Beasley Gets a New Hub of Its Own in Boston
This facility story is excerpted from the Radio World ebook “New Studios That Dazzle.” Read it here. The task: Move Beasley Media Group’s Boston brands from their longtime home in the Dorchester...
View ArticleColorado Public Radio Selects Denver-Based Architect for New HQ
Colorado Public Radio has chosen a local architecture firm to build out its new Denver headquarters. Semple Brown Design will be tasked with transforming the building purchased in August 2023, located...
View ArticleAustin’s KMFA Is on Its Way to a Greener Future
KMFA(FM) in Austin, Texas, is installing solar panels on its building in an effort to reduce traditional energy usage and cut down on costs. As part of its sustainability initiative, KMFA is also...
View ArticleHow Not to Build a Transmitter Site
Working with small stations and groups, an engineer may take on certain tasks beyond the expectations faced by someone at a larger company with more resources. To paraphrase the classic police drama,...
View ArticleSiriusXM Launches New Studio Inside the Wynn Las Vegas
SiriusXM has announced the opening of a new broadcast studio in Las Vegas, Nev. Located inside the casino hotel Wynn Las Vegas, the SiriusXM studio will be home to a variety of programming, including...
View ArticleBonneville and Its Five-Year Studio Mission
Six markets. Twenty-two stations. One hundred studios. That was the daunting task facing technical leadership of Bonneville International Corp. And they planned to do the work using their own people,...
View ArticleChicago Public Media Opens New Studios on Navy Pier
Chicago Public Media, non-profit parent of WBEZ(FM) and (since 2022) of the Chicago Sun-Times, has its studios and offices at Navy Pier, a 3,300-foot-long attraction on the shoreline of Lake Michigan,...
View ArticleWBCQ: A One-of-a-Kind Shortwave Radio Station
There are all kinds of shortwave radio stations in the world, but WBCQ seems unique. Allan Weiner at the foot of the rotatable antenna installed in 2018. Located in Monticello, Maine, WBCQ is an...
View ArticleAudacy’s Nashville Sound Space to Open Next Week
Audacy’s logo in the finished studio space. (Photos by Audacy/Parker Young) Audacy’s Nashville Sound Space, located inside the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is set to open on Sept. 5....
View ArticleWYSL Jumps at an Opportunity
WYSL “Voice of Liberty” is a Class B AM station on 1040 kHz, owned by Radio Livingston LP and headed by Robert Savage. Licensed to Avon, N.Y., immediately south of Rochester, the station also serves...
View ArticleKILT Settles Into Its New Home
In 2022, when Audacy sold the tower site of Sports Radio 610 KILT in Houston, the sale brought in a reported $15.6 million but necessitated a fresh approach for the station’s infrastructure. KILT...
View ArticleIn Colorado, KOTO Radio Extends Its Reach
KOTO Community Radio serves listeners in Colorado’s San Miguel County terrestrially and all over the world via its online streams. The signal is heard in Telluride on 91.7 MHz and on translators in...
View ArticleNG Media in Australia Installs AEQ Consoles
From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: Australian company NG Media has selected AEQ Forum IP digital consoles for its six new studios. Integration work was done by Broadcast Components. “NG...
View ArticleRadio Clodia Marks 40th with an Upgrade
The upgraded Radio Clodia control room. (Photo courtesy DHD Audio) From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: As part of its 40th anniversary, Radio Clodia completed restructuring its broadcast...
View ArticleCPB Distributes More Money for Alerting Infrastructure
More public media stations will receive grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to improve their emergency alerting infrastructure. We’ve been reporting on these grants as they were rolled...
View ArticleKQMR Moves on Up the Mountain
A recent site move has allowed Arizona station KQMR, a 30 kW FM station on 100.3 MHz, to continue providing high-quality and reliable over-the-air radio service without consuming expensive diesel fuel....
View ArticleOn Grandpa Knob, a New Collaboration
This story is from the ebook “Awesome RF Buildouts.” Among the two dozen or so radio stations owned by Pamal Broadcasting in the northeastern United States are FM outlets WJJR and WZRT, licensed to...
View ArticleNASCAR’s Radio Network Gets a Major Upgrade in North Carolina
Outside view of the new NASCAR Productions building in Concord, N.C. (Photos courtesy of MRN/Bob Quick) Motor Racing Network has been broadcasting live play-by-play of NASCAR races since 1970. Now, the...
View ArticleICBC Realigns in Watseka
This article is excerpted from the ebook “Awesome RF Buildouts.” Here’s a project that was completed for Iroquois County Broadcasting Co.’s WGFA-FM, WIBK(AM) and translator W245CV, all three of which...
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