Scott Fybush has been covering the media for three decades, and now he brings you inside his world every week with "Top of the Tower: The Fybush Media Podcast." We look at the week's news in broadcast media technology, business, regulation and some history, too, and talk to people from across the ra…
Studio F at Fybush Media World Domination HQ
Top of the Tower talks with Inrush Broadcast's Rob Bertrand about the future of broadcast engineering as a service
Top of the Tower talks with "Marie from the Radio Fam" as part of our MaxxRadio interview series from the NAB Show
Top of the Tower Podcast continues our coverage of RadioDays North America with interviews with Virgin Radio's Shannon Burns and Corus' Rick Lee
Top of the Tower is at RadioDays North America, with BBC Radio 1's Aled Haydn Jones and Warren Kurtzman of Coleman Insightsd
A conversation with the newest inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Dr. Donna Halper
A conversation about the upcoming RadioDays North America convention in Toronto
Top of the Tower returns with a conversation with Valerie Geller of Geller Media International, offering plenty of inspiration as the NAB Show gets underway in Las Vegas
A preview of Scott Fybush's virtual session at this year's virtual AES Show, as engineers share tales of some of their wildest adventures in the world of broadcast engineering
A conversation with Buffalo's Steve Cichon about his new book, chronicling the first half-century of Buffalo broadcasting
The new Rush "Spirit of Radio" video! Radio's centennial (which is much bigger than just KDKA)! Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg! What do they all have in common this Canada Day? Historian Donna Halper, of course!
In this week’s edition: The coronavirus epidemic is continuing to turn all of our lives upside down. How can broadcasters ensure we can stay on the air, continue providing information to our communities and keep our staff and families safe, while vacating crowded studios and following new guidelines for social distancing? And how do we […]
A conversation with one of radio engineering's most visible educators, Nautel's Jeff Welton, winner of this year's NAB Radio Engineering Achievement Award
Communications lawyer Melodie Virtue joins us on Top of the Tower to go over all the regulatory questions broadcasters face while they're locked out of their usual studio and office operations.
How can you get great-sounding audio without a tangle of wires and separate recorders? Yellowtec's Jeff Williams joins us with one answer - the iXm recording microphone.
Top of the Tower Podcast takes on the question of mic safety in the age of coronavirus, with Sennheiser's Brian Walker answering your questions.
Top of the Tower visits Akron, Ohio and the new studios of "The Summit" as fears of the coronavirus sweep the industry.
Top of the Tower talks with Steve Hausmann, recently retired from WBEE-FM in Rochester, about his career here and in New England
A conversation with Galaxy Media president/CEO Ed Levine about what his company's doing in radio - and in events and digital, plus his work with the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame, college sports rights, and more!
We dig deep into the mess that is WBAI, then turn to a success story down South - Ben Downs at Bryan Broadcasting in College Station, Texas.
In this week’s edition: We’re back from the Radio Show in Dallas with lots to talk about (and even more that we wrote about in NorthEast Radio Watch this week!) – and you’ll be hearing more from Texas coming up in the next few weeks on the podcast. In the meantime, though, we had an […]
In this week’s edition: Our Western trip included one more important radio stop – at the new studios of the Navajo Nation’s KTNN/KTNN-FM and Capital Country (KWRK/KCAZ) in St. Michaels, Arizona. After the all-important green chile cheeseburgers and fry bread, we sat down for a conversation with KTNN/Capital Country GM Troy Little about his stations’ […]
In this week’s edition: Part two of our interview with legendary Los Angeles station owner Saul Levine. Now 92, Levine has owned what’s now KKGO (105.1) in LA from the day he put it on the air as KBCA way back in 1959. In this episode, we talk about station values in 2019, his oldies […]
Part one of our exclusive interview with legendary Los Angeles station owner Saul Levine
A conversation with Phil Redo, the outgoing radio leader at Boston's WGBH
We're back home from the NAB Show (and everything that surrounds it in Las Vegas), where we talked with legendary trade journalist Tom Taylor and Nautel's Jeff Welton
A conversation with students about the future of radio at Cornell University student-run WVBR in Ithaca, N.Y.
Talking with Dave Kolesar of Hubbard Radio and Mike Raide of Xperi about all-digital AM - and what's coming next!
Remembering WBZ's Gary LaPierre with his former program director, Peter Casey
A conversation with Melodie Virtue of Garvey Schubert Barer about how broadcasters are handling the FCC's ongoing shutdown
Nexstar gets Tribune, with some conflicts to resolve - Two months after Hurricane Michael, a conversation with iHeart's Charlie Wooten about how his Panama City, Florida cluster weathered the storm, and how other stations can learn from the experience - Anniversary reunion for New Jersey's WPSC
In this week's edition: The call no station owner wants to get: WHGL's Mike Powers talks about the snowplow accident that took down his FM tower right after Thanksgiving - Sports talk grows on FM, even as NBC Sports Radio exits fulltime programming - And more!
In Boston, iHeart swaps airshifts for its WRKO talk hosts - Retirement for a local radio stalwart, Ron Galley, after 47 years at WDLA in Walton, New York; we drop in for a chat - A conversation with Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Famer Tom Langmyer. After managing big stations such as KMOX, WGN and WTMJ, he's starting his own small-market ownership group, and we've got all the details!
Entercom changes brands on its new acquisition, WBEB Philadelphia (and is there more to come in that busy market?) - Conversations from the Radio Show with Jeff Williams of Yellowtec and Don Backus of Rohde & Schwarz
WLNG is sold...what's in store for its new owners (see our 2017 visit here) - "War of the Worlds" remembered in NYC, Buffalo (see the AES presentation from New York here) - Remembering Barry Lunderville - Red Sox win! - A conversation with Relevant Radio "Morning Air" host John Harper - More on the 2019 Tower Site Calendar
We're on the floor at the joint Audio Engineering Society and NAB New York shows in New York City - Vox buys two more in Burlington - More on Powell Broadcasting's exit from storm-ravaged Panama City, Florida - A conversation with disaster recovery expert Howard Price of MediaDisasterPrep.com
Broadcasters brace for Hurricane Michael - The FCC requests comments on a proposal to reduce skywave coverage protection for class A AM stations - A conversation with Nautel's Gary Liebisch (right) as he gets ready to retire - Getting ready for the AES Show and NAB New York next week