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Darryl Parker Dies; Was Face of TFT

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

Darryl Parker has died.

For radio engineers, Parker for many years was the face of TFT, a company that manufactured STL, EAS and monitoring equipment.

His death was announced on his Facebook page by his wife Elizabeth Parker. He had been in hospice care with a neuroendocrine tumor and died Friday. He was 77.

TFT, based in San Jose, Calif., was established in 1970 in Santa Clara in the Silicon Valley. Parker held the position of senior vice president for many years, and was the person best known to engineers who purchased TFT equipment.

After that company closed in 2015, Parker offered support services to its former customers and assisted other technicians and engineers in doing so as well.

“Personally I want to help all the people who have helped me over the years,” he told Radio World at the time.

“A super nice guy,” one industry colleague told RW this week. “He tried his best to keep TFT afloat.” “A great man, always available and happy to help with whatever we needed,” wrote former NPR engineering executive Mike Starling on Facebook. “A gentleman,” said engineering veteran Tom Ray.

Parker was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the city of Terrill. He attended Southern Methodist University and earned his B.A. in classics and mathematics. According to his Facebook page he also studied high-tech marketing at Caltech.

Parker started in broadcasting by working at a local radio station that was owned by a friend’s family. He worked on-air and in news before moving into engineering. While in high school he also worked as a grip on the movie “Giant.”

Parker was not afraid to make a little fun of himself. “Wilbur the cat was Darryl’s best buddy for the last decade,” Elizabeth Parker said.

He also had a love of liturgical music; he started organ lessons when in grade school and played for dozens of churches in his life. “The Sunday before his last hospitalization he was at the organ bench,” Elizabeth Parker said.

Former professional positions also included director of marketing at Alligator Communications; president of Parcom Inc.; sales manager at MZB & Associates; and electrical engineering director at Texas State Networks.

He is survived by his wife, a sister, two children, his step-daughter, three grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, stepmother, and brother.

Services will be announced later. “At Darryl’s wishes, he will be scattered in his beloved Texas at a later date,” his wife told Radio World.

The post Darryl Parker Dies; Was Face of TFT appeared first on Radio World.

Paul McLane

Hilton Hired For Synthax Sales Post

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

Synthax, the domestic distributor of RME, Ferrofish, Digigram, Appsys and myMix, has chosen its next Broadcast Sales Manager. She will report directly to Derek Badala, Synthax’s Director of Sales for The Americas.

Taking the post is Brittany Hilton, who Badala calls “a consummate professional” with nearly 10 years of experience in the industry.

Hilton has spent the majority of her career in broadcast sales, most recently at the Broadcasters General Store in Ocala, Fla. Before this, she worked with Broadcast Depot as a national account manager, DoubleRadius as an outside sales rep, and worked lighting and sound at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Synthax believes her “extensive background in the industry will help her target the right products to broadcasters, allowing them to streamline their processes and obtain the highest quality audio available.”

Key to her new role will be increasing Digigram’s reach and brand awareness.

Adam Jacobson

Radio Listening Reaches a 16-Month High. Do Advertisers Care?

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

RBR+TVBR OBSERVATION

Looking for a bit of good news amid the sour headlines ranging from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation to more jabs at his counterpart in Florida, Ron DeSantis, over how he’s reacted to the rise of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the Sunshine State?

Nielsen has some for those who own or manage radio stations. Listening levels are at their highest point since April 2020.

That said, were radio listening levels acceptable prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Adam Jacobson

Broadcasters Push for Local Journalism Tax Break Bill

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago
Photo: Pexels – Michael Judkin

Local broadcasters are urging the Senate to provide tax credits to stations that staff up their newsrooms, citing, in part, Big Tech’s “devouring” of their local ad market.

In a letter to Senate leadership, all 50 state broadcaster associations called for passage of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.

They said the bill “would provide local newsrooms a lifeline that would enable them to sustain, and in some cases, significantly improve the critical public service these local media outlets provide their communities.”

The associations said that lifeline is needed in part because their advertising market has been disappearing, “devoured by massive online technology platforms.”

The bill, which was introduced last month by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, along with Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), would provide tax breaks for stations as well as small businesses that support local media with their ad dollars.

The goal, according to the bill’s sponsors, is to “revive and sustain trusted local media,” in which broadcast TV and radio play a central role. The credits go to support local newspapers, digital news operations, TV and radio.

 

The post Broadcasters Push for Local Journalism Tax Break Bill appeared first on Radio World.

