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radio stations in Fayetteville and Fort Smith, with the vice
president/market manager of those markets reporting to him.”

He is former market president for iHeartMedia-Springfield, Mo., and was
vice president/market manager for Cumulus Topeka, Kan.

The announcement was made by Bob Walker, president, Cumulus Operations at Cumulus Media; he called Liesmann said a strategic and focused leader who
has done a wonderful job in Little Rock, especially given the challenges
all of us have had to overcome in the last two years.”

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Burk Launches Secure Web-Based Remote Control Subscription

Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:17 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/products/burk-launches-secure-web-based-remote-control-subscription


Burk Technology has launched its “Arcadia24 Hosted Subscription Service,” making secure web-based remote control accessible to small groups and individual stations.

Based on Burk’s Arcadia system, Arcadia24 delivers remote facility control
to station engineers and managers via their mobile devices. Hosted by Burk Technology on AWS, each customer’s Arcadia24 service is installed, configured, managed and maintained by Burk remote control experts.

Web links from mobile devices to the Arcadia24 server are locked down and encrypted using the latest generation of Transport Layer Security (TLS), ensuring that only authorized users can access and control each remote facility, the company said. Encrypted VPN tunnels and firewall protection
guard communications between Arcadia24 and each remote site.

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As a cloud-based service, Arcadia24 communicates with each remote site at
its optimum rate, accommodating variations in communications speed and performance. The most current data from all sites is then made available
for instant display on authorized mobile devices.

Arcadia24 users are authenticated via Microsoft AD LDS, with each user’s access restricted to specified channels, sites, and station groups. Control
of critical site functions can be strictly limited to key personnel while overall site performance may be made visible to a wider group of authorized users.

Burk provides customized graphical control screens for each site connected
to Arcadia24, giving station personnel instant access to critical site information. Sites can be grouped based on regional hierarchy, engineering responsibility or other criteria, with easy drill-down to display
performance summaries. The Arcadia24 user interface seamlessly supports smartphones, tablets and PCs, the company said.

“Burk’s original Arcadia remote access system brings flexible, secure mobile site control to large radio and television groups operating tens to hundreds of stations,” stated Burk Director of Sales Matt Leland. “The new Arcadia24 is hosted and managed by Burk, making it easy for smaller organizations and even individual stations to realize this same level of
secure mobile remote access.”

Arcadia24 manages remote sites equipped with Burk Technology v5 ARC Plus or
ARC Solo remote control systems.

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Inside the March 2, 2022 Issue of Radio World

Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:19 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/resource-center/digital-editions/inside-the-march-2-2022-issue-of-radio-world


Dan Slentz gets funky with Adafruit. Fred Jacobs reflects on the recent Consumer Electronics Show.

Paul McLane plays with smartphone apps. Lance Coon builds an EAS antenna.

And Frank Foti explains his new audio initiative called DejaVu.

Read it here.

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Audacy Launches Addressable Audience Platform

Posted: 02 Mar 2022 05:51 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/programming-and-sales/audacy-launches-addressable-audience-platform


Expect to hear a lot more from Audacy about selling to “addressable” audiences.

The company has launched the Audacy Digital Audience Network, describing it
as “an addressable aggregate of over 60 million listeners that other audio platforms and streaming platforms do not reach.”

Audacy local and national salespeople can use it when working with agencies
and clients.

Chief Revenue Officer Brian Benedik said in the announcement, “The marketplace has moved to audience-based investment and our new ADAN
offering is highly scaled with unduplicated digital listeners. We can
target these audiences with precision and optimize campaign performance for better marketer outcomes.”

Audacy believes it reaches 200 million people every month and that 30% of
them can be found on ADAN through streaming, on the Audacy app and on its podcasts. It says these audiences are more affluent, more likely to be
college educated and more diverse than others.

“Through this high-performing audience solution, ADAN can target precise audiences at scale and deliver high-performing digital audio media
strategies for Audacy’s advertising partners.”

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Exhibitor Preview: Inovonics at NAB Show

Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:00 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/products/exhibitor-preview-inovonics-at-nab-show


Planning for the 2022 NAB Show is ramping up, and Radio World is asking exhibitors about their plans and expectations.

