Best of Show Awards Program Guide Now Available

The guide contains all of the nominated and winning entries for this year’s virtual awards program, including entries from audio and radio companies like Yamaha, Broadcast Partners, Teleportivity, Telos Alliance, RCS and Wheatstone.

Today’s Top Insight 9/23/20

“I Saw That I Could Build Something ... Anything”

Zipporah Mondy speaks about her TAP apprenticeship and her experience of being young, Black and female in the field of radio technology.

News & Technology 

We Clarify Our Account of WIOE’s AM Digital Timeline

Radio World told you about the efforts of WIOE to test all-digital operation, but we got some details of the timeline wrong. The station operated in full-time digital for only a few days, then switched to a modified schedule — notably, after receiving listener complaints about the loss of signal. Here’s the updated story. 

Community Broadcaster: Four Election Day Issues to Avoid

What public radio broadcasters need to be aware of in campaign coverage. 

ARD Approves Ecreso Transmitter

FM 3 kW can be purchased by member stations of the German broadcasting network.

iZotope Releases RX 8 Audio Repair Software

Introduces a variety of new features for recording, podcasting, post and broadcast pros.

Radio@100

Beasley Celebrates Songwriters

Partners with BMI and Xperi on series “100 Years of Hit Makers.”

Around the Industry

NAB: October Move Is “Strictly a 2021 Decision” (TVBEurope) 

TVBEurope contacted NAB for comment following our survey that revealed a permanent NAB date change was not in the best interests of the media tech industry.

COVID Isolation Got You Down? Turn on Your Radio (Really) (Charlotte Observer)

John Huey discovers WNCW(FM), based at Isothermal Community College. “I thought it was a put-on, an Appalachian Lake Woebegone someone had concocted.” 

Doris Ashwell, Pioneered Place for Women in Orlando Radio and TV, Dies at 93 (Orlando Sentinel)

Natural marketer and promoter found easy work in central Florida media outlets in the 1960s onward.

A YouTube Radio Archivist Blasts the Past Into the Present (Wired)

Step into the radio time travel machine.

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

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.