John Eggerton

So Long, CV: Coachella Valley Format Flip Portends Sale

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

It’s a unique Class A facility offering co-channel protection to Class B giant KBIG-FM in Los Angeles, some 90 minutes to the west. And, until July 31, it was offering the “Valley’s Greatest Hits” to listeners from Palm Springs to Twentynine Palms and Cathedral City.

Now, gracias a dios, this FM is speaking Spanish, and serving evangelical Hispanics in the Coachella Valley.

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Adam Jacobson

Nielsen Audio Cites “Rising Tide of Optimism”

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

U.S. consumers have been resuming their pre-pandemic activities, including spending and listening, according to Nielsen Audio.

“[A] rising tide of optimism headlines the American experience as we continue to emerge from the disruption caused by the virus,” wrote Managing Director Brad Kelly. “Nielsen’s ongoing series of audio consumer sentiment surveys is reporting the highest levels of consumer confidence that we’ve heard since the COVID crisis began.”

The company has released its latest “Audio Today” report, focusing on consumer sentiment. The trend lines are sunny, though the data were gathered up through May and June, so they may not reflect the most recent concerns about coronavirus variants.

“Audio use is on the rise,” Kelly wrote. “It’s being driven (pun intended) by increasing levels of mobility and traffic on our roadways. Among the employed, two thirds are now working outside the home, up more than 70% since the height of lock-down in the spring of 2020. As a result, the AM/FM Radio audience just recorded its highest levels in over a year across Nielsen’s PPM markets. Radio remains America’s top weekly reach medium, and an essential part of the daily media diet for millions.”

Kelly said while listening migrated into the home during the past year via smart speaker or mobile device, Nielsen now sees an audience shift back to pre-pandemic habits, with in-car and out-of-home consumption increasing.

Nielsen Audio also reported that podcasting attracted new listeners, particularly from home, and that podcast consumption is on the rise. “The past 18 months have proven the resiliency of podcasts, despite the major life changes brought about by COVID-19,” the company stated.

Its updated charts for weekly reach and average quarter hour listening are shown below.

 

 

 

The post Nielsen Audio Cites “Rising Tide of Optimism” appeared first on Radio World.

Paul McLane

User Report: Versatility of Access Keeps Walmart Radio Flexible

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago
Note the Comrex Access codec, with its optional mixer, in its traveling case in the lower right corner.

The author is host of Walmart’s “The Bo Show.”

Walmart Radio was created in the late 1990s. It was discontinued temporarily in 2008, and Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs switched to playing CDs over their PA systems. But a CD can only hold so much music, and it hit the point where store associates knew what time of day it was based on the song that was playing.

In 2015, during a meeting with the CEO of Walmart, a store manager said that they really needed Walmart Radio back. It was reintroduced on the spot.

I am a manager in the corporate affairs and corporate communications team for Walmart and Sam’s Club, and my primary job is to oversee the radio aspect of our stores and clubs. I also host “The Bo Show,” which airs live in all locations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the afternoons.

We run it just like any other terrestrial radio show, except we syndicate in a retail environment. I do interviews with celebrities, shout-outs for associates, take calls from customers, and play games on the air — the kinds of things you’d expect to find on any national radio show. Additionally, my colleague hosts a morning show called “Live with Antonio,” and we’ll regularly do remote events along with other special programming.

 

Packing a Punch

I’ve worked in radio for over 20 years, and spent much of that time working in terrestrial radio. In that time, I’d used plenty of Comrex gear, and I really liked it.

During the pandemic, we realized that we needed to upgrade some of our equipment. The TV division of Walmart was using some Comrex stuff already, so the name was familiar. When it was time to shop for new equipment, I thought, “Hey, this is a good company, I know the stuff — let’s give it a try.”

During the pandemic, when the main office itself shut down, a lot of our associates began working remotely. Our stores were still open, though obviously with limited capacity; and we wanted to be able to do our show, even though we couldn’t be at the studio.

We owned a single Comrex Access 2USB unit, but that wasn’t enough to handle everything we needed to do since we were all about to be working from home. So we purchased several Access NX units, the newest portable IP audio codec from Comrex, so that we could give them to everyone who needed one.

We also needed a studio codec that could handle multiple remote connections at once. After bit of research, we chose the Comrex Access MultiRack, which can handle up to five connections with any kind of Comrex IP codec simultaneously. Once everything was installed, we were off to the races!

One of the things I like about the Access NX is that it’s small, but it packs a punch. It has a lot of bells and whistles, especially when you add the extra mixer.

