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Davicom Counts Lightning Strikes

Posted: 04 Apr 2022 10:02 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/show-news/nab-show/davicom-counts-lightning-strikes


Davicom will exhibit at the NAB Show, and will feature its DVLC-1 Lightning Counter, part of its Lightning-Awareness line. 

 It detects and counts the actual lightning strikes sustained by a transmission tower or grounded structure.
Davicom DVOR

It uses a magnetically-coupled current detector to sense and count lightning-induced pulse currents flowing to ground.

Davicom says the DVLC will safely signal a Cortex unit whenever the tower
is hit by lightning. This functionality gives site operators better
situational awareness of the reasons why their site may have stopped transmitting, or even better, that the site is still on-the-air despite receiving a hit.

The DVLC can also be used as a functional indicator of a site’s ground
system status. If lightning hits and the ground circuits handle the load properly, operators can be confident that their site is protected.

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The DVLC can be used independently from Davicom RTU products. It comes in
two parts.
Davicom DVLSS

The current sensor (shown, with cable) is designed to be mounted on one of
the tower legs or ground wires and it detects lighting-induced current
pulses. These pulses are converted to an optical signal for safe, electrically-isolated transmission through a fiber-optic cable to the
optical detector.

The optical receiver (blue-plated box) is mounted inside the shelter and produces a relay closure every time the detector sends a pulse down the
optical cable. These relay closures can be counted and compiled with a non-volatile counter, or with any Davicom Cortex unit.



Davicom NAB Booth: W6125

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Running Radio Today: Deliver

Posted: 04 Apr 2022 09:27 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/resource-center/webinars-resource-center/running-radio-today-deliver

The second in Radio World’s three-part webcast series “Running Radio Today”
will focus on trends in how radio content is delivered.
Distribution of content is changing. What should radio managers know about advances in codecs, STLs, transmitters, streaming and other technologies
that deliver your content to the listener? How are these technologies in
2022 being used advance organizational goals of radio businesses?
Are broadcasters building facilities or workflows that typify these new
ways of deploying content? What can we expect distribution models of the future to look like?
The creation of content, its distribution  and its monetization are key elements in the business model for radio explored by this series. The past
two years have accelerated changes in how enterprises design and manage workflows, but those concepts remain at the heart of what we do.
Join Radio World’s Paul McLane; leading public radio engineer Rob Bertrand
of WAMU in Washington; and technology experts from Comrex, Wheatstone, Synthax/Digigram and Xperi Corp.
Register here for Part Two.

[You can also watch Part One on demand.]

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Exhibitor Preview: Radio.Cloud at the NAB Show

Posted: 04 Apr 2022 09:26 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/show-news/nab-show/exhibitor-preview-radio-cloud-at-the-nab-show


The NAB Show is only a few weeks away, and Radio World is asking exhibitors about their plans and expectations. Jim Hammond is the chief strategy
officer for Radio.Cloud.
Radio World: Jim, who and what is Radio.Cloud?
Jim Hammond, chief strategy officer for Radio.Cloud
Jim Hammond: Radio.Cloud is not only the first completely 100% native cloud radio content management, production and automation platform for the radio industry, it’s in many ways a new operational model for radio. It increases the efficiency, the program quality and revolutionizes the way distribution
for networks, syndicators and radio group programming distribution works.
RW: Who founded it, and where is it based?
Hammond: Our CEO Christian Brenner, from Munich, Bavaria Germany founded
our parent company, NexCast in 2002 and at that time traditional radio
services were the core business — including building studios, operating transmitters and distributing network shows via satellite. In 2019,
Christian and his development team designed the new platform and by the end
of that year the first FM stations switched their operation to Radio.Cloud.
Our office in the U.S. is in New York, with team members in Ohio and Texas.
Our infrastructure is in Virginia (AWS and Microsoft Azure), with backup on
the West in similar facilities.

