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- Edison Research to release “Infinite Dial 2026”
Edison Research has set and announced the date of its 2026 edition of The Infinite Dial, the authoritative annual study of digital media consumer behavior. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago - Smart Diplexing Saves an AM
Ben Dawson, P.E., principal engineer of Hatfield & Dawson, wrote to tell us about KNUV, an AM station licensed to Tolleson, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix. The station was required to vacate its longstanding transmitter site. This is not an unusual situation for an AM station to find itself in these days, given the trends in urban development, the ever-rising value of real estate and the business challenges facing all AM stations. With advice from Ben’s firm, the licensee and her technical contractor conducted a thorough search and decided to relocate to the site from which Phoenix station KXEG(AM) broadcasts. KNUV now broadcasts on 1190 kHz with 640 watts day, 22 watts night. KXEG is on 1280 kHz with 2.5 kW day, 49 watts night. The KXEG site has an equipment building that had more than adequate space for KNUV’s equipment. The single 180-foot KXEG tower is close to the building, so they chose to install the diplexing filters and antenna tuning unit matching networks in an equipment room, and the tower is fed through a bowl insulator in the building wall via a well-supported copper tube to the tower base. The filters and match networks for multiple frequency use of an antenna require segregated enclosures to electrically isolate the individual networks from one another. A three-cabinet phasor, formerly used at KXEG’s three-tower directional site, was chosen to house the antenna equipment. One cabinet was used for each frequency’s filters, and the remaining cabinet was separated with a shelf into an upper and lower compartment, one for each of the ATU matching networks. Fig. 1 shows a view of the cabinets before stripping components. Fig. 1: The phasor cabinets before parts were removed. Thomas Driggers measured the antenna impedances at both frequencies, and Steve Lockwood prepared a design for the system networks. Network values were selected to provide reasonable sideband loads to the transmitters of the two stations, using various software tools and with attention to the dictates of Ron Rackley’s “VARs matching” technique (described by Rackley in the 11th edition of the NAB Engineering Handbook, Chapter 7). Once the design was in final draft form, the component list was prepared, and the team created an inventory. Components from the former phasor and ATUs were used where appropriate, and parts from available surplus collections were gathered to complete the inventory. The phasor itself and the two ATUs were removed from… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ElevenLabs Expands Enterprise Footprint Via Google Cloud
ElevenLabs and Google Cloud have announced a multi-year extension of their collaboration agreement, which they said is intended to make AI voice tools more accessible to businesses. According to a Feb. 26 release, the agreement strengthens the relationship between the two companies, enabling ElevenLabs’ products — which can provide voice agents and localize content into approximately 70 languages — to run on Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. The London-based startup gained visibility after its 2022 launch through its browser-based, AI-assisted speech synthesis. It drew interest from radio — Audacy, for example, announced a partnership with ElevenLabs in 2024. ElevenLabs will use Google Cloud’s G4 virtual machines, supported by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, to train and serve its voice models. This latest agreement provides access to a larger cluster of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, allowing ElevenLabs to support larger deployments for enterprise customers and ensure its research teams have access to optimized AI compute power, the release said. ElevenLabs’ technology is used by companies in telecommunications, financial services and retail, according to the release. Customers also use its offerings to localize libraries of content into different languages and generate consistent brand voices and multimedia assets for advertising, training and customer education. The partnership has also resulted in the launch of ElevenLabs’ features on Google Cloud Marketplace, the release said, allowing customers to use conversational agents for customer support, internal training and inbound sales, with simplified billing and compliance frameworks. ElevenLabs is also integrating Gemini models into its Agents Platform to provide reasoning and multi-step planning for its voice assistants, according to the release. [Related: “ElevenLabs Launches AI Voice Licensing Marketplace”] The post ElevenLabs Expands Enterprise Footprint Via Google Cloud appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Critics Go Wild Over Pic of New Rash: ‘Vigorous Handshaking Strikes Agai...
