VALLETTA, Malta — Radio stations and networks from around the globe will be broadcasting live from the island of Malta Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, as part of the ninth annual International Radio Festival. Their remote broadcasts to IRF delegates and audiences back home are a key part of the IRF, the global ...

The author is membership program director of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. NFCB commentaries are featured regularly at www.radioworld.com. This week, the journalism startup Civil failed in its efforts to raise $8 million in cryptocurrency. And while this effort did not pan out, ...

The author is U.S. sales manager-radio processing sales for The Telos Alliance. I gave a fun talk for a bunch of engineers in Los Angeles recently and wanted to turn it into a written piece. There are a number of common factors that tend to diminish audio quality in radio facilities. It’s just my ...

Radio World’s free eBook series has been a huge hit. In our newest edition, just published, one of the highlights is an interview with Dave Kolesar. He’s the engineer at Hubbard Radio who turned off the analog signal of AM radio station WWFD in Frederick, Md., for a year to broadcast in all-digital ...

Sessions addressing the digital media marketplace, demographic changes affecting the top U.S. Metro Markets, global business intelligence and the legal considerations involved in electronic business transactions and social media will be featured at the upcoming 2018 Media Credit Seminar. ...

Transmitter manufacturer Nautel has added Jeff Wilson as a regional sales manager based in Quincy, Ill. He will manage sales for the western United States, replacing Ellis Terry, who will retire later in 2018. Prior to this appointment, Wilson most recently worked as director of sales and Western ...

Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia -- Experienced broadcast professional Jeff Wilson has joined Nautel as Regional Sales Manager. Based in his home city of Quincy, Illinois, Jeff will manage Nautel's Western US sales territory. This territory has been served since 2012 by Ellis Terry, who is retiring from ...

iHeartMedia has tapped Greg Millard to serve as executive vice president of event and experiential partnerships. The broadcaster also says Cristina Mayer has been named marketing director for the Washington–Baltimore cluster. Millard will report to iHeartMedia’s President of National Sales, ...

The incentive auction that ended in 2017 was bound to have consequences for the FM stations on Los Angeles’ Mt. Wilson. TV and radio share tower space there, often in close quarters. It soon became clear that this would be especially true in the vicinity of the “Post Office” site, where iHeartMedia ...

Hal Kneller, engineering consultant with Solmart Media, writes that he has maintained a clone (not an image) of all the hard drives in critical systems at the radio stations he consults over the last few years. This way, when there is a crash, there is an instantly bootable drive to slip in. Once ...