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Attention, C-Suiters: Which Personality Style Are You?

Radio+Television Business Report
4 years ago

“So much can get misinterpreted in a sales call, business meeting or even a casual hallway interaction,” says sales training expert Barrett Riddleberger. “To avoid this, successful performers develop the communication skill of understanding personality styles.”

They learn their own style … and the style of the person with whom they are speaking.

“As a result, they minimize conflict between their two personality styles,” he says. “For the unaware person, it can quickly disrupt the conversation.”

This, Riddleberger notes, can be easily avoided by following the steps in this column.

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RBR-TVBR

A ‘Neutral’ Improvement for ViacomCBS Shares

Radio+Television Business Report
4 years ago

A top Wall Street media sector analyst is apologizing for what some may consider to be an overly dramatic opening paragraph to a highly positive report on a multiplatform video content producer and distributor that sold its radio stations to Audacy, the former Entercom Communications.

In short, despite its recent surge and fizzle with its stock price, ViacomCBS deserves an upgrade, thanks to “a surprise comeback” giving renewed optimism even as “another life-threatening swoon” leaves the market on the edge of its seats.

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Adam Jacobson

Looking to Radio for a Bounce-Back

Radio World
4 years ago

Amador Bustos is president and CEO of Bustos Media, owner of radio stations in Arizona, California, Texas, Washington state and Wisconsin. The stations mostly broadcast in Spanish but some offer English-, Chinese-, Korean-, Russian- and Vietnamese-language programming. He discusses the state of radio broadcasting and Bustos Media stations.

He was interviewed by Suzanne Gougherty, director of MMTC Media and Telecom Brokers at the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council. MMTC commentaries appear regularly in Radio World, which welcomes other points of view on industry issues.

Suzanne Gougherty: For more than a year the thirst for information regarding the pandemic has been at the forefront of news — how have your radio stations kept your audience informed on current news and information?
Amador Bustos: Since we are primarily a music intensive station group, and our DJs were working from home, they had to rely on news feed from our local newspapers and television stations. Besides our AM-drive top-of-the hour newscast, we expanded our pandemic coverage to live commentary and interviews with local health officials at any time of the day.

[Read: Keeping Sports Hot in the Age of Coronavirus]

Gougherty: What do you think is the most overwhelming challenge of the radio industry today, and where do you see the best opportunity for growth?
Bustos: The most pressing challenge for radio is the false assertion by social media outlets and digital audio competitors who are continuously forecasting the death of terrestrial radio. The best opportunity for revenue growth is in entertainment and event production. Due to the year-long isolation there is a strong pent-up demand for indoor concerts and outdoor festivals.

Gougherty: As a successful entrepreneur what was the motivating factor that led you to owning and operating radio stations?
Bustos: The opportunity to generate wealth. When I started buying radio stations the revenue margins were much higher. Secondly, to increase ownership diversity. I saw a rapidly expanding number of radio stations targeting the Hispanic market, but too few of us were represented in the ownership ranks. That continues to be true today.

Gougherty: It was reported that full power radio stations, plummeted at the end of 2020, on both the AM and FM dials. Do you feel the industry will experience the same decline in 2021? Do you think there is a solution other than to turn licenses back to the FCC?
Bustos: Yes! Radio revenues plummeted during the second and third quarter of 2020. However, the recovery during the last six months is encouraging. It is important that we make the distinction between AMs and FMs. Our AMs continue depressed. This year, I will likely return more than one AM license to the FCC for lack of sustainable revenue.

Gougherty: Should the FCC relax or retain the local AM and FM ownership caps and subcaps?
Bustos: The FCC should relax the ownership caps and subcaps. However, it should do it in two or three stages. First in markets above 100, then in markets above 50 and finally in all markets. At each stage the FCC should look at the unintended consequences of excessive concentration, negative impact on AM values, diminution of public service and ownership diversity trends.

