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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation has unveiled the finalists for the 2021 Celebration of Service to America Awards.

The honors recognize outstanding community service by local broadcasters. One winner from each category will be announced during the Celebration of Service to America Awards program, which will again be broadcast on television and radio stations across the country as a special one-hour awards ceremony featuring celebrity guests, past honorees and policymakers.

The awards will premiere on July 10 and run through August 14, 2021.

“America’s local broadcasters’ fundamental commitment to public service continues to shine brighter than ever, and this year’s finalists embody the close bond between stations and their communities,” said NAB Leadership Foundation President Michelle Duke. “We look forward to celebrating these outstanding stations and honoring their critical work informing, supporting and strengthening the public in a year of unparalleled difficulties.”

The 2021 Celebration of Service to America Awards finalists represent 20 states and 28 cities. During 2020, these 28 stations devoted a collective 3,528 hours of airtime to public service and provided more $43,440,000 in funds and donations.

Following is the list of finalists by category:

Service to Community Award for Radio – Ownership Group

• Summit Media The Power of Radio: Giving a Voice to Silent Victims  
• iHeartMedia (in partnership with Fox) Living Room Concert  
• Zimmer Radio Miracle for Kids Radiothon
• Alpha Media LLC United for Justice  

  Service to Community Award for Television – Ownership Group

• ABC Owned Television Stations Localish 
• Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Remarkable Women
• The E.W. Scripps Company The Rebound
• Hearst Television Inc. Takes on Systemic Racism 

  Service to Community Award for Radio – Large Market

• WBAL Kids Campaign 
• KYGO Wants to Talk 
• KTMY Rebuilds the Neighborhoods
• WALR Takes on 2020 Election 

  Service to Community Award for Television – Large Market

• KMGH-TV Takes on Public Safety 
• WKMG-TV Works to Make Ends Meet
• WISN-TV Feeds the Hungry
• WCVB-TV Responds to Two Pandemics 

  Service to Community Award for Radio – Medium Market

• WSGW-AM Provides Flood Relief
• WMHJ Community Clean Up
• WYCT-FM Offers Hurricane Sally Relief Efforts 

  Service to Community Award for Television – Medium Market

• WKBW-TV Runs Buffalo Strong-Give 7
• WMC-TV puts School on TV
• WMTV-TV Makes Commitment to Feed the Hungry  

  Service to Community Award for Radio – Small Market

• KRIB-AM Lights up the Night
• KLQL Shares the LUV
• KNDE-FM 136 Charities, $794,573, One Day  

  Service to Community Award for Television – Small Market

• WTOK-TV One You. One Me. One Community.
• KSNT-TV We Together 
• KTVB-TV Idaho Shares

In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget has approved a revision to the information collection requirements under OMB Control Number 3060-1034 associated with new or amended rules adopted in the Federal Communications Commission's All-Digital AM Broadcasting Report and Order, FCC 20-154, governing the contents of all-digital notifications submitted using the Digital Notification Form, FCC Form 335-AM, and that compliance with these rules is now required. This document is consistent with the All- Digital AM Broadcasting Report and Order, which states that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for these new or amended rule sections and revise the rules accordingly.

The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed by Gray Television Licensee, LLC (Petitioner), requesting the allotment of channel 26 at Eagle River, Wisconsin, as the community's second local service in the DTV Table of Allotments.

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KLZ Radio, Inc. enters into consent decree to resolve political file investigation

Krystal Broadcasting, Incorporated enters into Consent Decree to resolve political file investigation

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“SiriusXM turned in a great performance across the board,” company CEO Jennifer Witz said as she opened the satellite radio company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “Like many companies, we are benefiting from Americans getting back on the road, growing auto sales and consumer incomes bolstered by significant federal stimulus. These impressive results are also a strong testament to demand for great content, our resilient business model and once again, our teams flawlessly executing the strategies we laid out.”

How did SiriusXM perform in Q1?

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PreSonus has released Studio One 5 Professional V5.2, marking the second feature update to its long-running DAW. The new edition adds more than 30 new features and improvements.

Studio One 5.2’s new Sound Variations is intended for use corralling complex virtual instruments and orchestral libraries. Central to it is a mapping editor that provides tools for managing complex articulation maps. According to PreSonus, each Sound Variation can be customized with its own name and color, and can be dragged-and-dropped in any order and placed into custom folders. Sound Variations can be triggered by key switches, as well as from remote commands, including hardware controllers, keyboard shortcuts, custom macros and more.

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All Synchron-enabled Vienna Symphonic Instruments, as well as instruments from UJAM fully support dynamic Sound Variations mapping with Studio One, and a new API allows third-party developers to enable their VST2 and VST3 instruments’ articulations to be queried by Studio One so that Sound Variation maps are automatically generated.

The Score View has been updated with the addition of drum notation and tablature. Users can choose between viewing standard notation with tablature or select tablature only to print lead sheets and more. A new drum map interface lets users add both the drum and note names to a corresponding notated pitch. A General MIDI map is included for quick setup. New symbols in the Score View allow open/closed/half-open techniques to be added as well. A new Voices icon allows up to four voices per staff to be created.

For performers, the relatively new Show Page has gained a new feature — the Arranger Track — letting users experiment on the fly with new arrangements. Each Arranger section in every Setlist item has five playback mode options: Continue, Stop at End, Skip, Loop, or Loop and Continue; the latter can repeat any section for a specific number of times before playback continues to the next Arranger Section, aiding impromptu extended solos and breakdowns on stage. The new Arranger Track also supports patch changes mid-song.