Gary Luhrman is sales & marketing manager at Inovonics Inc., which will be found in the new West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Radio World: What do you anticipate will be the most significant technology trend for radio professionals at the show?

Gary Luhrman: There is a great deal of movement in AoIP applications for broadcast radio. I have spoken with many audio engineers who seem to be
very happy with the audio quality and impressed with the ease of setting up AoIP connections, provided of course the cabling and switches are solid.

Inovonics has been incorporating Dante-based AoIP ports in all our latest models. This enables a simple connection with other Dante-equipped devices
and gives AES67 AoIP interoperability among a wide range of pro-AV
products. Dante is generally also compatible with proprietary systems from independent manufacturers of AoIP-enabled products.

In our world of radio broadcast, for example, this could mean incorporating
our SOFIA 568 HD Radio SiteStreamer+ in a broadcaster’s Axia Livewire Network. We have a white paper explaining the setup procedure on our
website.

RW: What will be your most important news or exhibit theme?

Luhrman: We’re very excited to introduce our new 551 and 552 HD Radio Modulation Monitors to this year´s NAB. We’ve been working on these in the background for a good two years now and we are extremely proud of the
finished products. We believe these mod monitors are truly compelling
products for our industry.

Actually, we were going to present the 551 and 552 for the first time last
year when the show was cancelled. The big advantage of presenting them now
is that both are already in production and shipping. It has also given us
more time to work with a valuable group of beta testers, who have provided excellent feedback to enhance the reliability of the firmware and
functionality of the products.

So, interested customers can be confident that what they see on the show
room floor at NAB is what they will get when they place their orders. And
like most Inovonics products, we typically have product in stock for fast processing of customers’ orders.

RW: How is it different from what’s available on the market?

Luhrman: The 551 HD Radio Modulation Monitor is unique to the market with a high-resolution 7-inch TFT Touch Screen that displays all the essential FM
and HD Radio modulation data for accurate readings in a graphic format. The touch screen also displays HD Radio album artwork, station logos and
similar visuals.
The Inovonics 551 HD Radio Modulation Monitor

In addition, all the essential information is remotely accessible from any web-enabled device through an interactive web interface. The 551 and 552 include a built-in BandScanner, a real-time clock and full SNMP
functionality.

Full-time off-air program audio is available simultaneously as L/R-analog, AES3-digital and Dante-based AES67 AoIP streaming, all with adjustable
levels, plus a multi-listener Internet IP stream and front-panel headphone jack.

RW: How has the lack of physical trade shows affected your clients or your
own business?

Luhrman: The lack of physical trade shows and inability to safely meet in person with customers has required major adjustments for everyone. While we’re fortunate to have communications tools like Zoom, it is just not the same as shaking a hand and having a face-to-face conversation with a radio professional.

But we were all in the same boat and collectively have made business happen under the circumstances. I think Inovonics has managed pretty well by
sticking to its core values and by anticipating some of the supply issues
that have plagued many manufacturers. That is to say, we’ve managed to keep product on the shelf and broadcasters have responded to our fast
deliveries, quality of our products, and excellent tech support.

Inovonics Booth: W4622

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Dj Vu: The Streaming "Wow" Factor

Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:00 AM PST https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/deja-vu-the-streaming-wow-factor


The author is co-founder of Telos Alliance and Syndicate of Sounds.

A number of years ago, 2003 or so, Steve Church and I had an idea to
enhance HD Radio for FM. To our ears, the HD system for FM lacked a “wow” factor, as the conventional HD signal sounded very similar to the FM-Stereo counterpart.

Just as HDTV offered an incredible advance in visual resolution, we felt
the listener needed to experience something similar, with HD broadcast
audio. Basically, provide a significant reason why HD Radio was the next
step beyond FM-Stereo.

At that time, the record label/audio industry was in the midst of promoting
a couple of newer audiophile formats: SACD (Super Audio CD) and DVD-A (DVD Audio). Both of them allowed higher sampling rates, as well as offering discrete, linear 5.1 surround sound.


Record labels began reissuing older catalog material in newly produced 5.1 surround sound. Most were of the rock and classical genre, along with some
box sets of complete album catalogs of well-known artists.

