Author Archives: Fred Stiening

Triton is the biggest player in the streaming business. They are being acquired by iheart Media https://www.tritondigital.com/news-item/February-17-2021/iheartmedia-to-acquire-triton-digital-from-scripps Triton’s most current owner was Scripps broadcasting. Five years ago, Scripps spun off their newspaper business to focus on radio and TV.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%20202%28c%29%20Emergency%20Order%20-%20ERCOT%2002.14.2021.pdf Being discussed by Alex Jones The US department of energy prohibited Texas from turning on generation of power that was too unfriendly to the environment

Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer a year ago. About a week ago, his staff was sending out signals the end was near. He died at home, not in a hospital.

If you don’t know who Alpha Media is, don’t feel bad. You have probably not listened to any one of their ~250 stations. They don’t do any syndicated programming like Westwood one or Clear Channel. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/204327/alpha-media-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-restructuring/ Alpha media was pulled … Continue reading →

Syndication contracts typically require the syndicator to give 30 days notice to the radio stations that a program is going to cease distribution. Clark Howard was being syndicated by Westwood One (owned by Cumulus media). Cumulus Media went through bankruptcy … Continue reading →

Enough radio stations are starting to promote using digital assistants that it is time to face reality. I think that behind the scenes, Tunein is the vehicle being used for implementing Skills to play radio streams. As I find them, … Continue reading →

Back in the day, WLW-am in Cincinnati was one of the legendary radio stations listened to by truckers driving overnight. WLW is located in Cincinnati, and was actually built with a transmitter capable of 500,000 Watts in the event of … Continue reading →

Two weeks before the election, WAMU has turned off comments on their website. WAMU is operated by American University, closely affiliated with the US State Department, and by inference the CIA. WAMU is the official “public” radio station of “the … Continue reading →

Back in the early days of electronic personal assistants (Siri, Alexa, Google Home, etc) the South Park show pranked its viewers by slipping commands into the script for Alexa to add bizarre things to the person’s shopping list. Today, while … Continue reading →

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/200439/fcc-approves-voluntary-digital-operation-for-am/ If you own an HD capable radio, it already has the ability to receive pure digital AM radio. There is not much disagreement that hybrid AM did not work. There just is not enough spectrum to support both digital … Continue reading →