The people powered meter (PPM) has come to Nashville, which has also suffered a change of format to its NPR affiliate. According to this post on the site tennessean.com: Big changes may be coming to a radio station near you soon. Nashville is the latest city to take part in a real-time radio audience survey [...]
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The UK’s Grant Goddard sent along a pdf of a presentation he made to Parliament about the future (or lack thereof) of DAB radio in England. His conclusion: “I believe that complete digital switchover is unlikely to ever happen to UK radio.” You can read this report and substitute “HD radio” for “DAB” (though the [...]
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Grant Goddard, who covers the English airwaves in a highly literate site, is sounding the death knell for DAB, the European version of HD radio that’s actually far superior to HD in that, for one, it does not interfere with adjacent channels. Some of the material in this post should be required reading for radio [...]
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You know, of course, that NPR and Clear Channel are buddies — partners in cahoots with iBiquity in the HD radio con game. And chances are, if your public radio station has gone Triple-A radio, you’ve heard all about the playlists that govern what’s played. Well then, you should watch this YouTube video on Clear [...]
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Who Is That Guy? Some folks involved in the various protest groups incensed at the co-option of their “public” radio stations sought immediate gratification from their actions. They reasoned that one march down to the studio with torches and pitchforks would elicit immediate changes from station management. Surely the bean counters would be reasonable in [...]
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The latest furor in non-comm stations involves the University of Virginia’s WTJU. Jeff Boudreau passed along this post on dailyprogress.com, website from Charlottesville, VA, where appears the following: Major programming changes coming to WTJU, the University of Virginia’s eclectic non-commercial radio station, are prompting outrage and several high profile resignations by longtime volunteer disc jockeys. [...]
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The engineers on the info-radio.com discussion boards are tracking the demise of HD radio on the AM band. Bob Savage reports: UPDATE! AM-HD continues its slo-mo Croak-O-Rama. June pop-count drops a few more stations, to 248: http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html That’s about 50 stations off the high-water mark. Can’t we just call it a (hiss-free) day already? Earlier, [...]
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KUT jock Larry Monroe, one of three deejays downsized into near oblivion by the peabrained maneuver of management in Austin last year, is soon retiring entirely from the airwaves. But you can catch some of the magic he brought to the airwaves on his website, here, where he’s posting “Video Sets” for your enjoyment. They [...]
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Finally a little sanity. The Infinite Blog site here is a little more circumspect in its analysis of Apple’s “move” into HD radio. As this post leads off: First of all, don’t get too excited about the press reports that Apple has applied for a patent to include HD radio technology in future iPods and [...]
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Tom Taylor, writing in his blog Taylor on Radio-Info (TRI), interviewed Cox Radio’s Bob Neil about Arbitron’s new, improved people powered meter (PPM). Bob says “This brings the technology from the late ’80s to about 1993.” Says he: I asked Bob “Is the new PPM 360 better?” and he says “The hype exceeds the substance. [...]
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