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There are now even more speakers at Radiodays Europe 2023.To register with the special radioinfo rate, go to this registration page and at checkout, use this discount code RTDA23PRA for a 10% discount.Joining the list of speakers that have already been announced are

Anna Rastner (pictured), Content Director of Audio for Bauer Media Audio Sweden
Ben Cooper, Chief Content and Music Officer Bauer Media Audio UK
Benjamin Biering, Head of AI at Podimo, who brings a wealth of expertise in Artificial Intelligence
Nina Bendstrup, Sound designer and music mediator at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation at Splittet til Atomer
Francis Currie, International Audio Consultant and partner in specialist radio research company, Currie Nordén
Dennis Clark, Vice President of Talent Development for America’s biggest radio company, iHeartMedia
Nina Fletcher, International Sales Director at Bauer Media Audio
Radiodays Europe will be held on 26-28 March 2023, Prague, Czech Republic, and this year begins at 9.00am on Sunday 26th March with the Free Radiodays Europe Inclusive (formerly Radiodays Europe Women), event followed by three Summits on the Sunday afternoon: Youth, Podcast and Data Research. […]

DAB+ is now established as the core future platform for radio in Europe and Australia. DAB+ has a huge range of receivers for home and portable use with prices starting around 20 USD and now comes as standard in over 90% of new cars sold in Europe.DAB+ is now either established or under consideration in virtually all European countries as the expansion of coverage and the number of services continues. For example, national DAB+ in France was launched in October 2021, expansion in eastern Europe in 2022 including Poland and the Czech Republic, and Switzerland is preparing to switch off FM in 2024. We are also seeing a step change in interest in Africa and Middle East with multiple new deployments being undertaken for both permanent services and technical trials and demonstrations.Within this context the establishment of DAB+ in South East Asia is being led by activities in Thailand. The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand (NBTC) in conjunction with the Royal Thai Army Radio and Television have been running a high power DAB+ trial in the Thai capital of Bangkok since 2018. A second project has been established to test DAB+ in four major regional areas, Chon Buri south of Bangkok, Chiang Mai in the north, Khon Kaen in the northeast, and Song Khla in the south of Thailand. The regional trails are an extension of the Bangkok trial and focus on determining the suitable technical standard and parameters for the regional areas.

The NBTC commissioner for Radio Broadcast Air-Vice-Marshall Dr. Thanapant said: “The NBTC is now considering how to deliver state-of-the-art DAB digital broadcast radio to all of Thailand to ensure that the public can receive high quality radio with increased services. The results of the regional trial will be useful input into that process”.The DAB+ system design was completed  by the end of 2018 and the transmission sites, regional broadcasters’ input programs and the network implementation are in progress. The new transmissions include high power, 10 kW ERP, sites in Chiang Mai,  Khon Kaen and Song Khla to provide wide area coverage. The current Bangkok ensemble is being updated with six new services from the regional areas and form a prototype example of a national ensemble.The testing to be conducted includes comprehensive field testing to verify and update coverage field strength predictions, with particular attention being paid to the impact of building types and heights on received signal strength and quality. Indoor tests will also be undertaken in a range of in-building environments to determine the building entry loss for different types of buildings in Thailand.The Royal Thai Army TV5 is working with a number of suppliers to test new Announcement capabilities in a newly developed home/portable receiver product. The use of the Announcement feature is increasing with the Alarm Announcement (Emergency Warning) now being mandatory for portable receivers as per ETSI Technical Specification 103 461. There is also increasing interest in other announcements e.g. in Norway Announcements are regularly delivered for Traffic and Public Transport and in Germany DAB is being be integrated into a new national warning system. In Thailand the current emphasis is on the Alarm Announcement as well as the potential to use the Announcement system for local alerts such as traffic, news and other warnings such as Air-Quality.The testing programme will provide important feedback to the NBTC to help assess the cost benefits for DAB+ in Thailand. Currently there is significant congestion in FM broadcasting and little opportunity for new services. DAB+ offers a route to provide a state-of-the-art digital broadcasting solution with additional high quality audio services in defined interference free coverage areas.The initial testing is expected to be complete by the end of February 2023, however the regional trial is set to run until 2024. […]

Radiodays Asia,  the leading radio and podcasting conference in the Asia-Pacific, will be back 5-6 September in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.“It has never been more important to have a global perspective on media trends, consumer behaviour, competition, new technology and business opportunities. Though your radio or podcast might be local or national, the challenges and competiiton facing your business is global. That opportunity to get ahead of your competition and future-proof your service and business is what Radiodays Asia offers,” says Anders Held, Project Director of Radiodays Asia and Founder of Radiodays Europe.Radiodays Asia is a collaboration between Radiodays Europe, the world´s largest and leading conference for radio, audio and podcast, and broadcasting and podcast partners in Asia and Australia. The 2023 edition will run over 2 days in 2 tracks with 50 sessions. Top international speakers and industry leaders as well as succesful producers and market experts will share their insights.

