Lord knows, there are enough reasons in this country for regular citizens to go Egypt on the powers-that-be, à la Wisconsin, but within the purview of the radio world alone, reasons abound. Jack Hannold sent along his post from the radio-info.com discussion board, highlighting another facet of the creeping consolidation posted on yesterday. The FCC, [...]
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Every week more evidence of airwave assimilation graces the web. Just in the past seven days, the following examples turned up: In Salisbury, Connecticut, station WQQQ switched to all-talk NPR, according to this post on the Litchfield County Times site, entering an alliance with the WSHU Public Radio Group in Fairfield. But owner Dennis Jackson [...]
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The Huffington Post has jumped into the college-radio fray, with this post entitled “College Radio: You Will Be Assimilated,” by Tracy Rosenberg. In it, Tracy links to the PRC casualty list and ties in the borg motif of the public radio denizens: But what happened to KUSF and Rice University station KTRU and about two [...]
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A day after posting on the fallacy of the “liberal media,” we find that the LUV newsletter comes through with a perfect example, in an inflammatory piece called “NPR and PBS Sell Out the American People Again.” Here it is in its entirety: Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has a scathing attack on the [...]
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This post from the Killeen Daily Herald website would seem to indicate that the CPB is still involved in bankrolling the junk science of HD radio, despite that fact its website says the program has ended. Note the reference to the bogus “broadcasting in high-definition” and the “CD-like audio quality” purveyed by station bean counters, [...]
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From time to time, we are wont to pontificate about the conservative agitprop concerning the “liberal media” and all the accompanying absurdist proclamations that have led through the years, ultimately, to an emasculated form of “journalism” at best. The following piece by Lisa Pease, entitled “What a ‘Liberal Media’ Might Look Like,” came to us [...]
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There’s a funny exchange going on at the radio-info.com discussion board about HD radio (naturally — that’s where the good jokes are). It’d be even funnier if the CPB hadn’t spent $50 million of our taxpaying money to back this turkey, and if our local public radio stations hadn’t mortgaged our analogue futures to mount [...]
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San Francisco seems to be leading the counterattack in the battle to keep college radio stations alive, drawing in support from all walks of life in the city in support — including sitting politicians as well as USF faculty members and students. This post, for instance, appears on the SFMOMA blog of the San Francisco [...]
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An interesting post from a former DJ at Rice University’s KTRU on the Vibes d’Afrique discussion board, delineating, among other things, the extent of the attrition among college and community radio stations. The Owl students are far from finished: I host “The Africana Show” on Rice University Radio, KTRU- 91.7 FM Houston, Saturdays 1-3. Tuesday [...]
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In Nashville, the struggle goes on for student station WRVU, with the latest an open letter from the faculty and students of the Vanderbilt music department: We at the Blair School of Music have a special interest in keeping WRVU on the air. We understand the vital role that music plays in serving the public [...]
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