Here we are in the middle of the Holiday season, and here’s some of the stuff coming through my RSS reader: WFMU Manager Ken Freedman has released his favorite gifs of the year image map. Looks like you have to go to his blog to access the image linking dots. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas from the […]
I like to listen to Christmas music on Christmas day. It’s not a particularly religious thing; the holiday just happens to come with a lot of truly wonderful music, that’s all. Ironically, most of the broadcast radio stations I usually tune into don’t do a very good job of responding to this need: themed shows […]
The big radio companies are massively dittoing a proposal from Entercom that would relax Federal Communications Commission requirements that radio stations announce the “material” rules of a radio contest over the airwaves. “In today’s fast paced world, Americans expect to instantly access information at their fingertips by merely logging on to a website, conducting a […]
I live in San Francisco, where we have big nasty earthquakes. You may live in New York City or New Jersey or Texas, where you have truly scary hurricanes. Chances are that wherever you dwell, some planetary upheaval happens every now and then. That’s why you need an emergency AM/FM radio. The holiday season is […]
I’ve listened to a lot of radio documentaries, but I’ve never heard one that concludes “within a hair’s breadth of 1 minute.” Then I noticed this call-for-content item on the free103point9 newsroom blog: Your radio documentary can be on any theme and told in any format, so long as it is audio only. It should be […]
In February of this year Jennifer Waits and I attended a social media week conference at the Adobe headquarters in San Francisco, at which Seth Goldstein of Turntable.fm spoke. During a panel on social networking radio, Goldstein critiqued his brainchild. “I wish [Turntable.fm] was more background,” he explained. “In a way I think there are […]
If you want to understand the Federal Communications Commission’s ground breaking Low Power FM decision, your first stop is Paul Riismandel’s nice summary of the Order, posted earlier this week. I just thought I’d rummage through the document and see what additional fun tidbits and further details I could extract for my own interest, and […]
The Copyright Royalty Board has released its rates for non-commercial educational (NCE) radio stations. As the CommLaw blog notes, the significant change for college stations is the “elimination of the one-size-fits-all flat fee approach which has historically been used.” Now tithes for 2013 through 2017 will be determined by the number of full time students at […]
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously passed a Fifth Order updating rules and establishing a filing window for Low Power FM applications: October 2013. One hopes that these will be the last regulations needed, but since the process has gone through five iterations, you never know. In any event, we’ve been live blogging the meeting, […]
The Federal Communications Commission is holding a meeting this morning to finalize its rules on translators and Low Power FM. I thought I’d live blog a bit while listening to the event. If you have a commentary or statement on the subject as it develops, send it over to me here. [liveblog]
