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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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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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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John Anderson’s DIYmedia.net, one of our favorite sites for radio news, posted on a piece by another fave of ours, England’s Grant Goddard, a highly literate critic of the European version of digital radio (link on right). The Brits led the way in trying to ram the DAB system down consumers’ throats, and Grant has [...]
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A long post from BK10KL on the Radio-Info.com might lead one to believe that HD radio on the AM band is rapidly fading away, spurred on by some of the big guns (and investors) in the junk science: I got this thread sent to me, it’s from the Both Sides Now Stereo Chat Board, there [...]
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This post yesterday, “The Death of HD Radio, Round 2,” on audiographics.com pretty much sums up what we’ve been saying all along — despite what iBiquity suits trumpet, along with their fellow conspirators . . . errr, investors. The article leads with a repeat of a 2007 article on the site, back when iBiquity’s website [...]
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John Anderson has an interesting page on his DIYmedia.net website, here, where he gathers up all his posts on HD radio from the past decade, and they tell a fascinating story about industry skullduggery, deception, and FCC complaisance, as well as NPR Labs complicity in the whole sordid saga — progressing from a distrust of [...]
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This Wall Street Journal article highlighted the explosive growth of Hispanic population in the United States, belied by the treatment of listeners on the commercial end of the spectrum. This, from Tom Taylor’s newsletter: Major cuts at Spanish radio’s biggest group – which may be planning to go public. TRI hasn’t used the “bloodbath” word [...]
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The LUV newsletter took another shot at the corporatist trend at NPR news with its reporting on the reactor problems in Japan, chiding : “The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts [...]
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