We found this exciting for a few reasons, as we were able to hear
incredible recordings, by favorite artists, in a whole new light. Also, we
got an idea of how to enable this on FM radio.

The new HD Radio platform was still fairly new, and looking for a means to attract consumers of the new tech. As mentioned we felt there was not a significant sonic reason why a consumer would be drawn to this — until we heard music in surround.

We’ve been very fortunate to have maintained a strong business and
collegial relationship with the crew at the Frauhofer Institute (FhG), in Germany. On account of this, we learned they had recently developed a new method to transport 5.1 surround within a coded audio environment. This is known as MPEG-Surround.

A simple description explains the usage of the left/right stereo channels
for audio transport coding, and at the same time data reducing the surround cues, which are transported alongside the main stereo audio. Then, during
the decoding process, the surround cues will properly assign and derive
each of the surround channels accordingly. This method provides discrete
5.1 surround and operates within a coded environment platform. The surround cues require very little data, normally around 5 kbps.

Given the data rate of the HD Radio system, MPEG-Surround was the perfect
fit for FM broadcast. Automotive listening is the perfect experience for
this, and it would surely add the needed “wow” factor to HD Radio, or so we thought.

Telos, along with FhG, built an operating prototype of this system,
complete with demonstrations inside a BMW automobile at a couple of NAB
Shows in Las Vegas. Anyone who heard the demo was blown away.

So, what happened?

Two mitigating circumstances negatively impacted this innovative idea: the record labels were too quick to pull the plug on producing more surround content, and broadcasters were reluctant to invest in the infrastructure changed needed to add this transmission method to their facilities — even though the Telos Alliance made this all easy and affordable via their AoIP tech, which allows 5.1 surround to easily coexist with stereo signals.

The lack of content was quite possibly the biggest challenge. It would have been very confusing to consumers as to whether their reception was stereo
of surround.

Given all that has been expressed here, there has always been a concept
that intrigued me. Would it be possible to render discrete 5.1 surround
from existing stereo material?

Relevance to radio

This idea is not new, and there have been various upmixing applications available, which will output a “surround” signal.

Most, if not all, of these render surround using some form of simulation,
or trickery to generate the added sound field. Most of them employ time
delay, phase manipulation, reverb or switching to derive surround.

My goal was to develop an upmixer algorithm that operates in real time,
without any of the aforementioned gimmicks — find a linear method that preserves original production integrity and creates discrete surround.

After much research into managing sound fields, I was able to develop a
method that creates discrete surround, as it expands the original stereo
stage into discrete Left, Right, Center, Left-Surround, Right-Surround, and
LFE (Low Frequency Enhancement) or sub-woofer for short.

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This method is now known as Déjà Vu and is marketed through Syndicate of Sounds. The accompanying image is a basic illustration.

The system has been vetted out by some of the biggest names in the
recording industry: Gary Katz, Hugh Padgham, Frank Filipetti, Giles Martin
and Jean-Michel Jarre to name a few. Each of them has provided the
proverbial “thumbs up” to the tech.

So, how does this apply for streaming? Well, after all that background information provided here, it’s really very simple. All of the work done
for the HD Radio application ports over 100% to streaming! After all, HD
Radio is basically another streaming platform, except we’re not dealing
with transmitters and receivers.

Instead of the need to rely on discrete produced 5.1 material, all we need
is a great-sounding discrete upmixer for 5.1, and a transport mechanism,
like MPEG-Surround, and we are good to go! For the consumer, just about any player app will automatically provide 5.1 surround if an MPEG-Surround
signal is present. The players default to this now.

For the streaming installation, all that is needed is a transport codec
that both employs the Déjà Vu upmixer and contains MPEG-Surround as a streaming selection. Basically, a stereo audio connection in, and the
output is both stereo and surround, all neatly packaged in a standard
streaming format.

For broadcasters who stream, this is an excellent way to add a truly
amazing wow factor to your online signal, and it does not require any
change to your existing infrastructure. Now all content can be presented in true discrete 5.1 surround.

As of early February, the Telos Alliance is finalizing a software update
that will enable their streaming product to offer both the Déjà Vu upmixing function, coupled with MPEG-Surround for the transport stream.

Find out more about this topic at syndicateofsounds.com.

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