“Best of Show Program Guide” Now Available

Hot off the digital presses, this Future Best of Show Special Program Guide is a great way to learn about new products introduced for TV, film, video, streaming, radio and pro AV business sectors.

See it here.

Today’s Top Insight 6/3/20

Fall Radio Show in Nashville Is Cancelled; Online Event Set Instead

Show will head to New Orleans in 2021 and back to Nashville in 2022.

News & Technology 

C-Band Spectrum to Be Cleared on Accelerated Timeline

FCC cites decisions by five big satellite operators.

Westwood One Slams NYC-Based Ad Buying Assumptions

Says there is no evidence to support “the myth that no one is driving and no one is listening to AM/FM radio.”

Community Broadcaster: Under the Influence

On foreign actors in the noncommercial media world.

Coronavirus

How Should I Disinfect My Microphone?

Here are several useful resources.

Around the Industry

FCC Chides AM Station WADV for Notification Delay (LebTown) 

The now-silent southeastern Pennsylvania station may be having transmitter problems but no one’s sure.

Public Radio Station KWBU Balances Baylor Cut With Federal Loan (Waco Tribune-Herald)

A timely Paycheck Protection Program loan offset a cut in Baylor University’s financial support of public radio station KWBU(FM).

Stations Celebrate Return of Live Classical Music to UK Airwaves (Rhinegold Publishing)

Pan-European effort provides programming to BBC Radio 3 and others at lunch.

Bennington College Hires Former Public Radio Executive as President (VT Digger)

Former New York Public Radio president and CEO Laura R. Walker will be the next president of Bennington College.

Calendar of Events

JUNE

AES Virtual Vienna 2020, June 2–5 

Missouri Broadcasters Association Convention and Awards Banquet, [CANCELLED] June 5–6, The Lodge of Four Seasons at Lake of the Ozarks, Lake Ozark, Mo.

RadioAsia, [POSTPONED to Nov. 9–11] June 8–10, Bali, Indonesia

International Association of Audio Information Services Annual Meeting and Conference, [CANCELLED] June 10–13, Renaissance Savery Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa

Podcast Day by Radiodays Europe, [POSTPONED to Oct. 26] June 16, The Mermaid London, London

2020 Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers Annual Meeting, [CANCELLED] June 25–27, One King West Hotel, Toronto

Zanaco Lusaka Radio Summit, [POSTPONED] June 26, Taj Pamodzi Hotel Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

JULY

Texas Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention and Trade Show, [CANCELLED] July 29–30, JW Marriott Downtown Austin, Austin, Texas

For more events see Radio World’s Calendar.