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Richter RR10 - a portable DAB+ radio with an Aussie touch

Equipment Reiview with James Cridland DAB+ Digital Radio offers a load of additional choice, and with extra sports stations from RadioTAB and the new Macquarie Sports station, there’s even more on the dial for people who are out and about. All we...
16 May, 2018

Sennheiser and Neumann products at NAB2018

Sennheiser and Neumann brought their full portfolio of audio production tools to the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas, including new microphone and headset solutions. The companies’ stand displayed tailor-made audio solutions for mobile journalism,...
14 April, 2018

Wedel expands its payment and advertising systems

Wedel Software founder Raoul Wedel let us in on two new innovations taking place in his systems during RadioDays Europe. Wedel offers traffic, billing and other software products for broadcasters, which were demonstrated at the company exhibit in...
29 March, 2018

Audio-on-demand company Acast to curate in-car audio

The mobile podcast hub teams with Ford so drivers can curate their commute.  Ford has announced that the mobile app from audio-on-demand podcast app Acast will be made available to drivers. The technology offers offline downloads and...
27 February, 2018

Video increasingly important for radio broadcasters: Chris Dredge #CBAAConf

At this year's CBAA Conference, exhibitor Pacific Live Media brought along a Tricaster video switcher as well as its usual range of radio equipment. Why video? Because vision is becoming increasingly important for radio broadcasters in this...
10 November, 2017

When networking goes wrong

Continuing our series on the pitfalls of technical errors, a radioinfo reader has sent us an example of where networking can go wrong. Most networks these days have a complex computer based system of switching feeds from various studios to their...
08 November, 2017

The Elephant in the room is a time bomb: Des DeCean

Des DeCean, former Director of Technology for the Austereo radio network follows up our earlier report with this article with more thoughts on better maintenance and updating of studio and transmission equipment. I was reminded of the importance of...
04 November, 2017

Wake up call for station management about equipment maintenance and upgrades

Are you still using a 10 year old computer? Of course not.  Your work would be too slow, you could not access new software, your browser would not play media properly and you know the hardware would be likely to fail unexpectedly at any moment...
02 November, 2017

The jock resistant broadcast console has arrived

It’s like using the touch screen on your smartphone or tablet only bigger. Much bigger. All the faders and switches move with the precision you’d expect of top quality apps on your mobile or tablet. On top of all that the new Helix from Logitek is...
31 July, 2017

The hardest to fill vacancy in radio. And how you could fill it

Most HR recruiters will tell you that Broadcast Engineers are as rare as hens’ teeth. If that’s so, then last weekend’s Technorama conference held at the Campbelltown RSL was a rare event indeed with more "hens’ teeth" gathered in one room than...
19 June, 2017

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