Radio World - April 11, 2012 - (Page 1) NAB SHoW MANAGEMENT PREVIEW aPril 11, 2012 | inside neWS & enGineeRinG • Manage your sites with Google Sites. — Page 18 Brenner Advocates for The User Experience By Randy J. Stine The News Source for Radio Managers and Engineers | $2.50 | radioworld.com Emmis Chief Technology Officer Will Receive NAB Radio Engineering Award at Show INDIANAPOLIS — Paul naB SHOW • KUZZ(FM) in Bakersfield, Calif., is honored for community service that goes above and beyond. — Page 30 Fm Hds Push ‘Uneven’ digital Radio Power Hike They Cite Impact on Mobile Reception By LeSLie StimSOn Brenner isn’t your traditional NAB Radio Engineering Achievement Award recipient. With a background ◗News maker steeped in information technology, he’s more comfortBUyeR’S GUide able with chip design than tweaking transmitters. • Broadcast Such a combination is processors are less unusual than it once highlighted. was. But Brenner reflects — Page 43 modern engineering in Paul Brenner reviews an HD Radio-enabled smartanother way as well. He phone app with Samantha Kowal, a member of his embraces the future of radio design team. OPiniOn and isn’t afraid of change • How your in-house Grump can help it will bring. In fact, he sees himself as At 43, the senior vice president and you innovate on your HD2 channel. trying to help define the medium’s future, chief technology officer at Emmis — Page 54 and others agree. Communications is admired for what colleagues call his forward thinking and strategic initiatives. Brenner’s job focuses on technology business development, industry partnerships, broadcast engineering strategy and Our Product Preview Pocket Guide development of fresh broadcasting and Internet content distribution systems. shows you great stuff you’ll find However, many who know him say at the NAB Show this year. this award — bestowed since 1959 to industry leaders — doesn’t merely Listener volunteers at a graffiti-cleaning project. (continued on page 10) A Supplement to Radio World WASHNGTON — Should the FCC allow stations to increase HD Radio power “asymmetrically”? If it does, as many observers expect, the change would come at what could be an important juncture for U.S. digital radio. In a separate but related development, iBiquity Digital, Intel, Emmis Communications and BIA/Kelsey, backed by NAB funding, have collaborated on a prototype cellphone with an enabled FM HD Radio chip. It will be demoed at the NAB Show. But to persuade wireless carriers to build such mobile devices, proponents feel stations need more flexibility to raise digital power — to support advanced data features afforded by digital radio technology, including transmission of visual images synched with audio. Higher power also would allow digital coverage to better match that of analog FM, seen as critical to the effort to encourage HD FM chips in mobile devices. The commission asked for comments on asymmetric recent field trials as well as the process by which FMs (continued on page 5) • April 11, 2012 http://www.RADIOWORLD.COM http://www.axiaaudio.com Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Radio World - April 11, 2012 Radio World - April 11, 2012 Brenner Advocates for the User Experience FM HDs Push ‘Uneven’ Digital Radio Power Hike Mexico City Set for HD Radio Launch EAS Community Warns FCC on TTS Table of Contents News Roundup Honor Roll Wheatstone: A Streaming Plan Matters DXers Ride Marconi’s Wavelength Workbench: Manage Your Site With Google Sites Is Your Facility RF Risk-Friendly? 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