Austin Airwave’s Jim Radio sent along a pithy post on PBS and NPR from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, link on right) entitled “Don’t Defund Public Broadcasting—Improve It.” It takes on the rabid response to NPR’s firing of Juan Williams — with charges the network’s run by some sort of left-wing cabal — with [...]
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In response to an earlier post about Rice University, correspondent Julie noted: “Rice University started secretly looking for potential buyers about a year ago. They didn’t get an offer they couldn’t refuse.” Indeed. It seems that the solons at the Harvard of the South feel this is the way to bring up young Owls to [...]
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This new post from Radio World, entitled “Canada in Digital Radio Limbo,” states in effect that digital radio is dead in the water in the northlands. It opens thus: Going nowhere: These two words succinctly sum up the state of Canadian digital radio broadcasting, or DRB. Despite years of offering Eureka-147 DAB simulcasts of AM [...]
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The action is still hot and heavy on the Save WRVU Facebook site, where 4,900 have signed on to help save Vanderbilt’s student radio station. This comment made Monday set off a firestorm: ••••••••• Can whoever runs this board also please change the order of who should be receiving letters? WRVU is an affiliate of [...]
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We’ve mentioned often how radio has struggled in the past couple years, losing nearly 20 percent of revenues last year alone. This explains some of the wild-eyed rush to Triple-A radio as the perceived cure for what ails our “public” radio stations. But as mentioned in this article on the original saveKUTaustin website,”Fuzzy Math: Lies, [...]
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In Milwaukee, Arbitron has run into resistance from some locals, according to the Journal Sentinel website post of Duane Dudek (“2 big radio chains still resisting new people-meter ratings”). He notes that “two . . . heavy hitters in the Milwaukee broadcast market — Milwaukee Radio Group, which owns five stations, including WKLH-FM (96.5) and [...]
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The canning of “analyst” Juan Williams by NPR over his comments on Cluster Fox News has created a firestorm of conservative protest, as well as no small amount of consternation among radio activists — who are not altogether opposed to the Republican call to de-fund the organization. Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin make very strange [...]
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Paul Thurst, writing in his Engineering Radio blog in a piece entitled “HD Radio: A solution without a problem,” took another chunk out of the bloated blather hyping HD radio in a recent column, saying at one point: “One of the station that I service had a Harris Deathstar go off line for four days. [...]
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Hello Membership Director. I’m writing because as pledge time approaches, I’m feeling very conflicted. I really love public radio. I really love what KUT has done for me over the years. But I really don’t like the direction you’ve taken in the last year or so. And I don’t feel that I can contribute in [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter carried the following entry about the battle for the soul of college radio: Protests about college-owned stations break out in Houston and Gainesville. The Houston situation is the $9.5 million sale of Rice University-owned KTRU (91.7) to the University of Houston. Rice students have long enjoyed the open-door-programming policy at variety-formatted KTRU, [...]
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