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Studio Float IsoRafts vibration isolation products

Studio Float is offering IsoRafts, a new line of wood and silicone vibration isolation products.

Intended to be an inexpensive sound-absorbing solution, the line is centered around simple “blocks” constructed from wood and silicone, which reportedly provide accurate predictive acoustic performance. The line is geared towards studio designers and builders for private or commercial production/performance venue projects.

According to Studio Float, IsoRafts are intended to make a space more acoustically efficient, and are to prevent sound from leaking into adjacent areas, in turn isolating a facility from the outside world.

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During a facility’s construction phase, the IsoRafts get attached directly to the side of studs and joists using standard fastening techniques. The aim is to decouple floors, walls and ceilings from a main structure, effectively “floating” them and preventing sound transfer between spaces.

Three types are available: Deck IsoRafts (for floors) are available in three sizes ( 2-inch, 3-inch, 4-inch) and height options of low 1-1/4-inch height profile or high 2-1/4-inch profile for handling underfloor cabling. Meanwhile, Wall IsoRafts feature a 1/4-inch offset to provide an air gap, and Ceiling IsoRafts are available for use with hanging acoustical panels or with a threaded rod insert. The Wall IsoRaft may also be use in a ceiling application.

All IsoRaft products are designed and built in Hanover, Mass., and tested at Riverlab Acoustical Laboratories in Illinois. Prices per IsoRaft range from $7.65 to $11.70.

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To facilitate regulatory approvals for its approximately $2.825 billion purchase of Meredith Local Media, announced on May 3, Gray Television agreed to divest an ABC affiliate  “to an independent third-party no later than the closing of the Meredith acquisition.”

At the time, RBR+TVBR asked if it was Allen Media Group.

It is now known that this guess was the correct one.

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Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, the owner and operator of Adult Alternative WYEP-FM and NPR Member station WESA-FM, has appointed a Vice President of Broadcasting.

It’s an individual who has been associated with the stations for nearly two decades: Mike Sauter.

Terry O’Reilly, President/CEO of Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting, commented, “WYEP and WESA share a common goal: to be leaders in the service they provide in music and journalism, respectively. We’re thrilled to take this next important step for our organization, by placing Mike at the helm of our broadcast operations and programming.”

Sauter joined Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting in 2004 as WYEP’s Program Director. He was promoted to station manager in 2019. He began his career in 1984 in Ithaca, N.Y., and his career includes a run as an air personality at WHTG-FM in Monmouth-Ocean, N.J.

 

MESA, ARIZ. — As the first market in the U.S. to experience NEXTGEN TV when it launched in 2018, audiences in the Phoenix area have been among the first to experience the next generation of digital TV broadcasting.

Now, there is an expanded roster of stations using the ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast TV standard available for viewing.

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The national news program from Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced who will be seated in the anchor chairs come September 27 for its late newscasts.

One individual is returning to Sinclair to become a co-anchor. The other is a Sunshine State veteran who left broadcast TV in March 2018.

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It has quietly become one of the biggest media companies serving Spanish-speaking audiences across the Southeast. Now, Norsan Media is growing by bringing one of the region’s fastest-growing markets an Estrella TV affiliate.

To do so, it is buying a low-power digital TV facility in this locale, the nation’s biggest city by square miles.

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One reportedly impacted Cox Media Group‘s TV and radio properties’ streaming capabilities for weeks. Other companies including Audacy, Urban One and Max Media also had their share of headaches because of similar instances.

Ransomware attacks have been particularly vicious to broadcast media companies.

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee that oversees the FCC is putting a microscope on these attacks.

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From its corporate headquarters in Central Florida, a family-owned radio broadcasting company with roots in Providence, R.I., operates AMs and FMs across six markets, including Lancaster, Pa.

That market, until now, has involved the operation of two FMs and an AM that combine to serve the area as an ESPN Radio affiliate. The other property is an Adult Contemporary FM with a “Fun” disposition.

That latter FM is about to get a lot of Love, thanks to a deal brokered by Kalil & Co.

