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NorthEast Radio Watch 4/7/2025: At NAB, More Questions than Answers

Scott Fybush by Scott Fybush
April 7, 2025
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In this week’s issue… Fear and Uncertainty in Las Vegas – Memory Stations to sign off – WNED, WBFO rebrand – Najman out at WDEV – Zoomer expands in Ontario

By SCOTT FYBUSH

Jump to: ME – NH – VT – MA – RI – CT – NY – NJ – PA – Canada

LAS VEGAS – Are there any certainties left in the broadcast business?

It’s hard to find many this year as the NAB Show kicks off here in the desert. As the exhibit floor opened Sunday, it looked much as it always does, but behind the scenes, broadcasters and the industry around them are looking for answers that often just don’t seem to exist right now.

We’re just a week or so away from the comment period for the FCC’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” proceeding aimed at removing broadcast regulations deemed obsolete or unnecessary, and that would surely have been something commissioner Nathan Simington would have been asked about at his policy discussion here, if it hadn’t been abruptly cancelled Sunday night. Commissioner Anna Gomez, who’s coming out at her own expense, is still slated to appear this afternoon, where she’s certain to also face questions about the possible elimination of station ownership caps and other shifting ground in Washington.

If broadcasters are suddenly free to buy more stations, though, who’d have the money to do it? The sudden drop in the stock market will be on broadcasters’ minds here, and so are the tariffs that triggered the economic tsunami late last week.

Even if broadcasters could still afford to take on big projects, it’s not at all clear how those tariffs will affect all the equipment on the floor at the show, much of it imported from Asia and Europe – and even the “made in the USA gear” still depends heavily on parts and materials from abroad that are also affected by those tariffs.

If it sounds like it’s all a little nerve-wracking, it is, and it’s interesting to see how much of the usual NAB Show camaraderie and pageantry carries on in spite of what’s happening out there in the rest of the world.

We’re here for a few more days, and we’ll have much more on the NAB Show and the state of the industry ahead in NERW and on our Top of the Tower podcast in the days to come.

(And yes, that even includes some hope: coming up later this week on the podcast, you’ll hear from a broadcast engineer/manager with some timely ideas for how stations and groups can combine forces and share resources to survive and thrive. We’ll also bring you some encouraging news from broadcast educators about what they’re seeing from their students. Stay tuned.)

SPRING IS HERE…

And if you don’t have your Tower Site Calendar, now’s the time!

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This year’s cover is a beauty — the 100,000-watt transmitter of the Voice Of America in Marathon, right in the heart of the Florida Keys. Both the towers and the landscape are gorgeous.

And did you see? Tower Site of the Week is back, featuring this VOA site as it faces an uncertain future. 

Other months feature some of our favorite images from years past, including some Canadian stations and several stations celebrating their centennials (buy the calendar to find out which ones!).

We still have a few of our own calendars left – as well as a handful of Radio Historian Calendars – and we are still shipping regularly.

The proceeds from the calendar help sustain the reporting that we do on the broadcast industry here at Fybush Media, so your purchases matter a lot to us here – and if that matters to you, now’s the time to show that support with an order of the Tower Site Calendar. (And we have the Broadcast Historian’s Calendar for 2025, too. Why not order both?) 

Visit the Fybush Media Store and place your order now for the new calendar, get a great discount on previous calendars, and check out our selection of books and videos, too! 

 

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