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Date
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Story title |
| (08.23.06) |
Satellite in Trouble as HD Grows
HD Radio Sales May Be Slow, But XM and Sirius Stocks Decline and Subscriptions Plateau |
| (06.05.06) |
NAB2006 Abuzz Over IP, HD Rollout
Vendors Tout Audio Over IP, IP-Based Remote Control for Transmitters, Emergence of HD Radios. |
| (04.05.06) |
Work Smart to Support the Radio Family
A recent RW editorial cited the recent population explosion of radio channels in our industry (March 29). No longer is a radio station only one on-channel AM or FM signal. With the advent of Web streaming and HD, radio facilities all over the country have created new channels and are now facing the challenge of supporting them with additional and alternate content to reach new audiences. |
| (03.01.06) |
Opinion: Engineers: Still Cooking on the Back Burner
In our Sept. 28, 2005 issue, we took broadcasters to task for not doing more to officially - and frequently - recognize the efforts and accomplishments of their engineers.
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| (02.22.06) |
HD Tabletop Received With Eagerness
It seemed like it would take forever, but consumers finally got their first taste of a real tabletop HD Radio just in time for Christmas. |
| (12.14.05) |
Can Radio Fight the ‘Internet Revolution’?
Almost every day we read and hear about the impending demise of radio. Terrestrial radio. The radio we’ve all enjoyed and depended on for the past 85 years. |
| (10.19.05) |
AM
IBOC Tries to Get Past the Noise
Will Interference Problems Derail AM's Digital Upgrade? |
| (08.25.05) |
The Great
AM Debate
Guy Defends His Proposals to Thin the Population of a ‘Herd Full
of Cripples’
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| (05.24.05) |
Let's Save
the AM Band
Guy Wire Says It's Time to Reorganize AM's Family Living Arrangements
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| (03.31.05) |
5.1
Surround Sound Music Needs a Jumpstart
It's Time to Move Toward a Standard for Radio |
| (02.09.05) |
Keeping
Score on Satellite Radio
The Dog Star suddenly looks like a balloon in search of a pin.
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| (12.27.04) |
An Open
Letter to Leonard Kahn
Guy Wire Says If CAM-D Is to Show Itself As a Viable Alternative,
Kahn Must Win Over Industry Forces That Can Make It Happen |
| (11.18.04) |
The 5 kHz
AM Reality
C'mon, Boys, Wake Up and Smell the Radio |
| (10.11.04) |
Let's Breaks
Down the Anti-HD Radio Arguments
It continues to amaze me how many knowledgeable broadcast engineers
and industry observers persist in calling HD Radio a flawed system
not worthy of replacing analog and are forecasting its failure and
demise. |
| (08.04.04) |
Avoid the
AM IBOC Train Wreck Ahead
We've recently heard and read about a growing number of stations losing
coverage to new AM IBOC operations ... Many of the stories suggest
that AM HD Radio stations may not be operating legally within the
NRSC mask and are spilling over into adjacent channels |
| (04.13.04) |
Unspinning
the LPFM Threat
Everyone saw this coming. The NAB, aka the National Association of
Existing Broadcasters, came out with guns blazing against LPFM upon
the first inkling that thousands of new FM stations could be shoehorned
into the existing FM band. |
| (02.24.04) |
Overhauling
EAS
Fortunately some key government folks charged with emergency alerting
and management appear to have agreed with my analysis and are calling
for a complete overhaul of the EAS system. |
| (01.8.04) |
Sobering
Realities for Engineers
The New Year is a good time to look back and ponder what we've accomplished
over the past year, no matter if it was good, bad or ugly. |
| (11.12.03) |
HD Radio
Is Here to Stay
It took about 13 years for digital radio in the United States
to evolve into something really worth doing ... Like it or not, HD-R
will likely become radio's ticket to tomorrow. |
| (08.28.03) |
Ibiquity
Charts a New Course
In recent months, a mixed bag of both promising and disturbing news
has flowed fast and furious out of Ibiquity. |
| (06.11.03) |
Fixing the
HD Radio Breakdown
We were just getting ready to leave the on-ramp and join all the other
electronic media racing down the digital super highway. Uh-oh. |
| (03.31.03) |
Shifting
the Paradigm: IBOC Is Not Your Father's Radio
It's amazing what some think HD-R will deliver over analog in the
way of advantages and better performance - equally amazing that others
believe the same digitally inspired innovations will instead be disadvantages
and degrade radio listening everywhere. |
| (02.03.03) |
HD Radio
Ship Sets Sail
Like a proud admiral smashing champagne over the bow of a sleek new
battleship, Ibiquity President and CEO Bob Struble launched HD Radio
on its maiden voyage into uncharted digital waters at January's CES
Show in Las Vegas. |
| (12.02.02) |
Reflections
and Predictions on Satellite Radio
As we celebrate the holiday season and the close of 2002, the urge
to look back over how the fledgling satellite radio technology has
fared and where the players in this game are headed begs indulgence.
