It’s been about three weeks since former Chicago Public Media CEO Torey Malatia abruptly resigned his position, surprising both station staff and listeners. Current and the Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner have both published overviews of Malatia’s tenure as an often-controversial and innovative leader, and the aftermath of his departure. At the same time, sister station […]
Update (4/3/2014): KALW looking for new Academy Recruits. More information here about the ten month program . . . NPR affiliate KALW in San Francisco has chosen eight out of sixty applicants for its Audio Academy: a ten month intensive radio journalism program that sounds like a lot of fun (and a lot of work). Here’s […]
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois has announced that it will be moving its student radio programming off of 90.7 FM in order to provide space for regional public radio network, Tri States Public Radio (TSPR). Beginning next month, long-time student radio station WVKC will broadcast online and on HD radio. A statement on the Knox […]
Arcane Radio Trivia’s Jose Fritz (one of the first people who I profiled for my Radio Obsessives series) just wrote up a nifty post about the early days of radio at Temple University in Philadelphia. He unearthed a 1947 account from the Temple University News which reports on the status of the nearly-built carrier current […]
No doubt that just about everybody who cares about public radio spent the weekend debating NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos’ massive takedown of NPR’s award winning feature: Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families. Schumacher-Matos concludes that the piece on South Dakota’s Indian foster care system should not have been broadcast as it was written. He […]
A sobbing Executive Director of the Pacifica foundation disclosed on Friday that union negotiations at Pacifica station WBAI have concluded and across-the-board layoffs are very near. “It is with great sadness that I have to tell the WBAI listening audience that many of the voices that you have been listening to for many years will […]
“Making #LPFM a reality in San Francisco is like trying to climb the pyramids of Giza all at the same time,” one of my favorite radio station makers tweeted about twenty hours ago. To the rescue (hopefully) comes the Federal Communications Commission, which has just announced two webinars on Low Power FM. The first will […]
Andrew Leslie Phillips has written a short history of the Pacifica radio network, published below. He is interim general manager of Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, California. Phillips is a native of Australia. He spent seven years in Papua New Guinea as a government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming to New York […]
Today the Princeton Review released its latest college guide, which is full of college trivia, including the annual “best college radio station” list of the 20 schools with the most popular radio stations based on student surveys. The Best 378 Colleges, 2014 Edition collects the results of mostly online surveys conducted with more than 126,000 […]
In reply comments submitted to the FCC, College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) argues for a softer stance on the broadcast of indecent material. In its filing (PDF), CBI asks the FCC to cease enforcement of its fleeting expletives policy. CBI writes, “The enforcement of a ‘fleeting expletive’ policy is resource intensive, constitutionally suspect, creates a chilling […]
