Wave Farm Newsroom
The Wave Farm Newsroom includes news about all sorts of radio waves from around the world. The page also archives Wave Farm's organizational monthly email announcements. The WGXC Newsroom features extensive daily community news specific to New York's Upper Hudson Valley region.
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Wednesday
May
18
11:33 pm
Radio News: The time of day is still available on telephone, shortwave
Anyone who needs to know what time it is, and does not have a clock, or a watch, or any sort of computer, can still find out. The U.S. Naval Observatory still maintains a phone number, 202-762-1401, w...
Tuesday
May
17
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC to allow easier antenna design
Radio World reports that at its May 19 meeting the Federal Communications Commission is set to allow FM broadcasters to use computer modeling software for their directional antennas. Currently, FM rad...
Monday
May
16
11:33 pm
Radio News: Pandemic lessens radio listening
Randy J. Stine at Radio World breaks down the results from the TechSurvey from Jacobs Media showing the COVID-19 pandemic lowering the amount of radio listening. The 12 percent drop in radio listening...
Sunday
May
15
11:33 pm
Radio News: Swiss voters approve taxing streamers to help local TV, film industry
On May 15, Swiss voters approved a four percent tax levy on international streaming services there, to be invested in local film production, with 58.42 percent of voters favoring the measure. Switzerl...
Wednesday
May
11
11:33 pm
Radio News: Biden praises his tech enemies and slow walks his own nominee
Ars Technica reports that President Joe Biden heaped praise this week on the opponents of his nominee for the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn. Technology policy, though, is not Biden's pr...
Tuesday
May
10
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC threatening $2 million fines to real estate owners for pirate transmissions
Radio Insight reports that since President Donald Trump signed the 2020 PIRATE Act, the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau has begun to send warning letters not just to folks they...
Monday
May
09
11:33 pm
Radio News: Resonance FM celebrates 20 years
Radio Today reports that London's Resonance FM celebrates 20 years of broadcasting this month as one of the world's most creative radio stations. Around the world Resonance FM is known for its radio a...
Sunday
May
08
11:33 pm
Radio News: Democrats seem to be abandoning their FCC nominee
Progressive activists and proponents of net neutrality are now openly questioning why the Joe Biden administration is doing so little to support its nominee to the Federal Communcations Commission, Gi...
Thursday
May
05
11:33 pm
Radio News: Hindenburg disaster May 6, 1937 lives in radio history
On May 6, 1937 one of radio's most famous broadcasts was recorded. The hydrogen in the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames as the new airship attempted to land in Manchest...
Thursday
May
05
7:30 am
Wave Farm News May 2022
Three Radio Art Fellowship Opportunities! New on WGXC 90.7-FM. Paid Wave Farm Summer Internship Opportunity,...
Wednesday
May
04
11:33 pm
Radio News: Industry attempts to retain car listeners
Motorola’s $130 car radio in 1930 for a Model A Deluxe coupe cost $540 and was the first commercially successful car radio, according to Car and Driver magazine. Inside Radio reports that many radio b...
Tuesday
May
03
11:34 pm
Radio News: BBC World Service celebrates 90 years
James Careless reports for Radio World that the British Broadcasting Corporation's World Service has turned 90 years old. It began as the “BBC Empire Service” in 1932, sending shortwave signals around...
Monday
May
02
11:34 pm
Radio News: Wireless transmitting charger not quite ready yet
In popular culture, the wireless, untethered charger for a phone is like a hovercraft, something long promised, but never delivered. Last week, though, Wi-Charge founder and chief business officer Ori...
Sunday
May
01
11:33 pm
Radio News: Who is to blame for all the robocalls?
Aaron Mak reports for Slate about spam robocalls. Do you remember the National Do Not Call Registry beginning in 2003? Do you remember the last time you received an automated phone message? Do you rem...
Thursday
Apr
28
11:33 pm
Radio News: LPFM station numbers shrinking now, but may grow soon
Susan Ashworth from Radio World talks with Jim George, the nation's number one expert on low-power FM stations around the country. Until 2001, the Federal Communications Commission did not license FM...
Wednesday
Apr
27
11:33 pm
Radio News: Report outlines Russia's hack attacks against Ukraine
Dan Goddin reports for Ars Technica about a report published April 27 by Microsoft that says Russian hackers in six groups have launched no fewer than 237 operations in concert with the country's phys...
Tuesday
Apr
26
11:33 pm
Radio News: Listening to radio via webstreams grow
Susan Ashworth reports for Radio World that a new study by Nielsen shows many people listening to AM or FM stations in the United States are tuning in webstreams, rather than terrestrial signals. Stre...
Monday
Apr
25
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC considering receiver regulation
Do you remember a few months ago, the airline industry was up in arms about 5G cell service? The Brookings Institution had a headline in November saying, "Will 5G mean airplanes falling from the sky?"...
Sunday
Apr
24
11:33 pm
Radio News: Broadband industry so far failing to overturn California's net neutrality
Jon Brodkin reports for Ars Technica that so far, net neutrality has been a policy that depends on which way the political winds are blowing. Net neutrality is the principle that an internet service p...
Thursday
Apr
21
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC votes for fine for phone company owned by Russians
David Shepardson reports for Yahoo Finance that the Federal Communications Commission voted April 21 4-0 to fine London-based Truphone Ltd, the owner of Montana-based iSmart Mobile phone company, $660...