The LUV Newsletter carried this small piece today on the “fair and balanced” reporting of NPR: Cuban news has a good piece this morning showing how censorship works in the USA, reminiscent of Michael Parenti’s invitation to appear on NPR. Parenti was asked by a woman, impressed by him at a party, if he would [...]
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Phyllis Stark, writing in her Stark Country newsletter on Radio-Info.com, had some more bad news for the few remaining HD radio proponents, here printed in its entirety: In last Thursday’s issue, we raised the question “HD Radio: What Went Wrong?” after radio panelists at a recent convention debated that very topic and concluded that HD [...]
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Following is an exchange one of our correspondents, author Gwen Fortune, had with “DT” about the state of music in general and NPR in particular: Gwen: Thanks, I know NPR affiliation is no guarantee of decent music. Some PBS affiliates do better, but by no means most. There is much PRM and APM programming that [...]
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The suits are wildly spinning for ‘GBH in Boston, in wake of the takeover of the student station at Bryant University. Bean counters at Bryant — acting the good industrialist as ‘GBH honchos did in busting up their union — have now begun to put that most favorable light on this latest acquisition, to wit: [...]
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Despite the underhanded sale of Vanderbilt station WRVU by the suits at VSC, the battle seems far from over. Here is the latest release from the trenches: Supporters of WRVU, Despite the strange sounds emanating from 91.1 FM Nashville . . . WRVU-FM is NOT DEAD YET!!! Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC) has entered a lease-purchase [...]
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The following is a release in its entirety from the supporters of WRVU in Nashville in response to the actions of the board, selling the student station to the NPR borg: ’ADULTS’ of VSC CONTINUE TO BRING SHAME TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Well, it ain’t Truthin’ One of the main purposes of this website is to [...]
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Selling Low in Nashville The writing is on the wall in Music City: Vanderbilt student station WRVU, a fixture for nearly 60 years, appears to have been sold down the river. As noted here in a piece on Radio Survivor by Jennifer Waits here in an article on CMJ by Kodi McKinney, and here on [...]
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The ‘GBH borg in Boston keeps gobbling up stations in the region. WGBH is taking over the Bryant University station WJMF in Smithfield, RI, and facilitating a power increase from 225 to 1200 watts for WJMF, which, as of August, will become a simulcast of WCRB “99.5 All Classical,” the classical music station acquired by [...]
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Battle of the Bands? Boston’s three NPR stations not only are airing similar if not identical news and music programs at the same time (WGBH’s Celtic on WGBH and WUMB’s Celtic Twilight With Gail Gilmore), as well as the head-to-head syndicated NPR news/talk programs on WGBH and WBUR. Two of them are producing competing spring music festivals at the same [...]
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