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EBU Summit Closes With Great Debate Over Radio Distribution

Posted: 24 Feb 2022 02:00 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/global/ebu-summit-closes-with-great-debate-over-radio-distribution


One in a series of articles about the recently concluded EBU Digital Radio Summit.

When should radio leave AM and FM? Will DAB radios ever be cheap enough to
woo consumers away from FM? Is IP distribution the future of radio or not?

These contentious questions were bandied about during the EBU Digital Radio Summit’s closing session, “The Great Debate: The future of radio distribution,” on Feb. 16 2022.
The Great Debate Panel (clockwise from upper left): Darko Ratkaj, Hanns
Wolter, Peter Mac Avock, Lindsey Mack andx Roland Beutler

The Great Debate was moderated by EBU Senior Project Manager Darko Ratkaj.
He began the session by asking Dr. Roland Beutler, who oversees
distribution strategy at German regional public service broadcaster Südwestrundfunk, for his views on radio’s best distribution strategy.

Beutler pulled no punches in his reply. “I believe it’s necessary to shut down FM in order to reduce distribution costs,” he said. “Now the question is, how can you do that? How can you vacate the FM band, and how can you
make it available to other services?”

In his home country of Germany, Beutler said that politicians need to make
the case for a replacement service on the FM band that would win public support.

“One thing I could see is PPDR [Public Protection and Disaster Relief communications used by first responders], because they are using similar frequency ranges already,” he said. A second FM band user could be Smart
City data services, for connecting to gas meters and other devices by radio.

Lindsey Mack was more measured when stating her view as BBC senior manager
of DAB & BBC Sounds external affairs. “We do plan to close AM mid-2020s,” she said, due to a “consistent decline in listening making it really not viable, and we assume that trend will continue.”

According to Mack, the threshold for both the BBC and U.K. commercial AM stations to start winding down is when AM listenership falls to 3% of total U.K. listenership.

However, matters are not so clear when it comes to shutting down FM in
Britain. “This is always a topic that causes quite a lot of alarm
especially in the U.K. and the reason for that is 36% of radio listening
is still via FM,” said Mack.

“It remains really valuable to many listeners, particularly those who are older and vulnerable, and to those who may live in areas with limited DAB and/or broadband coverage, and also to the car listener where 50% of car listening is still tuned to analog,” she said.

“In terms of broadcast radio distribution, FM still dominates,” noted Peter Mac Avock, the EBU’s head of distribution, platforms and services. It also remains popular with local broadcasters as a vehicle for selling local advertising, aided by cheap, ubiquitous receivers. In fact, when the cost
of FM and DAB receivers are compared head-to-head, “FM is dirt cheap,” he said.

On the other hand, DAB provides much more content variety for listeners and better advertising sales options for broadcasters, said Hanns Wolter,
technical director at DAB Italia.

“If you have [targeted] local advertising, you will be able to deliver it locally [via DAB],” said Wolter. “You don’t need to go on the internet and
compete with a hundred thousand IP stations. You’ll be able to get directly to your listener.”

At this point, Ratkaj stirred the pot by asking “if advocating DAB as an AM/FM replacement” and overall “good technology” actually makes much sense,
given the belief that “it appears to be a transitional technology to an IP paradise — an IP-only future?”

On this point, the debaters agreed that the answer to this distribution question was not at all clear. For her part, Mack said she sees radio’s
path lying in “a mixed future with broadcast and IP.”

Her uncertainty was echoed by Mac Avock. “It’s too early to call it,” he said. “It’s easy to say that it’s all going to be IP-based in the future, but there’s a whole host of problems associated with IP distribution. IP will be a factor, for sure. How big? I don’t know.”

The only sure conclusion to be drawn from the Great Distribution Debate is
that it will continue for years to come. As to whether broadcast will
continue to hold its own against IP or not? Mac Avock’s summed up the
current situation up nicely. “I’m not backing either horse for now.” Related stories:

Human Connection Draws in Younger Listeners
In-Car Listening Influenced by More Than Music Taste
How CBC Radio Manages Its Wealth of Digital Content


James Careless is an award-winning freelance journalist with experience in radio/TV broadcasting as well as A/V equipment, system design and
integration. He has written for Radio World, TV Tech, Systems Contractor
News and AV Technology among others. Broadcast credits include CBC Radio,
NPR and NBC News. He co-produces/co-hosts the “CDR Radio podcast” and is a
two-time winner of the PBI Media Award for Excellence.

