During his last show, Blue Monday, before retiring from KUT, Larry Monroe was joined by blues great James Cotton (photo by Ave Bonar). Interviewed on the KUT website, Larry had this to say: KUT News: I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask you whether your hours being reduced at KUT played a [...]
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To date, only a handful of stations have opted to bear the extra expense and wear on equipment associated with boosting the output on their HD channels — with good reason. Now it seems that part and parcel of that boost is an accompanying degradation of the analog signal, as reported in this post, entitled [...]
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This story, entitled “HD radio offerings gain strength in Austin market,” ran in the Austin American-Statesman this week, relying on information from Bob Struble and iBiquity as well as the associate general manager of KUT, Austin’s “public” radio station. The following email was sent to the Statesman letters to the editor: Mighty puffy piece (“HD [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter on radio-info.com reports that another college radio station is in danger of being assimilated: “God Save WNAZ” tee-shirts are selling on the campus of Nashville’s Trevecca Nazarene University, where the administration discloses it’s negotiating for the sale of the 43-year-old Class A facility at 89.1. The Tennessean says this isn’t the typical [...]
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Here are some of the latest developments in the struggle to keep KTRU in Houston a station run by Rice University students, following the announced sale to what Free Press Houston calls “Clear Channel affiliated U of H”: • In an opinion piece posted on the Rice Thresher, the student newspaper’s website, writers Kevin Bush [...]
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An interesting report just came out — the Radio Television Digital News Association/Hofstra University Annual Survey of TV and radio salaries — and it just might cause a bit of consternation at our public radio stations. It has to do with the salaries paid news directors and reporters on the airwaves. In some cases, they [...]
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The bean counters in radio have turned our stations into a wasteland, the PDs given over to wild speculation and fits of consolidation. Inside Music Media’s Jerry Del Colliano, a former prof at Southern Cal and a longtime critic of what passes for intelligence in the radio hierarchies, likes to call them “consolidators” — those [...]
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In Boston, Jeff Boudreau notes, the Purple People Meter is chewing up ‘GBH and WUMB, according to the latest Arbitron numbers, here. Both stations have sagged in the ratings since going all-talk and Triple A tripe, respectively. And, he notes, this article in the Boston Globe, entitled “WGBH asking for cuts as contract talks with [...]
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Renowned KUT deejay Larry Monroe, downsized in the carpetbagger kristallnacht in Austin last year and stripped of his benefits, has announced his retirement from the station. Larry will do one more Phil Music Show, an eclectic mix of music that originated following Austin City Council meetings when they ended early, and one more Blue Monday. [...]
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In the brutal heat and humidity of a Houston summer afternoon, hundreds of supporters met to protest the planned sale of KTRU to the University of Houston’s KUHF. As the protest website, SaveKTRU.org (link on right), noted: “Members of KTRU’s student board stressed that they will not back down in the fight for the radio [...]
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