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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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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One year ago today we started this site with the hope of shining a light on what we saw happening to public radio stations across the country. Whether it was the sudden canceling of popular shows, the fallacy of HD radio, or the creeping influence of national groups such as NPR, we wanted to point [...]
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Jim Radio sent along a link to this rbr.com post about the trials and tribulations faced by Tampa’s WUSF in bringing up a second station acquired last summer. This was covered earlier, here, last fall, when plans had already gone astray. The move was first reported here back in the beginning of August. Here’s 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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They did not got gentle into that good night in Florida, witness this letter posted to the Gainesville Classical website: Dear President Machen: It makes me crazy to listen to WUFT 89.1. My complaints are these: Unprofessional air time management — frequent ‘stepping’ on the national NPR feeds. Turn the damn mike off, please. Know when [...]
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In Tom Taylor’s blog on Radio-info.com, he posted recently on the flyin’ Purple People Meter of Arbitron, saying: There are “myths” about PPM, and Jon Coleman is the de-bunker. The Coleman Insights principal prowled the stage in Baltimore to share some hard-earned lessons. Myth #1 – “Our numbers will be much more stable and reliable [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter carried the following entry about the battle for the soul of college radio: Protests about college-owned stations break out in Houston and Gainesville. The Houston situation is the $9.5 million sale of Rice University-owned KTRU (91.7) to the University of Houston. Rice students have long enjoyed the open-door-programming policy at variety-formatted KTRU, [...]
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We reported on the changes in Florida radio here back in August. The University of South Florida planned on moving WUSF to talk-talk, with overnight jazz, while moving its classical lineup to a Sarasota non-com, WSMR, it bought up. WSMR would also go canned, plugging in American Public Media’s Classical 24 service. “For those folks [...]
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Non-commercial stations acting like commercial stations There’s a website of interest to those who’d like to follow the money in public radio. This one, belonging to Public Radio Capital, lists some of the local stations that have benefited in their manifest-destiny policies — that is, in acquiring new stations to expand their reach. We’ve already [...]
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