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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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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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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At the rate of consolidation of the big three — corporate radio, NPR, and religious radio — independent radio may go the way of the eight-track tape. Of what concern is that of ours? Well, do you want to listen to only what music the bean counters deem fit or that “counts” well? News filtered [...]
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The battle continues to rage in Music City over student radio station WRVU, with this latest entry on the SaveWRVURadio website: WRVU Continues to Attract Media Attention The plight of WRVU continues to attract local and national press. College Music Journal (CMJ) has been following the plight of WRVU closely. They have submitted a follow-up [...]
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