At the rate of consolidation of the big three — corporate radio, NPR, and religious radio — independent radio may go the way of the eight-track tape. Of what concern is that of ours? Well, do you want to listen to only what music the bean counters deem fit or that “counts” well? News filtered [...]
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The battle continues to rage in Music City over student radio station WRVU, with this latest entry on the SaveWRVURadio website: WRVU Continues to Attract Media Attention The plight of WRVU continues to attract local and national press. College Music Journal (CMJ) has been following the plight of WRVU closely. They have submitted a follow-up [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sent along this link to a scathing piece on the bostonmagazine.com site entitled “Dead Air: Why should taxpayers be asked to fund a union-busting, freeloading corporate behemoth . . . like WGBH?” In it, writer Eileen McNamara leads off swinging: REMIND ME AGAIN why eliminating taxpayer subsidies for public broadcasting is a right-wing idea? [...]
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Greg Smith found a post on the Broadcast Law blog, mentioned Sunday, that defines the rules the FCC has promulgated for the use of translators to rebroadcast HD channels over analog — opening up the chance for some return on investment (ROI) of IBOC — as what was once termed a “regulatory agency” plays slut [...]
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Jennifer Waits posted on Radio Survivor about the latest move by CPRN to absorb more of California into the borg, a ploy that has the folks at KZSU plenty worried: On Tuesday, April 12 the FCC approved University of San Francisco’s revised request to move the transmitter for KUSF out of San Francisco to Sausalito [...]
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If ever you doubted that the FCC has become a complaisant lapdog — without a tooth to the muzzle — you have only to look at the latest doings of radio conglomerates in the wacky world of translators. The big guns (i.e., the Cheap Channels et al.) are limited by law from owning more than [...]
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College Broadcasters Inc. has announced on its website a minute of silence for those stations that have fallen to the non-com consolidators: On April 28, 2011 at 6:00a, Rice University’s KTRU’s signal will transfer to the University of Houston. KTRU has a long history of providing alternative programming to the Houston metro. The new owner [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sends along this post from the website Nonprofit Quarterly, Ruth McCambridge’s “Cannibalizing the Competition? Public Radio Wars in Boston,” where it’s noted that any gains made by the move by WGBH to go talk-talk apparently came at the expense of WBUR, the reigning NPR station in Boston: If you are a public radio [...]
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The proposed sale of Vanderbilt radio station WRVU by VSC has drawn some heavy hitters into the fray, most recently this letter from a vice president of Facebook itself: I have been following the discussions concerning the proposed sale of the WRVU station license and would like to weigh in strongly against this sale. I [...]
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This post on the Save KTRU site speaks to the anger those involved in Rice Radio hold for the FCC and its ruling selling the student station to the University of Houston: FCC reneges on its commitment to localism Decision to allow transfer of KTRU license contrary to the public interest HOUSTON, April 17, 2011— [...]
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