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- Inovonics Introduces AARON 656
AARON 656 front Inovonics is launching a dual-tuner rebroadcast receiver for reliable signal rebroadcasting in FM and HD Radio environments, called the AARON 656, and will highlight it at the NAB Show. “Engineered for broadcast facilities where signal integrity is paramount, the 656 incorporates advanced features to optimize reception and failover, making it ideal for translator sites,” the company says. It is built around a Maximum-Ratio Comparison tuner system that continuously monitors signal-to-noise readings from Antenna 1, Antenna 2 and a combined input, dynamically selecting the best configuration. Dual antenna inputs enable automatic or manual switching between individual antennas or a merged feed, enhancing reception in challenging multipath or weak-signal areas. The receiver offers automatic or manual IF bandwidth control, MPX bandwidth adjustment in passthrough mode, stereo/mono blending and high-cut filtering. Spectral noise reduction refines FM audio, while simultaneous demodulation supports monitoring of both FM and HD audio. AARON 656 rear Input sources include FM, HD, analog, digital AES, streaming and internal backup player. Outputs are analog, digital, streaming and headphone monitoring. The five-band processor includes high-pass filtering, phase rotation, AGC, leveling, stereo enhancement, parametric EQ, multiband compression, wideband and HF limiting and a stereo generator, with factory and user presets. An integrated RDS encoder supports static or dynamic operation, drawing metadata from TCP/UDP ports, HD PAD, stream sources or backup files. Failover capabilities are comprehensive, with a primary source and three backups, each configurable for audio, RDS, processor presets and triggers. As a last resort, the backup player accesses up to 4 GB of local files. Features include alarms for various conditions, configurable with email notifications. The unit features SNMP support, a battery-backed RTC with up to four NTP sources, and a web server for remote access and audio streaming. Info: www.inovonicsbroadcast.com [Do you receive the Radio World SmartBrief newsletter each weekday morning? We invite you to sign up here.] The post Inovonics Introduces AARON 656 appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.27 mins ago - FCC Upholds New LPFM CP in Miami
The recipient of a construction permit to build a low-power FM station on 99.5 MHz in Miami, Fla., has fought off a challenge at the FCC. The case involves a group of mutually exclusive applications submitted in the FCC’s 2023 filing window for new LPFMs. Originally there were five applications in this MX group. Two dropped out by making changes to their applications and becoming “singletons.” The FCC then applied its “point system” analysis to the remaining three, and it chose two, tentatively deciding that La Familia De Fe Corp and Doral Voice Corp. should submit a voluntary time-sharing proposal. But each raised concerns about the other. La Familia and REC Networks argued, among other things, that none of the headquarters addresses in the DVC application and filings with Florida’s secretary of state were within 10 miles of the proposed transmitter site as required by LPFM rules. Meanwhile Doral Voice told the FCC that La Familia President Rodolfo Martinez had engaged in pirate broadcasting by already broadcasting on 99.5, a frequency time-shared by WHIM(LP) and WBUJ(LP), and that he or his company exert control over WHIM and may have an undisclosed attributable interest in it. The Media Bureau subsequently awarded a CP for WFRH(LP) to La Familia and rejected the Doral Voice application. But Doral Voice then asked the bureau to reconsider the dismissal. Among other reasons it said it subsequently had relocated its headquarters; that Rodolfo Martinez or La Familia really had engaged in unlicensed broadcasting and continue to do so; and that Martinez’s company was fully in control of WHIM. The FCC Media Bureau now has rejected its reconsideration petition. For one thing, it cites a precedent that an applicant may not “sit back and hope that a decision will be in its favor and, when it isn’t, to parry with an offer of more evidence.” It said Doral should have raised its localism defense earlier. But the bureau also decided on separate grounds that the Doral petition was “meritless and repetitive.” On the issue of local eligibility, the FCC says Doral Voice had “amended its application more than one year after filing the original DVC application, and well after the filing deadline.” So Doral Voice was not local at the time of filing the initial application, as required. As to the La Familia application, the bureau upheld its decision. It said Doral Voice had failed to establish… [TheTopNews] Read More.36 mins ago - NAB Show Sets Schedule for 2026 BEIT Conference
