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- Remote Control Technology Has Come a Long Way
Sam Wallington The author of this commentary is engineer/project manager for American Amplifier Technologies. This is excerpted from the free ebook “Trends in Remote Control & Facility Management.” Today I was thinking about the remote control at my first radio job. We used a 950 MHz STL to send audio and control information to the transmitter site and a 450 MHz TSL to return meter readings. We were reasonably happy to have forward and reflected power readings, the all-important ability to turn the transmitter on and off, raise and lower power, and, of course, a fail-safe wired to turn off the transmitter if the STL were to die. Beyond that, however, we had to guess. If the station went off, a lack of response from the remote control probably meant the utility power was off and the generator hadn’t started. But it also could mean the STL transmitter had failed, so we had to stop and look at the STL transmitter before driving to the transmitter site. And because we knew so little, every time we were off air, we had to pack the truck with parts and tools to fix most anything that might be wrong. Now we can look remotely at just about everything at the site, well beyond basic transmitter parameters … site temperature (inside and out), generator status, exact voltage from both utility and generator, not to mention live camera views of the transmitter, room and front door. Depending on what I learn remotely, instead of driving to the site, I might be able to simply shut off and restart power to one rack component to get back on the air. The beauty of current technology is that emergency trips to the transmitter site are rare. Which, honestly, is the core purpose for a remote control system. The problem with the now antiquated system at my first station is that I could know only a tiny fraction of the available information about the equipment. Fortunately, it’s no longer necessary to view my equipment through a pinhole. AAT’s EmPower app prioritizes alarms to show the most important first. In a time when staff and contractors are working harder and spreading their talents across multiple signals, having a basic remote control is now more expensive than upgrading. Making up for lack of information requires time, and unfortunately, it often means off-air time. By necessity, most engineers can’t get… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 mins ago - Crowd Goes Nuts Cheering When Comic David Cross Jokes About Trump Dying: ‘The ...
SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah was stunned by the moment comic David Cross made a joke about President Donald Trump dying — and the audience erupted in wild cheers and laughter. Cross just dropped a new special entitled “The End of The Beginning of The End” that features a bit in which the comic sings a song made up of Trump quotes, and caps it off by telling the crowd it was written by “the Late Donald Trump.” The audience laughed loudly, then cheered when Cross wistfully mused that “Someday we’ll be able to say that.” The comic was a guest on Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, during which the host asked him about the crowd’s over-the-top reaction to the idea of Trump dying, and what he makes of the fact that he won despite the hatred of many: DEAN OBEIDALLAH: When you said, written by the late Donald Trump and the crowd organically cheers, to me, do you feel like the connection, the people like us, patriotic Americans who love this country, who despise Donald Trump, it is more personal? Like if you had said that about Bush, the late George Bush, and I used to do jokes about Bush at the time, I don’t think there was that kind of anger towards him. Maybe to Cheney, but with Trump it’s really like, there’s something personal about this. DAVID CROSS: Well, he makes it personal. George Bush never made it personal, I didn’t like his policies and thought he was full of shit, but Trump makes it personal. He forces you to make it personal so, yeah. And the audience took it personally DEAN OBEIDALLAH: I think, no, I thought the level of the laughter, I said that really, to me, that’s what kind of was like mm very interesting. And then you sang the exact lyrics. How quick, like when you actually said to the audience, think about what he said. And it was a speech right before election day about women. DAVID CROSS: Yeah, it was in Michigan. It was a rally in Michigan, and I think it was 12 days before the election, I believe. DEAN OBEIDALLAH: And then so he talks about women, you’ll be protected, you’ll safe, and whether you like it or not. I couldn’t remember. DAVID CROSS: You will be protected and I will be your protector and then some more stuff and… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CapeTalk 567 Keeps It Real With XPN-AM
Vaughan Taylor Radio World Buyer’s Guide articles are testimonials intended to help readers understand why their colleagues chose products to solve various technical situations. This month’s focus is on-air audio processing. The author is a transmission specialist for Primedia Broadcasting. He is responsible for the transmission operations of 947/702 in Johannesburg and KFM/CapeTalk 567 in Cape Town, South Africa. The word emoji owes its humble origins to the combination of two Japanese words for “picture” and “letter,” adding dimension to what otherwise would have been a “flat” or unemotive text message. Primedia Broadcasting kicked off the year with a fun and modern out-of-home billboard campaign for CapeTalk 567, featuring today’s lingo. Several examples of the social media campaign messages While CapeTalk 567 prides itself on keeping things “real” with listeners through its programming content, there are technical systems that must work together to get the audio to its listeners as accurately and efficiently as possible. CapeTalk 567 has been on the air for 28 years, primarily through its medium-wave footprint, serviced by a 25 kW transmitter on the outskirts of Cape Town operated by signal distribution service provider Sentech. It also streams its audio via the Primedia Plus app and as well as the DSTV Audio Bouquet (Channel 885). Morning host Lester Kiewit. For every commercial station on the radio “dial” (be they AM, FM or digital OTT platforms), there’s an ongoing conversation about how audio can be suitably “enhanced.” This is part of creating the sonic signature that adds to the listener’s experience when tuning into a particular station. Broadcast audio processing over the years has remained a contentious topic for radio’s creative and engineering teams. Suffice it to say, the audio processor brings together the efforts of two diverse endeavours. From an engineering perspective, the processor takes the lead in ensuring the transmission parameters (i.e. peak modulation) are always fully respected. The “artistic” component considers how the audio is to be manipulated to create a particular sonic signature, through increasing perceived loudness along with achieving overall consistency of the program material. There have been changes over the last 20 years or so that have affected audio quality on traditional transmission platforms. In the world of medium-wave AM, it is both important and appropriate to maximize the density of the received