The cause of classical radio may be waning for some, but not for Brenda Barnes, President of Classical California, which runs classical public radio stations KUSC-FM in Southern California and KDFC-FM in San Francisco. Writing in Current, Barnes takes exception to non-commercial radio blogger Ken Mills’ warning that classical radio has reached an ominous “tipping […]
The conflict over Zambia’s Mkushi community radio station appears to has come to a hiatus point. A free speech advocate mediating the situation tells us via Twitter that the government’s attempt to dissolve Mkushi radio’s board of directors is no longer on the table. @RadioSurvivor Mkushi radio board is not dissolved. Minister’s decision is null […]
It looks like the government of Azerbaijan is getting a little tired of the global outrage over handing a radio host 7-1/2 years in the slammer, pretty much for asking tough questions about how that country’s government is run. Apparently Azerbaijan’s first lady Mehriban Aliyeva thought her meeting with French President Francois Hollande last week […]
Oh man the geek in me is loving these pictures of Pacifica signal KPFT-FM in Houston’s new transmitter, posted on the station’s Facebook page. It is a beautiful thing. Basically a little over three years ago KPFT discovered that the station’s old vacuum-tube clunker radiated more heat than its transmitter site could safely handle. So they […]
As far as anyone knows, radio host Khadija Ismayilova is headed for or is already in jail in Azerbaijan. She has been convicted of and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in the slammer for “running an illegal business, tax evasion, abuse of power and embezzlement.” But practically everyone besides a cabal of political hacks in Baku thinks […]
Radio Brahamaputra (90.4 FM) has been dealing with floods of late. The community radio station broadcasts to the Indian state of Assam from the city of Dibrugarh. Assam is India’s easternmost state, sandwiched between Bhutan and Bangladesh. Dibrugarh has been struggling with rains and breaks in the powerful Brahmaputra River, hence the flood. The station […]
I’m enjoying Bob thegirl’s YouTube video on how to pitch to your audience during a community radio fund drive. I don’t want to give away the presentation (below), but Bob’s first three tips for pitchers include: 1. You have to talk about why your show is important on a personal level. 2. What will listener […]
It could be a “scary time to be launching a media venture,” warns the Vancouver Daily Xtra in a feature about Roundhouse radio, a new commercial community station scheduled to go live in September. “[M]edia locally and globally is contracting, with independent platforms getting snapped up by conglomerates.” The times are apparently so terrifying that […]
Canada’s broadcast regulator has put out a call for radio applications to reach urban Aboriginal communities in five cities: Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. “There is a pressing need to serve the Aboriginal community as a whole given that issues vitally important to Aboriginal Canadians are not fully covered or addressed at all in non-Native […]
Some interesting items on community radio from two very different places. In Zambia supporters of the Patriotic Front (PF) electoral party “briefly interrupted operations” at the Mkushi Community Radio Station on Tuesday “in protest against [the] alleged political inclination of a Board Member of that Station.” That’s according to the Lusaka Times online newspaper. It’s […]