Attendees at the 2025 BEIT Conference opening session. Credit: NAB WASHINGTON—The National Association of Broadcasters has announced the live schedule for the 2026 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference, with a program spotlighting the future of broadcast and digital media. Held April 18–21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center during NAB Show, the conference convenes the engineers and technologists designing the systems that power media operations. Anchored by a keynote from Poppy Crum, Ph.D., the 2026 BEIT Conference examines how fast-evolving technologies for broadcast and digital media, including cloud-native architectures, IP-based infrastructures, AI-driven workflows and NextGen TV, are redefining media creation, distribution and scale. “As media infrastructures modernize through virtualization, cloud-native workflows and AI, innovation must remain anchored in how people perceive and interact with technology,” said John Clark, chief innovation officer, NAB. “BEIT creates space for the technical community to share breakthroughs, strengthen standards and shape a more resilient and future-ready media ecosystem.” NAB BEIT Opening Session and Keynote Presentation Hosted by NAB’s Clark, the BEIT Conference Opening takes place on Saturday, April 18 from 9:30–10:45 a.m. in the North Hall, with remarks from BEIT Conference Committee Chairman Sun Sachs, Senior Vice President, Digital Products, Townsquare Media, followed by the presentation of the Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award, co-sponsored with IEEE BTS. Poppy Crum Keynote speaker Crum will then take the stage for her presentation “From Data to Mind: How Technology is Reshaping the Minds of Storytellers and Media Consumers,” which will discuss how advances in AI and human-centered engineering are reshaping how people interact with broadcast content, media and technology. Drawing on research in neuroscience and immersive systems, the keynote will also explore how emerging tools — from empathetic interfaces to AI-driven experiences — are beginning to understand human intent and behavior, transforming how audiences engage with broadcast and digital media, as well as advertising. Crum is a neuroscientist, technologist, investor, and futurist who works at the forefront of human performance, sensory systems, artificial intelligence and technology innovation. She is managing director at Giant Step Capital and an adjunct professor at Stanford University, and previously served as chief scientist at Dolby Laboratories and chief technology officer at Trimble Inc. Crum is a recognized expert in designing advanced technology and AI systems that are grounded in human physiology and cognition, with a focus on how data-rich environments and immersive, augmented sensory systems can expand… [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago - Fox’s Peter Doocy Asks Trump Why He Can’t Reopen the Strait of Hormuz After ...
Fox News’s senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed President Donald Trump on why the U.S. can’t just reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the commander in chief claimed any ship that would drop a mine in the shipping route is no more. Doocy posed the question to Trump on Monday during a White House press conference with the board of the Kennedy Center, an event that was not without awkward moments and stretched truths. After Trump announced during the event that 30 of Iran’s mine-laying ships “have been destroyed,” Doocy asked why the strait, which was closed by Iran last week and prompted a spike in oil and gas prices, could now just open. “Now that you’ve announced that the U.S. has destroyed all of the mine-laying ships, why can’t the U.S. just immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz?” Doocy asked the president. “Well, we could, but it takes two to tango,” Trump replied. “We have to get people to take their billion-dollar ship and, you know, drive it up.” Read the exchange below: PETER DOOCY: Something else, now that you’ve announced that the U.S. has destroyed all of the mine-laying ships, why can’t the U.S. just immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we could, but it takes two to tango. We have to get people to take their billion-dollar ship and, you know, drive it up. When Pepe has his big sugar ships coming around and they cost a billion dollars, I would say. “I think it’s OK now, Pepe, take your ship and drive it through the Strait of Hormuz.” He may say, “Let me wait a little while,” because it takes ship owners and — you know, these ships are very expensive. They can cost up to $2 billion. So they don’t want to take a chance, and I think “Gee, I think you will be OK, they have to know it. So that they don’t have to — we don’t know if they even set any mines, but the thought that they may have is enough to keep people from saying, we don’t need it. Now, we are pounding that area, that coast as you know, left side. We are pounding it, like really pounding it hard. And again, they may have no mines set. We hit every one of their mine-droppers third drops, they call it the mine… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - JUST IN: Ousted Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino Is Retiring
