It’s time to act if you want to speak out for independent/college/free-form radio — namely, that at Rice University, where the students’ 50,000-watt radio station is in the process of being sold out from under them by a callous administration. As this post notes, on the Daily Cougar.com site of the University of Houston — [...]
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So does HD work better in a big city, where there are already too many stations fighting for analog dominance? Not according to this discussion group, whose LinoNewYork took some samples: Mike Walker: Thanks for the clips. Those WPLJ cuts suffer from so much processing that they make probably the worst case ever for HD’s [...]
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The following came from a post on the Fans of Folk Radio WUMB, reposted in its entirety, giving a good look at how songs are chosen at a radio station for incessant replay: When record companies and some independent artists send CDs to commercial radio stations for airplay they are often stickered with notes “suggesting” [...]
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Here’s an interesting post about HD with some sound bites to back it up, on the blog “Reviews & Insights” in a piece entitled “HD Radio Undressed: The Naked Truth.” The first YouTube video shows a local Chicago TV station parroting the company line about the wonders of IBOC. The second gives lie to the [...]
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The latest bad joke out of the iBiquity “shock and guffaw” swag factory entails making HD radios into just one more Pandora, Jango, or you-name-it. And they’ve talked their buds at NAB into forking over more dough to make this turkey fly — a classic case of throwing good money after bad. That seems to [...]
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Paul Thurst on Engineering Radio reports here on a new slew of AM radio stations that have turned off their HD channels, notably in NYC: I have received an e-mail from occasional reader John, who comments that many of the Windy City AM’s have turned their buzz saws off. I note myself today, the same [...]
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Students at the University of Houston have also expressed their dismay at the surreptitious sale of the Rice University 50,000-watt radio station, KTRU, to UH, a school that already owned and operated an NPR station. According to this post on the Houston student website, Daily Cougar.com, a number of students spoke up at a recent [...]
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A Boston correspondent sent along news of a WUMB poll with not-so-surprising results, according to the Fans of Folk Radio WUMB Facebook page (link also on right): “You voted — and we’ve tabulated the votes — all 3,741 of them from 42 states and 5 countries!” Now the WUMB home page announces the final results: 11.21.10 [...]
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This small note on Radio-Info.com’s Taylor on Radio reported that advertising on the internet has become big business: Internet advertising revenue has passed radio, and it’s up 17% in the latest quarter. At a wild guess, we’ll see the Radio Advertising Bureau third-quarter results either tomorrow afternoon or just before Thanksgiving — Jeff Haley probably [...]
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The organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has criticized public media — as reported here — for its conservative leanings, not the “liberal bias” that the right has conjured up in its legerdemain as part of its design to control the agenda. In particular, it chided the “public media” for suspect behavior where donations [...]
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