TROLLS GONE WILD by savewrvuradio TROLL IN CHIEF CARROLL LORDS OVER ‘NEW’ WRVU Chris Carroll, Please Go Away. As noted earlier, Carroll and the Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC) — wholly deprived of representatives of WRVU —continues to have an overbearing role over what is now, in name only, a student run organization. Carroll has made [...]
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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