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iHeartMedia Dishes on Latest Financial News

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 02:19 PM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/iheartmedia-dishes-on-latest-financial-news


Top executives at iHeartMedia say the trajectory of its revenue is up even
as it searches for ways to better monetize its digital assets.

Results released Wednesday, Feb. 23, show consolidated revenues for
iHeartMedia were $1.062 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, a
year-over-year climb of about 14%, according to the company’s filing with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Chairman/CEO Bob Pittman called it “another strong quarter and … a very strong year” and said the numbers reflect the “continuing digital transformation of iHeartMedia into a data-led digital business with
important new platforms like podcasting built on the unparalleled scale and audience reach of our broadcast radio assets.”

He expects continued growth in 2022.
For the quarter, the company posted net profits of $111.9 million, compared
to $2.9 million in Q4 2020.

Of the company’s three reportable segments, the multiplatform group, which includes its 850 radio stations, reported revenue growth of 9% in the final quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. The segment, which also
includes it network operations and live events, had $726.3 million in
revenue in Q4 2021.

Pittman called the multiplatform group “a growth engine for the company” as the company continues to climb back to revenue totals established prior to
the onset of the COVID pandemic. For comparison, iHeartMedia said its multiplatform group had revenue of nearly $849 million in Q4 of 2019 pre-pandemic compared to $726,292 in Q4 last year, a decline of 14.4% over
the two-year span.

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iHeartMedia’s eye-popping podcast revenue growth continued in its Q4, according to the latest financial report. The digital audio group in the quarter grew revenue to $273.2 million, which was up by nearly 59% in Q4 compared YoY. Within that group podcast revenue was up 130% to $97 million
in the final quarter of 2021.

“This company doesn’t have an audience issue. What we have is a monetization issue, and that is where we are focusing our efforts,” Pittman added.

Digital revenue growth continues to outpace that of iHeartMedia’s other groups, Pittman said on the earnings call. “In Q4 2021, digital revenue represented 26% of total company revenue compared to Q1 of 2019 when it represented under 10%. Clear evidence of our continued digital transformation,” he said.

The company recently announced it will use synthetic voice technology to
extend its podcasting segment. iHeartMedia will use Veritone’s
voice-cloning tool to convert English-language podcast series into multiple languages, dialects and accents for distribution across the iHeartPodcast Network. The company also recently announced an investment in the Sounders audio intelligence platform, which the company is using to match potential advertisers with podcast audiences.

Its Audio and Media Services Group, which includes which includes Katz
Media Group and RCS, reported $65.5 million in revenue in the final
quarter, a substantial drop from last quarter of 2020 when the segment
recorded about $100 million in revenue. However, Rich Bressler, iHeartMedia president, COO and CFO, said that the dip was partly attributable to lower political ad spending.

Year-end numbers:

For the year ending Dec. 31, 2021, the company totaled $3.5 billion in consolidated revenue, up 21% YoY compared to $2.9 billion in 2020. The multiplatform group revenue grew by 13% YoY to nearly $2.5 billion in 2021.
The company posted a net loss for 2021 of about $158.4 million, which was
down dramatically from its net loss the year before of $1.9 billion.

iHeartMedia’s capital expenditures for the year were $183.4 million
compared to just $85.2 million in 2020. The company says its capital expenditures increased primarily due to its real estate consolidation initiatives aimed at reducing its structural cost base.

Bressler said iHeartMedia expects to have cap ex spending of between $150 million and $165 million in 2022.

iHeartMedia’s operating cash flow nearly doubled in Q4 2021 to $134
million, which it credited to consolidating real estate assets in certain markets. Cash on hand at the end of the quarter was $352.1 million. The broadcaster’s balance sheet listed $5.73 billion in total debt and $5.38 billion of net debt as of Dec. 31, 2021.

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NAB Opens Application Window for 2023 Broadcast Leadership Training Program

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 11:00 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/nab-opens-application-window-for-2023-broadcast-leadership-training-program


The NAB Leadership Foundation has announced that it is now accepting applications for the 2023 Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) program through May 31.

The BLT program is designed to prepare senior-level broadcast executives to advance as group executives or station owners. Women and people of color
are encouraged to apply.

Now in its 23rd year, BLT is an executive MBA-style program that teaches
the fundamentals of purchasing, owning and operating radio and television stations. As the foremost executive training initiative for the broadcast industry, the 10-month program prepares aspiring broadcast station owners
and executives with the working knowledge to further their careers.

