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Top Stories - 06.30.14
Radio Poised to Make Election Money Gains Borrell Associates has a report out that indicates radio broadcasters should take in more money this election cycle than they did in the comparative 2010 election cycle. The downside is that their market share of the total pie continues to slip.
Back From the Trenches: 25 Years Hence Long-time Radio World contributor Al Peterson recounts his long relationship with the magazine on his 25th anniversary.
Competing Codecs Waging Video Delivery War (Video Edge) The NTSC standard held sway for decades but in the world of digital media, technology evolves at a far more rapid rate. Meet the contenders for the next video compression codec.
Waze Wants What WTOP Has (Strategy Analytics) Can a crowd-sourced traffic information service succeed? Roger Lanctot spends some time with the WAZE service and compared it to WTOP(FM). He's skeptical.
Local Weather Radio Stations Knocked Off the Air (WQAD-TV) In the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois, the NOAA weather radio stations were knocked off the air by passing storms over the weekend. Where does NOAA direct listeners when it is off the air? It says to listen to commercial broadcasters for the weather.