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Top Stories - 08.26.14
Equipment Companies Form "BIG" Orban, SCMS, Jampro, DaySequerra, BW Broadcast and StreamGuys are banding together to form a business services group that they say would save money in the short term and accomplish what may turn out to be a broadcast equipment industry first in the long term.
Change at the Top for Nautel Peter Conlon is leaving the Canada-based transmitter maker, and long-time Nautel hand Kevin Rodgers is stepping in.
City Leaders Clash With Radio Commentators (AZCentral.com) The war between KOFH(FM) on one side and the mayor and city council of Nogales, Ariz., on the other side continues. The Arizona attorney general has so far passed on investigating the station for taking money from the previous mayor for favorable coverage. The station has been highly critical of the current mayor.
Social Media Silences Debate (Tech Crunch) Is it possible that social media such as Facebook and Twitter are actually damaging to public opinion and debate? Are they tools of a mob mentality that is used to silence dissenters from the zeitgeist rather than the promised deliverers of individual expression?
Pink Floyd's Pig Shot Down by Radio Station? (N.Y. Daily News) Who shot Algie? Ah, the good old days of radio station rivalries … A participant in Seattle's station rivalry between KISW(FM) and KZOK(FM) relates the story of how he talked Pink Floyd into letting him use the inflatable porcine and then had to have it repaired after it was mysteriously shot out of the sky. He suspects a rival station.
AES Reaches Beyond LA Even as free Exhibits-Plus badges and All-Access badges have become available for the AES Convention's return to Los Angeles this fall, the Audio Engineering Society is still working on numerous events and resources offered year round.