Jennifer Waits, writing on the Radio Survivor blog, reports on one local public radio group that manage to escape assimilation into the borg: When universities put their radio stations up for sale, more often than not the people lining up with cash in hand are non-local radio groups. So, it’s a wonderful surprise when those [...]
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Kathy Leonard-Bushman, via Jim Radio, sent along a disturbing post about the kind of misinformation that can be spread by an outlet such as NPR, this time regarding the outsourcing of jobs from the United States. It also bears directly on the influence of corporate support on a “public” news organization. Kathy said, “One of [...]
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Joe Cavanagh, a deejay with UConn’s WHUS with an interest in Celtic music, sent Jeff Boudreau the following email in support of independent college radio: A funny thing happened on my way home this evening. I tuned to perhaps the most widely heard public radio presence in lower New England, WFCR. There I heard a [...]
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• In Houston, reports Tom Taylor’s blog on radio-info.com and Jim Radio, public station KUHF is buying up a second station, the heretofore community-run station of Rice University students: Sure enough, there’s a $9.5 million station sale in Houston. With KUHF owner University of Houston doubling up and acquiring Rice University’s KTRU (91.7). Monday’s TRI [...]
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In Nashville, which has gone through format change at its public radio station, there’s still plenty of heat about what’s heard on the radio. This post from the Tennessee Opinion site about classical music drew a weird mix of comments. First, from the complainant: Yet, it is Nashville and not Sacramento that makes high claims [...]
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Bits and pieces from this week’s news… Jerry Del Colliano: My view is that Pandora survives anything Apple comes up with because it uses a well thought out music genome to identify a listeners musical preferences. That in and of itself is cool and will never go out of style. For everyone else there is [...]
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The trend over the past decade in Austin at public station KUT has been fewer donors, larger donations. Response from the bean counters: hiring rainmakers, companies that specialize in attracting corporate donations. The effect has been, as so aptly put by saveKUTaustin member Jody Lazo, to build an overpass to the “landed gentry,” the “underwriters” [...]
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Gwen Fortune sent along this link to a good Bill Moyers post on media and democracy, which is prefaced with the following: The American media landscape grows more corporate and consolidated by the day, and with the airwaves saturated with commercials and spin, the truth is often hard to find. As our press becomes less [...]
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Greg Smith, of hdradiofarce.com, turned us on to one of the seasoned veterans of the radio wars, Jerry Del Colliano, in his comment here. Jerry writes a blog called Inside Music Media, but may be best known for his work on his blog Inside Radio, where he outed Clear Channel and the modern-day payola scam. [...]
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This was originally posted March 6 to Supporters of Folk and Blues on WGBH: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201481030324&ref=nf Just returned from the Town Green Coffeehouse in Princeton where Brooks Williams was the feature. His new CD, “Baby O!,” is stellar. Will be officially released this week, RGBM -1001. Of particular note is the song “Moon on Down.” Brooks [...]
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