When you look at what’s happening in Boston and Austin and New York City and Philadelphia, you’ll see a repetition of what’s gone before and what goes on today. This past June, for instance, at Minnesota Public Radio (part of a big consolidation, American Public Media Group), one Dale Connelly was thrown under the bus. [...]
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Joe Cavanagh, a deejay with UConn’s WHUS with an interest in Celtic music, sent Jeff Boudreau the following email in support of independent college radio: A funny thing happened on my way home this evening. I tuned to perhaps the most widely heard public radio presence in lower New England, WFCR. There I heard a [...]
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The engineering wags on radio-info.com discussion board are having a field day with the latest blurb on Inside Radio: Carmine5: This blurb from Inside Radio: “HD Radio receivers will take a step toward the iPod and smartphone over the next few months as the first units go on sale offering a visual element tied to [...]
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Grant Goddard is fighting the digital-radio battle in England, and in a highly literate manner (link on right). Sometimes, though the subject might not be terribly germane to the struggle here, his blog is worth the read just for his style. He’s a good read even if you don’t totally understand the subject. In a [...]
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On the blog Engineering Radio, Paul Thurst debunks the prevalent iBiquity swag that HD radio’s slow acceptance mirrors that of FM radio in its advent years ago. As Struble’s Flying Circus is wont to say, “Currently, HD Radio is experiencing ‘growing pains’ and the occasional ‘bump in the road.’” Paul goes to great lengths, in [...]
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Sharon Vegas Selby has sent along this site as a repository of information on the threatened sale of Vanderbilts’s WRVU in Nashville, the Music City. The Facebook pages have fallen prey to the Facebook Funk of the past couple of days, so they’re hard to access, but this website contains the latest in bean counter [...]
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This post, entitled “So Long, Arbitron,” on a blog written by D.C. lawyer Chris Reed hasn’t got much good to say about Arbitron, the rating service that now even non-comms use in their frenzy to find a winning formula in radio’s declining years: This morning’s Inside Radio features several stories about small market broadcasters dropping [...]
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Interesting post on the Orbis website (“Amplifying Vanderbilt’s Progressive Voice”), out of Nashville, by Meghan O’Neil concerning the proposed sale of the Vanderbilt radio station, WRVU. The station is actually owned by VSC, Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc., “a non-profit organization, separate from Vanderbilt, that comprises all of Vanderbilt student media, including ORBIS, The Hustler, and [...]
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Non-commercial stations acting like commercial stations There’s a website of interest to those who’d like to follow the money in public radio. This one, belonging to Public Radio Capital, lists some of the local stations that have benefited in their manifest-destiny policies — that is, in acquiring new stations to expand their reach. We’ve already [...]
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Here’s an unlikely post from the AAA music website “the top 22″ entitled “What’s the Role of AAA Radio in Breaking New Music?” (You can turn off the music that blasts out with a switch in the right margin.) In it, you’ll find the author lamenting the fact that there’s often too much repetition in [...]
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