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Radio From the Mountain Tops of Washington
Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Recently, we’ve put out multiple calls to our readership asking for pretty pictures of their facilities, and they did not...
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Radio World’s Visit to the Alpine Tower
When it comes to radio history, it doesn’t get much bigger or better than a visit to the Alpine Tower, constructed by Edwin Armstrong in northern New Jersey in 1937 within sight of Manhattan, to...
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A Home for Music That “Inspires and Restores the Human Spirit”
KMFA Classical 89.5 in Austin, Texas, could finally throw open its doors for an open house in the spring of 2022, inviting the public to tour a beautiful new facility that was completed a year and a...
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SoCal Sunset: KBRT Tower 4
Not bad for a photo taken by a security camera. That’s the KBRT Oak Flat transmitter site in the Santa Ana Mountains of eastern Orange County, Calif. The AM station, owned by Crawford Broadcasting,...
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Mizzou Builds a New Tower for Its FM and TV
This story appeared in the Radio World ebook “Great New RF Installs.” Faced with the approaching end of life for the tower serving its TV station and radio station, the University of Missouri began...
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How WJGO Recovered From a One-Two Punch
A broadcast engineer hopes to go his or her entire career without having their transmission facilities wiped out by a disaster like a serious fire or a hurricane. Jason Horvath and his colleagues had...
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Another Pretty Snapshot From a Reader
Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Recently, we’ve put out multiple calls to our readership asking for pretty pictures of their facilities, and they did not...
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Art Deco WWJ Studio Building Becomes Cambria Hotel
The owners of the Detroit Cambria Hotel have taken an outmoded building designed for live radio broadcasting and adapted it to modern 21st century needs. Here’s how that came about. Detroit’s WWJ was...
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How Spirit 90.1 Increased Power in North Platte
KFJS(FM) in North Platte, Neb., licensed to VSS Catholic Communications, is one of 15 stations on the Spirit Catholic Radio Network. An upgrade in power from 1.35 kW effective radiated power to 13.2 kW...
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Mauritius Broadcasting Modernizes With WinMedia Software
Mauritius Broadcasting Corp. is using WinMedia broadcast software and a WinCam visual radio system after completion of a modernization project this summer. The installations were done at MBC...
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Radio Pics From Sea to Shining Sea
Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Recently, we’ve put out multiple calls to our readership asking for pretty pictures of their facilities, and they did not...
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Cayman’s Compass Media Combines Its Four FMs
“First and foremost, we are local.” That’s the promise of Compass Media in the Cayman Islands, a company owned by lawyer and native Caymanian James Bergstrom. “As the proprietor of the Cayman Compass...
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Solving the Variables in the FM Equation
It was late 1984, some 39 years ago this month, and I was new to the company where I still work today. Right out of the chute, the president of the company handed his new D of E an assignment: Fix our...
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MMD’s DAB+ Multiplex With a View
Olivier Cordier from Kiss FM West Coast shared these fantastic photos of the Monaco Média Diffusion transmission site on Mont Agel. This same site was originally built for Télé-Monte-Carlo, but it now...
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WBCQ Relies on High-Power Shortwave Antenna
One of the more unusual facilities featured in our recent Radio World ebook about interesting RF plants is at WBCQ. It uses what is believed to be the only rotatable shortwave antenna in North America....
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Italian Mountain Tower Adds DAB+
The Roncà/Monte Calvarina Transmission Site (Photo courtesy Aeranti-Corallo) Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Recently, we’ve put out multiple calls to our...
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All Classical Radio Gains a Historic Headquarters
With the help of a generous benefactor, classical music — and classical music lovers — will soon have a new home in Portland, Ore. All Classical Radio, KQAC(FM), has received the largest grant in the...
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In a Challenging Era, AM Stations Still Have Options
Several years ago, the author wrote about options available to AM stations and licensees that needed to move or wanted to maximize their facilities. Radio World asked him to update that useful article...
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This Shortwave Station’s Transmitter Site Sits Pretty in the Tropics
If you’re an avid Radio World reader, you know that we love to highlight unique radio facilities, whether they be local or abroad. If you happen to love that sort of content, you’re in luck!...
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Kernen Keeps Crawford on the Air in the Motor City
When Mike Kernen came to Crawford Broadcasting as its Detroit market chief engineer in April 2020, he brought with him 32 years of experience, having supervised engineering at Greater Media’s Motor...
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