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Tepid Trading: The New Normal?
One year ago, brokers, industry observers and pundits predicted a robust trading cycle for radio and TV. Today, the end of the FCC’s incentive auction didn’t bring the bonanza of TV transactions many predicted. Radio deals are scattershot. What’s going on? That’s a question posed to some of the nation’s top media brokers.
The Push for EAS Accuracy
Alabama is on the forefront of EAS preparedness, advancements and accuracy. In the Mountain West, Cherry Creek Radio Chief Engineer Gary Smith has been a leader in bringing life-saving messages to communities. They represent some of the broadcast industry’s leaders committed to preventing a snafu like that seen in Hawaii in January 2018.
Help From the Cloud
You’ve just left the C-Suite, and your boss isn’t pleased. Costs are high, as are tempers, because your sales team, traffic manager and production department aren’t communicating. WAVSTAR seeks to erase this hypothetical situation from the radio industry.
Is ‘OTT’ Media’s Obvious Trek to Tomorrow?
Broadcast TV needs dependable technology to deliver more video streaming to the growing number of consumers who watch live and scheduled programming where and when they want. A Milan, Italy-based global video delivery network believes it has the tools to enter the U.S. marketplace. Radio + Television Business Report STREAMLINE PUBLISHING Chairman: Eric Rhoads Publisher: Deborah Parenti Editor-in-Chief: Adam R Jacobson Director of Administration: April McLynn 331 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, FL, 33432 Phone: 561-655-8778
Joe Meleski
Bernard Borghei
BUILDING A BRIDGE WITH BROADCASTERS By Editor-in- Chief Adam R. Jacobson (adam@rbr.com)
The next several years will be very busy ones for the broadcast tower business. Thanks in large part to the “repack” process following the FCC’s spectrum auction, TV broadcasting companies will be hyper-focused on making sure any migration of their signal is completed with no hiccups. At the same time, radio station owners are biting their nails over any impact TV’s repack will have on their FM broadcasts. Helping to ensure a smooth repack migration for both TV and radio companies is a Boca Raton, Fla.-based company that has become a key player in the broadcast tower-leasing arena. In an exclusive interview with RBR+TVBR, Vertical Bridge VP/Broadcast Leasing Joe Meleski and co-founder Bernard Borghei, who serves as EVP/Operations, discuss the repack process and how it has impacted the company and its clients. Meleski and Borghei also touch on the impact — both positive and negative — of changing technologies, the voluntary roll-out of the next-generation TV standard known as ATSC 3.0, and their perspective on media broadcasting in the digital age.
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