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2 months ago | 
redtech.pro | Daryl Ilbury |Graham Dixon
PARIS — World Radio Day, Feb. 13, was established by UNESCO in 2011. This year, the event will emphasize radio’s impact on tackling climate change and highlight its potential to educate, inform and empower listeners globally. As 2025 is a crucial year under the Paris Agreement — when greenhouse gas emissions must peak to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees C — UNESCO urges radio broadcasters to prioritize fact-based, climate-focused coverage as part of their service to the public.
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2 months ago | 
redtech.pro | Graham Dixon |Daryl Ilbury
Polish public broadcaster Polskie Radio is commemorating its centennial, marking a century since its inaugural transmission in Poland. The first trial broadcast occurred on Feb. 1, 1925 from a Warsaw station operated by the now-defunct Polish Radio Technical Society (PTR).
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2 months ago | 
redtech.pro | Daryl Ilbury |Graham Dixon
UNESCO has unveiled the theme for World Radio Day 2025 (WRD25), set for Feb. 13, as “Radio and Climate Change.” The event encourages radio stations to strengthen their editorial, financial and networking potential through collaboration and content exchange. UNESCO highlights opportunities for stations to partner with counterparts in other countries.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
redtech.pro | Daryl Ilbury |Graham Dixon |Brett Moss |Christian Schalt
DHD Audio will showcase a new collaboration with ai|coustics at Hamburg Open 2025, taking place Jan. 15–16 at the Hamburg Messe & Congress Centre. The highlight at DHD’s booth (Stand 207, Hall B6) is the integration of ai|coustics’ reconstructive voice enhancement technology into the XD3 IP Core.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
redtech.pro | Daryl Ilbury |Graham Dixon
The SwissRadioDay team has announced that the next edition of its annual gathering will take place on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, at Kaufleuten in Zurich and online. Organizers have invited participants, partners and visitors to save the date. In a statement, the SwissRadioDay25 team expressed gratitude for the support, partnership and participation that make the annual event possible.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
redtech.pro | Graham Dixon |Brett Moss |Christian Schalt |Kevin Hilton
LONDON — There’s no shortage of audio material these days! If you’re looking for the number of podcasts, various internet sources estimate this to be between three and five million. Some, of course, might have had only an episode or two, and some might be dormant, but the fact remains that there are a lot of podcasts. Add to this the 44,000 radio stations, a figure made popular through the UNESCO World Radio Day, and there’s a lot of radio.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
redtech.pro | Kevin Hilton |Graham Dixon |Brett Moss |Christian Schalt
LONDON — The big radio takeaway from 2024 is that the venerable medium experienced a resurgence in popularity, which looks set to continue for the foreseeable future. This can be seen as part of the overall rise of audio in general, with podcasts and audiobooks now immensely popular and broadening the definition of audio-only productions as once embodied by radio.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
redtech.pro | Ridwaan Boda |Kevin Hilton |Helmut Poppe |Graham Dixon
With the recent AI boom, several jurisdictions have started promulgating legislation to address the risks posed by unregulated AI use. As part of this process to regulate AI, there is an international effort to adhere to ethical guidelines and frameworks to ensure that AI is not used in a manner that causes harm to society. Governments and international bodies are actively creating regulatory frameworks to manage the development and deployment of various AI technologies.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
redtech.pro | Kevin Hilton |Graham Dixon |Michael Thielen
LONDON — This year’s Radio TechCon, the annual conference for the United Kingdom’s radio engineers and technologists, took place on Monday, Nov. 25, at the Savoy Place headquarters of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London. Sessions covered a wide range of subjects, from traditional technology and the move towards new media to more social issues such as modern slavery and gender bias in speech-to-text systems.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
redtech.pro | Brett Moss |Graham Dixon
Streaming services provider StreamGuys is bringing to the IBC show a new “ultra-low-latency streaming service that brings synchronicity to the ‘second screen’ experience of a live sports event.” According to a release the service removes “the delay that takes live game action and audio/video streams out of alignment.” It explains further that the “company’s new ULLS service provides broadcasters with the tools to synchronize the two experiences, returning control to fans that want to listen...
