Searchable News & Info From Reliable Online Sources.
- Orban to Offer Quu as Integrated Option
A sample Quu message for WINS on an HD Radio receiver Orban Labs plans to offer the Quu360 Visual Radio platform as an integrated option for its Orban Optimod 5950 HD processor. “This option for the 5950 HD eliminates the need for external PCs and simplifies the broadcast chain while improving a station’s presence on the dashboard,” they said in a release. “Traditionally, radio stations have relied on separate systems for automation, metadata correction, visual messaging and RDS encoding, often requiring dedicated Windows-based PCs in the airchain.” They said the embedded Quu360 option provides several benefits. It allows broadcasters to ingest metadata from cloud automation systems via HLS streams; normalize and correct artist/title data in real time; insert synchronized visual messaging for advertising and promotions; and deliver formatted metadata to the built-in RDS encoder. External Quu360 PCs are not needed. “Broadcasters have the benefit of a consistent, high-quality display on the dashboard, with standardized song titles/artist data and support for synchronized advertiser messages,” the said. The announcement was made by Orban President David Day and Quu VP of Technical Success Joe Marshall. Marshall called the announcement “a major step forward in making synchronized metadata and advertising more scalable.” Orban will be in booth C1259 at the NAB Show. Quu will be in meeting room C2658MR [Going to NAB? Radio World readers are invited to attend a session on the show floor moderated by Editor in Chief Paul McLane called “Radio: The New Boutique Business?”] The post Orban to Offer Quu as Integrated Option appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 mins ago - ‘I’m Very Worried’: Former Combat Fighter Pilot Breaks Down What Happens W...
A retired Marine combat fighter pilot told CNN Friday that she’s “very worried” for the pilots who ejected over Iran after Iranian state TV published images of the wreckage. CNN reported that President Donald Trump has been briefed on the downing of the F-15E fighter jet, as a search and rescue operation is underway. Iran is reportedly offering a “valuable reward” for the capture of the fighter jet pilots. CNN’s Pamela Brown asked retired lieutenant colonel Amy McGrath, who’s running as a Democrat for a Kentucky Senate seat, her thoughts after seeing pictures of the aircraft’s ejected seat released by Iranian state TV. “Well, my immediate response is, or thought is, you know, really thinking of the families of this, of the aircrew here,” McGrath said, continuing: Look, I have always felt like Iran — it’s a very big country. It’s not the same as Iraq or Afghanistan. The administration has said that they have complete air supremacy and air superiority, and that the president has said, well, we’ve decimated their surface-to-air missile capabilities. But a lot of us who flew fighter jets and know this space, shall we say, are very worried that that is not the case. And I think that this sort of just shows that. This F-15 was apparently shot down. And, you know, we’re hopefully the ongoing operations will get this aircrew out of here. But I’m very worried. McGrath said U.S. fighter pilots all undergo “the best training in the world.” “If you’re going to be flying over enemy territory, you’re going to go through survival school in which you’re trained on how to survive, but also how to survive a prisoner of war situation,” McGrath said. “So, if you are alive after the ejection, which, you know, the ejection itself is a very violent thing to happen to the body. So, hopefully these crew made it through the ejection. But if you are alive, you are trained on how to communicate to the search and rescue forces that are going to be coming. ” She added, “Right now that’s about as much as I can say because it is a sensitive ongoing operation that you talked about earlier.” Watch the clip above via CNN.The post ‘I’m Very Worried’: Former Combat Fighter Pilot Breaks Down What Happens When a Pilot Ejects Like Over Iran first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - BREAKING: One of Two US Pilots Downed In Iran Reportedly Rescued
