Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 I have long known that if you talk despairingly about a piece of equipment, somehow that item will find out and get even. Apparently, there are times that this works for weather as well. In last month’s column, I showed a picture of…
Clay’s Corner – Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Well, at last, we are able to drive conventional vehicles to the top of West Tiger. It almost seems strange…Like I’ve been on an extended vacation. The bad news…Lots of catch-up to do. The crew from iHeart have been busy…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 On the heels of the Entercom/CBS deal, are we about to see a lot more consolidation? Apparently, some think so and this time it will involve television as well. Part of what is fueling all this is the belief that the changes in…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986. For some time now we have been hearing about how CBS was going to spin off their radio division…this would lead many to wonder, and chat about, who might buy them. Then in early February the news broke – Indeed CBS Radio was…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986. It finally happened here !!!! Friday the 27th, the usually quiet SBE Remailer lit up with tons of activity about how a local LPFM Station was playing something describing the POTUS in not complimentary terms. Suddenly a lot of broadcast engineers were tuning…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and that 2017 will prove to be the best. A lot of newsy stuff to report on this month and some pretty, and interesting, pictures. The two biggest in-debt radio operators, Cumulus and iHeart,…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 By now Turkey Day has come and gone and we are all facing the annual fear of stepping on the scale. Don’t worry – There are more parties and diners to come – Time to be concerned about that is AFTER the first…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 First – some sad news – The passing of David Christian on October 15th. The following was posted by Lowell Kiesow to the West Tiger Remailer on Oct 16th – I am very sad to report that David Christian passed away last night…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 30 years of doing this column – This must be some sort of record for this kind of thing? I got to thinking about how I went about it back then – A couple of items were recalled from the musty depths of…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986. The FCC’s new Electronic Test Reporting System, ETRS, has certainly got a lot of attention of late, and with good reason. As you know I have been involved with EAS for many years, at many levels. I find a wide range of attitudes…
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