Gougherty: What steps should Congress and the FCC take now to dramatically increase minority radio and television station ownership?
Bustos: Congress and the federal government can do two important things: 1) Reinstate the Minority Tax Certificate; which gives sellers a tax deferral if they sell to qualified diverse buyers; 2) Allow the SBA to do bank loan guarantees of up to $10,000,000 for the purchase of broadcast properties by qualified diverse borrowers/operators.

Gougherty: Spanish-language radio stations’ music formats have done well over the years. Do you feel there is room for other Spanish-language formats, talk, sports or news?
Bustos: There is room for those additional formats. However, they are more expensive to produce. That is why several past attempts have failed. It will take a well-capitalized and committed broadcaster to support such an effort. Just like iHeartMedia has done when it launched the Black Information Network in June 2020.

Gougherty:. During the recent roll-out of vaccines what kind of factual information have your stations provided to your listeners? And do you feel it has help to dispel the myths or misinformation that might be circulating in the Hispanic community?
Bustos: We have provided our audience information based on CDC’s guidance, as well as information provided by state and local health officials. Most of our on-air personalities are pro-vaccination and regularly speak in favor of it. When they are vaccinated, they disclose it and recommended it.

Gougherty: How has your sales team held up during the past year? And your on-air talent? Are all working from home or with strict measure at the work place? And as the owner how are you holding up?
Bustos: There is a clear sense of fatigue. Most employees are desirous of a return to the office. If things continue to trend well, we will likely have most employees return to an interactive, in-office work by June 2021.

 

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Suzanne Gougherty

A Trip Down Remote Control Memory Lane

Radio World
4 years ago

The author is tech editor of RW Engineering Extra.

Remote control systems have come a long way in my 45-year broadcast engineering career. I have had the pleasure — and sometimes frustration — of following these changes.

There was a time when you could call the phone company and order a “dry pair” from point to point, and over that dry pair you could connect your remote control system with its telephone dial, stepper relays and DC metering.

Those old systems were always interesting, especially when the steppers got out of sync, but somehow they got the job done.

Then came the Moseley TRC-15 types that used audio tones for telemetry. We could use those over a dry pair or just about any bidirectional telco circuit, or you could use them over a subcarrier on an STL for the outbound control functions (if I recall correctly, this used a 300-400 Hz FSK scheme for the wireline version).

Some folks used an over-the-air SCA for telemetry backhaul for the TRC-15 — if you couldn’t get a reading on anything, the transmitter must be off! — but others used telemetry return links on one of eight discrete 450/455 MHz frequencies designated for such by the FCC. And there were no status indications.

But all in all, the TRC-15 was a huge step up (no pun intended) from the old stepper relay DC remote control systems. It was an even better platform if you installed the digital telemetry adaptor offered as an aftermarket add-on from Hallikainen and Friends.

Up in smoke

There were some digital systems from Moseley that came after the TRC-15. I remember using them in some of the TV stations at which I worked. The red LED digital readouts took away the sometimes difficult task of meter scale interpretation and interpolation, always a plus with busy master control operators!

Then in the early 1980s came the MRC-1600, a 16-channel digital remote control with status. I thought I’d gone to heaven when that unit came out … until the first lightning strike.

The old TRC-15 didn’t seem to care much about lightning, but that MRC would go up in smoke every time the sky got cloudy, or so it seemed. I remember that the display would say OUCH! if an input channel got hit with too much voltage or if one of the multiplexers was damaged.

That sensitivity to static discharges bit me one time, too. It was always a challenge to remember to take the R/C out of “local” and put it back in remote when leaving a transmitter site. One TV station at which I worked had a red 60-watt light bulb in a porcelain socket right next to the door, and that bulb would be lit whenever the remote control system was in “local.” That saved a lot of midnight trips back to the tower site.

I wanted something similar at one radio site I took care of, so I thought I would put the NC contacts of the local/remote relay in series with the alarm system door contact — it would then be impossible to set the alarm with the remote control in the “local” mode.

