A discussion on the Radio-Info.com board concerning HD radio included this interesting link from NorthPine.com (which deals with broadcasting in the upper Midwest), detailing an odd proposal from Wisconsin’s union-slaying governor, Scott Walker, who you would think would be unalterably opposed to “public” media of any kind: The last tower in what was originally Wisconsin’s [...]
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Meghan Daum, writing in this post on the LA Times blog, said it: “NPR needs a backbone.” Woof. Oh, NPR, won’t you please state your game? Are you liberal? Are you neutral? Are your employees secret socialists? Do their screensavers feature slideshows of Noam Chomsky? Do your office Christmas parties serve only free-range eggnog? Do [...]
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There was an interesting piece on the Media Matters blog that related some conservatives’ take on the so-called “liberal” bent of NPR, an article called “Conservatives Praise NPR’s News Coverage”: “I think NPR tries harder to be fair than just about any other media source. It doesn’t mean they succeed. They do give evidence of [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter on Radio-Info.com proclaimed the death knell for HD radio on Zune, once touted as a marriage made in heaven (“Can Zune HD Radio Save the Zune?” here), : Microsoft to keep the “Zune” name, but pull the Zune player off store shelves. That’s not a positive development for iBiquity’s HD Radio, which [...]
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The beat goes on at WDUQ in Pittsburgh, at least for the time being. Jazz, apparently, may be an endangered species there, helped along by Public Radio Capital, which formed its own company — Public Media Company (board member Susan Harmon, managing director of PRC, is in Austin to sit on a panel entitled “How [...]
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The folks fighting for station WRVU at Vanderbilt have kept up the pressure, sending out this release yesterday: Fellow college radio stations KTRU and KUSF are in more advanced stages of a fight for survival — both found themselves in the predicament of having no warning before having their transmitter silenced and locks to their [...]
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Jeff Boudreau provided this link to an article called “Your tax dollars turn on WGBH” by Jessica Heslam on the website of the Boston Herald. In it, Jessica writes that despite ‘GBH protestations that it gains but a pittance from federal largesse in the form of public funding, truth be told, some $80 million found [...]
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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting has a good take, here (“Stinging NPR: James O’Keefe’s Big Nothing”), on the public relations disaster that’s been the campaign to keep funding coming in to public broadcasting. In the midst of the Republican offensive to defund public media, it seems the suits at NPR have only opened their mouths [...]
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Apparently the incentives for using Arbitron’s Purple People Meter have led some folks to augment their incomes with some choice chicanery, according to this post from Radio InSights blog called “Arbitron’s Perverse PPM Panelist Incentives”: In a story that first broke last December, Broadcast Architecture’s Allen Kepler told of PPM panelists attaching meters to ceiling [...]
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The San Francisco Bay Guardian online posted this article by Kimberly Chun called “Radio radio,” and in it she shows some pretty good chops: Throughout, KUSF’s old frequency, 90.3, comes through loud and clear — though now with the sound of KDFC’s light-classical and its penchant for swelling, feel-good woodwinds. The music is so innocuous [...]
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