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- Best of Show: Broadcast Bionics VoiceGPIO
We are featuring the products that won the Radio World Best of Show Award at the 2026 NAB Show. Winners were chosen by a panel of engineers and RW editorial staff for their innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry. Information about how the program works can be found in a FAQ here. VoiceGPIO from Broadcast Bionics is a software service that integrates with compatible AoIP systems and equipment, enabling control through simple voice commands. Bionics says it allows operators to stay focused while making studio operation more accessible. “Designed specifically for fast-paced live environments where time is of the essence, VoiceGPIO allows operators to issue commands and receive spoken feedback through their existing talkback system or console, creating a seamless, hands-free control experience that reduces reliance on screens, physical controls and visual cues.” It is designed to be used with Telos Infinity IP talkback systems. VoiceGPIO runs securely on-prem and integrates natively with AoIP broadcast infrastructure to control consoles, talkshow systems, routing and other functions. Bionics said it does not rely heavily on cloud services or consumer-grade voice assistants. With a voice command, operators can control key studio functions. These include toggling faders, switching busses, managing calls, routing audio, switching video sources, or triggering custom GPIO and UDP messages. “Actions that would traditionally require multiple physical interactions can now be executed with a single voice command, without taking hands off the console or attention away from live content.” The tool creates a voice-driven environment for faster, more accessible, workflows. Dan McQuillin of Broadcast Bionics with Paul McLane. Read more coverage of our Best of Show recipients. The post Best of Show: Broadcast Bionics VoiceGPIO appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Demands Senate Republicans Kill the Filibuster, Argues ‘Dems Will Do Itâ...
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) President Donald Trump argued on Thursday that Senate Republicans should immediately terminate the Senate filibuster to pass their agenda “at a record clip” before the midterms, warning that Democrats would do the same if they win the Senate majority in November. “How much abuse can the Republican Senate take from the Radical Left Lunatics in the form of Democrat Senators, before they BLOW UP (TERMINATE!) THE FILIBUSTER, and approve things at a record clip, including The Save America Act, that would be unthinkable without the Filibuster Termination??? The Dems will do it on the first hour of their first day. DO NOT BE STUPID!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump has long called for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to end the filibuster, most recently to pass the House version of the funding bill to end the partial government shutdown and fully fund ICE. The president has received strong pushback from inside the Senate GOP against nuking the filibuster, and Thune has made clear it’s a non-starter. Thune has called eliminating the filibuster not a “realistic option” and said he is willing to take the blowback from the administration. In late March, Trump increased his attacks on Senate Republicans, writing on social media, “It is time for the Senate Filibuster to END. Those weak and ineffective Republicans Senators that stand in the way of this should be exposed to the public. The Democrats are CRAZY!”The post Trump Demands Senate Republicans Kill the Filibuster, Argues ‘Dems Will Do It’ Right Away first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Eagles’ Radio Voice Merrill Reese Receives Common Wealth Award
David Yadgaroff, Audacy’s Philadelphia market senior VP of sales, left, with Merrill Reese The longest-tenured play-by-play radio broadcaster in the NFL, Merrill Reese, has been named a 2026 recipient of the Common Wealth Award for his contributions to mass communications and his impact on sports broadcasting. Reese, 83, will be entering his 50th season as the play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Eagles in the fall, and you can hear him on Audacy Eagles’ flagship station 94.1 WIP(FM). The company recognized him in a release. “Merrill Reese is a Philadelphia institution and one of the greatest play-by-play broadcasters in NFL history,” said David Yadgaroff, Audacy’s Philadelphia market senior VP of sales. In 2024, Reese received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Reese’s radio roots date back to his time as a student at Philadelphia’s Temple University, where he worked at WRTI(FM), broadcasting football and basketball, and also hosted a music show. His first radio gig, fresh out of the Navy, came via WPAZ(AM) in Pottstown. He was also a co-owner of WBCB(AM) in Levittown as one half of Progressive Broadcasting Company, before it donated the station to a new owner last year. The Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service honors individuals from around the world across a wide range of fields, with approximately 180 honorees since it was established in 1979. Fellow honorees at the April 25 Common Wealth Award ceremony at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Del. included astronaut Michael Massimino and actress Jane Seymour. [Do you receive the Radio World SmartBrief newsletter each weekday morning? We invite you to sign up here.] The post Eagles’ Radio Voice Merrill Reese Receives Common Wealth Award appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump’s ‘Attacks’ on Media Blamed for US Slide Down Press Freedom Index
