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Southern Oregon U., Jefferson Public Radio make peace

Southern Oregon University and the Jefferson Public Radio Foundation appear to have come to terms after a bitter feud. Southern Oregon’s Mail Tribune reports that the deal they’ve hammered out gives SOU “sole control” of 22 radio stations in the region. The University says that the agreement was reached in mediation sessions over the course […]

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College Radio 50 State Tour – Virginia’s WTJU

One of these days I will conclude my Spinning Indie 50 State Tour, in which I profile college radio stations in every state in the country. The 17 college radio stations that I’ve featured thus far include stations in Arkansas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, Alaska, North Dakota, Nevada, West Virginia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, California, Nebraska, Idaho, […]

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NPR’s ass whooping debate

An NPR review of The Expendables 2 that described the sequel as “190 years of ass whoop on the silver screen” has got some listeners pretty riled up. “I am a long time listener and I have noticed a trend lately where NPR has allowed inappropriate language over the air,” one wrote. “I am not a Puritan, […]

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San Francisco cellist makes Kickstarter goal (with help from Radiovalencia.fm)

Hip hip hooray for San Francisco based cellist Sebastian Plano, whose Kickstarter campaign succeeded about four days ago. The goal was to finance the production of two albums: “Novel,” a collaboration with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet, and “Impetus,” a solo album engineered by Nils Frahm in Berlin. Plano reached his $10,000 ceiling […]

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Internet radio’s strange copyright royalty week

SoundExchange put out a happy face press release on Thursday, announcing that the performance royalty distributor has paid out no less than $204.4 million to artists and their representatives in the first two quarters of 2012. But attention through most of the week has focused on Representative Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) rather contorted effort to correct […]

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Dr. Demento discusses censorship and going online-only with Nerdist

Dr. Demento is the veteran broadcaster who first exposed the listening public to Weird Al Yankovic when the parody musician was recording accordian-laden tapes in his dormatory bathroom. Demento’s eponymously titled radio program has brought silly songs and funny ditties to the radio for nearly four decades. The good Doctor (also known as Barret Eugene […]

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