Local stations are going dark across the country, and blaming streaming only tells half the story. Media consolidation, voice tracking, and corporate cost cutting hollowed out AM and FM from the inside. Strip out the local DJs, local news, and community connection, and you're left with a zombie…
FM coverage maps look bold and confident, but the actual audience listens six feet off the ground, weaving between buildings and hills where signals get chewed up. That's where audio turns fluttery and listeners quietly tune away. And the old "just add a booster" fix can make things worse in the…
The FCC put foreign-manufactured consumer routers on the covered list, and if your facility is running one of those boxes in a mission-critical spot, it's time for a hard look at the rack. I break down what the new rules actually say, what's still unclear for brands that design in the US but build…
A nearly 100-year-old radio news network is going dark on May 22, roughly 700 affiliates are affected, and the radio news team is gone. This isn't a relic being retired. It's a working system being switched off because it stopped fitting a spreadsheet. The top-of-hour newscast is infrastructure.…
I hit a point where rereading the same sentence three times stopped being funny and started being exhausting. I'm almost 40, and I finally decided to get evaluated for ADHD and autism, because "just try harder" is not a plan. I go back to school, when neurodivergence was poorly understood and kids…
Canada is shutting down Weather Radio Canada, and the timing could not be worse. Those 162 MHz VHF transmitters are a quiet 24/7 public safety backbone, and the replacement plan is apps, websites, and phone alerts. Anyone who has lived through a multi-day outage knows how that goes: power drops…
Full bars, and Netflix still buffers. The problem isn't your internet plan, it's the air you share. Wi-Fi is radio, devices take turns talking, and a busy evening throttles performance even when the signal looks strong. Once you see Wi-Fi as a shared intersection instead of a private lane…
