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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San Diego radio station KPBS has dropped its classical music, joining the NPR borg with all talk all the time, according to this post on Current.org. Those fans of the homogenized classical to be dumped will have to listen online — or throw the dice and buy an HD radio if they want to follow [...]
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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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This news from Barnes Newberry, who remains one of the most sought-after subjects on this site: Thrilled to announce I will be on-air again very soon with my new show My Back Pages on mvyradio (mvyradio.com). Great station, fine music choices and terrific staff! Show will be Saturdays, 8 am -12 noon, available online only. [...]
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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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Greg Smith found a post on the Broadcast Law blog, mentioned Sunday, that defines the rules the FCC has promulgated for the use of translators to rebroadcast HD channels over analog — opening up the chance for some return on investment (ROI) of IBOC — as what was once termed a “regulatory agency” plays slut [...]
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Jennifer Waits posted on Radio Survivor about the latest move by CPRN to absorb more of California into the borg, a ploy that has the folks at KZSU plenty worried: On Tuesday, April 12 the FCC approved University of San Francisco’s revised request to move the transmitter for KUSF out of San Francisco to Sausalito [...]
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If ever you doubted that the FCC has become a complaisant lapdog — without a tooth to the muzzle — you have only to look at the latest doings of radio conglomerates in the wacky world of translators. The big guns (i.e., the Cheap Channels et al.) are limited by law from owning more than [...]
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