Old school broadcasting ingenuity! It had to be an engineer's wild idea that some director decided was just wild enough to work...

To be abundantly clear…

That’s in addition to everything listed in the OP. There are many ways to build a healthy music discovery pipeline!

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This is the kicker in a thread that you should absolutely read in its entirety - the intricacies of broadcast operations are universally quite boring and when they enter the cultural zeitgeist, the narrative itself tends to become detached from reality.

Weird… radio is still around. 🤷🏻‍♀️😉

Photo of the delay measurement screen on an Inovonics JUSTIN 808 HD Radio alignment processor, showing an uncorrectable negative delay between an HD1 simulcast and its analog FM parent. The status line reads “HD1 lags FM - unable to fix”

Not sure how this happened… I guess I need to increase the MPX delay from the Omnia.9 a little so the HD Radio time alignment processor has some room to work.

I wouldn’t leave my current employer even with a gun to my head, but those emails had a different location every time. I’ll keep livin’ on the air in Cincinnati for the time being please and thank you

Screenshot of a column in the December 3, 2025 issue of Radio World with the headline “When I get stressed, I just repeat ‘Linux’ to myself” Column written by Todd Dixon of Crawford Broadcasting Co.

Seeing a column extolling the virtues of Linux in an industry trade publication is a surefire way to make me giddy as a schoolboy.

It doesn’t look like the column has hit the Radio World web site yet, but I will follow up with a link if it does.

If the daily emails I received from a desperate recruiter a few months ago are any indication… that’s your indication.

There’s been a lot of ink spilled (and noise made) about teaching the new crop of IT people entering broadcasting some basic RF/electronics skills, but props to the SBE for also recognizing the value of teaching RF/electronics engineers some basic IT skills.

Yup. That’s a classic buffer underrun somewhere in the air chain that just so happens to line up perfectly. Thing of beauty

Now that I think about it… even if the program audio is encoded correctly, the nature of an event like this may cause Nielsen to just exclude these timestamps from the books given the curiosity-driven spike in listening both in and out of the market.

MSP is (if I recall) a Nielsen PPM market; depending on where the audio watermarks are applied and where the glitch is, that station may not be getting any ratings credit right now.

I support both WideOrbit and Zetta installations and I honestly can’t explain why I don’t have a drinking problem.

Broken clock, twice a day, etc.

You can still blame the way ads are bought and sold on the internet. It invaded your privacy and made advertising worse on every other medium.

Internet advertising poisoned the well for everyone.

Advertising in traditional media like broadcast TV and radio weren’t and still aren’t sold by guzzling every data point possible about your private life.

Keeping that in mind, would you take that trade?

I endorse this.

(walking into a WheatNet facility)

Is this platform still massively against Axia or has it moved more towards acceptance?

Site-to-site VPNs aren’t hard anymore. We shouldn’t be hearing about incidents like this. Ever.

Default credentials aside, there is literally no reason to expose these devices to the open internet.

This thread sort of went in a different direction, but hopefully you learned a few things about over-the-air TV broadcasts in North America!

What’s really strange is… I work in radio, not TV. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 5/5

Fun fact: this is why you have to “scan” for over-the-air TV channels now. A station branded as channel “14” from the analog era might now actually be broadcasting on channel 32. Your TV needs to search for signals and populate a lookup table so you can go to “14” and get what you expect. 4/

When the US was transitioning to digital TV broadcasts, you couldn’t put the digital signal on the same RF channel as the analog signal, so the concept of “virtual” channel numbers was implemented so you could enter the same number and get the same station. 3/

RF channels 13 and below are VHF. However, unlike the old analog days, the number you see on your TV is usually NOT the actual RF channel a TV station broadcasts on anymore. 2/

🧵 Some TV stations still broadcast on the lower-frequency VHF band, yet most antennas you can buy are optimized for UHF. Receiving a VHF station requires a physically larger antenna! 1/

UPS Plane Crash In Louisville Highlights EAS Failure - Radio World "No one in Louisville needs a reminder about what happened Nov. 4, 2025, when a fiery fall sunset was overtaken by a black, billowing plume."

I’ve been saying this for a while:

Broadcasters follow all the rules, fill out all the forms, and we stand at the ready to help local civil authorities spread important messages.

The civil authorities don’t use it at best, and they use entirely wrong at worst.

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Broadcasting has depended on Windows for much longer than it should have. Kudos to @fullymodulated.com for shedding light on the issue!

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I put the thread adapter in a Yellowtec CamStud backwards and picked up a new battle scar trying to get it out so I could flip it around. Those threads are sharp!

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