That worked great for about a day, until the next thunderstorm. The MRC lost its mind (OUCH!) and opened that local/remote relay and set off the burglar alarm.

It was a long drive from my house to that tower site at “Cadaver Creek” in stormy weather with the alarm wailing and the police on the way.

Talking control

In the late 1980s, Gentner Engineering came out with the VRC-1000, a revolutionary new “talking” remote control system that worked over a dial-up phone line.

That changed everything for radio stations. No longer would they need an expensive dedicated line or dry pair for remote control, or a fussy, interference-prone telemetry return link that would blank out whenever a cab driver passed by the studio while talking on his dispatch radio.

A Gentner VRC-1000 “talker” is visible in the right rack bay. When that model came out, we thought we’d gone to radio heaven.

The early vocabulary was limited, but we made it work. And the best part was that the unit would call us when something went wrong. Programming was a chore, but it was just so … cool … that we didn’t care!

Later iterations of the Gentner VRC (and Burk GSC) had improved vocabulary and other capabilities, and some of these units are still in service today.

If memory serves, Gentner came out with a “sample and hold” system to interface its VRC-series systems to analog antenna monitors, and that worked pretty well except right after pattern change — you had to wait for the next sample to get an accurate set of readings.

Potomac Instruments came out with a pretty good and capable system in the late 1980s. Interfacing remote control systems to analog antenna monitors was always a difficult task, and the Potomac RC16+ had a means of doing that, using a scan function to constantly monitor operating parameters.

The thing that probably kept the unit from greater popularity was that it could not be programmed in the field — it was EPROM programmable, and that had to be done by the factory. Need to make a change? Fill out this form and we’ll burn and ship you a new EPROM.

That worked, but it was anything but convenient, and it certainly discouraged programming changes. Still, it was a rugged, reliable system.

IP all the way

The name Burk became synonymous with “remote control” in the mid-1990s, and that remains the case today.

The first Burk systems I used were ARC-16s, and they were good, rugged, reliable units that could be configured as stand-alone dial-up, dedicated studio/transmitter pairs of a combination.

These systems had RS232 capability, and you could purchase an IP-to-RS232 adaptor to link your units together over a network or even the internet. Multiple sites could be linked, a popular feature in the age of consolidation. There are a lot of ARC-16 systems still out there in service, and for good reason.

Which brings us to today and the ARC Plus and ARC Plus Touch systems, which are nothing short of amazing. These units use IP connectivity all the way, and the ARC Plus Touch has SNMP and API capability.

This IP-based remote control is not the latest-greatest model from Burk but remains very capable.

In our company, the last few transmitter installations we have done where we had a Touch system in place did not use so much as an “RF On/Off” wire connecting transmitter to remote control — everything was done by SNMP. Which I should say can be a bit like drinking from a fire hose with some equipment interfaces — there are so many parameters available to monitor.

I should not fail to mention systems by Sine Systems, Broadcast Tools and others that provide a bridge between technologies and an excellent means for stations with limited resources to avail themselves of many of the features of much more expensive systems. I have used some of these systems in niche applications even within larger operations and found them very useful.

Today’s remote control systems, along with companion software, can do a lot of things. Many can run scripts and macros that can make decisions. You can make the logic as simple or complex as you wish using IF/THEN statements and AND/OR Boolean operators. Actions can be scheduled based on a calendar/clock, or they can be triggered by some external input or event, even taking input from external off-site data over the internet. They can blow up our phones or drive us nuts with texts and emails. I love the mobile web page displays of some remote controls, where I program things green-good/red-bad. A busy operator or engineer can tell at a glance if all is well.

One of the best macros that one of our engineers uses sends a text to her phone every 10 minutes whenever the remote control system is in the “maintenance” mode (the modern version of the “local” mode). That ensures that she won’t get more than 10 minutes down the road before she realizes she forgot to turn that off before leaving.

