In March, 2008 I was on a family vacation to Boston and decided that I’d like to visit a college radio station. I had no idea at the time that my trip to WECB at Emerson College would launch an epic project of radio station tours that would take me to stations all over the […]
On Tuesday night I attended a panel discussion at University of San Francisco (USF) on the topic of the past, present, and future of college radio station KUSF. I’ve been closely following the trials and tribulations of the station since the shut-down of KUSF 90.3 FM on January 18, 2011. Two and a half years […]
Here at Radio Survivor we like to say happy birthday to community radio stations. It is easier to do this if the signal puts its date of birth on its About web page, as has station KAZI-FM in Austin, Texas: “KAZI was the dream of the late Dr. John Warfield, professor of African-American Studies at […]
A new appeal to the Federal Communications Commission from Let the Cities In, the outfit that earlier asked the FCC to let groups run ten watt Low Power FM stations (the present standard is 100 watts). Now LTCI wants the Commission to open a second filing window for LPFM applicants. The present (and only) window […]
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first Radio Survivor Twitter chat on Thursday, August 22. In particular, we appreciated all the experts who fielded questions for us about college radio and LPFM. Julia Wierski (Prometheus Radio Project), Vanessa Graber (Common Frequency), and Sabrina Roach (LPFM National Make Radio Challenge project for Brown Paper Tickets) […]
Head over to Twitter, follow the hashtag #lpfm, and you’ll be able to join our Twitter chat on Low Power FM and college radio. I’m going to live blog the event here (or at least try), serving up some of the highlights of the discussion. The conversation starts at 10 AM PST / 1 PM […]
At Radio Survivor we’ve been eagerly anticipating the LPFM filing window in October and in advance of that will be hosting several Twitter chats. Please join us tomorrow at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern for the first Radio Survivor Twitter chat. Focusing on the topic of college radio and LPFM, we will discuss your questions with a […]
The New York Times has weighed in on situation at Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City with a story titled “Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI.” The New York station has laid off a huge percentage of its staff, we reported last week. Excessive fixed costs and inadequate programming played a big […]
The revolving door at the top office of National Public Radio keeps spinning. Tuesday current CEO Gary Knell announced that he is resigning this fall to take over the much-bigger National Geographic, for about twice as much salary. Knell has been on the job at NPR for fewer than two years, and is largely credited […]
As we reported in July, the Pacifica Radio Archives has received a $128k grant to preserve and publish around 1,644 historical radio programs (2,013 reel-to-reel audio recordings) documenting the cultural and political activism of women in the United States from 1963 to 1982. The whole project will take around two years. The recordings will be […]