audio, to ensure the audio remains intelligible. External noise from devices such as LED lighting, laptops, computer power supplies… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Peter Meijer Makes Fellow Table for Five Panelist Nearly Fall Over Laughing with...Former congressman Peter Meijer had fellow Table for Five panelist Leigh McGowan ready to nearly fall out of her chair as she cracked up at his take on President Donald Trump. On CNN’s Table for Five on Saturday morning, liberal podcaster McGowan and Meijer found themselves at odds on a few items and things got tense during a debate on the current state of Congress where Meijer called for Trump to be the “last imperial presidency.” The debate began with the panelists watching Kevin McCarthy talk about Trump being the most “powerful” president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. “We haven’t seen a president like this in either party since [former President Franklin D.] Roosevelt, where he has come back into power so strong, he has a greater determination of whether a Republican wins reelection than any leader in Congress does. He raises the money,” McCarthy said. McGowan argued that Republicans have gotten very little done despite being in control of the Senate and House because they only act “at the command of the president.” The Republicans have the majority, so they could absolutely get things done, and they’re not getting things done because they just wait at the command of the president. You’re listening right here to Kevin McCarthy talking about how the president is both the whip and the speaker and the president, and that is the case,” she said. Meijer responded and predicted he was about to make a point they would agree on, only for McGowan crack up as he talked. “Your respect for the filibuster aside, like, I think we have a legitimate problem when we have a Congress that doesn’t feel like it has a sense of ownership. And I — 100%, this is where we’re going to agree — I think that one of the longest lasting and best things that Donald Trump could do is say, you know what, I’m going to be the last imperial presidency,” Meijer said. McGowan nearly fell out of her chair as she declared hell had “frozen over.” “Oh my God! Hell just froze over!” she exclaimed. “What are you talking about? He’s talking about his third term, bro.” Abby Phillip stepped in then and asked, “why does Congress feel like they don’t have owner?” “It’s self-abdication,” panelist and Axios editorial director Astead Herndon said. “It’s self abdication!” McGowan agreed. “Oh my God!” “No one has forced… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Jim Acosta Goes Full Trump on Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson After Blistering Tr... Independent journalist Jim Acosta used one of President Donald Trump’s favorite rally bits to deliver a message to Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson after Trump destroyed them in a Truth Social rant. This week, Trump flipped out on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones in an epic Truth Social post accusing them of ALL CAPS stupidity and more. On Friday’s episode of The Jim Acosta Show, the host used Trump’s infamous “The Snake” rally bit to ask the new Trump critics what they expected, and predicted they’d be back to kissing Trump’s a**” very soon: JIM ACOSTA: What did you expect? What did you think was going to happen? I just want to say, I just wanna take a moment to say I told you so. Tucker Carlson used to come after me when he was over at Fox and accused me of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Megyn Kelly would say, Jim Acosta has TDS, he has Trump Derangment Syndrome. Well, who has the Trump Deranged Syndrome now? Tucker Carlsen, Megyn, Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones. Who is suffering from the TDS now? All I can say is welcome to the f*cking show. Welcome to the party, pals. And, you know, when I was talking with Steve Schmidt earlier and he was, you know, telling the story of the frog and the scorpion and the frog is crossing the river and why, you’re asking the scorpions, why he stung him. And they both drowned and scorpions says it’s in my nature. Don’t forget, please don’t forget that Donald Trump from time to time out on the campaign trail likes to tell the story of The Snake, he tells the story of The Snake. It’s a xenophobic racist parable, that is, that Donald Trump tells to his audience is because he likes to go off on immigrants and you know people like my family and others. but he likes, to talk about how the the poor–. A woman who brings the snake home, takes care of the snake, the snake is sick. She nurses him back to health and then the snake bites the woman, and she dies. And but before she dies she says “Snake, I took care of you. I took you in, I nursed you back to health. Why did you bite me?”. And as Donald Trump, I know the story so well, because I’ve heard it a… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Bill Maher Praises Trump But Says Time To ‘Cut and Run’: ‘He’s an A**hol... Comedian and pundit Bill Maher called President Donald Trump “an a**hole but he’s our a**hole” as he called for the president to “cut and run” from the war Maher supported starting. On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, bioethicist, oncologist, and New York Times bestselling author of the book “Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life.” The panel guests were Douglas Murray, New York Post contributor and bestselling author of the book “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization”; and Paul Rieckhoff, national security and political analyst, founder of Independent Veterans of America (IVA), and host of the podcast “Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff.” During the panel segment, Maher opened by reassessing the Iran war, saying that he hopes Trump will “abandon” the effort because he took aa shot at ending the regime and “it didn’t work”: BILL MAHER: Now, you and I, I think, were on the same page when this started six weeks ago. I mean, we thought it was the right thing to do to take this shot now to deal with Iran once and for all, not just because of the nukes, but they did say in their own negotiations that they were weeks away from having 11 bombs. To me, that was pretty clear. Not to mention what they do to their own people, and we just don’t think jihadists and people who believe in martyrdom can have nukes. Okay, so I thought it was worth taking the shot. Six weeks later, I think we’re at a different place because I read your column today. You think we gotta finish this no matter what it takes. I was never on that page. I was on the page, this is a great opportunity. Hey, we see them all in one place. We can wipe out the whole leadership at once. It looks like they’re ready for an uprising. Take the shot, Mav. Take the shot. We did it, and it didn’t work. Now what, do we cut and run or do we stay the course? I hope Donald Trump is the abandoner he’s always been. I hope he is the guy who has never not abandoned anything in his life except his love for tariffs. And I hope that he does what America always done. These people who say, you know, we’ll get a reputation for… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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