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Public Radio

Blog Posts

What Is Radio Automation?

Radio automation lets you easily, efficiently, and quickly organize, manage, and schedule your content, freeing up valuable production time and resources.

January 11, 2023
Blog Posts

Disaster Recovery to the Rescue

While today’s software-defined radio stations are extremely powerful and agile, they’re also vulnerable to a wide range of hazards that can knock them off the air without warning. Even if the problem only lasts a few hours, that downtime can result in lost advertising or underwriting revenue and a need for makegoods.

November 22, 2022
Press Releases

DCL Helps Leavens Serve Jazz Fans

Pubcasting industry veteran Chuck Leavens uses multiple ENCO DAD systems to run jazz-formatted WZUM in Pittsburgh and, separately, the nation’s largest nationally syndicated 24×7 jazz “white label” music service.

November 9, 2022
Press Releases

ENCO to Preview Next-Generation Remote Radio Automation Interface at 2022 NAB Show

New WebDAD 3.0 provides enhanced user experiences while letting stations efficiently manage their on-air operations from anywhere with a network connection.

April 7, 2022
Blog Posts

Solving Operational Challenges for Today's Educational Radio Stations

Known as stations “to the left of the dial”, Non-Commercial Educational (NCE) radio stations operate on FM frequencies from 88.1MHz to 91.9MHz, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reserves for educational purposes.

February 17, 2022
Featured Clients

WIHS upgrades automation with ENCO DAD

WIHS/104.9 FM's transition from a legacy deployment goes smoothly!

January 28, 2022
Blog Posts

How WAMU 88.5 FM Captions its Live Local Radio Shows

Whether it’s broadcast television or video streamed over the top, viewers are familiar with closed captioning on their screens. This is because the FCC mandates on-screen captions to make the audio portions of over-the-air TV broadcasts accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.

December 13, 2021
Blog Posts

WAMU-88.5 Makes Radio Accessible with enCaption

By offering live local radio captioning, WAMU is broadening its market reach by making its programming accessible to the deaf or hard of hearing, including those associated with Gallaudet University—a world-renowned Washington, DC-based university that serves deaf and hard of hearing students.

November 16, 2021