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The nation’s No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations has responded to a Petition for Declaratory Ruling submitted to the FCC on July 1 by Comcast that argues the company is in violation of the national broadcast cap for what it believes is its de facto control of WPIX-11 in New York.

Nexstar Media Group didn’t offer a retort in a Commission filing, however. Instead, it has filed a complaint in New York State Court that the companies believes goes straight to the heart of the real issue at hand: retransmission consent agreements.

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The Federal Communications Commission has released the latest broadcast station totals for the United States.

Notably, the number of licensed FM translators and boosters continues to grow; that category added more than 300 just in the past year.

Though the commission doesn’t separate translators and boosters in this report, the growth is understood to be mostly in translators. A Radio World analysis of FCC data shows that the number of translators and boosters has grown 40% over 10 years. That growth is due in part to the use of translators in rebroadcasting HD Radio multicast channels as well as the use of translators in AM “revitalization.”

The number of licensed stations in each broadcast category as of June 30 is shown below. The data in parentheses are one year earlier, for comparison.

AM stations — 4,533 (4,570)

FM commercial — 6,681 (6,706)

FM educational — 4,214 (4,197)

Total — 15,428 (15,473)

FM translators & boosters — 8,614 (8,303)

LPFM — 2,093 (2,146)

[See how these categories have changed compared to 20 years ago.]

 

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When it comes to nostalgia, there’s no bigger industry than Radio that likes to recall those golden days of yesteryear, when “Boss Radio” ruled the airwaves and big, booming voices including Dan Ingram, The Real Don Steele, Dr. Don Rose and Joey Reynolds dominated the Hooper surveys.

Thanks to the 2019 film Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, 93 KHJ enjoyed a renaissance in remembrance. For many today, the Top 40 station born in May 1965 that switched to Country in November 1980 is the epitome of how “great” radio was.

It’s funny how fuzzy memories can create illusions. At high noon on July 24, 1970, with Charlie Tuna at the mic, KHJ offered a perfect example of how awful radio had become. It’s a learning lesson today’s radio industry leaders should absorb, as long spot sets and commercial clutter remains a big topic no one wants to debate and resolve.

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A sample image from the Quu website.

Services that help a radio station manage its visual appearance in dashboards are becoming more and more important. An example is this announcement from Quu Inc. and Bonneville International.

Bonneville says it will use Quu software to publish synced programming and advertiser messages on vehicle dashboards in all of its markets. Those include Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, Sacramento and San Francisco

[Read: vCreative Can Now Publish to Quu]

“These messages, called Visual Quus, boost station and advertiser branding, recall and retention,” the software provider said in the announcement. “Paired with on-air content, Visual Quus offer a better user experience and generate immediate incremental revenue by adding text, logos and images to on-air advertisements.”

The announcement was made by Darrell Brown, president of Bonneville International and Steve Newberry, CEO of Quu.

Quu was founded by Joe Harb in 2007. Beasley Media Group is among the company’s investors.

 

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LG Ads, which offers cross-screen media and measurement products for convergent TV, has given the CEO reins to its co-founder — the man who has served as Chief Product Officer since 2013 and gave the entity its original name, Alphonso.

Meanwhile, a new President has been selected at LG Ads. He spent more than 15 years at Comscore.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed establishing Raleigh and Boston as innovation zones to allow for advanced wireless communications and network innovation and research.

These designations would, among other positive impacts, help spur the development and integration of 5G network technologies and open radio access networks, or Open RAN.

Innovation zones are FCC-designated, city-scale test beds managed by the National Science Foundation’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research. If approved by a vote of the full Commission at its August 5 Open Meeting, this proposal will allow Raleigh and Boston to join New York City and Salt Lake City at the forefront of wireless technology innovation.

“These Innovation Zones will support cutting-edge research and development that is crucial for advancing our wireless leadership,” Rosenworcel said. “Moreover, by bringing together operators, vendors, vertical interests, and other government agencies, we are helping to spur a market for more secure and open 5G technologies. I am grateful to city and research facility leaders, and our partners at the National Science Foundation, for working with us to deliver these opportunities.”

