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WBAI-FM becoming a “home shopping network”?

WBAI-FM’s Local Station Board has passed a sweeping resolution calling on the New York City based listener sponsored station to cut down on its fund drives and build up its audience. The resolution, passed on Wednesday, asks WBAI management to produce “concrete plans” to drop on-air fundraising days by 40 percent over the next three […]

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WFMU to salute “radio superheroes”

WFMU has announced the details of its Radiovision festival, scheduled for October 28, 29, and 30. The event includes a Saturday “origin stories” panel featuring Ira Glass, Marc Maron, and Tom Scharpling. “The best comic book superheroes all have great origin stories,” WFMU’s blog explains. “We are kicking things off with a discussion about Origin […]

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WFMU's Inaugural Radiovision Festival hits NYC in October

WFMU’s Inaugural Radiovision Festival hits NYC in October

Freeform community radio station WFMU is taking its love for radio to a new level this fall as they launch their first ever Radiovision Festival. Coinciding with WFMU’s popular Record Fair, the multi-day festival “celebrating radio’s future” will take place in New York City October 28, 29 and 30th, 2011 and will feature performances, presentations, […]

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Prairie Fire: 2011 Grassroots Radio Conference

Established by the Grassroots Radio Coalition in 1996 as an alternative to the increasing commercialization of public radio, the Grassroots Radio Conference (GRC), is now one of the most important nonprofit radio events of the year.   In contrast to other annual gatherings such as the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB)  Community Radio Conference, in […]

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Rep. Mike Doyle

Congresspeople urge FCC to save space for LPFM in urban markets

Yesterday 28 members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski [PDF] urging the Commission to ensure there is space reserved in urban areas for new low-power FM station licenses. They observe that the nation’s largest urban markets “have lacked access to new noncommercial […]

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WFMU and the anti-hippy tradition

WFMU and the anti-hippy tradition

Lurking around WFMU-FM of New Jersey’s great website, I’ve been stumbling across all kinds of fun blog posts about anti-hippy songs. The most famous of these, of course, is Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee,” but a 2008 post mentions others, including Ed Faucet’s “Hippy Stomp,” Alvie Self’s “Hippieville,” and Johnny Bucket’s “Hippy in a Blunder.” […]

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Kettle Falls, Washington

Kettle Falls Radio to FCC: we want our LPFM back

The city of Kettle Falls, Washington describes itself as 1610 Friendly People and One Grouch. All of them had an Low Power FM Radio Station, it seems. “But was stolen after 2 years of operation,” writes Richard Walter, President of the Kettle Falls Radio Group, to the Federal Communications Commission. “Upon investigation it was found […]

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