I’ve used it with Wi-Fi, cellular networks and also with a hardwire connection through a cradle point. The battery lasts quite some time, so you can get through a good two- or three-hour broadcast on battery power alone when connected to the mixer. Without the mixer, it can last up to 5 hours.

Having used this gear for a year, I think it’s one of the best upgrades we’ve ever made. It was essential during the pandemic. We could connect from home, and I could also log into the user interface remotely if there was ever an issue. The flexibility on it is just amazing — it’s one of the best units I’ve used in my radio career.

Info: Contact Chris Crump at Comrex at 1-978-784-1776 or visit www.comrex.com.

Radio World User Reports are testimonial articles intended to help readers understand why a colleague chose a particular product to solve a technical situation.

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Bo Woloszyn

Application of Radio by Grace, Inc., for Renewal of License for Station W257DF, Atlanta, Georgia

FCC Media Bureau News Items
3 years 10 months ago
Issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the amount of $1,500 to Radio by Grace, Inc., for failure to timely file a license renewal application for W257DF, Atlanta, Georgia

Movo Ships Another Microphone

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

Movo continues it surge into the audio equipment market with another microphone, a versatile USB desktop and smartphone mic, the UM300.

According to Movo, the UM300’s three-capsule array captures 48 kHz/16-bit broadcast quality sound resolution. It offers cardioid and omnidirectional patterns.

A single knob controls gain, headphone level and muting. It is compatible with Windows, Mac and along with Android smartphones.

[Read: Movin’ on Up With the Movo UM700]

Movo CEO Ben Halberstam said, “We noticed the low-quality audio and video that people were experiencing while using their built-in or outdated microphones during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted to provide better solutions that won’t break the bank.”

At a price of $69.95 it would be easy to stock-up on a few for ENG and remote content production or hand-off to the interns without worrying about losing an “expensive” microphone.

Send your new equipment news to radioworld@futurenet.com.

Info: www.movophoto.com

 

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RW Staff

Franco To Lead Fort Walton Beach for JVC

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

A 35+-year broadcasting industry veteran who has spent the last 21 years on Florida’s Panhandle has been selected to serve as General Manager of the four FM radio stations owned by John Caracciolo-led JVC Media.

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Adam Jacobson

CES Moves Forward With In-Person Event, GM Chief Keynote

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

With the virulent Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus increasing the concerns of many that major conferences and expos of interest to the broadcast media industry won’t be staged, the Consumer Technology Association has made it clear that CES 2022 is moving forward — with the commitment of more than 1,000 companies to a live and in-person affair right after New Year’s Day 2022.

Among the on-site Keynote Speakers already being touted: The head of General Motors. 

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Adam Jacobson

Cumulus/Nashville’s Titans Ops Leader Is Tapped

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

NASHVILLE — A Programming Operations leader has been chosen to oversee the Tennessee Titans radio coverage, which originates from Cumulus Media‘s hub in Music City USA.

It’s the man who will continue to serve as Program Director for “104.5 The Zone,” the company’s Sports Talk radio station serving Nashville.

That’s Paul Mason, who gets the additional duties at Cumulus/Nashville as the Titans NFL franchise inks a multi-year partnership extension with the company.

With WGFX-FM designated as the official radio home of the Titans, whose stadium faces downtown and Lower Broad, longtime Executive Producer Rhett Bryan remains in his
role with Titans Radio.

Cumulus/Nashville’s on-air content is under the direction of VP/Programming Operations Charlie Cook, the veteran radio industry figure.

Mason joined WGFX in April 2020.

RBR-TVBR

For Scripps In Norfolk, Chase Is On The Case

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

The CBS affiliate serving the Hampton Roads region of Virginia has a new VP/GM.

It reflects a promotion for an individual who, since January 2019, has served as VP/GM of the ABC station serving Waco, Texas, and its E.W. Scripps Co. unaffiliated sibling in Bryan-College Station, Tex.

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Adam Jacobson

The InFOCUS Podcast: Dave Lougee and TEGNA’s Q2 Call

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

TEGNA on Monday presented its second quarter 2021 earnings in a conference call for analysts and investors, during which President/CEO Dave Lougee and CFO Victoria Harker offered commentary on two subjects getting close scrutiny from many industry observers: retransmission consent revenue, and the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which just concluded.

Retrans and subscription revenue matters for TEGNA. With advertising trends downbeat for broadcast TV over the next five years, did NBC’s Olympic Games fall short not only on audience but also on ad dollars?

This InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, puts a spotlight on those key questions.

