It’s springtime in the Texas Hill Country. Bluebonnets are blooming and new-borne critters are rustling through the underbrush. Over in Austin, the South by Southwest festivities are drawing down and the students are coming back from Spring Break. But out in the little community of Dripping Springs, a battle is brewing, a battle over the [...]
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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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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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Jeff Boudreau sent along this article from the website of In These Times called “At Boston’s Premier PBS Station, Unionbusting Tactics and a Koch Connection,” providing details about the union-busting move by WGBH suits in “resolving” its labor dispute. It seems that Tea Party mogul (Americans for Prosperity) and ultra-conservative financier David Koch, hyper-active in [...]
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An exchange of comments on the Support Larry Monroe and Paul Ray at KUT Facebook site is worth a read for those not following it. It was in regards to piece posted here by the Reverend Jim on LPFM and Larry Monroe’s new digs on KDRP in Dripping Springs, TX: Jennifer Catherine: Article posted below [...]
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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting has a good take, here (“Stinging NPR: James O’Keefe’s Big Nothing”), on the public relations disaster that’s been the campaign to keep funding coming in to public broadcasting. In the midst of the Republican offensive to defund public media, it seems the suits at NPR have only opened their mouths [...]
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A pause from the radio wars for some commentary on this site from Jack Balkwill, who puts out the LUV newsletter we are wont to quote in regards to the “liberal agenda” of public media. Jack has written in the past for a range of publications, including USA Today. This particular piece was picked up [...]
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Radio Survivor carried a post from Jennifer Waits about the skullduggery surrounding the sale of another college radio station, KUSF in San Francisco: There’s a chilling account on the Bay Citizen blog which reports what happened this morning at 10am when college radio station KUSF was taken off the air at University of San Francisco. [...]
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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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More news of local stations absorbed into the borg. This post, entitled “WXEL’s soul at stake, opponents say, as state board considers sale of public radio station,” on the website for the Palm Beach Post News, details the impending sale of the local classical radio station from Barry University to Classical South Florida, owned by [...]
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