By Skip Pizzi|August 23, 2019|Blog, Radio|
At the 2019 Radio Show in Dallas, we’re unveiling Tech Tuesday. It’s a full day of radio technology presentations on September 24, 2019 (the day prior to the official Radio Show opening). It’s intended for [...]
By Skip Pizzi|July 24, 2019|Blog|
PILOT and the NAB Leadership Foundation (NABLF) will award grants to selected NAB member stations to provide paid engineering or media technology internships to undergraduate students. Apply Now In 2018, PILOT—working with the NAB Leadership [...]
By Skip Pizzi|October 10, 2018|Blog|
It’s no secret that the broadcast industry has been somewhat challenged in finding new, young technical staff in recent years. The growing attractiveness of other, newer media types has left broadcasting at a bit of [...]
By Skip Pizzi|September 19, 2018|Blog, NAB Show 2019|
The Call for Papers for the 2019 Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference (BEITC) is now open. Proposals are invited for technical papers addressing the latest opportunities and challenges facing broadcast engineering and media-industry IT [...]
By Skip Pizzi|August 6, 2018|Blog|
Could you use a technical intern at your TV or radio station? If you’re an NAB member, this just got easier to accomplish. PILOT has established a new fund for NAB member stations to provide [...]
By Skip Pizzi|July 17, 2017|Blog|
On Monday, July 24, 2017, 2-3 p.m. EDT, NAB will present a webcast on the topic of “Applications for ATSC 3.0 – The Next Generation Television Standard.” The webcast will feature a non-technical overview of [...]
By Skip Pizzi|April 13, 2017|Blog, NAB Show|
Futures Park, powered by PILOT, is a section of the NAB Show exhibit floor reserved for presentation of media-related research and development projects from around the world. Exhibits there represent the current edge-of-the-art technologies, and [...]
By Skip Pizzi|January 30, 2017|Blog, Radio|
PILOT has observed the activation of FM reception capabilities in popular smartphones since 2012, and has reported its findings throughout the period. When our analysis began, the percentage of smartphones with FM reception capability was [...]
By Skip Pizzi|October 28, 2016|Blog, Radio|
New data from the second quarter of this year shows that a record number of smartphones with their FM reception capability enabled were sold in the U.S. during the period. Since 2012, PILOT has tracked [...]
By Skip Pizzi|June 2, 2016|Blog, Radio|
PILOT has been tracking the status of FM radio receiver capabilities in U.S. smartphones since 2013, observing sales and pursuing teardown analysis on the top-selling models (i.e., approximately the top 70% of sales, analyzed each [...]
