John Anderson’s DIYmedia.net, one of our favorite sites for radio news, posted on a piece by another fave of ours, England’s Grant Goddard, a highly literate critic of the European version of digital radio (link on right). The Brits led the way in trying to ram the DAB system down consumers’ throats, and Grant has [...]
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson In Nashville, tomorrow marks the final meeting of the VSU board, which has been trying to sell off student radio station WRVU — despite [...]
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A long post from BK10KL on the Radio-Info.com might lead one to believe that HD radio on the AM band is rapidly fading away, spurred on by some of the big guns (and investors) in the junk science: I got this thread sent to me, it’s from the Both Sides Now Stereo Chat Board, there [...]
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At Stanford University, folks there are worried about the machinations of the consolidators at Southern Cal’s Classical Public Radio Network, as reported by Sharon Vegas Selby on the College Radio United Facebook site (link on right): Here’s The Skinny KZSU’s signal is being threatened, and we need your help. The Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN), [...]
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This post yesterday, “The Death of HD Radio, Round 2,” on audiographics.com pretty much sums up what we’ve been saying all along — despite what iBiquity suits trumpet, along with their fellow conspirators . . . errr, investors. The article leads with a repeat of a 2007 article on the site, back when iBiquity’s website [...]
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John Anderson has an interesting page on his DIYmedia.net website, here, where he gathers up all his posts on HD radio from the past decade, and they tell a fascinating story about industry skullduggery, deception, and FCC complaisance, as well as NPR Labs complicity in the whole sordid saga — progressing from a distrust of [...]
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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) posted a story called “NPR: And Now, a Word From Our Sponsor,” here, that takes a dig at corporate “underwriting” on NPR: NPR Morning Edition (4/5/11) keeps its audience informed about important business news (that just so happens to be about an image-burnishing campaign by the company whose heiress [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sent along this article from the website of In These Times called “At Boston’s Premier PBS Station, Unionbusting Tactics and a Koch Connection,” providing details about the union-busting move by WGBH suits in “resolving” its labor dispute. It seems that Tea Party mogul (Americans for Prosperity) and ultra-conservative financier David Koch, hyper-active in [...]
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This Wall Street Journal article highlighted the explosive growth of Hispanic population in the United States, belied by the treatment of listeners on the commercial end of the spectrum. This, from Tom Taylor’s newsletter: Major cuts at Spanish radio’s biggest group – which may be planning to go public. TRI hasn’t used the “bloodbath” word [...]
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One year ago today we started this site with the hope of shining a light on what we saw happening to public radio stations across the country. Whether it was the sudden canceling of popular shows, the fallacy of HD radio, or the creeping influence of national groups such as NPR, we wanted to point [...]
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