Top Menu

Archive | Community Radio

KPFA logo

KPFA morning schedule gets new makeover

It has been about eighteen months since Pacifica listener supported station KPFA (Berkeley, CA) dumped its Morning Show for a volunteer lineup called the “Morning Mix.” The move was very controversial and personally disappointing. Thus I was happy to see this press release (below) announcing a new show for the station’s seven AM slot, “Up […]

Continue Reading
New FCC logo

FCC drops non-commercial radio fundraising item from Friday’s meeting

Wednesday the FCC announced that it’s dropping from Friday’s open meeting an item addressing non-commercial radio stations’ ability to fundraise on-air for other non-profit organizations. The item appears to deal with stations raising money for efforts like disaster relief. But, as I wrote earlier this month, this rulemaking might also address non-commercial stations being operated […]

Continue Reading
Zemanta Related Posts Thumbnail

Radio Break Utilizes Low Power Radio to Broadcast Art Across Los Angeles

Over the weekend the public art exhibition Radio Break opened in Los Angeles. Curated by 9 University of Southern California (USC) graduate students, the performances in this exhibit all utilize low power radio transmissions. Last weekend performances and transmissions took place in downtown and East L.A. and this weekend they will occur in Hollywood and […]

Continue Reading
Zemanta Related Posts Thumbnail

It’s Radio Conference Season

The next six months are chock full of opportunities to connect with college and community radio practitioners at a range of non-commercial radio conferences. Here’s a quick look at some of the events happening between now and October, 2012. BEA 2012 First up is the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) conference in Las Vegas this weekend […]

Continue Reading
On the Air sign

Radio Continues to Grow in U.S. Based on FCC’s Quarterly Station Tally

The FCC just released its quarterly list of the total number of licensed broadcast stations in the United States. Based on their statistics through March 31, 2012, the number of licensed broadcast radio stations is still on the rise, continuing the trend that we saw in last quarter’s update. Based on this list, there are […]

Continue Reading
Get out of jail free card

Retired Navy air traffic controller to do community service for running pirate radio station

Back in January I reported on Ft. Myers, Florida resident Albert Knighten, a retired Navy air traffic controller who was arrested in December 2011 on charges of unlicensed broadcasting for running a neighborhood community radio station. Knighten got in additional hot water when he missed his arraignment hearing in order to appear on a panel […]

Continue Reading

Reactions to the FCC’s LPFM ruling

I was talking with my pal John Anderson earlier today about how relatively muted the reaction is to the FCC’s LPFM decision on Monday. We did get a statement from Prometheus Radio Project pretty quickly. But even today, three days later, there’s only a handful of hits on a google news search. Perhaps the news […]

Continue Reading

Powered by WordPress. Designed by WooThemes