Top ratings from attendeesSince 2019 Radiodays Asia is the meeting point for everyone in radio-audio-podcasting who wants to understand more about the challenges of today and tomorrow. The event will bring 400 attendees from 40 countries together with a top-quality programme and many networking opportunities to meet and learn from colleagues in the audio industry.Participants at Radiodays Asia have been overwhelmingly positive. The participant rating is 4,2 on a 1-5 scale with 90% rating the event a 4 or a 5.Podcast SummitAsia Podcast Summit will be part of this year´s Radiodays Asia. A full day dedicated to bring podcasters together and discuss how to develop your podcast business – how to format, market and monetize your podcast. A chance to learn from the most successful in podcasting and to network with other creative podcasters.Where and when?Radiodays Asia will be held at the Royale Chulan Hotel in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Additional workshop and specialst meetings will be organised on Monday 4 September, while the main conference is held 5-6 September. More information will follow.PartnersRadiodays Asia is supported by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Public Media Alliance, Commercial Radio Malaysia, Indonesia Private Radio Association, Commercial Radio Australia, Radio Operators for India, Radio Festival India, Radio Broadcasters Association NZ, Podnews, radioinfo.asia and others.You will find registration and more information about the event on radiodaysasia.com.If you have suggestions for speakers or topics for Radiodays Asia 2023 please send these to Anders Held, Project Director, Radiodays Asia at [email protected] […]

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host a free webinar for radio professionals around the globe, entitled From Street Teamer to Morning Radio Superstar – How Kris Fade From Virgin Radio Dubai Built a Multimedia Empire.
The webinar is 27th in the companies’ Global Radio Ideas webinar series from top radio experts from around the world.
The 40-minute webinar will be hosted by Andreas Sannemann, CEO, Benztown, and Ken Benson, Partner, P1 Media Group, and will feature Kris Fade, Host of the #1 Rated Morning Show, The Kris Fade Show, on Virgin Radio 104.4 in Dubai.

Fade, often called “the Ryan Seacrest of the Middle East” talks to attendees live from Dubai, sharing the fascinating stories behind his meteoric career.
Fade began his radio journey working on the street team at The Edge 96.1 in his hometown of Sydney, Australia, later becoming the station’s Music Director and Afternoon Drive Host.
In 2008, he moved to Dubai to help launch Virgin Radio’s first station in the Middle East.
Within two years, Virgin Radio Dubai dominated the English market, and Virgin has been the market ratings and revenue leader ever since, due much in part to his Breakfast Show, which is also heard daily on Virgin Radio Lebanon.
Fade is not only a radio star; he recently starred in a top-rated Netflix reality series.
In Thursday’s webinar, Fade will share revealing stories from behind-the-scenes of building a multimedia empire, and will take attendees’ questions and cover topics including:

How he helped launch Richard Branson’s first Virgin Radio station in the Middle East and what it’s like to work with Branson.
How he adapted to the Dubai market and culture after moving from Sydney and how he cultivated a massive audience at Virgin Radio.
What are the secrets to his success and what has changed in the 16 years he’s been with Virgin Radio Dubai.
How production and imaging have been key to building his personal, show, and station brands.
How he and his wife came to star in the #1 streamed Netflix series, Dubai Bling, and how the show has propelled his brand.
What it’s like to interview stars on the Red Carpet at the Oscars and to have his own wax figure in Madame Tussaud’s.

WHEN: Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST/7:00pm CET. […]

Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) will take part fully in the International Broadcast Engineering Society of India (BES) event in New Delhi in February.At the BES conference and Exhibition, held again in person this year, after a break of three years, DRM Consortium will highlight its benefits and recent achievements under the theme “DRM Saves Lives and Keeps Radio in Business”. The conference and exhibition, BES EXPO 2023 on Broadcast & Media Technology, will be held at New Delhi  from February 16 to 18 and the Consortium has just announced the titles of some of its key presentations.

