Following is an exchange one of our correspondents, author Gwen Fortune, had with “DT” about the state of music in general and NPR in particular: Gwen: Thanks, I know NPR affiliation is no guarantee of decent music. Some PBS affiliates do better, but by no means most. There is much PRM and APM programming that [...]
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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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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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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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Battle of the Bands? Boston’s three NPR stations not only are airing similar if not identical news and music programs at the same time (WGBH’s Celtic on WGBH and WUMB’s Celtic Twilight With Gail Gilmore), as well as the head-to-head syndicated NPR news/talk programs on WGBH and WBUR. Two of them are producing competing spring music festivals at the same [...]
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John Anderson posted the following piece on his blog DIYmedia.net about the slipshod fashion in which the FCC is going about its business, allowing the corporate giants in radioland to do an end run around its regulations governing the number of radio stations any one company can own in a given area. The big surprise [...]
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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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The LUV Newsletter today, never a fan of the rightward shift of NPR, included the following: NPR CONTINUES SPREADING MISINFORMATION Yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered, Robert Siegel began the program with the shocking headline “The nation’s two-most important programs for seniors, Social Security and Medicare, will exhaust their trust funds earlier than projected.” Always [...]
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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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