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The 2023 Broadcast Leadership Training program will consist of weekend
sessions held in-person at the NAB Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The starting session will be held in September 2022.

Broadcast professionals from all areas of the industry, including general managers, experienced sales managers and seasoned department heads, as well
as regional and corporate executives, are encouraged to apply. Fellowship opportunities are available for women and people of color, the NAB
Leadership Foundation (NABLF) said.

These talented broadcasters join the long list of industry leaders with
roots in the BLT program, said NAB Foundation president Michelle Duke. We
look forward to watching their careers grow from this success and
witnessing the positive impacts as new and diverse leadership advances our industry.

With this class, more than 350 participants have graduated from the
program. The 2021 Broadcast Leadership Training Class graduates are:

Melissa Begay, Operations Director, Native Public Media
Robert Brooks, Digital Solutions Specialist, WHUR-FM
Cathy Cangiano, Senior Vice President and Market Manager, Bonneville
Seattle Media Group
Thomas Ciprari, Station Manager, KTMF-TV, ABC Fox 23/Cowles Publishing Co.
Leon Clark, Vice President and General Manager, KGTV ABC10/The E.W. Scripps
Co.
Tina Commodore, News Director, WFTV-TV/Cox Media Group
Kate Doty, Director of Talent and Team Development, Morgan Murphy Media
Susie Doucette-Pyle, Vice President and General Sales Manager, KRIV-TV Fox
26, KTXH My20/Fox Television Stations
Alfredo Duran, President and Founder, Duran Media Management Services
Blanca Esparza-Pap, Station Manager, Arizona’s Family, 3TV/ CBS 5
Mariana Ferro, Regional Vice President, Sales Manager – National Sales, Univision Communications
Andrew Givens, Station Manager and Director of Sales, KMSS-TV, FOX
33/Mission Broadcasting Inc.
Ben Hart, President and General Manager, WJCL ABC/Hearst Television
Charity Holman, Station Manager and General Sales Manager, WVVA-TV/Quincy
Media Inc.
Andre Holmes, Vice President, Financial Analysis, Gray Television
Kari Jacobs, President and General Manager, 10 Tampa Bay/TEGNA
Kim Parker, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Graham Media Group Nicole Ovadia, Vice President, Client Success, HOT97, WBLS, WLIB/Emmis Communications


The 2021 and 2022 program sponsors included: Beasley Media Group,
Bonneville International Corp. Cox Media Group, Fox Television Stations,
Futuri Media, Graham Media Group, Gray Television, Hearst Television,
Legend Communications, NAB, The Nielsen Foundation, Meredith Corp., Morgan, Murphy Media, The E.W. Scripps Co., Quincy Media Inc., TEGNA, Univision Communications, ViacomCBS.

The organization also said that 2022 class is currently underway. They will attend the NAB Show in April and graduate in June.

For more information about the NAB Leadership Foundation or the BLT
program, please visit, nabfoundation.org.

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How CBC Radio Manages Its Wealth of Digital Content

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 11:00 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/how-cbc-radio-manages-its-wealth-of-digital-content


One in a series of articles about the recently concluded EBU Digital Radio Summit.
CBCs Julie McCambly (left) and Kevin Siu

Canada’s public radio and television services have gone from being broadcast-only platforms to distributors of a substantial amount of live
and on-demand content in cyberspace.

CBC Listen is the home for the CBC’s online audio content, while CBC Gem hosts the TV content. CBC.ca is the overarching structure for all things digital at CBC/Radio-Canada.

During the online EBU Digital Radio Summit held on Feb. 16, 2022, CBC’s
Julie McCambley and Kevin Siu explained how Canada’s public broadcaster produces and serves programming and podcasts in a session entitled, “What
to do with all of that content?”

McCambley is senior manager of planning & operations for CBC Listen, and
Siu is CBC’s senior director of OTT video & audio for CBC Gem & CBC Listen.

From on air to on demand

Every week, CBC Radio produces and broadcasts 70 live local shows across
the country for Radio One, its spoken word service. This content is
broadcast on the CBC’s FM service, made available live on CBC Listen, and also provided to some third-party broadcasters.

CBC Radio’s local on-air content is a natural resource for after-the-fact, on-demand listening. This being said, “what we’ve learned from experience is not to publish on-demand versions of an entire show when it comes to local,” McCambly said.


Instead, the real value for listeners lies in selecting, posting, and
promoting specific interviews and other show segments as standalone
content. “That means local segments make up a significant portion of what
we call our on-demand listening offer,” she said.