Not once since implementing this macro has she had to make an emergency run to a site at pattern change time when the pattern couldn’t change because the command relays were disabled! And not once has this set off the burglar alarm at a site!

In this day and age of ultra-capable remote control systems, our transmitter sites can be almost completely autonomous, which translates to fewer of the time pressures that often accompany equipment malfunctions. Such a remote control system can react to the failure, look at multiple variables and make decisions that will get the station back operating again in less time that it would take the engineer to answer his or her phone. That’s worth something.

For more on this topic, see “Remote Controls Have a History All Their Own”.

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Cris Alexander

Keep transmission lines high and dry

Radio World
4 years ago
Line pressure

Every AM, FM or TV transmitter must be connected to an antenna via some type of cable, normally a coax line. Some lines are constructed with a type of foam between the inner conductor and the outer conductor, while others are hollow.

If your system has the hollow type of transmission line, it is imperative that some type of gas pressure be inside the line. Transmission lines can be vulnerable to corrosion if they are exposed to oxygen and moisture, the two main components that cause a corrosive reaction.

Properly pressurizing coaxial cables will keep moisture out and therefore prevents arcs inside the cable and it improves the power-handling capacity of the coax by increasing the breakdown voltage between the inner conductor and the shield.

Engineers often ask which is more effective, nitrogen or using a dehydrator. The answer is, “It depends.”

If you will be operating the transmission line at or near the power rating of the line, nitrogen will give more protection from arc over. For lower power levels, either will work.

A properly sized dehydrator will keep your lines dry and pressurized. Some, like this model from Kintronic Labs, have web interfaces to allow monitoring of pressures.

To keep moisture out, the transmission line must be kept at a positive pressure relative to the outside pressure. The pressure required is minimal indeed; maintaining excessive pressure can damage the line and waste energy.

When it comes to dehydrators, proper sizing is everything. If undersized, the unit must run longer in order to maintain pressure, increasing wear on the compressor and driving maintenance costs higher. An oversized dehydrator, however, creates pressure surges in the line. This causes the unit to constantly cycle on and off, again resulting in increased compressor wear and higher maintenance costs.

It doesn’t take much pressure; 3 or 4 psi is more than adequate to keep moisture out of the line and antenna.

The most important takeaway point is to have a method to monitor the pressure in the line and an alarm system to notify engineering of a sudden loss of pressure on the line. This could be caused by failure of the dehydrator or empty nitrogen supply. It could also indicate a pending failure in the line itself caused by a major gas leak created by lightning or even a bullet hole.

When installing a new line, it is advisable first to pull a vacuum on the line. This will remove all the moisture from the line. Then fill the line with nitrogen or dry air from a dehydrator. Do not use a standard air compressor for this purpose, since it will fill the line with normal air, which is full of moisture.

This type of failure will be extremely costly and time-consuming. Don’t neglect this important part of your transmission system!

This article was published in the Alabama Broadcasters Association Monday Coffee and Technical Notes newsletter. Learn about ABA’s engineering training academy at https://al-ba.com.

RW Engineering Extra welcomes submissions of stories that help readers solve engineering problems. Email: rweetech@gmail.com.

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Larry Wilkins

Community Broadcaster: New Radio Filing Is Here

Radio World
4 years ago

The author is executive director of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. NFCB commentaries are featured regularly at www.radioworld.com.

Noncommercial radio is about to see the biggest boom in years. The Federal Communications Commission announced the dates when it will accept applications for full-power noncommercial radio stations later this year.

The announcement is massive news for noncommercial broadcasting. The FCC is making license opportunities available nationwide for the first time since 2010. Following criticism of that 2010 window, the commission has placed limits this time on the number of applications one can make. With a cap of 10 filings per applicant this time, the playing field is as wide as it will be in more than a decade.

