The global non-profit in charge of domain names is meeting in San Francisco next month, and I know of at least two radio related groups that will be watching the event closely. One is dotradio and the other is dotMusic. Both want the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to green light two new […]
Author Archive | Matthew Lasar
The art of avoiding hyperbole in radio interviews
Here’s an interesting Larry Gifford YouTube tutorial on the perils of flattering your interview guests, using the faux pas of Pierce Morgan as examples. Very good points to keep in mind:
Rush Limbaugh erases then restores FDR to economic history
One of the nation’s most prominent self-appointed Presidential scholars gave his audience a history lesson today, minus a fairly important detail. Radio rantmeister Rush Limbaugh was musing on the latest economic statistics, which are disappointing. The unemployment rate has dropped to the still high rate of nine percent, indicating that the tepid recovery will continue […]
Xtranormals fight to save KUSF!
Just sent to us. Enjoy!
Pandora wins top billing on Google and Bing searches for “radio”
Do a search of the word “radio” on either Google or Bing, and Pandora online radio is the first result. The runners up are also identical—AOL Radio, followed by Wikipedia’s “radio” entry. I decided to do this experiment following Google’s charge that Microsoft’s Bing uses Google’s search results. Google says its staff came up with […]
Usage-Based Billing: a threat to Internet radio?
Like lots of folks, I’ve got the jitters about Canada’s impending metered Internet billing system (Usage-Based Billing they call it there), especially when it comes to online radio and music services. Ars Technica has a pretty decent piece about the UBB development, if I say so myself. The Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission approved the pay-by-the-gigabyte policy […]
9/11 Truthers say support new KPFA Morning Show (but not too truthfully)
The new all volunteer KPFA Morning Show got a resounding endorsement from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth this week. The group says its mission is to promote the idea that there is “sufficient evidence to conclude that the World Trade Center buildings #1 (North Tower), #2 (South Tower), and #7 (the 47 story high-rise […]
Gringo! Faggot! Is there still a place for context in radio?
There are two controversies raging in radioland right now over the appropriateness of words broadcast across the airwaves. One of them is playing itself out in Canada; the other in the United States. The Canadian debate involves the word “faggot”; the US involves the articulation of the word “gringo.” Following these discussions, I’m wondering if […]
Sirius XM to FCC: let us raise subscription prices after July 28
A Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) subscription price hike after July? It’s looking more likely, judging from recent correspondence with the Federal Communications Commission. When the FCC agreed to let Sirius XM satellite radio merge, one of the voluntary conditions to which the new entity agreed was to hold off on raising their “current or proposed prices” […]
What’s going to happen to KUSF’s 90.3 now? Ask Brenda Barnes
By now all Radio Survivor readers know the news—treasured college radio station KUSF-FM in San Francisco has been sold. Its frequency will broadcast Entercom owned classical radio station KDFC-FM, soon to go public in a partnership with the University of Southern California, parent of classical station KUSC. It appears that KUSF’s 90.3 signal is already […]