The Innovation Zones initiative was first proposed by NSF’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research and, in September 2019, the FCC designated New York City and Salt Lake City as the first designated zones. These wireless technology test beds extend the geographic areas in which already licensed experimental program licensees can conduct tests. Parties have flexibility to conduct multiple non-related experiments in the zone, and the designation allows experimental program license holders, which are licensed to operate elsewhere, to also use the Innovation Zones.

In keeping with the FCC’s effort to explore the potential of Open RAN technology, each test bed is equipped for Open RAN research and testing. The FCC is in the process of taking public comment on the current status of Open RAN development and deployment, whether and how the FCC might foster its success, and how to support competitiveness and new entrant access to this emerging market. The Acting Chairwoman made the announcement of her proposed designations at today’s FCC-hosted Open RAN Solutions Showcase.

The Boston Innovation Zone, at Northeastern University, will support the transition of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Colosseum network emulator to a shared platform, usable by the research community. Colosseum, the world’s largest wireless network emulator, was originally designed to support DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge. With the conclusion of that challenge, the larger research community will now be able to take advantage of Colosseum’s unique capabilities, including the ability to emulate full-stack communications, to support artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms and hardware in the loop. This project is expected to bring academia, government, and industry researchers together to accelerate advancements in wireless networked systems and Open RAN.

The Raleigh Innovation Zone, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, will house Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), which will focus on new use cases involving wireless communications and unmanned aerial systems. AERPAW will focus on how cellular networks and advanced wireless technologies can enable beyond visual line-of-sight unmanned aerial systems to accelerate development, verification, and testing of transformative advances and breakthroughs in telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and public safety. The AERPAW testbed will be the first platform to allow testing at scale of open 5G-and-beyond solutions in unmanned aerial system verticals.

The proposed Public Notice to be shared by Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel today with her fellow Commissioners would also, if adopted, modify the New York City Innovation Zone (known as COSMOS) to cover the three Columbia University and City College of New York campus areas. COSMOS is a city-scale outdoor testbed with a technical focus on ultra-high-bandwidth and low-latency wireless communications, with tightly coupled edge computing, a type of cloud computing enabling data processing at the edge of the network. COSMOS also was a host facility for the 2019 and 2020 O-RAN Alliance worldwide plugfests.

— RBR+TVBR Washington Bureau

It is an FM translator serving the Tennessee city of Chattanooga at 104.3 MHz.

Soon, it will be licensed to Immanuel Broadcasting Network.

Will “The Message” be altered for this operation?

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NATE has a new face in Washington.

The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association — also known as NATE, from its former name the National Association of Tower Erectors — announced Todd Washam as director of government relations and wireless industry network, a staff position.

The organization’s veteran lobbyist Jim Goldwater is nearing retirement; he has signed a short-term extension through February and will assist in the transition.

[Read: Kathy Stieler Joins NATE]

“Todd Washam comes to NATE with an extensive background that includes serving as a congressional staffer for approximately 10 years, working in the executive branch at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and working for the Air Conditioning Contractors of America Association,” the organization said in the announcement.

“Washam, an Ohio native, possesses a deep network of contacts on Capitol Hill, has a keen understanding of issues important to small business contractors and has considerable experience advocating for workforce development issues and the important role that the skilled trades play in our communities and economy.”

In the announcement, Washam was quoted saying, “Our country is investing in communications infrastructure projects at historic levels, and we need to ensure we have the skilled workforce available to see these projects come to completion.”

 

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On April 16, 2021, the Media Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in response to a petition for rulemaking filed by Sinclair Boise Licensee, LLC (Petitioner), the licensee of KBOI-TV, channel 9 (NBC), Boise, Idaho, requesting the substitution of channel 20 for channel 9 at Boise in the DTV Table of Allotments. For the reasons set forth in the Report and Order referenced below, the Bureau amends FCC regulations to substitute channel 20 for channel 9 at Boise.