(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Axios’s Barak Ravid reported on Friday that one of the two U.S. pilots downed over Iran has been rescued by U.S. troops. “One of two crew members of a U.S. fighter jet that was shot down over Iran was located and rescued by U.S. special forces and the search for the second is ongoing, per Israeli official and a source with knowledge,” wrote Ravid. Ravid had earlier reported that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had told him that President Donald Trump “has been briefed” on the downed fighter jet and was monitoring the situation. Reports had widely circulated that Iranian officials had issued a reward for the downed air crew, with television news anchors encouraging locals to help capture the Americans. CNN military analyst and retired U.S Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton discussed the situation earlier in the morning and explained how the Iranians were able to shoot down the fighter jet and what a rescue operation might look like. “It’s an older-generation aircraft. It is designed for multiple missions, but mainly air superiority-type missions. And it is vulnerable to the kind of anti-aircraft fire that the Iranians are capable of conducting. So, in conjunction with the reporting from the U.S. intelligence community that says that the Iranians still have major capabilities, this is one more piece of evidence that they have those capabilities, and it’s still dangerous for our pilots,” Leighton explained. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer followed up by asking about the search and rescue effort, “And especially if a pilot has ejected and they’re now on the ground somewhere in Iran right now — the U.S. would presumably be sending in troops to try to save those pilots.” “Yes, exactly. Those are the search-and-rescue capabilities that the U.S. Air Force has. There are very capable elements from the 1st Special Operations Wing based out of Hurlburt Field, Florida. And what they can do is go in and try to rescue those pilots. And the key thing is there’s probably a two-man crew,” replied Leighton. “On both the F-15 and the F-35?” Blitzer pressed. Leighton replied, “Well, yes, that is correct. And when it comes to the F-15, one of them is a pilot and the other is an electronic warfare officer, but both of them need to be rescued at this point in time. There are some reports that an ejection seat has been found in… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Pirro Asked Her to Clean Up Dog Feces’: Judge Jeanine’s Ex-Roommate Tells...
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host and current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is now among the leading candidates to succeed Pam Bondi as attorney general. Her ex-roommate has a lot to say about her. Writer Lisa DePaulo, who profiled Pirro for The New York Times Magazine in 1999, was later asked by Pirro to write a book about Robert Durst, the then-suspected and now-convicted murderer. In a new interview with New York, DePaulo revealed that she moved into Pirro’s basement work on the project together. That’s where things got interesting: When she was getting her makeup done, DePaulo says, Pirro would pad around the house wearing nothing but “panties, high heels, and these little stickers that she put on her nipples,” which DePaulo found amusing. But her stay turned out to be a less-than-comfortable experience. DePaulo had to deal with mice in the basement (a problem that, according to DePaulo, Pirro demanded she keep to herself since Pirro was trying to sell the house); seven guns stashed around, which, DePaulo recalls Pirro saying, were all loaded; Pirro barring her from touching the Fiji water in the pantry, saying it was for guests only; and Pirro’s obsession with keeping household expenses down (DePaulo says Pirro once berated her for leaving a hallway light on overnight). Worst of all was that DePaulo started to feel like the help. There were numerous times, she says, when Pirro asked her to clean up dog feces deposited by Pirro’s enormous poodles. (“My dogs, when they poop, it’s, like, sick,” Pirro tells me.) According to DePaulo, there was also the time that she was invited to a wedding held at the house and told to clean the windows before the guests arrived. “That was demeaning,” DePaulo says. “I was dressed for the wedding, and she hands me this big thing of Windex and paper towels, pushed them into my hands, and said, ‘Do it!’” DePaulo later sued Pirro claiming her would-be co-author had “little regard for truth and accuracy” and owed her nearly $30,000. A spokesman for Pirro’s office denied DePaulo’s claims about their time living together. Before her media career, Pirro served as a Westchester County and then district attorney.The post ‘Pirro Asked Her to Clean Up Dog Feces’: Judge Jeanine’s Ex-Roommate Tells All first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Sending in Troops’: CNN Military Analyst Breaks Down Rescue Op For Downed P...Retired U.S Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday in the immediate aftermath of news breaking that the U.S. military