Few posts stir as much interest as those taking NPR itself to task for what public radio is becoming and what changes NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have wrought in the public’s name. Criticism generally falls within — but is not limited to — several general categories. The homogenization of programming content — [...]
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We posted too soon on this Radio-info.com discussion, as it turned even more interesting after Tuesday’s post: Savage: FM Stereo is “far from robust?” Are you kidding?? I can get the tiniest out-of-market signals to decode in stereo, even on the most pedestrian car radios. It might be noisy, and the pilot may be flickering [...]
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Radio Survivor’s Facebook page declared “Dang if this isn’t one of the best things we’ve ever published,” and we have to agree. In a piece entitled “Radio’s Fall—Part Two: NPR’s ‘Liberal’ Identity Crisis,” Gavin Dahl does an outstanding job of tying together the problems faced by the public radio giant. What follows are quotes liberally [...]
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The wags on the Radio-info.com discussion board are at it again, under the heading “So, who got or gave an HD Radio for Christmas?” KB10KL: I’m waiting for April Fools day to give any IBOC radios away. “hey! This thing doesn’t work!” April Fools! tested: Boy, this really does hit the nail on the head. [...]
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More coverage on the Vanderbilt student-run radio station WRVU, here, on the Consequence of Sound website. Caitlin Meyer, writing in the Where We Live section of the site, has this to say: College radio, the age-old home of alternative and underground music especially, in these unstable economic times, has seen more than its fair share [...]
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We haven’t visited Grant Goddard’s Brit blog recently, here, and have missed his wry wit in describing the European version of the de-BOC-le (as one radio-board wag called our own IBOC). His writing always entertains and contains more than a kernel of truth relevant to the new-world whitewash that is HD radio. For instance, this [...]
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A season’s greetings to all, and to all a good night. This note from the Austin Chronicle with long-overdue kudos to Austin Airwaves’ Jim Radio (in particular for his work in underdeveloped countries such as Haiti setting up radio stations): Naked City • Radio Radio Over the weekend, the U.S. House and Senate approved the [...]
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The following news release came from the students fighting the sale of the Vanderbilt radio station, WRVU, lead in the main by the 5,700-strong Facebook page, here (link also on right). It details the tack taken by the college-radio grim reaper, Chris Carroll, titular capo of VSC, who has presided over the sale of at [...]
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This comment, on Slashdot, a discussion board covering a multitude of subjects, pretty much summarizes the state of IBOC vis-à-vis its European counterpart, Digital Radio Mondiale: In my opinion it’s a moot issue. I’ve worked on HD Radio exciters for some years, first with great enthusiasm and now with very little. It’s a great idea [...]
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Writing on the site Radio Survivor, Jennifer Waits heaped kudos on the stalwarts at Rice University fighting for their student radio station. The bean counters at Rice and UH had countered the petition students had filed with the FCC, and now the students have fired back: On December 13, both University of Houston and Rice [...]
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