(Angelina Katsanis/AP photo) Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino is retiring at the end of March, shortly after he was ousted from leading President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration in Minnesota earlier this year. Bovino announced his retirement in an exclusive interview with Breitbart on Monday. “The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced,” Bovino said. He added, “Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling.” CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported the same news to his followers on X. Bovino is leaving Border Patrol after nearly 30 years at the agency. He was a key member of Trump’s push to deport illegal immigration in the year after he returned to the White House, with Bovino overseeing raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New Orleans, among other cities. Outspoken Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is retiring at the end of this month, sources tell CBS News. Earlier in the Trump administration, Bovino was deployed to major cities across the U.S., to oversee sweeping and often controversial immigration raids. — Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) March 16, 2026 He also led the operation in Minnesota alongside DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, but both of them have since been replaced. Bovino was removed from Minnesota after the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in January, soon after he told reporters that Pretti was looking to “massacre” immigration agents. Trump had White House Border Czar Tom Homan replace Noem and Bovino as the top immigration boss in Minnesota afterwards. Here are some more details on the operations Bovino oversaw, per Breitbart’s story: The Los Angeles operations during the summer of 2025 would net the agency more than 5,000 illegal alien arrests. Under Bovino, the agents often deployed innovative methods and, on one occasion, saw Border Patrol agents conceal themselves within a Penske cargo truck to conduct immigration operations at an unofficial day labor location dubbed “Operation Trojan Horse.” Interior immigration enforcement operations would later move to Chicago, where “Operation Midway Blitz” would lead to more than 3,000 illegal alien arrests over several months in northern Illinois, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The report noted Bovino is currently the… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Your Legacy Is Already Being Destroyed’: Alex Jones Berates Trump Over Self...
Screenshot Conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones berated President Donald Trump on Monday for “troubling” actions Jones said are destroying his presidential legacy. Jones began his eight-minute video posted to X by deriding Trump for “coming to the defense of Mark Levin” in the Fox News host’s war of words with podcaster Megyn Kelly, saying it’s a symbol of a larger problem. Jones said Trump’s defense “is extremely troubling,” arguing, “‘It’s these evil, terrible people who aren’t MAGA’ attacking him and that Trump’s coming to his aid. Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and others have been all over the conservative circuit, CPAC, their own shows, TPUSA, saying Tucker Carlson is not MAGA, Alex Jones is not MAGA, other people that are supposed to be excommunicated.” “But let’s get one thing straight here,” Jones said. “I was around a lot longer than Trump, politically, and I’ve never been MAGA — I’m 1776. I’ve supported the aims of Make America Great Again so far. Now all those definitions are changing.” Jones continued: But what Trump’s really doing here is attacking his critics. He wants to say, “Don’t attack me in the Iran war.” He wants to say, “Leave Mark Levin alone, he’s the litmus test.” He’s calling for censorship, all the rest of it on people like Tucker Carlson and myself, “or I will say you’re not part of my movement.” Well, Trump, you don’t have to worry about that, people are already very upset with you and already understand that your legacy is already being destroyed by you breaking your promise about this war, and a lot of the other things you’ve done, like no prosecutions of the deep state. So, if you want to continue to self-inflict wounds on your own name and political dynasty, I’m sad about that, but, you know, that’s your life. You can do it. We’re going to stay true to our populist conservative nationalist Christian ideas that you rode in on and that we launched. I’ve been promoting these issues for 30-plus years. Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and all your darlings were Never Trumpers and attacked you. “So, just enjoy the political nursing home you’re in, the waiting room to the rest of eternity,” Jones concluded. “As for those of us who are still engaged, still informed — we’re gonna move forward with the America first agenda, and 1776, worldwide — that’s the facts.” Jones… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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