KUSF fans are still reeling after the sudden shut-down of University of San Francisco (USF)’s college radio station on Tuesday, January 18th at 10am. USF announced that it plans to sell KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network. The non-profit Classical Public Radio Network has already begun airing programming from the formerly commercial classical station KDFC […]
Last night KUSF DJs, staff members, alumni and listeners (including students, University of San Francisco faculty, and DJs from other local college radio stations) came out to University of San Francisco in an attempt to get some answers from USF about the sudden shut-down of the college radio station on Tuesday at 10am during DJ […]
By now all Radio Survivor readers know the news—treasured college radio station KUSF-FM in San Francisco has been sold. Its frequency will broadcast Entercom owned classical radio station KDFC-FM, soon to go public in a partnership with the University of Southern California, parent of classical station KUSC. It appears that KUSF’s 90.3 signal is already […]
Catch Alice’s Restaurant on the 2023 radio dial. See our latest listening guide. Every year on Thanksgiving a number of stations all over the United States air the 18 minute plus song “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo Guthrie. Here in San Francisco, KFOG (104.5FM San Francisco/97.7FM San Jose) has been honoring that tradition for many years […]
Under the provisions of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act (DMCA) there are several restrictions on streaming radio that don’t exist for terrestrial broadcast. One of the most vexing for a lot of noncommerical stations is the limitation that an online station may not play more than three songs from the same artist, album or compilation […]
Earlier this week my fellow Radio Survivor Matthew posted about this cute-looking little Crosley record player with a oblong clamshell design far more compact than a typical turntable. Unfortunately, I have to put a damper on Matthew’s excitement, since my opinion is that the Crosley CR6002A is nothing more than an expensive plastic toy. Retro […]
I’ve known about this station for well over a decade now. As a metalhead living in Central Illinois I’d occasionally travel north to the Chicago area or Milwaukee to see concerts and encounter banners and fliers for an all heavy metal station on the AM band called Rebel Radio. However, I can only recall hearing […]
On July 22, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a revised version of their Broadcasting and Regulatory Policy (PDF) as it applies to campus and community radio in Canada. Amid all of the policy changes (and a nice promise of funding), which for the most part are meant to simplify the ways that […]
Into the Radio Survivor e-mail box this week came an announcement from Future Perfect Radio that you can now build your own indie station over at the site. And indeed you can. One of the many things I like about FPR is that it has all these neat regional channels, including: Coachella Georgia Portland Seattle […]
It was 1975. I was 20 years old. I had just left home. I worked and went to college in Manhattan, and lived with my girlfriend in the Bronx. Meanwhile, Kool and the Gang‘s hit tune “Jungle Boogie” jumped to one of the most requested songs on the radio. Transcriptions of the lyrics to this […]
