A story on the Austin American-Statesman website about KDRP in Dripping Springs, the low-power FM station that picked up longtime DJ stalwart (and national award-winner) Larry Monroe — unceremoniously dumped from shows on “public” station KUT — drew some kudos from his fan base. The story, “Nonprofit KDRP radio in Dripping Springs gains following,” by [...]
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On July 2nd, 2009, the faithful fans of KUT-FM’s long-time DJ Larry Monroe tuned in to hear his world-renowned free-form music program The Phil Music Show (Phil Music being a fictitious DJ who never showed up, leaving Larry to “stand in”). But instead of Larry there was a new DJ and a new program, filled [...]
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Word now is that popular DJ Larry Monroe got selected to serve on a jury yesterday. The trial will run through Thursday of this week, so his schedule on his new radio station will be moved back to accommodate that. His first program on KDRP (website here) will be “Blue Monday” on March 7. Larry [...]
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Jim Radio of Austin Airwaves sent along this note about the fight over funding of public radio in general and KUT-Austin in particular. It came on the heels of Larry Monroe’s announcement that his free-form “Phil Music” show and “Blue Monday” will be returning to the air — on another station: For a second day [...]
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Greg Smith sent along this link to Mark Ramsey’s influential blog, wherein he makes a few observations about what Apple is up to with its iPhone: Back in December, Apple quietly submitted a patent application that altered the radio experience for its users and introduced three new elements to the iPhone: FM, AM, and Satellite [...]
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Yesterday a correspondent sent this along via the message box in the left column: Re: a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by the CEO of New York Public Radio, ending with what is obviously a cut-and-paste from the “170 Million for public media” people. “At its core, public broadcasting belongs to the American people; [...]
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A recent post on Tom Taylor’s blog on Radio-info.com painted a stark picture of radio revenue over the past couple years, a situation precipitating fevered moves among frazzled radio execs and a few big bankruptcies. The funk in commercial radio sales was trumped by a decade-long sag in the fortunes of public radio, which bent [...]
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Todd Urick, writing on the site Common Frequency (link on right), shared some words of wisdom in the item “Push to Grow the Audience.” It details his take on what we’ve called the manifest-destiny model in public radio nowadays: Station Resource Group in coordination with CPB recently released its final report in their “Grow the [...]
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Here at the beginning of a new year it’s a bit of a tradition for both individuals and groups to look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead. Here at Keeping the Public in Public Radio, the contributors and editors don’t want to be left out, so we’re going to [...]
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The oblivious liberal might fall prey to being hornswoggled by the appeal posted here yesterday — that is, the plea to man the barricades and fend off the Republican hordes seeking to defund public media. After all, the website beseeched viewers, the raison d’être for said media is a focus on “quality local programs” and [...]
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