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CBS Stations has promoted from within to fill the role of Regional President and General Manager of its Northern California stations — a move that effectively adds Sacramento-area responsibilities to the person that's been in charge of its San Francisco properties.

Production professionals in radio, television, and streaming should be able to ensure that dialogues are always clearly understandable to the audience. Therefore, the Fraunhofer IDMT-HSA in Oldenburg developed the "Listening Effort Meter" (LE-Meter) for the objective evaluation of speech intelligibility.

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery has published a comprehensive Technical Document which diagnoses the intelligibility problem and presents solutions. “Improving Dialogue Intelligibility in Media” is now available for download.

U.S.-based employers announced 35,553 job cuts in December — down 50% from the 71,321 job cuts announced in November and down by 8% from the 38,792 job cuts announced in the same month of 2024. That's according to data released Thursday from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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It's a company that describes itself as a "systems integrator for safe, scalable beyond-visual line of sight operations for unmanned and autonomous aircraft." It is also an increasingly important technology entity to the broadcast TV industry, which explains why The E.W. Scripps Co. is teaming for a pilot project.

Less than 50 feet in height, it supports up to 1 kW of power

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Many former listeners and radio industry brethren are remembering the accomplishments of Jerry Cesak, who unexpectedly passed away on January 4. As one-half of the "Jeff & Jer Showgram," the man also known as "Jerry St. James" was heard in San Diego for many years, following stints in Chicago and Detroit.

Giving radio and TV station owners more oomph and "empowering local voices" are two of the big takeaways from the National Association of Broadcasters as the advocacy group for over-the-air media assesses its chief accomplishments of the past year.