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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has reappointed a Copyright Royalty Judge focused in economics to a six-year term.

With the decision, this judge will have spent 15 years on the Copyright Royalty Board.

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New York Festivals TV & Film Awards has added two individuals to its Advisory Board. One is the CEO of WaterBear Network. The other is the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Sustainability Officer for Mediacorp Singapore.

Ellen Windemuth, of WaterBear Network, is being joined by Mediacorp Singapore’s Walter Fernandez.

They join a 16-member Advisory Board panel. Their experience and expertise provide “a futurist’s view of the evolving television and film industry to NYF’s TV & Film Awards.”

The deadline to enter the 2022 Television & Film Awards competition is February 1.  To view entry details and competition rules and regulations visit HERE. For a complete list of 2022 categories, visit HERE.

All Entries in the 2022 competition will be judged online and screened by NYF’s TV & Film Awards award-winning Grand Jury panel.  Award-winning entries will be showcased at the Storytellers Gala.

To view the 2021 TV & Film Awards winner’s showcase visit: winners.

It’s a free, ad-supported app owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group that offers access to live and on-demand newscasts from its own stations and partner broadcasters from more than 165 DMAs across the U.S.

As of today, it is the latest built-in app to appear on Samsung Smart TVs.

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Joe De Angelis was promoted by iHeartMedia to the position of senior vice president of promotions for the iHeartMedia Markets Group, a newly created role at the company.

He’ll oversee promotions efforts for the company’s broadcast and digital brands and franchises.

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Part of his mission will be to “align promotional efforts across iHeartMedia markets by creating and spearheading iHeartMedia’s Promotions Center,” where he will be the promotions point person for clients and advertisers, as well as helping to develop promotional strategies to increase brand awareness for iHeartMedia stations.

He reports Scott Hopeck, division president for the iHeartMedia Markets Group, who called De Angelis “a natural leader and an exceptional collaborator” who oversaw marketing and promotions initiatives for the company’s New York City stations and national tentpole events.

De Angelis was director of marketing and promotions for iHeartMedia New York and has been national event brand manager since 2015.

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For those who believed the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the Pai Commission’s “modernization” of its cross-ownership rules by allowing one entity to own a newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market for the first time since the mid-1970s was a bad thing, a major deal involving a Windy City institution may come as sour news.

Yet, the FCC under former Chairman Ajit Pai may have helped save a Chicago daily while, at the same time, put the wheels in motion on a unique collaboration between a newspaper and Chicago Public Media — a model that could help save print publications in other markets from extinction.

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In the face of a pandemic and ensuring the company’s broadcast TV stations covered COVID-19 with all the resources they needed, Emily Barr has delivered for Chicago-based Graham Media Group’s local television stations, found in Houston, Detroit, San Antonio, Orlando, Jacksonville, and in Roanoke, Va.

She’s also become a familiar figure on Capitol Hill, thanks to her role as the NAB’s Television Board Chair. Now, Barr is ready to perhaps relax, as the fourth-ranked executive on Broadcast Television’s Best Leaders rankings for 2021 has announced her retirement.

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FCC Commissioner Simington gets to know radio (and vice versa). Two guys from StreamGuys talk about monitoring your audio streams.

Josh Bohn ponders radio workflows after the pandemic. John Bisset discovers something unpleasant inside an RF amp.

And James Careless tries out two worthy, affordable shortwave portables.

Read it here.

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Telos Alliance recently introduced the Telos VXs, describing it as a virtualized version of its VX VoIP talk show phone system. Bryan Jones is VX product manager and senior support engineer. 

This story is part of our latest Buyer’s Guide on telco and phone system products for radio.

Radio World: What exactly makes the VXs “virtualized”?

Bryan Jones: The term has become somewhat ubiquitous to mean a number of different things.

All previous iterations of the Telos VX were delivered as some piece of hardware that required on-premise installation that often limits its use to that installation location. Telos VXs is virtualized to the extent that it’s delivered as software only, allowing the customer to define what virtualized really means.

“Virtualized” could mean the customer already has some on-premise solution, or it could mean that it’s fully virtualized and running on servers that are in the cloud and that there is no on-premise hardware. A cloud-virtualized solution might mean the VXs could be used across multiple markets from a single install.

Telos VXs is delivered as an OCI-compliant container deployed in the customer’s environment using products like Docker.

RW: What are the key benefits to a radio station of this design approach?

Jones: In short, VXs offers unprecedented scalability and flexibility. To some extent, in hardware-based iterations of ANY product, total capacity is gated by the hardware platform it’s delivered on. A smaller hardware platform means a product might not scale to the desired level, whereas a larger more robust platform might mean overpaying for hardware that will never be used or never needed. Virtualization allows the hardware to scale along with the needs of the facility.

RW: What about compatibility with existing AoIP networks, from Telos or other vendors?

Jones: Telos VXs fully supports Livewire and AES67, the same as our hardware-based VX products.

RW: What else should we know?

Jones: Other benefits of virtualization allow us to support a product for potentially longer periods of time because we’re not encumbered by the hardware the product is delivered on. The hardware is abstracted by the virtualization layer, allowing for future platform flexibility.

More Info: www.telosalliance.com or +1 (216) 241-7225

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When it comes to local audience measurement, Nielsen isn’t the only source for ratings and consumer data anymore. Entravision Communications recognizes this, as it is signing a new agreement giving it access to Comscore‘s “next-generation linear audience measurement service” as its local audience currency in one of its television markets.

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A SVP of Performance Sales and a VP of Performance Sales have been added to the C-Suite at the audio content creation and distribution company formerly known as Entercom.

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