Listen to “The InFOCUS Podcast: Dave Lougee and TEGNA’s Q2 Call” on Spreaker.

Adam Jacobson

Entravision Presents At Two Investor Events

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

Entravision Communications Corporation, now an entity fueled by digital dollars, followed by broadcast television and broadcast radio revenue, respectively, is gearing up for its participation in an investor event set for August 19.

That follows an event held this afternoon with a Boca Raton, Fla.-based financial house.

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Adam Jacobson

NAB’s Gordon Smith Urges FCC to Reverse User Fee Hike

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

Broadcasters are working hard to try to get the FCC to reverse course on its plans to increase their user fees, in part to pay for the better broadband maps Congress has demanded of the commission.

The FCC pays for its operations through user fees–as well as auction proceeds when it comes to covering the expenses of conducting those.

National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith last week was on a phone conference with acting FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel to talk about the special appropriation of $33 million for the FCC to implement the Broadband Data Act, legislation that Smith and other NAB executives on the call said provided “no benefit whatsoever to broadcasters.”

[Read: Broadcasters Face Higher FCC Regulatory Fees]

They said that despite that, broadcasters would wind up fronting about 16% of what were costs unrelated to their operations. The FCC fees are based on how many full-time employees are used to regulate a particular service.

NAB has told the FCC that not only is making them pay some of the broadband mapping freight unfair, but that it violates statute, a point they reiterated last week, saying that passing along costs attributable to broadband does not square with the requirement that the FCC take into account factors related to which entities benefit from broadband mapping. “Had it done so,” they said, “the commission would have no doubt concluded that broadcasters – and more specifically the Media Bureau — are not involved in implementing the act.”

They invoked the pandemic, including the rise of the Delta variant, as reason that the increase would be hard to absorb, increases they can’t pass along to their audience–as say, could ISPs via their monthly bills.

 

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John Eggerton

Gray Seeks Cancellation of FCC’s Proposed Alaska Fine

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

One of the nation’s largest broadcast TV station ownership groups has asked the FCC to cancel in its entirety a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture handed to the company for its “apparent violation” of the Commission’s Top Four rule.

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Adam Jacobson

MMTC Outlines “Racial Justice” Initiatives for FCC

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council has called on the Federal Communications Commission to adopt seven new initiatives it says can better advance diversity and provide racial justice within the media industry.

At no time since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s has it been more important that the FCC affirm that it cares about issues of racial justice, said the MMTC in a letter submitted to the commission on Aug. 4.

“The FCC’s long and malodorous history of minority exclusion should both haunt and motivate all of us,” the organization said, adding that numerous proposals to advance racial justice in media and telecommunications have stalled. It is not uncommon for the agency to take 20 years or more to act on a proposal that would advance opportunities for multicultural communities and consumers, the organization said.

[Read: Getting a Look Inside the BIN]

“Today, the FCC carries the enormous responsibility of overseeing one-sixth of our national economy, including some of America’s fastest growing industries and greatest exports, and are the trustees of the First Amendment,” the organization said. “No federal body has a greater need to create and preserve racial justice than the Federal Communications Commission.”

As a start, the commission should ensure that minority voices have access to competitive technical facilities. Even though minority broadcasters are voices and conscience of their communities, these broadcasters often must compete using inferior technical facilities, according to the group.

The MMTC also pressed the commission to act on several pending proposals that would advance minority broadcast ownership. Some of these include granting an FM booster rule change that would authorize FM radio geo-targeting, creating a new station class known as C4 that would double the power of hundreds of small FM stations and repealing the rural radio policy that deprives small broadcasters of the opportunity to improve their signal coverage.

The organization also wants to see the commission establish a ubiquitous equal procurement program, similar to the cable procurement rule, which ensures that women- and minority-owned businesses have a fair chance at winning major contracts by requiring cable MSOs to disseminate major procurement opportunities (like laying fiber or installing equipment) broadly enough to reach eligible minority- and women-owned companies. Not only does this help these organizations grow and provide jobs, it helps drive down the prices. In addition, a more diverse pool of multiple suppliers of a key product will deepens the pool of talent and entrepreneurial mettle, it says. “Ubiquitous equal procurement opportunity would be a classic ‘win-win’ for everyone,” the organization said.

The commission should also ask Congress to restore and improve the tax certificate policy and create a tax credit for donating a station to a training institution. The 1978–1995 tax certificate policy “was by far the most effective vehicle for advancing minority broadcast ownership,” the MMTC said, noting that the policy quintupled minority broadcast ownership over the 17 years that it was in operation.

