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A home for “praise and inspiration” serving Texas’ capital city with a Class D AM with a 2kw signal from 3 towers has been sold.

The price the buyer is paying for the daytime-only operation to the northeast of Austin is something to take note of. Why? It’s actually a pretty impressive valuation.

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Until now, it has served as the home in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market for Miami-based América Tevé. 

Soon, the independent Spanish-language television programming seen on the facility, a low-power TV station licensed to Pinellas County’s biggest municipality, will say adios to the fare.

That’s because a religious broadcaster has just snagged the station.

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Telos Alliance announced a series of online presentations about software container technology.

The first part, streaming on March 2, “introduces hardware selection concepts for containerized software applications, analyzes the importance of dedicated CPU resources, and differentiates which computing resources can be de-emphasized vs. those which must be prioritized,” the company said.

“Attendees will learn which computing functions are key to successful broadcast functionality in a software container environment.”

The five-session series is intended for broadcast engineers. Part 1 on March 2 is at 1 p.m. Eastern. Archived versions will be available.

Subsequent sessions will discuss various AoIP transmission formats, the three main deployment scenarios for virtualized broadcast infrastructures, synchronization and key security issues.

The registration page is open.

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Tieline ViA was used for coverage of this forum of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Radio World Buyer’s Guide articles are intended to help readers understand why their colleagues chose particular products to solve various technical situations. This month’s articles focus on products for radio remotes and sports.

Program Director Will Russell has been with Eastern Shore Radio in Virginia for 12 years. His first experience with Tieline was using a Report-IT app for sports coverage.

“We realized the superiority of the audio quality, but the phone app had its limitations.” The Tieline ViA remote codec turned out to be the solution.

“Tieline’s SmartStream Plus redundant streaming technology is crucial for us,” he said. “Wireless technology is improving, but it still has its issues on the Eastern Shore. Knowing we have two signals and one can replace packets if required, really makes live remotes less stressful.”

Eastern Shore covers a lot of high school sports, and it also has aired graduations during COVID, with parents listening in their cars on the radio.

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“Recently, we covered a political debate on the radio and provided video with Facebook Live.”

Russell said they normally employ SmartStream Plus using an iPhone hotspot connection over Verizon, along with a Verizon Jetpack tethered hotspot.

“Rural cellular connectivity is always the challenge. Sometimes you’ll have enough signal for sound, but not for video. Video is nice, but at the end of the day we are a radio station.”

For sports, Russell uses one or two headsets for the play-by-play and color commentator, and adds a third mic for crowd effects. For video he’ll use a mini-USB cable to send line-level audio from the ViA into a dongle for an iPhone video stream.

“We connect to a Bridge-IT codec at the studio. After one of the graduations a member of the local school board came up to me and said the sound was just as good as being there in person. I think this is the best compliment a radio person can get on the technical side of things.”

Russell said redundant streaming is simple to configure and that Wi-Fi works well too. “The ViA remembers hotspot connections, which is nice. We have broadcast in stereo, but with internet connectivity sometimes an issue, we went back to mono to reduce bandwidth without sacrificing audio quality. Studio-based audio is streamed back to the Tieline ViA from our studio console for remote site monitoring.”

Recently, a friend and client wanted to make a big announcement about the entertainment for a fundraiser he was holding.

“He had a two-day window to announce it, but unfortunately he came down with COVID and couldn’t come to the studio. He didn’t want to make such a big announcement on the air with a regular telephone call. So I went to the venue and set up the ViA, ran a 10-foot cable for his mic to ensure social distancing, and we made the announcement live on location. This remote was made on battery power and was cool all the way around.”

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In mid-September 2021, Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Dielectric first shared how the company literally changed how FM broadcast antenna manufacturers validate directional pattern studies for new FM broadcast antennas.

This led Dielectric to submit a Petition for Rulemaking with the FCC. And, if the FCC moves forward with a NPRM and subsequently approves the rules, a process that could take just months, a move from physical to AI-driven simulated modeling could come to fruition.

The engineering guys may get this, but those in the C-Suite may already have eyes glazed over. In this encore InFOCUS Podcast, Keith Pelleiter explains this so the only thing glazed in their office is a Krispy Kreme donut.

Given the FCC’s decision this week to eliminate six of 7 “outmoded” radio broadcast technical rules, the timing is right to revisit this audio discussion with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson.

Listen now!

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FCC on Wednesday (2/16) adopted a Report & Order released today that effectively eliminates or amends what the Commission calls “outmoded” broadcast technical rules.

One will remain, however, and it is thanks to the NAB.

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The FCC’s Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC) will gather online on February 23.

The agenda for what will transpire has been released by the Commission.

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How important are AVOD, OTT and FAST Channels to broadcast TV? The latest data from The Gauge, Nielsen‘s total TV and streaming snapshot, show that streaming reached an all-time high in first month of 2022, while overall television usage increased 8%.

Combined, a powerful metric for broadcast TV emerges.

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Ad-ID, used for identifying advertising assets across all media platforms, has agreed to a  new partnership with TelevisaUnivision to support advertising asset identification and tracking for Univision’s media portfolio.

The agreement is designed to improve targeting and delivery for Univision and its advertising partners.

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It could be «Cosas que debes saber» or “Вещи, которые вы должны знать.”

Whatever the language, “Stuff You Should Know” could soon be available to listen in it.

And, it is all thanks to a new collaboration to produce and translate podcasts for new marketing opportunities forged between iHeartMedia and Veritone.

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