On average, each local show produces two segments per day for CBC Listen.

“Once the show has gone to air, the technician who operated the show will work with the digital producer to identify segments that they want to
upload to CBC Listen,” said McCambly. “Then they’ll repackage those segments to make sure that they are clean from a ‘rights’ perspective, and then they’ll publish them into CBC Listen. They’ll also make a version that’s available for third parties.”

For the hour of work it takes to repackage two local segments for on-demand listening, CBC Listen (and sometimes CBC.ca too) gets content that will
attract listeners for about a week, McCambly said.

A similar process is used to repackage network-produced on-air content for
the web, after it has been broadcast in all of Canada’s six time zones.

Web-only content

In addition to repurposing broadcast content for the web, CBC Radio also produces a special web-only version of the national newscast “The World
This Hour” and a variety of podcasts.

So the CBC has 94 podcasts available for on-demand listening. The topics
they cover include range from true crime and human interest stories to investigative reporting, history, and more. Some CBC podcasts are original productions, while others are repurposed from CBC Radio programs.

Under Canadian law, CBC Radio isn’t allowed to make money from advertising. But its online platforms can. “We do monetize our podcasts,” said McCambly. “We monetize them by making a pre-roll and mid-roll available for advertising.”

Looking Ahead

With so much online content on offer, CBC Radio’s goal moving forward is to raise awareness of its content and give more people access to it.

Achieving these goals means answering questions such as “how do we improve the discoverability?” said Kevin Siu, and “how do we streamline our technical infrastructure to allow us to move more quickly?”

In response to the first question, CBC Radio is launching a free membership platform for CBC Listen users to boost their use of CBC online content.

“One of the benefits that we see for users is to be able to get access to either exclusive content or to content early on,” Siu said. In the crowded world of cyber streaming, any tactic that boosts listener loyalty is a plus. Related stories:

Human Connection Draws in Younger Listeners
In-Car Listening Influenced by More Than Music Taste
How CBC Radio Manages Its Wealth of Digital Content


James Careless is an award-winning freelance journalist with experience in radio/TV broadcasting as well as A/V equipment, system design and
integration. He has written for Radio World, TV Tech, Systems Contractor
News and AV Technology among others. Broadcast credits include CBC Radio,
NPR and NBC News. He co-produces/co-hosts the “CDR Radio podcast” and is a
two-time winner of the PBI Media Award for Excellence.

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on Radio World.


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NPR Gets Extra Funding to Cover Ukraine Crisis

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 09:58 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/npr-gets-extra-funding-to-cover-ukraine-crisis


To cover the political and military confrontation between Russia and
Ukraine, NPR is getting a half-million dollars in emergency funding from
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

CPB approved the grant Tuesday.

The money will help NPR add staff and resources. The broadcaster has had reporters in Ukraine since January and said it will use the funds to pay
for increased staff there and for security and travel to the region.

NPR President/CEO John Lansing called the situation “one of the most
complex and consequential stories of our time.”

CPB President/CEO Patrician Harrison said in the announcement, “As Russia accelerates its use of misinformation and disinformation in its invasion of democratic Ukraine, CPB is proud to support NPR reporters in their
difficult and potentially dangerous work in bringing fact-based news and information to audiences in the United States and around the world.”

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NAB Opposes Forest Service Proposal to Add Comms Fee for Rural Coverage

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 08:26 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/nab-opposes-forest-service-proposal-to-add-comms-fee-for-rural-coverage


NAB has told the FCC that it opposes a proposal from the U.S. Forest
Service to assess an annual programmatic fee on communication uses to cover
the Forest Service’s costs of administering its communications use program.

“NAB believes the Forest Service’s current proposal is unlawful, inequitable, and undermines the public interest, the association told the
FCC in comments filed this week. “Citing the ‘need for wireless connectivity for teleworking, tele-education, telehealth, and
telemedicine,’ and the need for the Forest Service to ‘do its part by ensuring it has the necessary staff and expertise to administer its communications use program,’ the Proposed Rule seeks to collect an
additional ‘annual programmatic administrative fee of $1,400 per communications use authorization for wireless uses such as television and
radio broadcasting, cellular telephone, and microwave’ to cover the costs
of administering the Forest Service’s communications use program.”
U.S. Forest Service communications use sites as shown in the agencys GIS
tool.

