John Anderson, in his excellent DIYmedia.net blog, blasted the FCC and its toothless-watchdog enforcement policies vis-à-vis radio industry goliaths in this post yesterday: Unholy Alliance Clear Channel is the nation’s largest commercial radio broadcaster. Educational Media Foundation is one of the nation’s largest religious radio broadcasters. Both companies have an affinity for FM translators — [...]
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“The problems today are not the the evil actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. “ —Martin Luther King, Jr. The Three Primary Decision Makers Most Responsible for the Fate of WRVU: The Bad People: Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC), The Good People: Vanderbilt University Chancellor and Board [...]
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Forwarded as a Public Service of Austin Airwaves God likes Natural Male Enhancement? Listeners in Austin, TX who tune to 103.1 FM are in for a bit of a surprise. The FCC records show that a translator is on that frequency belonging to Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the California-based mega-ministry that operates the “K-Love” and [...]
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On the Audizine website, this damning exchange about HD radio just about says it all. With word of mouth like this, who needs enemies? pcblion: Just picked up my 2011 S4 about a week ago and today I started having a problem with my radio and I was wondering if there are any others out [...]
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Do yourself a favor and listen to this wonderful new podcast series, Alternating Current, from Austin. Plz send them some encouragement, Friend them on Facebook. Real good stuff. “Alternating Currents is a podcast brainchild of Sara Robberson and Christian Thompson. [It] is about technology, science, imagination, and culture. Inspired by public radio. [It] blends oral [...]
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Supporters of student station WRVU in Nashville, shorn of any input on the stacked VSC governing board, have continued the battle, releasing the following information: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY FRIEND OF WRVU!!! This time of year is meant to celebrate perhaps the single most important event in world history — the founding of [...]
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July 7, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jenn Ettinger, 202-265-1490 x 35 Court Rejects FCC Attempt to Weaken Media Ownership Rules Free Press hails decision as ‘sweeping victory for the public interest’ PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its long-awaited verdict on the Federal Communications Commission’s [...]
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For decades DJ Larry Monroe worked the radio trenches. After starting in radio at age 13, he worked at stations in Indiana, Ann Arbor, Detroit & Austin to name a few. While always receiving high accolades, including a “Keeping the Blues Alive” award in 2002, he was the prime example of a journeyman DJ. He [...]
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