Cris Alexander has been director of engineering of Crawford Broadcasting Co. for 41 years. Crawford still owns most of its transmitter sites. As such, Alexander said it is important to track electricity usage and also realize when the end of life is expected for equipment such as power supplies, computers and servers. Find out more in an excerpt from our ebook, "Radio Operations on a Budget."

The heritage Albuquerque station is dealing with the ramifications after a hot-air balloon took down one of its towers last October. It moved from its site of nearly 85 years in September and is on a temporary 1 kw day/night setup with a long-wire antenna from an FM tower west of the city.

NAB said it is part of a realignment to accelerate the deployment of the Broadcast Positioning System, the ATSC 3.0-based alternative to GPS. Sam Matheny will be the EVP of the BPS initiative, while Tariq Mondal will serve as VP.

ZZ Top, “that little ol’ band from Texas,” name-dropped Dr. John Brinkley, the infamous “goat gland doctor,” in their 1975 song “Heard It on the X.”

William Paterson University's 88.7 WPSC(FM) and Montclair State University's 90.3 WMSC(FM) collaborated for the annual World College Radio Day in October. The students from the Northern New Jersey schools discussed what college radio means to them, current issues in the Garden State and even visited each other's studios.

The eight-channel stereo switcher and 16-channel monaural switcher are suitable for radio and TV stations, capable of EAS switching, as well as broadcast console input manipulation, BDI said.