![[thomhartmann.com/]](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/thomad_1.gif "Will KBOO FM take Thom Hartmann?")
Progressive talk radio host Thom Hartmann has offered Portland, Oregon community radio station KBOO-FM his three hour daily show. I have verified this from Hartmann’s producer Louise Hartmann. “Yes we have,” she responded to a query. “No charge. Free.” Meanwhile KBOO’s Interim Program Director Erin Yanke says the station is indeed considering putting the program […]
Just got a new car audio/radio device installed over at New Sound car stereos on Valencia Street in San Francisco. New Sound is an awesome place: great selection; fast service; I love my new system. But on top of that, it has a wonderful secret: a magnificent basement crypt of ancient car stereo/radios. To get […]
Congratulations to Leicester’s “Takeover Radio” 103.2 FM for winning an Ofcom grant for a fundraising officer. The windfall was part of a wave of awards to a dozen United Kingdom community radio stations: £175,881 all told. “Takeover” has an interesting history. It is “the first full-time broadcasting radio station in the UK to be presented, […]
The National Archives has awarded the Pacifica Radio Archives $128,241 to complete its “American Women Making History and Culture” project. Specifically: “To support a two year project to preserve and make accessible a collection of approximately 1,644 historical radio programs (2,013 reel-to-reel audio recordings) documenting American Women Making History and Culture from 1963-1982.” This is […]
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ombudsman Joel Kaplan’s anticipated second commentary on Pacifica station WBAI in New York City is out, and Kaplan says he’s gotten some responses to his original request for comment on gripes about “questionable fundraising ethics” at the station. They come from ‘BAI Public Affairs director Kathy Davis and interim Development Director […]
07/09/2013 – around 10:00 am: I am listening to Beth Bush-Greenstein and Jules Greenstein’s “Free for All” show on HomegrownRadioNJ, an Internet radio station that operates from a studio in downtown Boonton, New Jersey. The duo come on most Tuesdays from 9 am through noon, and have just played the second movement of Mahler’s First […]
![Sputnik Kilambi [http://profession.icfj.org]](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SPUTNIK_K-250x125.jpg "Independent radio pioneer Sputnik Kilambi dies at 55")
When Free Speech Radio News began over a decade ago, one of the journalists I found most compelling was Sputnik Kilambi. A veteran reporter for Radio France Internationale, Kilambi’s FSRN dispatches came from the Balkans, from Columbia, Sri Lanka, and from Côte d’Ivoire. A Knight Fellow, she trained journalists and set up a television station in […]
The Federal Communications Commission’s latest Equal Employment Opportunity audit letters have gone out, and some familiar college and community signals are on the “randomly selected” list. These includes Pacifica station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles and UC Santa Cruz’s KZSC-FM. Other winners include KGHR-FM, Navajo Public Radio of Tuba City, Arizona and WPNR-FM of Utica College […]
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ombudsman Joel Kaplan has some advice for public radio station WRKF of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is fine for your talk shows to have call-in rules, but tell your listeners what they are, and enforce them the same way for everybody. “It is inappropriate for the station to formulate guidelines for […]
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, has released its annual report for April 2012 through March 2013. This paragraph caught my eye: Over 200 community radio stations are now broadcasting in locations across the UK. Since Ofcom awarded the first community radio licence in 2005, a new station has launched on average every 13 days, […]
