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- Best of Show: WideOrbit WO Aurora
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. If you stopped by the WideOrbit booth you may have seen Beasley Media’s Shawn Stevens live broadcasting over a local Las Vegas station. He was demonstrating the capabilities of the new WO Aurora system, including its browser-based Web Studio interface to control the station remotely, along with a Live Mic feature to deliver real-time, on-site programming. WO Aurora offers cloud, on‑premise and hybrid deployment options, promising broadcasters much more flexibility in their infrastructure deployment. Its Web Studio UI eliminates the friction of traditional desktop applications. Live Mic, enabling location‑agnostic broadcasting by allowing talent to go live from anywhere while maintaining professional‑grade reliability. It is built into the WO Aurora software, so you don’t need external audio codecs. Celebrating the win are Michelle King, Brad Young, Dub Irvin and Drew Bennett. (Photo by Jim Peck) Info: www.wideorbit.com/aurora Read more coverage of our Best of Show recipients. The post Best of Show: WideOrbit WO Aurora appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.22 mins ago - Warner/Paramount take cue from “Michael,” join to create musician biopics
Warner Music and Paramount Pictures have agreed to a partnership arrangement for making theatrical movies about legendary musicians, past and present. The projects will be undertaken in collaboration with those musicians or their estates. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.48 mins ago - ‘It’s Insane!’ Californians Fume Over $6 Gas In Scathing MS NOW Segment
MS NOW reporter Laura Haefeli presented a segment on the network on Friday that highlighted just how desperate California’s gas and oil situation has become. Haefeli joined anchor Ana Cabrera and presented interviews with both Californians facing what is an average gas price of $6.16 (almost $2 above the national average), as well as a Chevron official who said he’s never faced a situation like the current one. Gas prices have shot up over the last months amid the Iran war, but Haefeli reported California has found itself in a particularly tricky spot as they face “the worst supply crisis” in the country. Haefeli reported: Not only are gas prices going up, but the real serious issue right now in California is supply. We were inside of the Chevron refinery here in El Segundo, California, just over my shoulder here. And what they’re dealing with is a lack of access. This refinery is crucial to California. It’s the biggest Chevron refinery on the west coast, and they’re having some serious problems. Take a look. For decades, tankers made their way between the Middle East and California’s coast. But as of this week, no more are coming. Chevron El Segundo refinery director Bryon Stock said he’s never seen anything like the current supply situation in his nearly-30 year career. “It made me pause. I think it gave me pause for a moment because that’s a significant milestone that I’ve not seen or faced in my 27 year career,” he said. “Californians could soon face the worst supply crisis in the U.S., and at Chevron’s Southern California refinery, we saw it for ourselves,” Haefeli added. California imports roughly 60% of its crude oil from overseas, 20% of that coming from the Middle East. The state’s geography prevents it from using pipelines that other states use, and further complicating things is the Jones Act, a law that requires ships moving oil between U.S. ports to be American-owned, crewed, and built. There is a current waiver on the law from the Trump administration. Californians facing prices ticking up again and again at the pump also spoke to Haefeli, calling current prices “insane.” “It’s getting crazy. It’s insane,” one woman said. “I don’t even get full tanks anymore.” “With the economy and spending and groceries and gas and all these things, it definitely weighs heavy,” another resident said. “It’s supply and demand at… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Wavelength Technical Solutions: “A Trusted Partner”
Jeremy Preece In a special edition of Radio World Buyer’s Guide this month, we are featuring profiles of systems installers and integrators. Wavelength Technical Solutions says it provides comprehensive broadcast engineering services designed to help stations get on the air, stay on the air and sound their best. “One of our key offerings is project management and consulting, where we partner with stations that are planning upgrades, new builds or facility moves,” said founder and Chief Engineer Jeremy Preece, CPBE DRB. “We help station management with the heavy lifting of preparing FCC applications, identifying new sites, sourcing installation crews and selecting cost‑effective transmission systems.” Wavelength Technical also provides service, maintenance and support for broadcast facilities throughout California, ranging from routine visits to keep operations running smoothly to repairs and full system installations. “Remote support is available, too,” Preece adds. “We can jump on a call with staff and, using remote desktop tools, often resolve issues without sending an engineer to the site. It leads to faster resolution and significant cost savings. Several clients outside our normal coverage area rely on this service.” In addition to engineering support, Wavelength Technical Solutions is a retailer of broadcast hardware. “We sell most major brands and are very competitive on pricing. Our goal is always to help stations get the right equipment for their needs at the best possible value.” With a focus on reliability, responsiveness and practical engineering expertise, Wavelength Technical Solutions continues to position itself as a trusted partner for broadcasters navigating both day‑to‑day operations and long‑term growth. [Read More Buyers Guide Reviews] The post Wavelength Technical Solutions: “A Trusted Partner” appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ABC Lashes Out at Trump FCC in Blistering Filing Accusing Them of Violating Firs...
