JD Lasica’s New Media Musings put me onto a story about FOX affiliate KHON in Honolulu, where the station’s news anchor went on a bit of a tirade on air about the massive layoffs the station’s new owner is implementing. In particular, he revealed the new owner to be nothing more than the equivalent of […]
Archive | January, 2006
Catch Up on the Radioshow: Broadcast Flag Hearing, Podcasting and Public Broadcasting, Nexstar and the Decline of Local TV
If you haven’t been tuning in to the mediageek radioshow in the last month, I think you’ve missed some pretty interesting programs. On Jan. 13 my guest was Ken Schreiner, who was formerly news director of Nexstar-owned WCIA-TV in Champaign, IL. Ken held nothing back talking about how Nexstar is defunding its local news operations […]
Micro-Transmitter Manufacturer Fined by FCC
Ramsey Electronics has been well known in micro-radio circles for selling small Part 15 transmitter kits that often function as many folks’ first introduction to unlicensed broadcasting. A few years ago Ramsey started selling transmitters that put out much more power, at least 1 watt, which greatly exceed the Part 15 limits for unlicensed operation […]
WB/UPN Combination Will Hurt Sinclair, Trigger Consolidation
The news this week that the WB and UPN will be merging into one network has many mid-sized station owners shaking. That’s because a lot of markets have one affiliate for each network, but when they combine, one of those stations is going to lose its network affiliation. Already big players like Tribune and CBS […]
So-called HD-Radio, ain’t so HD
John at DIYmedia has posted a good introduction to what is now being called HD-radio, otherwise known as digital radio, or IBOC (acronym for In-Band On Channel). For the low, low price of about $500 you too can buy a digital radio capable of recieving almost-sorta-kinda-near-CD-quality audio on the FM dial, that the NAB and […]