Learn About Axia Quasar From Telos Alliance

In Radio World’s “Fall Product Peeks” webcast, Marty Sacks will discuss Quasar, its new flagship AoIP console that the company had planned to feature at the spring NAB Show.

Hear from him and other leading manufacturers in this fast-moving webcast.

Today’s Top Insight 8/5/20

How to Do a Pledge Drive From Home

The Public’s Radio held its first pledge drive since the Coronavirus lockdown. Aaron Read offers a look behind the tech/operational curtain to see how it was done.

News & Technology 

NAB Foundation Launches Diversity Resource

Web page connects organizations with associations and consultants that can help with their DEI. 

User Report: Axia Helps KIOS Make Workflow Changes

SoftSurface teams up with TeamViewer and ENCO WebDAD.

Crawford Chicago Selects Nautel

GV20 FM transmitter installed for use by WSRB and WPWX.

Engineering Extra

Engineers Should Never Stop Learning

Cris Alexander says that pandemic or no, it’s more important than ever to keep our skills fresh.

Around the Industry

NAB, NCTA Seek Help for Excluded C-Band Earth Stations (Multichannel News) 

Said FCC should give them chance to correct good faith errors.

Longtime Radio Station Man Looks Back on Career (Fremont Tribune)

“It was losing a quarter of a million a year,” Del Meyer says of KHUB, a Nebraska station he made profitable.

Sonny Fox, “Sonny in the Morning” for Decades in South Florida Radio, Dies at 73 (Miami Herald)

Fox was a seemingly constant presence on South Florida airwaves for a generation or two of listeners.

KYW, Bring Back the Clack (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The digital era claims another analog sound.

Calendar of Events

SEPTEMBER

IBC2020, [CANCELLED] Sept. 11–15, RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Radio Show, [CANCELLED] Sept. 13–16, Omni Nashville, Nashville

ABA Engineering Academy Radio Engineering 101, Sept. 21–25

Society of Broadcasting Engineers Virtual National Meeting, Sept. 22–23

OCTOBER

Radio Show Radio Week, Oct. 5–9

Radio Mercury Awards, Oct. 6, Sony Hall, New York

WBA Broadcasters Clinic, Oct. 13–15, Madison, Wis.

Podcast Day by Radiodays Europe, Oct. 26, The Mermaid London, London

CABSAT, Oct. 26-28, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai

National Student Electronic Media Convention, Oct. 28–30

For more events see Radio World’s Calendar.