ABC lashed out at President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over what they call a First Amendment violation against the popular daytime talk show The View. Earlier this year, Trump’s Brendan Carr-led FCC opened an “enforcement proceeding” against The View over his agency’s new guidelines on “equal time” rules. Carr and Trump have been aggressive about punishing and pressuring media outlets with which they disapprove. In a new 52-page filing to the FCC, ABC lawyers objected strongly to the action and repeatedly accused the Trump administration of attempting to violate free speech rights. The filing opens “The Commission’s order to file this Petition for Declaratory Ruling is unprecedented, beyond the Commission’s authority, and counterproductive to the Commission’s stated goal of encouraging free speech and open political discussion. The Commission’s actions threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly.” The filing continues: Some may dislike certain—or even most—of the viewpoints expressed on The View or similar shows. Such dislike, however, cannot justify using regulatory processes to restrict those views. The government does not get to decide “what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.”4 Or which “ideas and beliefs [are] deserving of expression [and] consideration.”5 The danger is that the government will simply decide which perspectives to regulate and which to leave undisturbed. In fact, while the Commission now questions The View’s decades-long exemption, it has not expressed any inclination to apply a similar interpretation of the equal opportunities rule to other broadcasters, including the many voices— conservative and liberal—on broadcast radio. And as a broad array of voices, including many conservatives, have recognized, if the government is allowed to discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in a Republican administration, there is little preventing it from doing so when the Democrats are in charge. The ABC attorneys devoted an entire section to explaining the First Amendment violation, and concluded: The View, and other shows like it, support the public interest, as Congress envisioned when it adopted the bona fide news exemptions. This goal—giving the public the broadest access to news about political races by permitting broadcasters to cover political news without fear of sanction—is especially critical today. As the 2026 election approaches, the American people need more access to political news and more exposure to political candidates, not less. It is… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Top 60 Minutes Correspondent Reportedly Heading For the Exit, Lawyering Up to Ta...
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi will reportedly end her decade-long run at the top-rated news magazine program at the end of the month after publicly slamming what she sees as “corporate meddling” at CBS News. Page Six Hollywood’s Tatiana Siegel reported on Friday that sources in the know say CBS will not be renewing Alfonsi’s contract, which expires at the end of the month. Siegel also added that her sources say Alfonsi has hired high-powered media lawyer Bryan Freedman – who famously scored Megyn Kelly as $69 million settlement from NBC News in 2019. Neither CBS nor Freedman did not reply to Siegel’s request for comment on her reporting. Puck’s Dylan Byers reported earlier in the week that Alfonsi’s exit appeared all but certain after she heavily hinted during an award speech she was going to follow in the footsteps of Bill Owens – the former 60 Minutes executive producer who quit in protest of Shari Redstone’s efforts to appease the Trump administration to smooth over her sale to David Ellison. “I always said I would follow Bill Owens over a cliff,” she joked while picking up the Ridenhour Prize last week, adding, “and I guess I finally did.” During her speech, Alfonsi mentioned the headline-grabbing 60 Minutes piece on El Salvador’s CECOT Prison, which was the center of controversy after CBS News editor in chief Bari Wiess pulled it at the last minute, arguing the White House’s response wasn’t well enough included. “Thank you for this award. I didn’t know that the theme was hope. My hope recently has been that I still have a job,” she said. “And every morning I wake up to another headline that says I’ve been fired.” “I will not linger on the internal mechanics of the dust-up at CBS that led to our CECOT story being pulled, but we have to be honest about what it represents,” Alfonsi continued. “It wasn’t an isolated editorial argument. In my view, it was the result of a more aggressive contagion: the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear. It’s hard to watch.” Alfonsi’s CECOT story did eventually air with few changes, given the Trump administration’s unwillingness to respond.The post Top 60 Minutes Correspondent Reportedly Heading For the Exit, Lawyering Up to Take on CBS Leadership first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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