Radio World NewsBytes: Tower Regs Taking Effect; Outsourcing News

In Your Mailbox Microphone trends. Online public files. Media asset management tools. These and more are featured in the latest issue of Radio World's U.S. edition. Look for it in your mailbox. Top Stories - 09.24.14 Tower Updates Kick In Oct. 24 New FCC regulations governing tower maintenance and specifications are taking effect. Notable are changes involving lighting outages and conflicts with other government regulations. They Help You Outsource Local News It's no secret that news budgets at many stations have been cut, if not simply eliminated, over the last couple of decades. So how can a station handle some news and newsy features without a budget? Meet the gang from Virtual News Center. Ken Deutsch has the story. News & Technology BUSINESS: SoundExchange Lauds Turtles Victory DIGITAL RADIO: 14 New DAB+ Stations On-Air in Zurich PEOPLE: Bromo's Bill Brown Passes Away SALES: Radio Growth in SoCal EVENTS: Clyburn to Keynote Future of Music Summit WHO'S BUYING WHAT: Jelli Chooses Digigram PRODUCTS: AP Debuts New Analyzer Today on Connect 2 Media & Entertainment Apple's Beats Dilemma Janka Roettgers has some suggestions in GigaOm on what Apple could do with its Beats property. Helping redefine iTunes is one of them. Around the Industry The Case in Defense of JSAs (B&C) Commissioner Ajit Pai and Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) take to the pages of Broadcasting & Cable to defend joint sales agreements as useful and needed — especially in constrained markets. It's Time for the FCC to Call Off Its Power Grab (Roll Call) New Mexico State Senator Yvette Herrell says, "The FCC is considering proposals that will result in unprecedented bureaucratic powers over the states, as Chairman Tom Wheeler has publicly declared his intent to pre-empt state law restrictions on municipal broadband projects … Pre-empting state restrictions on municipal broadband is unsound in principle." Pandora Thinks About Advertising in the Connected Car (Ad Age) The Internet streamer is very interested in getting into the car dashboard, and not just to play music for its listeners. There's gold in those dashboards. When a Radio in Every Room Was the Dream (Paleofuture) Take a trip back in time to a period when radio was a cool, almost mysterious technology, holding great promise. Here, the legendary Hugo Gernsback promises a radio in every room of the house. Calendar of Events SBE Certification Exam Application Deadline For local chapters exams Nov. 7–17 Oct. 6 SBE National Meeting Oct. 7–8 Verona, N.Y. SBE Chapter 22 Broadcast & Technology Expo Oct. 8 Verona, N.Y. 137th AES Convention Oct. 9–12 Los Angeles Pacificon Oct. 10–12 Santa Clara, Calif. 2014 IEEE Broadcast Symposium Oct. 15–17 San Antonio For a full list of upcoming events visit the Radio World calendar page.

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