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- Lisa Berigan Returns to BIG100 Midday Slot
iHeartMedia Washington, DC has named Lisa Berigan as the new midday host on WBIG (BIG100), effective immediately. Berigan will be heard weekdays from 10am-3pm on the Classic Rock outlet. She will report to Dustin Matthews, Director of Rock Programming for iHeartMedia DC. In announcing the appointment, [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Former CBS Radio Engineer Henry Lenz Is Still Rolling
An early 1980s CBS Radio promo features Diane Sawyer, Charles Osgood and Dan Rather at the bottom. The engineer with the beard right above Rather is Henry Lenz. Credit: Henry Lenz CBS News Radio leaves in its wake an era of broadcasting never to be repeated. Nearly a century of voices, reporting and features that, based on the outpouring of feelings we’ve seen this month following its shutdown, meant so much to the radio industry and those who follow it. The shuttering of the news division prompted a wave of reflection among former staff, including veteran correspondent Judy Muller, who remarked to former CBS Radio Engineer Henry Lenz that she never expected to outlive CBS News Radio. Now, Lenz, who spent almost 40 years with the network making sure the likes of Walter Cronkite, Charles Osgood, Douglas Edwards, Charles Kuralt, Mike Wallace and Dan Rather sounded at their best, is now sharing some of the moments he helped bring to the airwaves. He launched “Still Rolling,” a Substack dedicated to his memories of CBS News Radio’s golden era. For years, colleagues and friends urged Lenz, 75, to write a book about his decades at the network. “But that’s not what I wanted to do,” he remembered saying. “I wanted to tell the story my way.” Finally, after talking with several friends who are producers in the industry, Lenz began crafting episodes, with around a dozen online at his Substack. They include audio clips, pictures and several documents never revealed to the public before — such as Cronkite’s 1976 audio tribute to a retiring colleague. Plus, there are Lenz’s own memories through his writing. Campus to Cronkite After growing up listening to Dan Ingram, Lenz would go on to mix his Top 40 Satellite Survey. Lenz is pictured with Ingram in this autographed photo. Credit: Henry Lenz It all started for Lenz during his youth in New York City, where he grew up listening to legendary voices like Dan Ingram on WABC. He later attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y, eventually rising to become the news director of the campus radio station, WEOS. “This was during the late 1960s with quite a bit going on,” Lenz said, reminiscing that his college years coincided with historic events such as the Vietnam War, the moon landing and major civil rights protests. Following graduation, Lenz accepted a full-time volunteer position at… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - FCC Issues Blunt Reminder to Broadcasters
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr at its February open meeting. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is making it clear to TV and radio stations: Your license is a privilege, not a right. An unsigned seven-page notice distributed Thursday amounted to an unusual public defense from the GOP-led commission for the regulatory approach taken under Chairman Brendan Carr. But it reiterated, amidst a contentious regulatory backdrop, that if the FCC finds a licensee is not serving “the public interest,” there will be consequences. The document also emphasized how quarterly issues and programs lists in a station public file are a “significant and representative indication” that a licensee is meeting the needs of its community. The notice does not cite any recent regulatory items that have gained headlines — such as the FCC’s call for public comment on “The View” or its order that Disney’s ABC-owned TV stations must file for early license renewal — though it did specifically mention licensees are prohibited from “news distortion.” [Related: “LeGeyt Says FCC License Action Creates ‘Significant Uncertainty’”] But the order also comes on the day that Disney was to file license renewals for all of its TV stations. If the FCC finds that a broadcaster has failed to serve the public interest, it reiterated that it may take disciplinary actions. These include enforcement, granting a renewal with conditions or on a short-term basis, requiring an early license renewal application or designating an application for a hearing. Carr took to X in support of the notice’s messaging, writing that “the agency will take appropriate actions to ensure compliance.” Conversely, Commissioner Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat of the three-commissioner agency, told broadcasters to ignore “these latest threats” and “stiffen their spine.“ “The ‘public interest’ does not mean this administration’s interests,” Gomez said on X. But the public notice repeatedly emphasized what the commission said is a difference between First Amendment rights and a licensee’s public obligations. “The mere denial of a license because ‘the public interest’ requests it ‘is not a denial of free speech’,” the commission wrote. (Read the commission’s public notice to broadcasters.) Finite spectrum Unlike newspapers or streaming platforms, the commission wrote, no one can broadcast without a license “due to the unique technical aspects of the public resource they operate on.” The seven-page document is written with TV licensees in mind — “there are far fewer broadcast TV stations available… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago - AudioGo updates audio ad platform reporting
Self-serve advertising platform AudioGo is announcing an upgrade to its client reporting platform, called Enhanced Reporting. There appear to be three parts to this. Click for more. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago - Vox Media sells its podcast network to Murdoch-owned groupWe learn from a publicized announcement by Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff that Vox Media is splitting into two independent companies. One of them will result from an acquisition spinoff of The Vox Media Podcast Network, New York Magazine, and… Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
- Best of Show: Dielectric RingMaster Antenna System
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. The RingMaster high-efficiency master antenna system from Dielectric merges new and familiar tech to create more economical, efficient and adaptable solutions for side-mount systems that can also input multiple FM stations into the antenna. It is aimed at multi-station, single-antenna applications such as a 10-station, 13-channel job deployed recently by Vertical Bridge in Texas. Dielectric cites powerful reductions in system complexity and tower load thanks to streamlined builds that use up to 33 percent fewer components, largely through reduced radiating elements. RingMaster merges spacing elements that incorporate full and half-wavelength spaced arrays. Half-wave bays are spaced closer together and behave as a single bay, enabling full FM bandwidth. “The breakthrough comes with a transition to full-wave spacing at a very precise point, maintaining full FM bandwidth through the remainder of the system with fewer parts.” Info: www.dielectric.com/antenna/ringmaster Jay Martin, right, accepts the award from Paul McLane. Photo by Jim Peck Read more coverage of our Best of Show recipients. The post Best of Show: Dielectric RingMaster Antenna System appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
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