In its filing, NAB said the proposed fee would increase the total fee
liability for existing broadcast uses serving smaller communities by nearly eight-fold in some cases, threatening their economic viability and
potentially resulting in the loss of essential broadcast services in rural
and remote areas.

“While NAB agrees that providing increased broadband access to rural communities is an important objective, the Proposed Rule undermines
television viewers’ access to critical news and information in the process
by drastically increasing the total fees broadcasters serving rural
populations pay for communications use authorizations,” the association
said. “Over-the-air broadcast television and radio are important sources of news and information to Americans, particularly for households with limited income in rural and tribal areas.”

NAB noted that while some “full-power” broadcasters successfully serve large populations from communications sites on Forest Service lands, such
as Mt. Wilson near Los Angeles and Sandia Crest near Albuquerque, other lower-power (but still primary) broadcast stations, often family-run or non-profit, are licensed to serve small communities from Forest Service communication sites.

The association said that the fee could hamper broadcasters in meeting
their public service commitments.

“Regardless of power level, all primary broadcast stations have federally-mandated coverage, program, and record-keeping requirements,
making service of small communities much more economically challenging,” it said.

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NAB added that its public obligations negate the idea that broadcasters
could pass these increased costs on to consumers.

“Given that broadcasters are still dealing with the adverse economic
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such a substantial unplanned increase in
fee liability will force broadcasters to make difficult decisions regarding whether it makes economic sense to maintain these operations, potentially resulting in the loss of essential broadcast services in rural and remote areas. Such an outcome would contravene federal policy to make broadcast television and radio services available throughout the nation.”

NAB suggested that the Forest Service consider alternative fee structures
that would base the administrative fee on existing rules and policies tied
to the highest value use, market size, and related factors to minimize the
risk of disenfranchising persons located in rural areas.

“If the Forest Service nevertheless chooses to move forward with its
proposal to assess the fee on existing authorizations, at a minimum it
should allow for a phase-in period of five years or longer to minimize the potential harmful impacts on existing authorizations and the communities
they serve,” NAB said.

Comment on this or any article. Write to radioworld@futurenet.com.

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El-Dinary to Receive NAB Engineering Award

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 07:37 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/people-news/el-dinary-to-receive-nab-engineering-award

Ashruf El-Dinary and Peter Sockett

Ashruf El-Dinary will receive the NAB Radio Engineering Achievement Award
for 2022.

The television recipient will be Peter Sockett, director of engineering and operations for Capitol Broadcasting Co.’s television stations.

El-Dinary is senior vice president of digital platforms at Xperi Corp. He oversees the company’s HD Radio systems engineering teams, manages certification and quality control processes, and represents HD Radio
technology standards in discussions with the International
Telecommunications Union and international regulatory bodies.

He currently leads the efforts for new broadcast applications, upgrades to emergency alerting, and deployment of digital radio solutions
internationally.

“El-Dinary has over 20 years of experience in developing HD Radio
technology and holds a number of patents for innovative digital radio solutions,” NAB wrote.

“He previously worked at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory developing scientific instrumentation in support of space
research programs and launched solutions on several satellites. He also
taught signal processing courses at JHU’s Whiting School of Engineering.”

Other recent recipients of the radio award include Dave Hershberger, Jeff Welton of Nautel and Gary Cavell of Cavell-Mertz. A full list appears at bottom.

[Read El-Dinary’s commentary “HD Radio’s History of Innovation and Future of Growth”]

Peter Sockett is responsible for leading and steering the technology needs
of CBC and preparing for the coming trends affecting broadcasting, NAB
wrote, saying he has been instrumental in a total rebuild of CBC’s HD technical plant, the launch of the first non-linear HD newsroom,
development of workflows for IP-ENG, implementation of Mobile DTV and
Mobile EAS, creation of the first 4K-HDR documentary produced at a local TV station, the launch of the first commercial, simulcast TV station using the ATSC 3.0 standard, and the launch of local sports channel WNGT.

He also sits on the board of directors for the Advanced Television Systems Committee and is the chair of the ATSC 3.0 Advanced Emergency Alerting Implementation Team. He has earned three Emmy Awards, Broadcasting &
Cable’s Technical Leadership Award and an Edward R. Murrow award. He is a co-inventor of a patent for geolocation.

The NAB Engineering Achievement Awards will be given during the NAB Show in Las Vegas in April.
HONOR ROLL

Recipients of the NAB Engineering Achievement Award are listed here.
Beginning in 1991, radio and TV winners were named; radio winners are shown.

