More Voices Speak Out for FM Chip Activation - The RF Report - October 31, 2014
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Trends in Technology: Alternate Transmitter Sites Backups at a transmitter site are great, but if a natural disaster threatened your main transmitter site, how would you stay on the air? Doug Irwin looks at a couple of solutions. More»
Industry
SBE Issues Warning About Strict Time Setting Last Friday afternoon, the Society of Broadcast Engineers issued an email that addressed the morning's false exercise of the emergency alert system. More»
More Voices Speak Out for FM Chip Activation At the recent DASH Conference in Detroit, Tagstation's (and Emmis') Paul Brenner talked about the 'Future of Radio' on a panel with iBiquity's Bob Struble. More»
Products
Deva Device Manager Adds Devices Deva Device Manager, Deva Broadcast's software product for managing Deva's FM mod monitors, monitoring and rebroadcast receivers, has added to the models of the monitored devices supported. More»
NextRadio App Update Available On October 17th, NextRadio updated their app in conjunction with the release of the latest NextRadio-enabled Sprint phone, Samsung Galaxy Note 4. The updates include Live Guide, a visual tuning interface that enables listeners to see what radio stations are playing at any moment in time. More»
Business
IABM DC's Report Shows Growth Following a compounded annual growth of 3.6 percent over the previous four years, the global broadcast and media technology industry was worth $39 billion in 2012, and is projected to grow to $44.3 billion in 2017, according to the Global Market Valuation & Strategy Report from IABM DC. More»
NAB Promotes LeGeyt to SVP of Public Policy The National Association of Broadcasters has upped Curtis LeGeyt to the newly created position of senior vice president for public policy. He will serve as the advocacy organization's principal liaison to the White House and executive departments. More»
Digital Radio
WorldDMB Partners With Indy Broadcasters in France French broadcasters have partnered with WorldDMB to promote digital radio in that country. Since June of this year, DAB+ broadcasts have been available in Paris (41 stations) Marseille (31 stations) and Nice (22 stations). More»
Bavaria Radio Continues Expansion of DAB+ Coverage On the 30th of October, Bavarian Radio (Bayarischer Rundfunk) extended its channel 11D DAB+ network in 5 regions of Bavaria, including Passau, Pfaffenhofen, Unterberg and Jenner. More»