We are holding our breath here at Radio Survivor following the news of the murder of journalist Carlos Mejia Orellana, marketing manager of Radio Progreso in Honduras. A community based radio station run by the Jesuits of Central America Province, Radio Progreso has long been under attack in a country which suffered a military coup […]
Classical pianist Lang Lang has called for classical music lovers and developers to come up with a new mobile application for listening to classical music. “Participants in the Competition must present an application concept for mobile devices (Telephone, Tablet, etc.), to bring classical music to users in an original and attractive manner,” the Terms and […]
Say you’ve got a classical music radio show on some college or public radio station. Like a lot of classical radio deejays, you may be the sole representative of this genre on your signal. Everybody else does a pop genre, or jazz or folk or something along those lines. Under these circumstances, it makes sense […]
![An attempt to resolve Walkman/Boombox tension via a 'boombox/walkman' [stereo2go.com]](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/boomwalk-250x125.jpg "Notes on the Boombox/Walkman war of the early 1980s")
I’ve been rummaging through old articles about the emergence of the Walkman in the 1980s, and one thing stands out: some people thought it was a social cure for the Boombox. Here’s an excerpt from an old column by George Will, responding to the charge that the Walkman isolated people from each other. ‘Some sociologists […]
If you are a politics junkie, India is the country for you. Right now 814.5 million Indian voters are qualified to cast ballots in the impending elections for India’s 543 member lower house and the country’s president. They can choose from 50 regional parties and two national parties. Ten million polling officials and security people […]
Most Radio Survivor readers have doubtless forgotten my effort to create a hybrid classical music room at plug.dj. Alas, I tried to pull it out of thin air without any of the real life connections you need to make an Internet music chat room work. Happily, someone remembered and brought a new one to my […]
The Radio and Internet News (RAIN) newsletter has been running a poll among its readers: “Do you listen to podcasts?” And the envelope please . . . 78 percent said yes. 19 percent said no. Three percent said they did not know what a podcast is (???). One interesting RAIN reader response: “We need to […]
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, Ofcom, just put out an invitation to apply for community radio licenses in West and East Midlands. These are official regions situated (as you might guess) right in the middle of England. What caught my eye, however, is this codicil in the announcement; “Applicants should note that there are currently […]
On April 28, Last.fm will shut down its subscription radio stream. That means the company won’t be streaming content through its own servers, just third party stuff, mostly from YouTube and Spotify. “We understand that many of you will not like this decision,” a Last.fm forum post announced on Wednesday. A flood of Last.fm users agreed. […]
House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) is leaving Congress and taking a job as a national radio host with Cumulus media. Rogers has established himself as late as a defender of the National Security Agency’s surveillance program. Just for kicks I rummaged around the Federal Communications Commission’s databases to see what he’d sent them of […]