A bigger 2007 window saw more than 1,300 construction permits approved. It is hard to say how many we’ll see when the 2021 application window opens Nov. 2–9.

[Read: Community Broadcaster: Hidden Figures]

Why does the new FCC application period matter? Noncommercial broadcasting has exploded in the last 20 years, more than doubling in number as AM and commercial FM are seeing declines. Every class of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and beyond is looking at Nov. 2–9 with high expectations. For publishers and community media, radio represents a foothold in legacy media that still counts a great deal. For faith-based organizations, radio means connecting with followers. For nonprofits with little previous relationship with media, radio can be a chance to reimagine their missions. And for the communities where stations may be approved, you’re talking about new possibilities for radio’s growth.

If you are interested in being one of those filers later this year, there are many items of interest.

Among the top priorities for filers is the application itself. FCC Form 340 is a very detailed document requiring applicants to present a broad range of technical, infrastructure and public disclosures as a part of the process. From producing proof that your nonprofit organization has the operating capital to run a station; to governance records; to engineering plans for your signal, antenna and more, filing your application will be a time-consuming process. You will want to review the application, select appropriate consultation, and act early to get it done.

You and your engineer will need to do the bulk of the work. It is on the aspiring broadcaster to propose a space that meets at least the minimum requirements and prove you are not stepping on others’ signals. This can be a complicated set of mathematics upon which you will work closely with your engineer.

Larger nonprofits interested in becoming broadcasters may want to get familiar with newer rules or consider retaining an attorney. In 2019, the commission took steps to streamline the application process, but still there are particular requirements of note. These revisions include declarations around governing documents of certain applicants as well as divestiture commitments.

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters last year hosted a primer on the full-power application window opening in November. There will be an updated discussion in July at the Wish You Were Here conference.

 

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Ernesto Aguilar

Now Dennis Sloatman Has Time for Mountain Biking

Radio World
4 years ago
Dennis Sloatman, left, visits with John Bisset at a trade show.

Dennis Sloatman recently retired from his position as vice president of engineering at SummitMedia. “After 51 years as a radio broadcaster, I’m finally getting out of the way for the next generation,” he wrote on social media.

“Now more time for mountain biking, hiking and messing with my control system projects. Overall, it’s been a good career.”

I took the opportunity to catch up with him about his career.

Paul McLane: How did you get started in radio tech?

Dennis Sloatman: I was a “broadcast radio nerd” growing up in Rockford, Ill., while listening to WCFL and WLS in Chicago, with the vainglorious hope that I could one day be a bigtime Chicago DJ like Larry Lujack and the “World Famous Tom Murphy.”

McLane: Tell us about your career path.

Sloatman: I began my career working at various stations in Northern Illinois: WRVI, WKWL, WRWC and WRRR as a DJ and unofficial “technical helper.” Then on to KHAK in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as an overnight DJ and ultimately, chief engineer, in 1977.

WDLS (for “Dennis L. Sloatman”) was a Part 15 100 mW AM station in Rockford, Ill., when Sloatman was a teen. Studios were in his basement.

Then I worked for Harris Corp. as a field service engineer in Quincy, IL.

Beginning in 1980, I worked for WORL, WMGF, WOMX, WLOQ, WMFE, WDBO, WMMO, WOCL and some others as chief engineer spanning 28 years, from 1980 to 2008, in Orlando, Fla.

Then I was chief engineer of the Cox four-station cluster in Richmond, Va., from 2008 to 2012.

While in Orlando, I taught electronics mathematics, electronic communications, electronic circuit analysis, A+ Hardware and A+ Software at Valencia College and University of Central Florida.

In 2012, I accepted a position as VP of engineering for the 10-station iHeartMedia cluster in Los Angeles, including famous stations such as KIIS, KFI and KBIG.

And then in 2016, for quality of life reasons I chose to move back to Richmond, Va., as VP of engineering for Summit Media where I  ended my career after 51 years in 2021.

At work for Harris.