The organization also pressed the FCC to include diversity, equity and inclusion impact statements in all applicable rulemakings. “What gets measured gets done,” the MMTC said. “The commission should seek comment looking toward adoption of a universal policy where every rulemaking of general applicability will contain a diversity, equity and inclusion impact statement.”

In addition, the commission should put more bite behind its equal opportunity employment rules and begin prosecuting licensees that primarily recruit new employees by word of mouth. “[D]espite the continuing prevalence of low minority representation in influential broadcasting jobs, the commission has not brought a single discrimination prosecution since 1994,” the MMTC said. The commission should also commit to collaborating with the Department of Labor and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission to investigate what the MMTC calls “abysmal diversity performance” displayed year after year by many high tech platforms.

The MMTC also wants to see the commission correct deficiencies that it sees in the radio incubator program. This program, which was established in June 2021, needs one update: it should only allow for incubation waivers in similar-sized markets.

Finally, it says it is time for the commission to ensure there is widespread access to multilingual emergency information, the organization said. The MMTC and the League of United Latin American Citizens have repeatedly asked the commission to ensure that basic information in widely spoken languages such as Spanish be available in the wake of major storms. This is a step that can be taken with minimal regulatory intervention and will immediately support and protect multilingual populations in emergencies, the group said. “It is simply unconscionable that a person’s lack of English fluency can become a matter of life or death in an emergency situation,” the MMTC said.

The MMTC hopes that the commission will seize the moment it now finds itself in and take a stand.

“Hopefully, looking back on 2021, future students of history will recognize the FCC as an agency that seized the moment and swiftly affirmed its commitment to racial justice by undertaking initiatives that will ensure that equal opportunity is present in our most influential industries,” the MMTC said.

 

The post MMTC Outlines “Racial Justice” Initiatives for FCC appeared first on Radio World.

Susan Ashworth

iHeartMedia Partnership to Bring Curated Podcasts to French Audience

Radio World
3 years 10 months ago

iHeartMedia is joining forces with a French multimedia group to curate a slate of its podcasts for a French audience.

iHeartMedia and the NRJ Group recently announced a strategic partnership in which the two will develop, translate, distribute and monetize iHeartRadio original podcast content for French listeners. The first translated podcasts will be available on the iHeartRadio app, in France on NRJ Group’s platforms and elsewhere in the last quarter of 2021.

As part of the partnership, NRJ Group will distribute certain iHeartRadio original English-language podcasts across its apps and websites and will lead the monetization efforts in France. NRJ Global will also leverage the supply-side platform Yield-Op from Triton Digital, a company recently acquired by iHeartMedia.

[Read: iHeartMedia Discloses Q2 Financial Results]

The partnership illustrates that demand for podcasts has become a global one. “[It’s] beginning to grow meaningful fanbases around the world,” said Conal Byrne, CEO of iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group. The partnership allows NRJ to tap into iHeartMedia’s archives of existing programs for translation and allows both companies to co-produce new shows to better support the French podcast creator community, he said

The podcasts that will be translated include “Stuff You Should Know,” the first podcast to surpass one billion downloads, the company said. The podcast was launched in April 2008 and educates listeners on science, history, urban legends and other topics. Other shows to be translated include “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” “BrainStuff,” “Cabinet of Curiosities” and “Missing in Alaska” among others.

The partnership will also include new co-produced podcasts featuring French talent.

NRJ Group said it is pleased to be working with iHeart on a shared mission: making high-quality entertainment podcasts available to the widest audience. “This deal enables us to significantly enrich our offer to French listeners while clearly positioning NRJ Global as the top reference in France for the monetization of podcasts,” said Cécile Chambaudrie, NRJ global president and CEO of NRJ Group Digital Activities.

 

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Susan Ashworth

Rosado To Lead New NBCU Hispanic Streaming Arm

Radio+Television Business Report
3 years 10 months ago

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has moved forward with giving a Latin boost to its Peacock OTT offering and the individual streaming platforms tied to its broadcast and cable TV networks by creating a Hispanic Streaming division.

Who’s leading it? A woman who entered the U.S. market as an Executive Producer for Us Weekly‘s digital offerings in 2009 who joined NBCU in 2012 through its E! operations.

The opportunities. The ROI. What’s stopping your company from connecting with Spanish-speaking consumers through audio channels like yours? Learn more about the Hispanic growth story by attending the 2021 Hispanic Radio Conference, Sept. 22-23 in Miami. Attendance is limited – REGISTER NOW!

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Adam Jacobson

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