The chickens have come home to roost on the airwaves of some of the major consolidators in radio, according to this post on rbr.com: Pete Skorich, Detroit Pistons Director of Broadcasting, addressed a rumor that RBR-TVBR heard regarding a rate reduction in The Detroit Pistons contract with Clear Channel’s Sports WDFN-AM 1130 kHz over poor [...]
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The KUSFers in Frisco just won’t go away. Their Facebook page is climbing towards 7,000 friends, and the tenor in the blogosphere has taken a decided militant tone, witness this post on Change.org called “Tell USC local, independent media is too important: don’t crush community stations from afar”: The University of Southern California has announced [...]
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A recent post on Tom Taylor’s blog on Radio-info.com painted a stark picture of radio revenue over the past couple years, a situation precipitating fevered moves among frazzled radio execs and a few big bankruptcies. The funk in commercial radio sales was trumped by a decade-long sag in the fortunes of public radio, which bent [...]
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Current.org carried this post about the battle in Pittsburgh that’s heating up over what’s to become of their public radio station, and the introduction contains the name of a familiar co-conspirator in the controversy: Pittsburgh’s NPR News and jazz music station WDUQ is to be sold for $6 million to a joint partnership of WYEP [...]
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The Save KUSF Facebook site has zoomed past 6,500 friends, with no end in sight. The citywide protest seems to be taking on a life of its own, with San Francisco politicos chiming in on the discussion. Jack Hannold sent along a link to this post on the SFWeekly, describing how one city supervisor introduced [...]
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Jack Hannold sent along this post from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, further testimony to the consolidators’ plans to circumvent FCC rules and monetize their woebegone HD channels (reported on here): Cumulus finds an FM translator to buy near Kalamazoo, and it’s yet another spin by San Diego-based religious broadcaster Horizon Christian Fellowship. The name of the [...]
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Mark Ramsey, writing on his blog Mark Ramsey Media, took radio to task in an article last year entitled “Radio Is About to Make a Very Bad Bet,” alluding to a deal brewing over the last months of the year to barter a performance royalty in exchange for radio chips in cell phones, something vehemently [...]
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College radio is in turmoil now, with administrators looking to cash in their few remaining chips “for the good of the students.” Jack Hannold sent along this item: From http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-01212011.html this morning: More K-Love ahead? Morehead State Public Radio is selling off one of its two full-power FMs, and the outfit that’s buying WOCS, Lerose, Kentucky [...]
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This post on a blog called BSW Control Room features Gary Beebe, a “BSW Special Projects Engineer,” taking HD radio to task, from the perspective of someone who originally had high hopes for its prospects: Why I don’t listen to HD Radio This is not about HD radio. Huh? But you just said . . . [...]
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Bits and pieces from recent web posts: IBiquity made big noise recently about Ford mounting an HD radio in some models. Nothing was said, however, about the one feature noted here that many frustrated drivers would love to have in theirs: an on-off switch. Many discussion boards are filled with instructions on how to weave [...]
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