Version 5.2 adds a number of other features, including the ability to create multiple clip versions, allowing the user to apply clip-based edits in Gain Envelopes or Melodyne independently to Events sharing the same audio; a new “Smart” tool for editing Note Events in the Piano Roll editor; and deeper integration with both ATOM SQ and FaderPort-series controllers. PreSonus Sphere workspaces are also now available directly from the Studio One Browser for bidirectional file transfer. And Studio One is now officially supported for Apple Silicon ARM processors in Rosetta 2 compatibility mode.

Studio One 5.2 is a free update to all registered Studio One 5 customers and is available free to PreSonus Sphere members.

Info: www.presonus.com

 

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In the not-too-distant past, Channel 36 in Salem, Ore., and Channel 26 in Portland, Ore., were simulcast partners offering Christian-themed television programming to Oregon’s most populous areas.

Now, the facility serving the Pacific Northwest’s second-largest DMA is being spun.

Who it is going to begs the question of how Channel 26 will now be used.

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During the past year, the job of seeking and reporting the truth became increasingly dangerous. Journalists were threatened, assaulted and arrested at an alarming rate while on the job.

For the broadcast journalist in the field, serving both radio listeners and TV viewers, unprecedented levels of verbal and physical violence came courtesy of civilians, police and even, the RTDNA says, “leaders we are meant to hold accountable.”

With that portrait as a backdrop, the RTDNA on Wednesday released “2021 Newsrooms by the Numbers: Data From a Dangerous Year in Journalism.”

The report offers a sobering look at the threats to field reporters that have grown since 2019.

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Since joining the radio industry in September 1992, she’s been associated with some of Southern California’s most successful Hispanic-targeted radio stations. And, she came from a circus operation — literally.

Now, this accomplished broadcast sales executive has joined iHeartMedia to serve as a Senior Account Executive at its Los Angeles radio station group.

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A Nautel GV30 FM transmitter and HD MultiCast+ importer/exporter for Northwestern Media’s KNWI in Des Moines, Iowa.

Here’s an item from Radio World’s “Who’s Buying What” page: Northwestern Media purchased a Nautel GV30DN transmitter and HD MultiCast+ importer/exporter for KNWI(FM) on 107.1 in Des Moines, Iowa.

“By adding HD capability Northwestern will be able to feed a translator in downtown Des Moines and provide HD programming of its Faith Radio talk and teaching format to the Des Moines market,” the manufacturer said.

Rod Thannum is director of engineering for Northwestern Media.

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The station currently operates at 30 kW at 630 feet above ground level but is about to get an upgrade.

“KNWI was limited in height and power due to KDSN in Denison, Iowa, which was also at 107.1,” Nautel said in a project summary.

“Northwestern Media purchased KDSN and changed its frequency to 104.9 in January of 2020 and then resold KDSN. This allowed Northwestern Media to begin to build a 995-foot tower which allowed for an increase to 100 kW to better serve the Des Moines market with its music-oriented format.”

Thannum said the tower stacking will be done by the end of July and the new operation should be on the air in early August. The project also includes a 10-bay ERI SHPX-10AC antenna and a Slatercom/Dialight LED high-/medium-intensity lighting system.

Suppliers and users are invited to submit their project news to radioworld@futurenet.com.

 

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NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has selected a Senior Vice President of Research Strategy and Insights — an individual who joins the company to lead research, insights and analytics to inform programming, marketing and digital strategies across the portfolio.

He joins from iHeartMedia and reports to Mónica Gil, Chief Administrative and Marketing Officer at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. 

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With report after report of late illustrating the seemingly ceaseless wave of cord-cutting that’s upending the pay TV industry, it was only a matter of time before a research report emerged that put a date on when U.S. consumers will cough up more cash for streaming video than for MVPD-delivered channels.

That, according to Strategy Analytics, is coming in three years.

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The coronavirus pandemic may have stalled its progress, but live music is making a comeback in time for Europe Day.

The membership organization Liveurope and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have joined forces to boost support for the European live music scene. Fifteen young European artists will record music at 15 venues across Europe in an initiative that will culminate in a series of live performances on May 9, otherwise known as Europe Day. The collection of musical performances will be made available to public radio stations worldwide starting May 2.

[Read: EBU’s New Head of Radio Sees Opportunity, Peril]

The live music sector took a significant hit from the COVID-19 pandemic as venues around the world shut their doors more than a year ago. In response, Liveurope, EBU and a handful of creative and cultural organizations joined forces to highlight the important role that concert halls play in shaping the European music industry. Organizers say this is an opportunity to underline the importance of live music to see a way out of the crisis.

“In our everyday work, we see how music has the power to bring people together and to build bridges between cultures and territories from all over the continent,” said Elise Phamgia, Liveurope’s coordinator. “At a time when the pandemic has pushed forward social isolation, we believe culture can be a vehicle to regenerate enthusiasm for the future, especially among new generations. And this initiative is a prime example of that.”

As part of the initiative, each artist’s showcase will consist of one or two songs for broadcast by EBU public radio stations. Broadcasters have the option to use the content anytime from May 2 through the culmination of the campaign on May 9, a date that traditionally promotes cross-border cooperation and collaboration across the European continent.

Some of the 15 artists include the Grammy nominated Turkish-Dutch band Altın Gün, the Spanish musician Stay Homas, the Hungarian electro-duo Belau and the Norwegian act Pom Poko.

Some of the 15 participating Liveurope venues include Melkweg, a concert and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Village Underground in Shoreditch, London, and the A38 ship in Budapest, located on the River Danube.

A full listing of artists and venues is available.

 

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