(Photo by Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via AP) The United States fell seven places in the global press freedom rankings, with the watchdog that independently compiles the list specifically blaming President Donald Trump’s “attacks” against the media and those in it. Reporters Without Borders’ 2026 World Press Freedom Index, published on Thursday, placed the U.S. at 64th, behind countries such as the UK, Germany and Canada. “Trump has turned his repeated attacks on the press and journalists into a systematic policy,” the group writes, justifying the slide. Elsewhere in the analysis, the president actions are claimed to have inspired other countries to crack down, noting that “Presidents Javier Milei [of Argentina] and Nayib Bukele [of El Salvador] – Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in Latin America – have taken their cue from the White House in their approach to the media, with unsurprisingly similar results.” The drop comes amid what the organization describes as a worsening global climate for journalism, with press freedom at its lowest point worldwide since the index began 25 years ago. While noting that journalists around the world continue to be imprisoned or killed for their work, Reporters Without Borders argued that “journalism is being asphyxiated by hostile political discourse towards reporters, weakened by a faltering media economy, and squeezed by laws being used as weapons against the press.” “More than half of the countries on earth now fall into the ‘difficult’ or ‘very serious’ categories for press freedom,” the report declares in its opening sentence. According to the organization, the Trump administration shares some of that blame with “drastic cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) workforce had global repercussions.” The funding cuts, it adds, led to “the closure, suspension and downsizing of international broadcasters such as Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Radio Free Asia (RFA)” which it notes were “some of the last reliable sources of information” in repressed countries around the world. Norway retains the top spot for the tenth consecutive year, while much of Europe continues to dominate the upper crust of the rankings.The post Trump’s ‘Attacks’ on Media Blamed for US Slide Down Press Freedom Index first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Calls Out GOP Pushing Ballroom ‘to Impress Trump’ and ‘Mak...
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman called out Republicans supporting funding for President Donald Trump’s ballroom in order “to impress Trump” and “make him happy.” One subplot of the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) 0n Saturday has been a MAGA groundswell demanding completion of Trump’s multi-hundred-million-dollar ballroom. Originally proposed as a donor-funded project, Republicans are now pushing to appropriate $400 million in taxpayer funds for the ballroom. On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Haberman about funding for the ballroom: KAITLAN COLLINS: Maggie, first off, on this new effort where, you know, we did here for months, It’s private donations that are paying for this, not taxpayer dollars. What do you make of this split between Republicans now, in terms of who should pay for the ballroom at the White House. MAGGIE HABERMAN: Look, putting aside, Kaitlan, the fact that what happened on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was terrible, and it was very fortuitous that nobody was hurt. There was obviously quick effort by the Secret Service to get the alleged gunman into custody. Putting that aside, that was a media-hosted event. It has been a media-hosted event for 50-plus years. It’s not clear to me, why a ballroom is now imperative in terms of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Because I’d be very surprised if the White House Correspondents’ Association decided now this is going to be a presidential event. It kind of defeats the whole purpose. Number one. But number — although I can’t profess to speak for the Association. But number two, yes, I don’t know how we get to why taxpayers should pay for it. It is — there have been all kinds of competing ways that Republicans on the Hill have been looking to try to impress President Trump and try to make him happy. And everyone knows how focused he is on the ballroom. He doesn’t make much of a secret of it. He talks about it very openly, as you noted. But yes, the whole point was always this was going to be privately funded. And even with that, it was hard to imagine that, in terms of building a new bunker, and again, things that he’s talked about publicly that I always thought were supposed to be pretty sensitive, there’s no way that that was being funded… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘They Got Executed’: House Democrat Issues Grave War Crimes Warning to Pete ...Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued a grave war crimes warning to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while discussing his contentious Wednesday hearing before the House Armed Services Committee with CNN’s Erin Burnett. Hegseth is expected to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to continue answering questions about the Iran war. On Wednesday evening, Burnett played a clip of Moulton asking Hegseth about his “no quarter” comments. “You said, ‘We will give them no quarter, no mercy.’ In order for no quarter or no survivors is a war crime under the Geneva conventions,” Moulton said in the clip. “You understand that’s murder. Do you stand by that statement?” Hegseth began answering, “The Department of War fights to win, and we ensure that our war fighters have the rules of engagement necessary to be as effective —” “Okay, just to be clear,” Moulton interrupted, “you called Democratic members of Congress to be tried for sedition, for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by yourself. Burnett asked Moulton, “Do you believe that the secretary of defense is guilty of war crimes?” “Absolutely,” Moulton answered. He continued: I mean, he’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it’s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco terrorists — a term the administration invented to justify this action — are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there’s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There’s been press reporting on some of these individuals who’ve been killed who are clearly not war criminals. And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again — a double tap — just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. Moulton continued, “You know, it’s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy — back in World War II, the allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary!” Watch the clip above via CNN.The post ‘They Got Executed’: House Democrat Issues Grave War Crimes Warning to Pete Hegseth on CNN first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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