SXSW gets started on Friday, and Radio Survivor will attend. I’ll fly in to Austin from San Francisco early next week and catch many of the event’s music days. Here are some of the key radio focused presentations. Thursday, March 19: Redefining Radio for the Digital Age: “How will radio listeners experience music in 5 years?” […]
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing updated guidelines for broadcaster contests, allowing radio and television stations to post the rules for these events on websites as a substitute for completely explaining them over the air waves. At present “licensees are permitted to employ nonbroadcast methods for disclosing material contest terms,” but “they may not substitute […]
The radio/music world is now a veritable aviary of possibilities: podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, satellite radio, and webcasts, just to name a few. But a new survey says that when you get into your automobile, the chances are very good that you’ll do what someone in 1975 would do: tune into an AM or FM […]
Every now and again I check in with the Spinitron blog to see what kind of music is getting play on college and community radio stations. To my surprise, two of the top five album or tune titles for last week referenced bears; a third mentioned caves and claws. The top Spinitron disk for February […]
Respond to our poll on 87.7 FM! Here at Radio Survivor we’ve been following the Great Debate over whether Low Power TV stations should be able to stream the 87.7 portion of their channel 6 frequency as an FM signal. A week ago Paul Riismandel noted that in Chicago Weigel Broadcasting is poised to run […]
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator has announced trials to help smaller, community based radio stations access the UK’s digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system. According to Ofcom, nearly half of adults in the UK (48.9 percent) say they own a DAB radio set. But getting access to a DAB “digital multiplex” service area is expensive; most […]
I’m enjoying my correspondence with Radio Survivor reader Art Holt, who is working on setting up a Part 15 community radio station in the town of Superior Arizona. Superior sits at the base of a 500 foot sheer cliff known as “Apache Leap.” It’s a mining town that has seen hard times. In the 1980s […]
Edison research has good news for podcasters. The share of Americans 12 or older who have listened to “at least one podcast” in the past month has jumped by two points: from 15 to 17 percent. That is around 46 million people, the data company says. As the chart below shows, Edison has been tracking […]
One of the movers and shakers of East Coast public radio is moving to podcasting. Chris Bannon will soon take the position of Chief Content Officer at Hollywood based Midroll Media. As a Vice President of WNYC-FM in New York City he oversaw Freakonomics Radio and the station’s top talkers: Leonard Lopate and Brian Lehrer. […]
Montreal based CHOQ.CA of Montreal has launched the first round of its international 60 Second Radio contest. The challenge to producers: submit one minute audio clips to the station that grapple with the concept of liberty. “Liberty can be expressed in different ways and take on multiple meanings,” the CHOQ announcement notes. “Freedom comes from within […]
