Austin is reportedly one of the cities to get Arbitron’s “new, improved” PPM (“portable people meter”) this summer, but what is that going to mean, changing from the diary system? For one thing, a completely different set of numbers, as shown in cities that have already made the switch. So which set of bad numbers [...]
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Jerry Del Colliano posted up on his early years in radio faced with the prospect of canned music, comparing it to the challenge today of Pandora. There’s a lesson here for public radio: Years ago one of the major market radio stations I programmed used syndication tapes from Drake Chenault. Every week at our studios [...]
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Stewart Vanderwilt, the GM of Austin’s KUT radio, once waxed poetic to potential donors in a letter: “KUT is . . . a community for music lovers. From adult rock to folk, from blues to world music, KUT seeks out music that isn’t promoted, packaged, or hyped. Music you wouldn’t find without us. . . [...]
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The big news out of Wisconsin isn’t that station WGTD is considering switching away from NPR and classical to big band and jazz, though that in itself is remarkable. The biggest news there is that “the station is seeking input from listeners about the proposed change.” Imagine that. This post on the Walworth County Today [...]
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In Jerry Del Colliano’s well-respected blog Inside Music Media, he posted these tidbits on what it would take radio to recover in a piece entitled “Armageddon or Radio’s Promised Land”: I know I am preaching to the converted here, but let’s just preview what radio can and should do to avoid going down with the [...]
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Eric Rhoads, in a blog called Radio Ink Tank, posted a rather favorable, if critical, article on HD radio called “Are You Killing HD Radio?” (And he admits to a conflict of interest, having marketed a brand of HD radio.) But the real action is down below, in the comments. Here, for instance, is a [...]
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Interesting development in the Northwest. Bill Virgin, staff writer for the Tacoma (Washington) News Tribune, posted this about station KING-FM, which is switching to nonprofit: More ominous, though, are long-term demographic and technological trends. You’re no longer limited to the local radio signals you can pick up in your car or home. With Internet streaming [...]
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Jack Hannold sent along this link to a story on radio-info.com from Tom Taylor that seems to give an industry vote of no confidence on HD radio. Entitled “An ‘advanced’ song-tagging and ad-tagging system with Broadcast Electronics – to work with analog FM,” it speaks of a device added to analog radio that was once [...]
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Radio engineers are a breed unto themselves. They will tell you, in no uncertain terms, what they think about radio engineering — unless otherwise restrained by the threat of repercussion. But the various discussion groups among the breed are filled with blunt talk, in amongst the tech talk that boggles the average reader. Consider this, [...]
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The new format at ‘GBH seems to be worth a hill of beans . . . The small amount of NPR News listeners who switched from WBUR to WGBH during WBUR’s March fundraiser to avoid the pledging appear to have switched back to WBUR. The new format doesn’t seem to be doing WGBH much good [...]
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