Business

Sirius Offered Through Dish Network
New York and Dallas - May 20, 2004 - Sirius has increased its number of listeners across the country by making its music service available to Echostar Communications and its more than 9.7 million Dish Network satellite television customers. The official launch of the service is to take place May 20 at the Dish Network 2004 Team Summit Satellite Television Conference in Dallas.

Subscribers of Dish Network's premium packages now receive Sirius' music channels at no extra charge. The remaining Dish Network subscribers have the option to upgrade their subscription packages to include Sirius.

In addition to providing Dish Network subscribers with music programming, participating Dish Network retailers around the country will have the ability to offer consumers a Dish Network-branded Sirius Satellite Radio receiver. The transportable Dish Network Satellite Radio Receiver, SR200, can be installed in a vehicle and can be inserted into a portable boombox.

Harris Installs 100th Vistamax
Cincinnati - May 20, 2004 - Harris will install its 100th Vistamax Networkable Audio Management System at Bonneville radio station, WWZZ-FM, Washington, DC. WWZZ-FM will incorporate the Vistamax system into its new studios at the current broadcast facilities for WGMS-FM and WTOP-AM, the Capitol's oldest and most listened to radio source for news. Additionally, WWZZ has purchased four studios of Harris' custom furniture and four of Harris' BMXdigital on-air radio consoles for the build.

Harris recently introduced two new components for the Vistamax system: the RMXdigital on-air radio console and VSDM, the Vistamax Small Digital Mixer.

Delphi Looks to Sale of 1 Million Portable Satellite Receivers
Troy, MI - May 18, 2004 - Delphi expects to sell its 1 millionth portable satellite radio receivers to retailers this June. Delphi manufactures XM SKYFi and Roady products. This will bring Delphi's total receivers sold next month to 2.6 million, including original equipment radios.

RF Software Becomes Audemat-Aztec Dealer
Gainsville, FL - May 17, 2004 - RF Software is now a dealer for Audemat-Aztec field measurement equipment. RF Investigator 2.5 will include new features to import and display field measurement surveys from the Navigator 100 and Navigator 007. The function will allow users to predict the coverage or interference of a station and display it in real time.

Sales Call Burk Technology is offering an upgrade program for TC-8 transmitter remote control owners. The trade-in will award $500 for a TC-8 trade-in to be used toward the purchase of an ARC-16. The offer is valid until Aug. 31, 2004. Details: www.burk.com/trade-in.

People

NASB Elects Garlinger President
Washington, DC – May 7, 2004 - The National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB) at its 2004 annual meeting on May 7 elected Doug Garlinger, CPBE CBNT, as the new president of the Association. Garlinger is the former director of dngineering for Lesea Broadcasting, which owns shortwave stations WHRA, WHRI and KWHR. Just a few months ago, he left Lesea to take an engineering position with Emmis in Hawaii, but he continues to be active in issues of importance to shortwave broadcasters.

Garlinger has served the NASB in the as the association's vice president, and has been with the NASB since it was formed in 1989.

Outgoing NASB president Jeff White's NASB Board term ended at the annual meeting. The membership chose Dennis Dempsey of WEWN Global Catholic Radio to fill the Board vacancy. Paul Hunter, an engineering consultant who represents Word Broadcasting, was re-elected to the Board and as vice president of the NASB, and Dan Elyea of WYFR Family Radio continues as NASB secretary/treasurer.

Lynx Appoints Erlandson to Oversee Product Support
Costa Mesa, CA - May 12, 2004 - Paul Erlandson has joined Lynx Studio Technology as director of product support. In addition to technical support via phone and e-mail, Erlandson will assist in the development of technical documents, website content and related materials.

Erlandson has been in the professional audio industry for 10 years. During the past year he was the director of sales at carillon. In 1994, he founded and ran Sound Chaser, which provided computer-based music systems, through 2002. He is also an accomplished bassist and keyboard player with a degree in music from Humboldt State University.

Lynx Studio Technology designs and manufactures computer-related audio products for audio production, delivery and testing for recording studios and broadcast.

Two New Members Appointed to NAB Radio Board
Washington, DC - May 17, 2004 - NAB Radio Board Chair Carl Gardner has appointed two new members to the NAB Radio Board: Susan Davenport Austin of Sheridan Broadcasting and Susan Patrick of Legend Communications. The appointments are made by the Radio chairman with approval of the Radio Executive Committee and the joint board chairman.

Austin is vice president of strategic planning and treasurer of Sheridan Broadcasting in New York, as well as president of the Sheridan Gospel Network. Founded by the Davenport family in 1972, Sheridan Broadcasting operates six radio stations in Pennsylvania, Alabama and New York. She immediately assumes the seat recently vacated by Maria Elena Llansa, formerly with Spanish Broadcasting Systems.

Patrick will begin her term at the upcoming June Board meeting and will assume one of the vacant designated radio board seats. Patrick currently serves as executive vice president and co-owner of Legend Communications in Ellicott City, MD. Legend Communications operates 14 radio stations in Wyoming, Ohio and Missouri.

Internet Watch

Live365 and Terra.Com Team on Hispanic Internet Radio
Foster City, CA - May 20, 2004 - Live365 and Terra.com, the U.S. Hispanic portal of the Terra network of sites, have teamed to create an online radio service. More than 30 stations featuring Spanish-language music and other content, programmed by U.S. and international DJs using Live365’s broadcasting service, will be available to Terra’s users.

Products

Additional DAWs Support Tascam FW-1884
InfoComm 2004 – May 21, 2004 - Following recent updates by Cakewalk, MOTU, Steinberg and Emagic, the Tascam FW-1884 Audio/ MIDI interface and control surface is being added to the list of supported DAW applications. Co-designed by Tascam and Frontier Design Group, the FW-1884 adds workstations controls to a Mac or PC through a Firewire cable. The unit features an 18-channel audio interface, eight mic preamps, a 4x4 MIDI interface and an editing and mixing control surface.

NXT Flat-panel Loudspeaker Technology Gains Popularity
New York - May 19, 2004 - NXT has issued a list of U.S. manufacturers who have introduced products to the U.S.market that use NXT-enabled flat speaker technology. The manufacturers and their products are listed.

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