The news from Australia is that that country’s first community radio station is saved, maybe. Late last year the University of Adelaide revealed that preserving its campus station would not be included in UA’s impending five year plan. With this uncertainty hanging over Radio Adelaide’s head, you might expect its staff to welcome this week’s announcement […]
Once upon a time no company could own more than 20 AM and 20 FM stations nationwide. Then came the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which removed any national restrictions on radio station ownership. In a recent edition of our podcast, Paul Riismandel and Eric Klein sat down with Dr. Christopher Terry at the University of […]
![Carl [Wolfson] in the Morning](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/carlbanner.jpg "Carl Wolfson to sign off from XRAY-FM on Monday")
XRAY-FM of Portland reports that morning show host Carl Wolfson will say goodbye on Monday, February 15, during the course of his 7-9 am program. We’ve written about Wolfson’s impending exit, he citing listeners angry about his comments critical of presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders. In an email blast XRAY adds: “to our members and friends: Yes, […]
They call the camp “The Jungle.” It is a refugee zone on the northern edge of Calais, France. Around 6,000 migrants have streamed into the center of late. As this rough map of the area (below right) indicates, many are coming from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and various Kurdish regions. They also migrate in from countries in North […]
![Carl [Wolfson] in the Morning](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/carlbanner-250x125.jpg "How can we protect community radio talk show hosts from their listeners?")
Morning show host Carl Wolfson has another ten days or so over at XRAY FM in Portland, Oregon, then he says he is quitting. “OK. I’m done,” Wolfson declared on his Facebook page in late January: “The vitriol of so many Bernie [Sanders] supporters and the threat they pose to Democratic unity is a bridge […]
I strongly recommend that Radio Survivor readers tune into our thirtieth podcast, in which Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein offer an overview of the changes taking place at University of Massachusetts radio station WMUA-FM in Amherst. This transition reached my ear when management announced that, to make the signal more student focused, WMUA’s polka weekend […]
Gird thy memory loins, northwestern Wisconsinites, and mobilize for the “PacShara Pursuit” three way Low Power FM radio trivia contest, scheduled to cut loose on Saturday, February 27. Not long ago three Badger State LPFM signals decided that the live simulcast competition “would be a fun activity to provide to our area communities ‘in the dead of […]
Police in the Indian state of Jharkand plan to launch at least a dozen community radio stations in order to combat the influence of Maoist rebels in the southeastern wing of the country. “Maoists have exploited the resentment among locals in the countryside over the lack of basic services,” The Times of India quotes an […]
The great WMUA-FM Polka War continued through last week. Supporters of polka programming at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus station kept protesting reductions in the genre. But the U.Mass administration is sticking to its guns. They’ll be more student involvement at the station, its principals insist, and that means less polka music on WMUA. “Polka programming will continue to […]
Amherst, University of Massachusetts campus radio station WMUA-FM is having a Polka crisis. The Daily Hampshire has the deets. Apparently the signal is sunsetting some Polka shows, among them “Polka Bandstand” and “Early Bird Polka.” Plus there will be a general scaling back of Saturday Polka programming from twelve to four hours. This has not gone well […]
