Katz Media Group has promoted Christal Radio president Christine Travaglini to president of Katz Radio Group, tasked with overseeing the radio rep firm’s nationwide sales operations. She reports to Mark Gray, who had been running the radio rep firm until March 2017, when he was promoted to CEO of Katz Media Group.
A longtime Katz veteran, Travaglini has been president of Katz division Christal Radio since 2008. She will now drive overall business development and strategy of Katz Radio Group’s 14 regional offices that serve as the national sales rep firm for more than 3,300 radio stations and their digital audio platforms. In a news release, Katz said Travaglini “will lead the Katz team in driving maximum results for broadcasters and their advertisers through radio advocacy, innovative marketing solutions and compelling data and insights.”
Travaglini was the first person to rise from an assistant to president within the Katz organization. In 201
Radio and broadcast equipment manufacturer GatesAir has developed a solution designed to cure the occasional hiccups that consumers experience as HD Radio signals lose their digital imprint and switch back to analog. This can create dropouts and temporarily interrupt an HD station’s seamless audio due to buffering.
“As the digital signal transitions to analog and back, the lack of proper time alignment prevents program linearity for the listener due to an eight-second delay between the analog and digital broadcast,” GatesAir explains. “Diversity Delay is a critical component of the HD Radio listening experience.”
Its solution: the fourth-generation Flexiva Importer/Exporter, combined with the company’s new FMXi 4g. Together, GatesAir says they have come up with “the industry’s first HD Radio Importer/Exporter solution to provide dynamic time and audio correction.” The GatesAir-exclusive algorithm inside the FMXi 4g “ensures proper t
