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This Is the Song No One Plays on the Radio Anymore

Quick, can you name a Christmas song that gets virtually no radio airplay, yet was streamed more than 57 million times last year? It’s one of the insights in a report from P1 Media Group and MRC Data, which reported on America’s top Christmas songs and dug into what data about music streaming can tell […]

Hershberger Honored as a “Renaissance Engineer”

Dave Hershberger, Geoff Mendenhall and Cliff Leitch are shown during installation of an MS-15 FM exciter breadboard for on-air testing at WGEM(FM) in Quincy, Ill., in 1977. Mendenhall’s left hand is on the exciter breadboard. Dave Hershberger’s work with exciters and modulators for transmitters and with low-level signal processing is considered legendary by many in […]

Ferrite Toroids Can Be an Engineer’s Best Pal

Jeff Welton One of the best tools in the engineer’s lightning protection toolbox is a tried, true and frequently underutilized friend, the ferrite toroid. The principle is quite simple. If you have two (or more) conductors passing through a ferrite, such that the net sum of their currents is zero, then the ferrite is an […]

Florida Licensee Faces $3,000 Forfeiture After Late Filing Penalty

The Federal Communications Commission continues to hand out forfeitures to stations that fail to file their license renewal application on time. Whether it’s only a few days late or nearly four months overdue, the FCC rules on license renewal application deadlines matter are clear: a broadcast station license renewal must be filed by the first […]

WorldDAB Celebrates Receiver Sales Numbers

WorldDAB says a total of 110 million DAB receivers have now been sold globally. Twice a year, the organization — which positions DAB+ as “the core future platform for radio in Europe” — publishes an infographic that depicts trends for the digital radio format, including receiver sales, population coverage and road coverage. It now has […]