Sharon Vegas Selby, who is leading the fight in Music City to convince Vanderbilt to hang on to radio station WRVU, posted this letter from one of the station alumni about the sale of KUSF in San Francisco, an eloquent testament to the move afoot to combine forces in college radio against the major consolidators [...]
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This post on pittsburghcitypaper.ws outlined some of the details of the move by Duquesne U. to divest itself of its radio station, WDUQ, a move that’s engendered protest over the fate of jazz programming and the very employees that have made the station the success that it is. As the article notes, “December rankings released [...]
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Jim Radio of Austin Airwaves sent along this note about the fight over funding of public radio in general and KUT-Austin in particular. It came on the heels of Larry Monroe’s announcement that his free-form “Phil Music” show and “Blue Monday” will be returning to the air — on another station: For a second day [...]
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The big news this week in Austin radio is the return to the airwaves of DJ Larry Monroe — “hell no” not on “public” radio station KUT, but on KDRP out of Dripping Springs, which is now virtually a suburb of the capital city. Larry will be reconstituting the shows he popularized before the station [...]
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In Nashville, the Music City, Vanderbilt students and supporters of WRVU are fighting to hang on to their radio station. Station slayer Chris Carroll promulgated a list of open-ended questions justifying his attempts to jettison the station — the standard mealy-mouthed bloviation of university suits — and following are answers from Vandy alumni: Vanderbilt Student [...]
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Frank Conrad sends along word that in Pittsburgh, Public Radio Capital is in the process of taking ownership of the city’s jazz station and asks for your support. He says: “PRC was initially brought in to the process to assist the stations management and community supporters in purchasing the license. PRC then became a predator [...]
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Greg Smith sent along this link to Mark Ramsey’s influential blog, wherein he makes a few observations about what Apple is up to with its iPhone: Back in December, Apple quietly submitted a patent application that altered the radio experience for its users and introduced three new elements to the iPhone: FM, AM, and Satellite [...]
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Greg Smith sent along this link to a story on rbr.com that would seem to indicate Clear Channel is pulling out of HD radio. It seems the HD channels may be a victim of budget cuts: More evidence of content cuts at CC Radio: Their much-acclaimed Format Lab is gone from the web. Replaced by [...]
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College radio has taken it on the chin over the past year — from Austin to Boston to Nashville to Houston to Pittsburgh to Gainesville to San Francisco. Now, in the spirit of Wisconsin protests, change is in the air. Sharon Vegas Shelby in Nashville is seeking to unite the diverse protests in the college [...]
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The lead in this post on boston.com says it all: Union busting at WGBH? How will that play during Pledge Week? Labor-management relations at the World’s Greatest Broadcast House are sinking quicker than PBS ratings. At the end of October, management declined to extend its contract with the 280 members of the Communications Workers of [...]
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