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Audacy's Dave Skalish is sustaining Philly's broadcast engineering tradition.
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November 14, 2025
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Nice Going, Paul!
Nice Going, Paul!
Our colleagues at Future have chosen Paul McLane's recent column about Melvyn Bragg's retirement from BBC's "In Our Time" to receive a B2B Editorial Excellence Award. As Paul wrote at the time, "I believe that my reaction to the departure of a beloved host says much about the power radio still can have in our lives." Here's that post again.
 
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Skalish Sustains Philly’s Broadcast Engineering Tradition
The history of broadcast innovation runs deep in Philadelphia, going all the way back to Philo Farnsworth’s groundbreaking television demonstration at the Franklin Institute in 1934. One of the engineers carrying the torch is Audacy’s Dave Skalish, a new member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame.
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