(Mark Schiefelbein/AP photo) Critics of President Donald Trump did not hold back after the commander in chief sported a mysterious rash on his neck during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House on Monday. The rash was photographed by Getty photographer Saul Loeb and Associated Press snapper Mark Schiefelbein. Not long after the ceremony, Loeb’s image was posted to social media by left-leaning clipper Aaron Rupar, who remarked, “Whoa — this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand.” whoa — this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand (Saul Loeb/Getty) pic.twitter.com/H3PbltNCAE — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2026 Rupar’s X post took on a life of its own among Trump-maligned commenters. The Occupy Democrats account called it “disgusting.” BREAKING: A disgusting new photo of Trump takes social media by storm — revealing some kind of apparent rash or injury to his neck. The photo, released by Getty Images, shows the president turned to the side. A large section the flesh on his neck is mottled, red, and seemingly… pic.twitter.com/Xr5XqtruvO — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) March 2, 2026 Others couldn’t resist a dig at Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s assertion that bruising on Trump’s hand — often covered by makeup noticeably lighter than his actual skin tone — were from “frequent handshaking“: Is this, too, from shaking lots of hands? https://t.co/m9DMVEeK13 — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) March 2, 2026 Vigorous handshaking strikes again! https://t.co/hC8uHBZuzM — Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) March 2, 2026 Even Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) notorious “GovPressOffice” account was also quick to get a word in, posting several eye emojis. pic.twitter.com/dUSwADPZBV — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) March 2, 2026 Others tried to diagnose the rash: Looks like Shingles — Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) March 2, 2026 Eww! Viral (shingles, chickenpox, measles) or bacterial (impetigo) ? — Emmyjo (@Road_trippn) March 2, 2026 It kind of looks like an injury but it also looks like psoriasis forming. — Aisha (@aishamusic) March 2, 2026 But wait, there’s more: What the hell is this new rash on Trump’s neck??? Bruising on his hands, swollen ankles, rashes on his neck… it’s getting bad.… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - New CNN Poll Finds Strong Majority of Americans Disapprove of US Attack On Iran
CNN released a new poll on Monday showing a strong majority, 59%, of Americans oppose his ongoing military operation against Iran. The poll conducted by SSRS was conducted between February 28 and March 1 among a representative sample of 1,004 Americans. The poll went into the field almost immediately following the news breaking that Trump had launched a massive airstrike campaign against targets across Iran, which resulted in a fast retaliation from Iran on countries throughout the Middle East, including close U.S. allies Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan. The poll also found that 60% of Americans believe Trump does not have “a clear plan for handling the situation and 62% saying he should get congressional approval for any further military action,” according to a CNN summary of the survey. Only 27% of those surveyed believed Trump made “enough of an effort at diplomacy before launching the attack, while 39% said the U.S. didn’t do enough to negotiate a peaceful outcome — 33% where unsure. CNN anchor Dana Bash discussed the poll with her panel on Monday afternoon. “We have a brand-new CNN poll out right now showing high disapproval of President Trump’s strikes on Iran. A brand-new CNN poll found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the airstrikes on Iran, and there are few signs of good news for the president elsewhere in this poll,” Bash began, adding: 59% of Americans say they don’t trust President Trump to make the right decisions on the use of force in Iran. 60% of Americans do not believe the president has a clear plan on how to handle the situation. My panel is back now, or starting now, I should say. We’ve been listening to the president. Tyler, you cover the White House. You’ve been covering this all weekend. Is this data that’s going to surprise the White House? “I think the White House will largely ignore some of this data, but I think one of the things that we just saw is the president has clearly struggled to outline clear objectives for what he is doing and what measures of success are, and how long this is gonna go,” replied New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager. He added: As Kristen said, this is the first time we’re hearing from the president in a live setting, and I think there are a lot… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - DEAD HEAT: Stunning New Poll Shows GOP Drawing Even With Dems Ahead of Midterms
AP Photo/Alex Brandon A stunning new survey conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS), the Harris Poll, and HarrisX suggests that the GOP has drawn even with the Democrats with eight months to go until the midterm elections. The poll of 1,999 registered voters, which was conducted online between February 25 and 26, found that 50% of Americans would vote for the Republican candidate in their congressional district and 50% would vote for the Democratic one if the midterms were held today. That marked an enormous improvement for the GOP, which trailed the Democrats 54%-46% on the same question last month. When presented with the following hypothetical campaign message from the GOP, 54% of respondents said they found it “believable”: Republicans say that they are returning responsibility to government by arresting criminals, closing the borders, keeping tax es low, and lowering energy costs. We can’t go back to the Democrats who were allowing our cities and way of life to deteriorate and prices on energy and food to soar while fraud took billions and billions of dollars of their giveaway programs. Just 48% of respondents, meanwhile, said they found this hypothetical message from Democrats credible: Democrats say we are for affordability. Free government services. Free housing and transportation. Healthcare for all. Free student loans. We have the money and can provide these services if you elect us to office and we will bring down the billionaires Sixty-one percent of Americans, though, indicated that they would be receptive to an overtly anti-Trump message from Democrats along the lines of: Suppose the Democrats say we need to stop Donald Trump. He is a runaway dictator, and we need a check on his power by returning the Congress to the Democrats. His tariffs are increasing prices, and he is off on foreign adventures. For his part, Trump’s net approval rating ticked upward from -6 last month (45%-51%) to -3, (46%-49%).The post DEAD HEAT: Stunning New Poll Shows GOP Drawing Even With Dems Ahead of Midterms first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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