is conducting a search and rescue operation in Iran for the crew of a downed fighter jet. Leighton, a CNN military analyst, offered his take on what the rescue operation will look like just minutes before a U.S. official confirmed the news to Reuters. Blitzer began the segment by asking, “Colonel, what do you make of Iran’s claims now of having shot down a U.S. fighter jet, a U.S. Air Force F-15?” Leighton replied, “Absolutely, Wolf. Well, it looks like it’s real, unfortunately. And, you know, based on the pictures that we’ve seen so far, it is consistent with an F-15 — not an F-35, as the Iranians have said, but an F-15. So, one of the key things about this is the F-15 is not a stealth fighter.” “It’s an older-generation aircraft. It is designed for multiple missions, but mainly air superiority-type missions. And it is vulnerable to the kind of anti-aircraft fire that the Iranians are capable of conducting. So, in conjunction with the reporting from the U.S. intelligence community that says that the Iranians still have major capabilities, this is one more piece of evidence that they have those capabilities, and it’s still dangerous for our pilots,” added Leighton. Blitzer continued, “And especially if a pilot has ejected and they’re now on the ground somewhere in Iran right now — the U.S. would presumably be sending in troops to try to save those pilots.” “Yes, exactly. Those are the search-and-rescue capabilities that the U.S. Air Force has. There are very capable elements from the 1st Special Operations Wing based out of Hurlburt Field, Florida. And what they can do is go in and try to rescue those pilots. And the key thing is there’s probably a two-man crew,” replied Leighton. “On both the F-15 and the F-35?” Blitzer pressed. Leighton replied, “Well, yes, that is correct. And when it comes to the F-15, one of them is a pilot and the other is an electronic warfare officer, but both of them need to be rescued at this point in time. There are some reports that an ejection seat has been found in Iran by the Iranians, so the crew is probably not far away. That puts them in a very vulnerable… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘Wow!’ Trump Adviser Steve Moore Gobsmacked At Better-Than-Expected Jobs Rep...Steve Moore, an economic advisor to President Donald Trump, was gobsmacked when hearing about the new jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics live on Fox Business on Friday. Panelists were in the midst of talking about the labor market when the much better-than-expected numbers came through. “Look at the futures jump and it is because this is one heck of a report, folks!” host Cheryl Casone said as Moore exclaimed, “Wow!” while monitoring the numbers on his phone. “Wow, is right, Steve Moore!” Casone said. “Nonfarm jobs coming in at 178,000, 178,000 jobs,” she emphasized. “The expectation was 60,000, folks, the unemployment rate went down to 4.3%, the expectation was 4.4%. We didn’t get a loss of manufacturing jobs — we got a hit of 15,000 manufacturing jobs. Private-sector jobs — get this, folks —186,000. The estimate was for 70,000.” “Wow, what a great Easter weekend this is, I mean, my God!” Moore said. “This is way, way higher than even the range of forecasts. I can’t quite figure it out — I have to look deeper into numbers, but it is really good news for the economy.” Moore continued: I think one of those things things this tells us employers believe that the situation in the Middle East is temporary, and they’re planning for the future, and they’re hiring workers, according to this report. And so, it appears that employers and businesses believe Trump is right, that we’ll get the Strait of Hormuz open, that this is temporary shot to the economy, and that we’ve got sort of smooth sailing ahead. By the way, the fact that again, we are seeing more private sector employment and faling government employment, very positive a trend so far. Moore added, “I’d love to see what happened with wage rate, but overall, wow — this is amazing report.” “The government jobs was a loss of 8,000, I want to bring that up to everybody’s attention. And, also, I’m in the report now to kind of see what they are saying as far as where jobs were.” She added, “We came in average earnings month-to-month with a gain of gain two-tenths of a percent. The Street was looking for a gain of three-tenths of a percent. And as far as earnings year-over-year, three-and-a-half percent, less than expected. We were looking for 3.7 percent.” Watch the clip above via Fox… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
The Searchable USWebDaily.com and TheTopNews NewsBank Helps You Be Better Informed, Faster! Spread The Word.
