Israeli women’s group sues guys-only orthodox radio station
One thing that stands out when you look at the website for Kol Barama, Jerusalem’s haredi community radio station: lots of pictures of guys—guys praying and talking, guys playing guitars, and guys listening with headphones. Even the news photos only seem to show men. This week, Kolech, an Israeli religious organization for women, decided that they’d […]
High School Radio Station WLMH Hopes to Regain License and Resume Broadcasting
On August 1, Little Miami Local Schools in Morrow, Ohio received word from the FCC that its renewal application for its nearly 42-year-old high school radio station WLMH 89.1 FM was being dismissed. In a letter from the FCC’s Media Bureau dated August 1, Little Miami Local Schools was informed that the since the station […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
Clayton Valley High School Radio Station KVHS Faces Uncertain Future
The future of high school radio station KVHS in Concord, California has been up in the air following Clayton Valley High School’s conversion to a charter school. According to the agenda for the August 27, 2012 Mount Diablo Unified School District board meeting, a scheduled action item for this Monday’s meeting is a “recommendation for […]
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 […]
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 […]
KDFC “Opera in the Ball Park” decision looms
As regular Radio Survivor readers may recall, I’ve been lamenting the lack of vocal music on classical radio stations like KDFC-FM in San Francisco, and not a few classical radio stations in general. Well, it appears that KDFC has heard my plea, or more likely someone else’s (I’ll bet I’m not the only person whose […]