Writing here on Radio Survivor, Jennifer Waits warns of another college radio station in imminent danger of being absorbed into the borg — this time station WXLV, owned by Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania: According to an article in the South Whitehall Patch, the administration recently had the station appraised as part of [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter carried the latest bad news for college radio: WDUQ in Pittsburgh, sold by the bean counters at Duquesne to a public radio group “enhanced” by dollars from a PRC offshoot, Public Media Company, and absorbed into the NPR borg, will shove the beloved jazz programming off into HD purgatory. PRC was brought [...]
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John Anderson posted the following piece on his blog DIYmedia.net about the slipshod fashion in which the FCC is going about its business, allowing the corporate giants in radioland to do an end run around its regulations governing the number of radio stations any one company can own in a given area. The big surprise [...]
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San Diego radio station KPBS has dropped its classical music, joining the NPR borg with all talk all the time, according to this post on Current.org. Those fans of the homogenized classical to be dumped will have to listen online — or throw the dice and buy an HD radio if they want to follow [...]
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The LUV Newsletter today, never a fan of the rightward shift of NPR, included the following: NPR CONTINUES SPREADING MISINFORMATION Yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered, Robert Siegel began the program with the shocking headline “The nation’s two-most important programs for seniors, Social Security and Medicare, will exhaust their trust funds earlier than projected.” Always [...]
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Well, it’s about up and running now, a spin-off blog for you raving populists who find yourself aghast at all the nefarious doings of the oligarchy and their pet sharks, the politicians. It’s an acronym designed to irritate, yes, but above all to stimulate, for better or worse. In our experience, the original SDS was [...]
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Jenn Ettinger of Freepress.net sent out an email yesterday that provides a blatant example of the revolving door in politics — whereby a government regulator slides greasily into a high-paid position with a regulatee (in this case, before her term even expired): Free Press Blasts Comcast-FCC Merger WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker [...]
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This news from Barnes Newberry, who remains one of the most sought-after subjects on this site: Thrilled to announce I will be on-air again very soon with my new show My Back Pages on mvyradio (mvyradio.com). Great station, fine music choices and terrific staff! Show will be Saturdays, 8 am -12 noon, available online only. [...]
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This is a link to the Facebook page that has links to your congressional reps . . .
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This site is still under construction, but it’s intended to share the latest in populist, progressive thought — and cartoons: http://seniorsforademocraticsociety.wordpress.com/
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