McLane: Who were your mentors?

Sloatman: Early in my career in Cedar Rapids, my first CE job, my mentor was Robert F Burns — that’s right, “RF Burns!” I’d also have to recognize Larry Caldwell, chief of WRRR Rockford when I worked as his assistant engineer in 1975.

McLane: What are your feelings on stepping away from full-time engineering?

Sloatman: Relaxing! No longer on 24/7 call after 50+ years “being available at a moment’s notice.” I do miss daily solving problems and designing solutions, but I plan to direct those energies at other projects.

McLane: Looking over your major projects and accomplishments, is there one that stands out?

Sloatman: Well, one might expect I’ve built a great many studios, transmitter sites and broadcast facilities in Rockford, Cedar Rapids, Orlando, Michigan, Richmond and Los Angeles.

Clean room: Transmitters at SummitMedia station WKHK(FM) in Virginia.

All in all, I feel as if my part in turning the Los Angeles facility around and bringing modern technology and methods to the market was a highlight. In a similar manner, bringing professionalism and dignity to engineering management with SummitMedia is something I am proud of.

McLane: Would you encourage a young person to go into this field now?

Sloatman: First, I must say that I love the radio broadcasting business and being a lifelong problem-solver as a broadcast engineer. The exposure to almost every form of technology is exciting and challenging.

On the more negative side, I have to say I have always had a problem for what I perceive as a lack of appreciation by some managers for the vast knowledge and experience required of the modern broadcast engineer — electronics, RF, audio, FCC rules, control systems, computer and network technology, etc.

This lack of appreciation is made manifest by requests to the CE for handyman tasks such as changing lightbulbs, plumbing, hanging pictures, vehicle maintenance, etc.

I fully recognize that many of my brother engineers have no problem with this aspect, but I feel I didn’t devote my career and my engineering degree to be a handyman or anything less than a professional.

Therefore, yes, I would encourage young people to give it a good, hard look; but also I would make certain they are aware of what I perceive as the less attractive aspects of the job.

Now, this experience will vary depending upon the company and its management. Research is required before accepting a position. Some broadcast companies treat their engineers with respect while others act as if the engineer is chattel.

It’s difficult at best these days to find that one “right” person for the job, and I feel the industry sort of “shoots themselves in the foot.”

McLane: What else should we know?

Sloatman: I’d have to say the most enjoyable and rewarding part of my career came in the final decade when I managed a staff of 10 fantastic people in the IT and Engineering department in Los Angeles and later, the market engineers of SummitMedia. All great people and I will miss working with them.

Sloatman also joked on LinkedIn about his sense of relief: “No longer am I more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full o’ rockin’ chairs!” 

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Paul McLane

Stocks Bounce Back from Capital Gains Tax Worries

Radio+Television Business Report
4 years ago

U.S. financial markets were largely in recovery mode on Friday, after concerns that the Biden Administration would increase capital gains taxes sent general indices down sharply on Thursday.

How did media stocks fare?

Townsquare Media gained 11 cents to finish at $9.88.

Also gaining ground: The E.W. Scripps Co., up 16 cents to $22.99.

Sinclair Broadcast Group also improved nicely, with a 26-cent rise to $32.62.

Heading downward on Friday was TEGNA, which is again fending off a quest by dissident shareholder Standard General for a greater presence on the company’s board of directors. At the closing bell, TGNA was at $20.97, off 19 cents.

 

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Ravi Kapur Captures Another LPTV Facility

Radio+Television Business Report
4 years ago

Bay Area entrepreneur Ravi Kapur has emerged in recent months as a buyer of low-power TV stations.

He’s grabbed another one — this time in the birthplace of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

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A Missouri Combo Trades Hands

Radio+Television Business Report
4 years ago

An AM/FM combo serving a community to the south of Cape Girardeau, Mo., is being sold.

The stations air a Country format and offer a simulcast to local listeners.

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