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| (10.14.02) |
A Better
Way to Implement AM IBOC
Will the controversial invention now called HD Radio steadily grow
and gather more speed as it courses down the slope of radio technology
history? Or will it break apart encountering too many obstacles
and fall by the wayside with earlier contestants like FM Quad and
AM stereo?
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| (08.14.02) |
Soaking up the
waves. RF might hurt you.
Other than this obvious effect of tissue heating, we still don't know
what the long-term implications or risks to human health really are
regarding absorption of broadcast RF. |
| (06.19.02) |
Building
a Better Model for Ibiquity
It's like we're all watching a troubled sci-fi movie: "The
Day the IBOC World Stood Still." Digital audio broadcasting
for radio is being counted on heavily for the industry's survival
in this all-digital electronic era. But the only developments I
hear regarding Ibiquity's proposed rollout of IBOC nowadays are
from broadcasters, and they are not too positive.
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| (04.25.02) |
A Bumpy Ride
for Ibiquity at NAB2002
It wasn't quite what the Ibiquity Digital brass had been hoping for.
The long-awaited official rollout year for IBOC at the NAB spring
show hit at least two major snags... |
| (03.13.02) |
Deriving
the Real IBOC Equation
Masked Engineer Guy Wire Recovers from a Cold DAB
Shower
My colleague Skip Pizzi spends a lot of time gazing at the crystal
ball of new technologies. In his March 1 article in Radio World
titled "FMX + RBDS = IBOC," Skip is challenging and articulate.
For many in this industry, his analysis is disturbing. He may have
succeeded in dousing the IBOC rollout later this year with a cold
shower. But I think that this time, Skip's crystal ball might have
a few cracks.
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| (01.03.02) |
Death
Star Strikes Planet Earth Radio
RW’s Masked Engineer Takes XM Satellite Radio Out
for a Spin
We saw it coming. Some said it could never work. Others said no
one would buy it. Still others predict it will trigger the beginning
of the end for traditional radio as we know it.
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| (09.26.01) |
EAS:
Not Even a Glass Half Empty
The Emergency Alert System. That morphed version of Conelrad
and EBS held over from the Cold War we love to hate. It’s done
little to assist the public in times of real emergencies except
maybe for tornado and hurricane warnings in some areas.
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| (04.10.01) |
Radio: The Longest Running
Survivor Show
These are becoming rather dark days for radio. The deepening recession.
Shrinking staffs with consolidation. Eroding younger audiences. |
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(10.13.00)
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LPFM: Idolatry for
disbelievers
Guy Wire gets his share of e-mail from LPFM proponents who believe
our existing radio bands have gone to hell in a handbasket. They are
convinced that LPFM is the best hope that will somehow revive radio
listening into something worthwhile for their ilk. DAB will only make
matters worse they say. Full
Story |
