Sharon Vegas Selby sent word of what could be a seismic change in the way the FCC is viewing the consolidation of public radio stations. According to the referenced article on the Philanthropy Today website, the battle in San Francisco over KUSF may signal a new day for college radio. But don’t bet the farm [...]
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The wags over at Radio-info.com discussion boards are giving the post mortems on HD radio. The link there from radioskeptic leads to the following from a laid-off employee at iBiquity, huckster company extraordinaire, which has managed to float for nigh on ten years without a discernible ROI: iBiquity = Titanic That place had around 5 [...]
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When I was growing up in West Texas my father used to say, “Son, money doesn’t fall from the sky.” As a kid I never really questioned that; it seemed obvious enough. Later though I realized that there is money up there—it’s floating magically through the ether on radio waves. And it’s possible to get [...]
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John Anderson of DIYmedia.net (link on right) has kept abreast of the debacle that has been HD radio, and this latest post, reprinted in its entirety, pretty much sums it up. How can this company, with no basic income, still be around — particularly given the hopelessness of its product and prospects: HD Radio Still [...]
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As Jennifer Waits notes in this article, KUSF listener Ted Hudacko is creating all kinds of problems for its new owners.
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Matthew Lasar takes NPR to task in this article about Barney Frank and the network’s slant on the news.
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NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday had the Hoover Institution’s Russell Roberts on to tell us we have to cut Social Security and Medicare to balance the budget. The Hoover institution, like the other corporate-funded think tanks appearing so often on NPR, the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, etc., are funded to [...]
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WRVU update~ Greetings All! Despite the obvious, I do hope you are having a fantastic summer! Once again, it is passing too quickly! There are just a few short weeks left until the Vanderbilt students return to campus and discover first hand how eerily silent Nashville sounds without WRVU broadcasting on 91.1 FM. The important [...]
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