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Radio.Clouds broadcast clocks screen
RW: Your website says the companys mission is to move operations out of the server room and into the cloud. Which operations, exactly?
Hammond: All the heavy lifting is done in the cloud like the content management, the AI based audio archive, voice-tracking, playlist management
and voice content transcription. Only one small computer (we call it Edge Gateway) is at the studio or transmitter side to hand over AoIP/AES or
analog signals to the on-site infrastructure. The Edge Gateway communicates with the cloud, but is able to continue the broadcast stored content even
in case of an internet outage. Using a simple browser on any device, any
number of users can contribute or edit content for broadcast at any
station, anywhere. We also support virtually any audio file type, so ingest
is very straightforward.
Radio.Clouds playlist management screen
RW: Can you give examples of some current users of the platform?
Hammond: In North America, Throwback Nation Radio Network has several
stations being served by Radio.Cloud. We’re also in discussions with other program providers and groups to support their content creation and
distribution needs as well. Since we started in Germany just over three
years ago, we have 160 channels there, many national DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting – Europeans version of HD Radio) or regional and local FM stations.
Radio.Clouds voice tracking and recording screen
RW: What is your own role at the company?
Hammond: I am the Chief Strategy Officer, with the responsibility of
charting the course of the company in North America and building a great
team to support our efforts. Having worked in radio since 1969, the last 25
in the automation/playout industry, I think we have a good feel for the
needs of radio groups, networks and individual stations. I have never had
so much fun as I have with Radio.Cloud.
RW: What else should we know about it?
Hammond: We will be debuting the next generation of our product at the NAB
in booth N7307 with many new features that have been requested by users.
The development team is comprised of over 20 full-time software engineers designing, coding, testing and integrating.



Radio.Cloud Booth: N7307

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Creative Excellence Honored by New BEA Rankings

Posted: 04 Apr 2022 08:22 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/global/creative-excellence-honored-by-new-bea-rankings


The creative achievement of college students worldwide are being ranked
thanks to a new classification system by the Broadcast Education
Association (BEA). 

Founded on the results from the BEA Festival of Arts, an international
media competition focused on student and faculty creative endeavors, these rankings tally the efforts of more than 300 BEA member institutions around
the world.

Rather than simply evaluating an academic media program from a school, the
new BEA rankings consider the creative outcomes of students in multiple
media categories including audio, documentary, film and video, interactive media and emerging technologies, news scriptwriting and sports. While BEA
has been evaluating student works for more than 30 years, these new
rankings are based on student successes over the past five years.

As part of the ranking process, creative work is evaluated through a blind-juried process that involves multiple evaluations by academic and professional experts. Finalists are then considered for five levels of
awards: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Award of Excellence and
Best of Festival. 

According to the association, each school’s student achievements are calculated and ranked for each of the competition categories, including an Overall Ranking based on a combined achievement across multiple creative
media disciplines. 

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This year, 170 schools were represented with student winners. The top
programs in audio for the year 2022 include Goshen College, a private
liberal arts college in Indiana; Missouri State University, a public
university in Springfield, Mo.; and Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.

Top programs in the news category include Arizona State University,
University of Southern California and the University of Oklahoma. 

Many of those schools are found again in the association’s overall program winners including Arizona State University, University of Oklahoma and
Missouri State University. International schools made the list as well, including the America University of Cairo, which was ranked as top
documentary program and represents students from more than 50 countries.

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FCC Gives Green Light to Two NCEs in Same Community

Posted: 04 Apr 2022 08:01 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-gives-green-light-to-two-nces-in-same-community


Two new noncommercial education (NCE) FM stations are coming to central
Idaho.

The Federal Communications Commission granted two construction permits to
the Idaho State Board of Education (ISBE) as part of the 2021 NCE filing window. At that time, the Media Bureau identified the community of license
as Stanley, Idaho, a town with a population of only 116 people.

An objection was raised, however, by Triangle Access Broadcasting. In
December 2021 the broadcaster filed an objection to the applications,
asking the commission to dismiss the second Stanley application because, according to Triangle, granting both applications goes against FCC Rules as both of the applications will serve the same community.
The Idaho State Board of Education is looking to build two NCE FM stations
in Stanley, Idaho. (Photo courtesy of Sam Beebe)

Triangle quoted the commission’s multiple application rule, saying that
when a new or pending application for an additional facilities is being considered, “no other application for new or additional facilities for a station of the same class to serve the same community may be filed by the
same applicant … . Multiple applications may not be filed simultaneously.”

As a result, Triangle asked that the second application be dismissed.

But the bureau reminded Triangle that the multiple application rule it
cited is not applicable for new NCE stations. The bureau also rejected Triangle’s argument that enforcement of the multiple application rule would be beneficial to mutually exclusive applicants. In this situation, both applications are singletons and are not prejudicial to other applicants.

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Triangle also asserted that enforcing the multiple application rule in this case would promote competition and diversity. But the bureau said that the multiple application rule was not intended to promote competition and diversity. “Moreover, the commission has implemented other policies to achieve these important goals, such as the adoption of a 10 application cap
for the 2007 and 2021 NCE filing windows.”

As a result, the bureau dismissed the objection from Triangle and granted
the two construction permits to ISBE.

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