Radio Survivor carried this story yesterday, and it should come as no surprise to those listeners who’ve had their public stations absorbed into the borg of Arbitron-inspired Triple A tripe or talk-talk. “Classical, jazz, and world music on public radio declined by up to 30% over last decade,” written by Matthew Lasar, reports: A survey [...]
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The following came from a post on the Fans of Folk Radio WUMB, reposted in its entirety, giving a good look at how songs are chosen at a radio station for incessant replay: When record companies and some independent artists send CDs to commercial radio stations for airplay they are often stickered with notes “suggesting” [...]
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A Boston correspondent sent along news of a WUMB poll with not-so-surprising results, according to the Fans of Folk Radio WUMB Facebook page (link also on right): “You voted — and we’ve tabulated the votes — all 3,741 of them from 42 states and 5 countries!” Now the WUMB home page announces the final results: 11.21.10 [...]
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There’ve been some ominous signs coming out of the political world about funding for public radio. An initial Republican sally against federal funds in Congress wasn’t expected to yield results, but it’s likely just the first volley. A Huffington Post article called it a procedural trick: The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning [...]
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There was an interesting exchange recently on a North East Folk ‘n’ Roots radio group, with the initial question posed in this manner: I’m wondering if this is fact or fiction: Pat is doing all the music programming now and won’t let JL have anything to do with it, even though he’s the “Music Director.” [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sent along this post from the Boston Music Intelligencer (a blog of classical music, link on right), in which Lee Eiseman writes scathingly of the format change at ‘GBH one year later: “Accountability and transparency are two of our watchwords . . .” according to the WGBH website, except seemingly when management doesn’t [...]
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The canning of “analyst” Juan Williams by NPR over his comments on Cluster Fox News has created a firestorm of conservative protest, as well as no small amount of consternation among radio activists — who are not altogether opposed to the Republican call to de-fund the organization. Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin make very strange [...]
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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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Word on sister Facebook site Fans of Folk Radio WUMB is that the upcoming fund drive may suffer from the loss of Barnes Newberry on Saturdays: Word on the street is WUMB management, their bean counters and UMass Boston administrators are very worried about the upcoming funding drive because Highway 61 Revisited had been such [...]
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Tom Taylor reports in his newsletter that Arbitron will soon expand to 50 the number of cities measured by the Purple People Meter: Charlotte and Orlando see their first official “currency” books tomorrow. Also due between now and Monday – Columbus, Milwaukee, Austin, Indianapolis, Providence, Norfolk, Raleigh and Nashville. Five more markets go PPM in [...]
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