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The times they are a-changin’ for public broadcasting

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/mander-2025-auracast-public-broadcasting/ · record checked 13 October 2026

  • Mander J
  • BATOD Magazine, September 2025, pp. 66–68; reprinted from Audacity

Independent (Ewing Foundation audiologist; describes an installation involving the theatre, GN Hearing and Ampetronic; financial support unspecified)

Summary

An audiologist describes testing Auracast at Manchester’s Contact Theatre with the venue’s sound engineer and explains the transition from hearing loops.

Key findings

  • James Mander, an Ewing Foundation audiologist, describes the January 2025 Contact Theatre installation as involving Contact, GN Hearing, Ampetronic and the Ewing Foundation.
  • Mander and sound engineer Adam Steed tried sound files, film soundtracks, music and live speech in quiet and with competing sound from the theatre speakers. Mander reports good, unbroken reception through portable Auri receivers and several hearing aids, earbuds and headphones.
  • The account gives no hearing aid model list, participant sample, fitting settings, firmware versions or measured intelligibility scores.
  • The article says audiologists need to explain and activate loop programmes and that appointment time can prevent this; it provides no equivalent audit of Auracast activation.
  • The article identifies itself as a reprint from the British audiology association’s Audacity magazine; this record dates the September 2025 BATOD edition that was read.

Limits

Informal observations by an audiologist involved in the installation, with manufacturer involvement and financial support unspecified. Two named evaluators are described, but no recruited listener sample or protocol. Device-availability statements and forecasts elsewhere in the article are not verified by this account and are not used as a current device list.

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Mander J. The times they are a-changin’ for public broadcasting. BATOD Magazine, September 2025, pp. 66–68; reprinted from Audacity. September 2025. https://www.batod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/W3883W.pdf (accessed 13 October 2026).

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