughout the tech stack for Comcast Cable’s entertainment platform improves the user experience for everyone, explained Comcast Cable’s Tom Wlodkowski
13 Ideas for Celebrating World Radio Day
With World Radio Day coming up, UNESCO is offering a list of suggestions about how radio organizations around the world can celebrate it. “We encourage all radio stations to plan and take part in this global event by organizing original activities related to the theme ‘Radio and Trust,’” it wrote in the introduction to a […]
Text Groove Partners With G Networks
G Networks announced a partnership with Text Groove to offer text messaging to U.S. radio stations on barter. “One of the many benefits of the Text Groove platform is its ability to enable text messaging on a station’s existing studio phone number (landline, toll-free or VoIP), enabling immediate listener text interaction,” the company said in its announcement. […]
RadioDNS Readies for General Assembly
These are good times for RadioDNS, it seems. “Anyone can implement our open standards without needing our involvement or agreement,” said Project Director Nick Piggott in a press release previewing the organization’s upcoming annual General Assembly. “That means they’re growing in use, both visible and invisible, across a growing number of areas of the radio […]
Vū Technologies Expands its Virtual Studio Network to Nashville
The new Vū Nashville studio with a massive LED soundstage is part of Vū’s aggressive plan to build North America’s largest network of virtual production studios
Set-Top Box Market to Hit $20B by 2028
Despite cord cutting and the pandemic, revenue from set-top box sales will hit record levels in 2028 according to Global Market Insights
AT&T to Spin Off Its Interest in WarnerMedia in a $43B Transaction
AT&T will spin off its interest in WarnerMedia to its shareholders at the closing of the previously announced merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc., giving AT&T shareholders 71% of the new Warner Bros. Discovery company