Meeting the leaders in audio innovation at the RadioDays exhibition #RDE25

31 March 2025 Europe's biggest radio conference, RadioDays, took place in Athens this month. In addition to the conference sessions (see our coverage here), the venue had a...

IT sector is now entwined in the music industry: Centre for Media History conference

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...

IBC Trends 5: Digital Watermarking

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.

IBC Trends 4: Using AI to make talkback and reporting more efficient

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...

IBC Trends 2: The Cloud

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...

New Generative Sales Proposal tool from Enco #IBC24

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...

RCS VP Keith Williams speaks about ‘Radio in the Cloud’ at ABU workshop

27 July 2022 July 25, 2022 - RCS AsiaPac Vice President, Keith Williams (right) spoke on the opening day of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union workshop in Malaysia with RCS...

Implausible isn’t impossible

17 December 2020 John Maizels goes sleuthing. This is one for everyone in the broadcasting industry, and especially for managers and career technologists. Turns out we techies...

Telephones: a weak link in remote broadcasting

1 June 2020 Have you been listening to the quality of telephone calls on radio during this time of lockdown? Most of them are pretty bad. Steve Ahern...

BES India showcases DRM expansion plans

17 February 2020 At Delhi’s Broadcast Engineering Show (BES) there was a big contingent of companies showing DRM transmission and receiver technology. Steve Ahern was there for radioinfo.

Divergence and convergence of listening: smart speakers and the age of audio

9 March 2019 Steve Ahern's assessment of the continuing evolution of audio devices and consumption. A few years ago I started tracking the divergence of media consumption devices,...

Who is Alexa and what is she doing in my son’s bedroom?

25 March 2017 Alexa, I don’t like that song, play me another one… Change the station, I want to hear Kyle and Jackie… Voice control of audio devices...

The Changing Media Business: Opportunities for Broadcasters #DBS2017

11 March 2017 In a DBS2017 session titled The Changing Media Business - Opportunities for Broadcasters, held in Malaysia, a range of viewpoints were presented on where the...

‘We have to compete with more attractive software industries to attract broadcast engineers’

5 March 2017 A top level summit of equipment manufacturers, trainers and broadcasters is taking place in Kuala Lumpur this weekend to tackle skills shortages in broadcast and...

Understanding Engineers

3 December 2016 This was sent to our inbox during the week, after we published our story about Sporadic E, which was heavily viewed and discussed by our...

Tools, tips and new tech toys at Technorama conference

1 August 2014 Community broadcasting technologists have gathered in Melbourne for this year's Technorama Conference. The conference is targeted at techologists from all ends of the spectrum, from...

Digigram Sound Cards Enable New Radio and TV Broadcast Workflows at KBS

17 July 2014 Korean national broadcaster KBS is integrating Digigram sound cards with an Adsoft radio broadcasting system and a Dalet recording, editing, and media asset management system...

OnAir Solutions announced as Australian distributor for Sonifex

14 May 2014 Sonifex, a manufacturer of interface products for radio and tv, has announced OnAir Solutions as new Australian distributor, effective May 2014. Sonifex makes products used...

New iPad Mixer: It’s not cheap but it’s powerful

22 January 2014 The technology around the way we do audio has changed fundamentally in recent years, from the small form factor remote recording technology to the advanced...

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