The DRM Consortium and some of its key Indian and international members and partners (including Ampegon, CML Microcircuits/Cambridge Consultants, Fraunhofer IIS, Gospell Digital Technologies, Inntot Technologies, RFmondial and Starwaves ) will share various aspects and benefits of the DRM technology.Visitors will be able to experience directly the multi-channel capability of DRM in FM and also some of its key benefits like the delivery of emergency warnings with audio and text in desired language – also available to the visually or hearing impaired.Major innovations in providing superefficient DRM for FM broadcasts will be also introduced, as well as new receiver solution.Some of the key messages of the DRM exhibits will find a full presentation during the BES conference. One new receiver solution unveiled at BES will be the object of the presentation “Breakthrough innovation in Digital Broadcast Radio Receivers” (CML Microcircuits, UK). This will be followed by “DRM Brings Social Benefits – Distance Learning and Emergency Warning Functionality (EWF)” (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany) and “DRM benefits disseminated and appreciated at Grassroots level in India” (Indian expert). […]

The New York Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes prominent industry leaders, innovators, and driving forces in the broadcast industry whose accomplishments have advanced their field and made a lasting impression on the industry.

The Kalb Report is the longest-running project in National Press Club history with 103 programs over 28 years.

During its nearly three decade run, the series has provided a forum for prominent newsmakers and journalists to discuss the news media’s impact on American democracy. The guest list included Supreme Court Justices, Civil Rights icons, network news anchors, best-selling authors, members of Congress, and influential leaders from across the media landscape.

The Kalb Report was created in 1994 when Kalb was on a one-year sabbatical from Harvard University to return to Washington to teach at George Washington University (GW). Kalb was the last correspondent personally hired by Edward R. Murrow, and his career had taken him around the world as the CBS News Chief Diplomatic Correspondent. Prior to hosting the Kalb Report, Marvin Kalb’s career spanned three decades of award-winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC, including a turn as moderator of Meet the Press. He served 25 years as founding director and Senior Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He also is the Edward R. Murrow Professor (Emeritus) at Harvard and a prolific author, having recently completed his 17th book, “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War.” (Brookings Institution Press, 2021), 

At GW, Kalb found a perfect partner in former CBS Radio Network General Manager Michael Freedman, who served as executive producer of The Kalb Report series for its entire 28-year run and went on to become president of the National Press Club in 2020.

From the beginning, Kalb said the purpose of the series was to bring top journalists and newsmakers to the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for an hour-long discussion of the state of journalism and politics that would attract students as well as Club members. By the end of the first program, Kalb said he could see that the defining theme for the series was the news media’s impact on American democracy.

“Over nearly three decades, The Kalb Report has followed the sometimes-tortuous course of American journalism as it has endured one of the most radical changes in history,” said Freedman, in summing up the show’s impact. “Time and again, Marvin and his guests have highlighted the essential work of a free and non-partial news media to democracy, and by working with students during the entire run, we hope we have passed that legacy on to the next generation.”

Guests over the years have included U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (together); Walter Cronkite; Diane Sawyer; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (together); Ken Burns; Katie Couric; Christiane Amanpour; Civil Rights icons John Lewis, Julian Bond and Andrew Young (together); Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins; Hillary Clinton; Rupert Murdoch; Judy Woodruff; Cokie Roberts; Bob Costas; Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred; and Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel.

The Kalb Report series was most recently honored with a 2018 Gold World Medal in the New York Festivals Radio Awards competition. The series also received Gold World Medals in 2015 and 2012, when it was presented with the overall Grand Award.

For nearly two decades the series has been underwritten by Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, a division of Oklahoma-based Inasmuch Foundation. Maryland Public Television serves as the presenting station for The Kalb Report series, which is distributed nationally by American Public Television.
The Kalb Report public broadcasting series ends this spring as moderator Marvin Kalb and his long-time friend and fellow network news correspondent Ted Koppel look back, around, and ahead at the challenges for both journalism and our democracy in The Kalb Report: Good Night and Good Luck.

In summing up the series, Freedman said, “We strive to have the courage of our convictions in the selection of topics, guests, and questions and we have sought to make a positive difference in the lives of current and aspiring journalists, as well as our national audiences of listeners and viewers. He cited as one example a college student who approached Kalb after a program and said, “I came in thinking I wanted to go into journalism. I left knowing I MUST go into journalism.”

Trophy winning entries will be celebrated at the NYF Storytellers Gala taking place on April 18th at the Centennial NAB Show in Las Vegas. This is the 13th year of New York Festivals strategic partnership with NAB. […]