1960 — T.A.M. Craven
1961 — Raymond F. Guy
1962 — Ralph N. Harmon
1963 — Dr. George R. Town
1964 — John H. DeWitt Jr.
1965 — Edward W. Allen Jr.
1966 — Carl J. Meyers
1967 — Robert M. Morris
1968 — Howard A. Chinn
1969 — Jarrett L. Hathaway
1970 — Philip Whitney
1971 — Benjamin Wolfe
1972 — John M. Sherman
1973 — A. James Ebel
1974 — Joseph B. Epperson
1975 — John D. Silva
1976 — Dr. Frank G. Kear
1977 — Daniel H. Smith
1978 — John A. Moseley
1979 — Robert W. Flanders
1980 — James D. Parker
1981 — Wallace E. Johnson
1982 — Julius Barnathan
1983 — Joseph Flaherty
1984 — Otis S. Freeman
1985 — Carl E. Smith
1986 — Dr. George Brown
1987 — Renville H. McMann
1988 — Jules Cohen
1989 — William Connolly
1990 — Hilmer Swanson
1991 — George Marti
1992 — Edward Edison & Robert L. Hammett
1993 — Robert M. Silliman
1994 — Charles T. Morgan
1995 — Robert Orban
1996 — Ogden Prestholdt
1997 — George Jacobs
1998 — John Battison
1999 — Geoffrey Mendenhall
2000 — Michael Dorrough
2001 — Arno Meyer
2002 — Paul Schafer
2003 — John W. Reiser
2004 — E. Glynn Walden
2005 — Milford Smith
2006 — Benjamin Dawson & Ronald Rackley
2007 — Louis A. King
2008 — Thomas B. Silliman
2009 — Jack Sellmeyer
2010 — Steve Church
2011 — L. Robert du Treil
2012 — Paul Brenner
2013 — Frank Foti
2014 — Jeff Littlejohn
2015 — Thomas F. King
2016 — Andy Laird
2017 — John Kean
2018 — Tom Jones
2019 — Garrison Cavell
2020 — Jeff Welton
2021 — David Hershberger
2022 — Ashruf El-Dinary


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Radio Hall of Fame Seeks Nominations

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 06:59 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/radio-hall-of-fame-seeks-nominations


The Museum of Broadcast Communications is accepting nominations for its
2022 class of inductees to the Radio Hall of Fame. The nominating committee will accept suggestions for nominees through Mar. 31, 2022.

“We desire the input and suggestions of both industry members and longtime radio listeners, both who have front row seats to radio programs hosted by
very deserving air personalities the 2022 Nominating Committee members
should give consideration to,” stated Kraig T. Kitchin, chair of the Radio Hall of Fame.

[Related: “Radio Hall of Fame Announces 2021 Inductees”]

Suggestions for Radio Hall of Fame nominees can be made in the following categories:

Longstanding Local/Regional (20 years or more)
Active Local/Regional (10 years or more)
Networks/Syndication (10 years or more)
Longstanding Network/Syndication (20 years or more)
Music Format On-Air Personality
Spoken Word On-Air Personality


To submit a name for consideration, visit https://www.radiohalloffame.com/nominate.

Inductees will be honored at the annual Radio Hall of Fame induction
ceremony, with plans to be held live in Chicago on Thursday, October 27,
2022.

The Radio Hall of Fame was founded by the Emerson Radio Corporation in
1988. The Museum of Broadcast Communications took over operations of the
Hall in 1991.

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Universal Audio Unveils First Microphones

Posted: 23 Feb 2022 05:35 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/products/universal-audio-unveils-first-microphones


Universal Audio has introduced its first microphones, the start of a string
of offerings that will roll out this year.

Many of the mics build on the technologies and expertise acquired by UA
when it purchased the Bock Audio brand in 2020 followed by the technology acquisition of Townsend Labs Inc. in 2021. “We’re excited to bring UA’s audio expertise to microphones, and to bring something new to the table,” said Bill Putnam, CEO/founder of Universal Audio. “With Bock, Sphere, and
the new Standard Series mics, there’s a UA mic within reach of every
serious creator.”

Handmade in Santa Cruz, the new flagship UA Bock mics, due to arrive in
autumn 2022, will be a trio of premium tube- and FET-based models designed
by David Bock. The large-diaphragm UA Bock mics will include the UA Bock
187 ($1,249) FET condenser mic and the UA Bock 167 ($2,999) and UA Bock 251 ($5,999) tube-condenser mics.


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