NPR ran a piece on Saturday about the impending wave of Low Power FM radio stations. The Weekend Edition story was about what you’d expect—a nice folks-helping-folks profile of a Germantown, Philadelphia Internet signal that hopes to get a LPFM license this October. This was followed by a general overview of Low Power FM applicants. “Low […]
Although it’s the dead of summer, here’s a quick summary of some recent college radio news: WBGU DJ and Co-Music Director Wins DJ Competion Brody Ramone, a DJ from WBGU-FM at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, will be heading to Zurich, Switzerland this September in order to compete in the International Radio Festival (IRF). […]
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom has released a new report on UK media. Among the findings: the average income for a community radio license in 2012 declined by 5.4% to £57,000, despite the fact that total revenue for the country’s 207 community stations grew to £10.5 million. Why the seemingly contradictory pattern? As we’ve […]
Great news for Hollow Earth Internet radio in Seattle, Washington. The city’s Department of Information Technology has given the station a $19,487 matching fund planning grant to apply for a Low Power FM license this fall. The Federal Communications Commission’s application window for LPFMs opens on October 15. Here’s the grant language: “Help transition from […]
The FCC’s filing window for applicants who are interested in obtaining a new LPFM license is coming up in October and many groups are hopeful that college radio stations will take advantage of this rare opportunity to obtain a spot on the FM dial. At Radio Survivor we are working to connect college radio stations […]
There are less than 100 shopping days to October 15, the date that the Federal Communications Commission will be begin accepting applications for new Low Power FM radio stations. The updated online Form 318 is available, and nosy me, I decided to set up an account just so I could take screen shots of the various […]
I was doing a random search on Twitter this weekend when I ran across a photo of a radio reception stamp for the first Haverford College radio station WABQ. It turns out that some of the current radio station participants at Haverford College found this gem on eBay, just in time for this year’s 90th […]
On Friday Chicago Public Media CEO Torey Malatia, CEO announced his resignation, after two decades at WBEZ. Public radio listeners from outside Chicago may know Malatia as the man providing “management oversight” for This American Life, to whom Ira Glass always attributes an out-of-context quote from that episode during the program’s end credits. Malatia has […]
This summer I’ve been getting more serious about my radio station field trip project and have been trying to finally visit some of the stations in the Bay Area that have eluded me up to this point. In some cases it’s been a lack of initiative on my part, whereas in other instances my requests […]
Long time KPFA staffer Kellia Ramares-Watson has an interesting piece in The Leftist Review on the present and future of Pacifica radio, which owns KPFA. Kellia worked for the News and Operations departments at the station for some time, but quit when cutbacks (in her words) “imposed by the interim GM at KPFA, under orders […]
