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Today’s Top Insight 9/22/20

WorldDAB Urges EU Members to Meet Digital Radio Deadline

Hannon: 2018 EU decision “has transformed the prospects for DAB+ radio in Europe.”

News & Technology 

Licensee Agrees to $8,000 Consent Agreement on Unauthorized License Transfer

Failed to request prior approval of the transaction as required by FCC rules.

Workbench: GDTs vs. MOVs: Choose Carefully

Also, have you ever run a transmitter through a carwash?

Pilot Offers Media Technology and Innovation Scholarships

NAB’s innovation initiative will provide up to $10,000 in scholarships.

2wcom IP-4c Has Many Faces

Rackmount codec has four channels and many options for application customization.

Commentary

Telecom and Workforce Development: Why It Matters to the Broadcast Industry

Legislation can help an understaffed critical industry.

Around the Industry

Jailed Alabama Politician Mike Hubbard Selling Radio Stations (Al.com) 

The former state representative and Speaker of the Alabama House is selling over half-a-dozen eastern Alabama stations to Lee Perryman.

UWEC Foundation Sells Converge Radio License, Tower (VolumeOne)

Station donated by Mid-West Family Broadcast in 2016 to University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Foundation is being sold to Family Radio Network.

Barbara Jean Adams McFarren

Twenty-year vet of WKDD morning show passes away.

A Voice in the Darkness (The Mercury News)

Another brave station holds out against the flames in California.

Calendar of Events

SEPTEMBER

The Next Big Thing: A Media Tour, various dates and locations in September–November 

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

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

OCTOBER

World College Radio Day, Oct. 2 

Radio Show Radio Week, Oct. 5–9

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

IEEE BTS Pulse, Oct. 6–8 

WBA Broadcasters Clinic, [CHANGED TO VIRTUAL EVENT] Oct. 13–15, Madison, Wis.

ABA Engineering Seminar, Oct. 20 

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.