The Save KUSF Facebook page (link now on right) has blossomed overnight, with more than 3,500 fans in one day. At this point it’s past 4,300, perhaps soon to challenge the vehemence of the folks on the Save WRVU site (link on right). Meanwhile, the story has gone viral on the blogosphere, including this post [...]
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This post on Air Chexx (“Where classic radio lives”) makes no bones about webmaster Steve West’s opinion of HD radio: In short, HD Radio, for all the hoopla and push for it back in 2005-6, is an abysmal failure. It wastes bandwidth, power and has ruined the AM and FM bands for DX’ers. Most of [...]
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Radio Survivor carried a post from Jennifer Waits about the skullduggery surrounding the sale of another college radio station, KUSF in San Francisco: There’s a chilling account on the Bay Citizen blog which reports what happened this morning at 10am when college radio station KUSF was taken off the air at University of San Francisco. [...]
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FCC Response to Austin Airwaves’s Request to Deny transfer of NCE License KTRU-FM, Houston, TX Dear Consumer, During the license renewal process, listeners of the stations whose licenses are up for renewal may participate in the process either by filing a petition to deny or informal objection against a renewal or by filing positive comments [...]
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On Mark Ramsey’s blog, he makes some good points about the recent Consumer Electronics Show in a post entitled “The Most Important Takeaway for Broadcasters from CES,” leading off this way: I’m struck by reading the post-mortems about the Consumer Electronics Show in the radio trades – the gist seems to sum up to this: [...]
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Jack Hannold sent along the following information in regards to the use of translators. A layman’s understanding of the use of translators by radio giants might go something like this: “A station running HD channels can use translators as if they were another station. In other words, this allows them to essentially ‘add’ another station, [...]
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Has NPR begun to lose faith in HD radio? A little late, given that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has dumped $50 million in taxpayer money into starting up channels on public stations in their behalf — to the point that better than 40% of those channels broadcasting HD are public radio’s. Now there seems [...]
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The group at Save WRVU Radio is the hardest-working bunch protesting today. Just look at the Facebook site (link on right), now nearly 6,000 strong, and you’ll see any number of fundraisers, activities, and involved businesses. Yesterday, they unearthed a satirical gem from Jim Gillin, printed in their humor magazine, The Slant, last October. To [...]
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This discussion on the boards at Radio-info.com — entitled “What does that Inside Radio Poll tell us?” — speaks volumes, as radioskeptic notes, since IR is essentially a Clear Channel publication: radioskeptic: This morning Inside Radio published the results a recent poll under the headline “Poll: HD Radio tipping point is years away.” When will [...]
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Todd Urick, writing on the site Common Frequency (link on right), shared some words of wisdom in the item “Push to Grow the Audience.” It details his take on what we’ve called the manifest-destiny model in public radio nowadays: Station Resource Group in coordination with CPB recently released its final report in their “Grow the [...]
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