For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...

To program a great radio station, you must have many different components working together harmoniously. These components, when executed flawlessly, lead to success. The phrase “the sum of the parts” ...

that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency responders started hitting the scene, they heard amateur (ham) radio operators ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

Even if you are relatively young, you can probably think back on what TV was like when you were a kid and then realize that TV today is completely different. Most people watch on-demand. Saturday ...

Recording and playout of programming today is easily left to automation and a file server. Thanks to the cloud, that server doesn’t even have to reside “on premises.” Delaying programs hasn’t always ...

(By Jeff McHugh) What if broadcasters treated programming like an investment instead of an expense? Billionaire and financial guru Warren Buffett would say that an investment is money spent to make ...

Tom Dawson squeezes into a chair jammed between five computer screens and shelves of gadgets in a cramped room of his house, turns on a ham radio transceiver and searches the airwaves for company. He ...