12 February 2025 Every year the world wide radio industry celebrates its own international day. February 13th is World Radio Day.
6 February 2025 As the world wide audio industry keeps expanding, the newest commercially viable category is Audio Books. It will be a major new topic at this...
22 January 2025 A trend we have been observing over the past few years is the divergence of audio listening habits. The mass consumer end of the audio...
19 January 2025 As you begin planning your year for 2025, our calendar can help you. Included are our Advertising Feature topics for the year, World Radio and...
20 January 2025 The past few years have seen an explosion in applications of artificial intelligence to creative fields. A new generation of image and text generators is...
15 January 2025 For broadcasters searching for a reliable, versatile audio monitor for UHD, live sports, and 12G-SDI workflows, the award-winning PAM2-12G is now shipping. PAM2-12G provides high-quality…
10 December 2024 Alexa has introduced a Smart Speaker ‘do it yourself’ skills kit for radio stations, reports Steve Ahern. The kit, introduced earlier this year, gives radio...
10 December 2024 RØDE has released the third generation of their Wireless GO (Gen 3), the wireless microphone platform with an intuitive grab-and-go operation. With 32-bit float on-board...
24 November 2024 Steve Collins and Sarah Keith delivered a session titled Music and AI: Creativity, Control, and Copyright at this week’s Centre for Media History conference at...
24 November 2024 The future of high-quality audio lies in personalization, driven by innovative hearing-assistive technologies such as those found in the newly released Apple AirPods Pro, according...
13 November 2024 Car giant General Motors wants to take back control of its entertainment and navigation systems and will ditch its interface with Apple's CarPlay and Android...
7 November 2024 Steve Ahern spotted six important trends at this year’s IBC Conference in Amsterdam. This is his report on trend number 6 (previous reports here).
5 November 2024 Technological innovation is rapidly improving products and driving growth across the consumer audio industry, according to Kavish Patel, Research Analyst at Futuresource, who delivered the...
29 October 2024 This is the fifth report in Steve Ahern’s series on new trends at IBC24 in Amsterdam. Electronic watermarking has been around for a while.
28 October 2024 There is just a couple of weeks to go before submissions close on the government’s proposals paper about Radio Prominence on Smart Speakers. Last year...
22 October 2024 At IBC24 there are always a few ground breakers who are thinking further ahead than most. This year they were thinking about how AI can...
20 October 2024 Tania Court, the station manager of Tune FM 106.9, which operates out of the University of New England in Armidale had just returned to her...
20 October 2024 As the climate is changing and power prices are rising, cost and sustainability are on every broadcasters mind. Transmission company GatesAir is responding to the...
15 October 2024 Media-focused consulting- and technology service Qvest have completed an upgrade of the Channel 9 station in Melbourne with the news, sports and post-production environments and...
11 October 2024 Analysis by James Duvall, Principal Entertainment Analyst, Futuresource Consulting. Vinyl records have experienced an astonishing comeback, with sales figures reaching levels not seen since...
11 October 2024 This is the third in Steve Ahern's series on new trends at IBC24 in Amsterdam. Content detection has come ahead in leaps and bounds...
10 October 2024 The last 12 months have been particularly productive for The Freedman Group, whose flagship brand RØDE still has its products designed and manufactured in Australia....
10 October 2024 Wondercraft, the AI-powered creative audio platform, has launched Director Mode, which gives content creators control over AI voices, allowing users to direct their characters with...
9 October 2024 The evolution of Cloud storage was the second important trend Steve Ahern observed at IBC24. Cloud storage has been around for many years, but...
30 September 2024 As broadcast newsrooms feel the economic pinch, News Technology suppliers are constantly trying to improve their tools to help newsrooms share content, clean up audio...
30 September 2024 Enco’s Ken Frommert unveils a new tool for Salespeople to produce proposal audio demos on the spot. He told Steve Ahern at IBC24 that the...
30 September 2024 Change is constant in our industry now. What does that mean for broadcasters, streamers, podcasters and catch-up services? During the massive four day IBC Conference...
29 September 2024 Contribution from Dave Charles, CEO of Media RESULTS Inc. John Parikhal (pictured) worked with me as media partners for Joint Communications Corp for 17 years, with...
27 September 2024 Only a year after becoming available in Australia, TikTok has announced that their subscription streaming music platform TikTok Music will close down permanently on November...
25 September 2024 RØDE has announced a groundbreaking production console with state-of-the-art video switching, production and recording capabilities and a complete professional audio studio. Just as the...