An NPR review of The Expendables 2 that described the sequel as “190 years of ass whoop on the silver screen” has got some listeners pretty riled up. “I am a long time listener and I have noticed a trend lately where NPR has allowed inappropriate language over the air,” one wrote. “I am not a Puritan, […]
The future of high school radio station KVHS in Concord, California has been up in the air following Clayton Valley High School’s conversion to a charter school. According to the agenda for the August 27, 2012 Mount Diablo Unified School District board meeting, a scheduled action item for this Monday’s meeting is a “recommendation for […]
Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges, 2013 Edition has hit the shelves, bringing with it a brand new list of the “best” college radio stations in the United States. The guide collects the results of mostly online surveys conducted with more than 122,000 students at the 377 institutions included in the book. An average of […]
Mainstream news outlets were abuzz today with kernels of wisdom about young people after Beloit College released its annual Mindset List. Meant to give a portrait of this year’s incoming college students, the exhaustive list of 75 tidbits describes what the world is like for “this generation of entering college students, born in 1994.” Technology […]
In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, Radio Waves columnist Ben Fong-Torres revealed which San Francisco Bay Area radio stations are on his car radio’s presets. Fong-Torres writes: “I had six AM preset slots; 12 FM. I can’t even come up with six AMs anymore. I went with KNBR, KCBS, KGO, KKSF, KNBR at 1050 and … […]
I’ve been reading through the Federal Communications Commission’s proceeding on how to reward Low Power FM radio stations to applicants. It’s pretty clear from some of the filings—the latest from the Prometheus Radio Project—that the Commission still faces some complicated questions about how to pick the applicant winners, especially when it comes to localism criteria […]
Today the FCC released its most recent list of call sign actions. Amid the alphabet soup of new and changed call signs was a familiar set of letters: K-U-S-F. As of July 20, 2012, Common Frequency has reserved the former University of San Francisco radio station’s call letters for a yet-to-be-constructed non-commercial radio station at […]
On August 9, Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC) filed paperwork with the FCC indicating their desire to assign the license for former college radio station WRVU 91.1 FM (now known as WFCL) to Nashville Public Radio. Ever since June, 2011, Nashville Public Radio has been operating the station after VSC entered into an agreement with the […]
Radio Valencia in San Francisco hit the terrible twos late last week. I wrote to John Hell, the community outlet’s co-founder, to get an update on the station’s plans. He sent me this commentary, which is published below in full. —Matthew Lasar On Saturday, August 11th Radio Valencia celebrated its 2nd anniversary. That went by […]
Sometimes I feel like WFMU news should be its own category here at Radio Survivor, due to the station’s constant innovation and newsworthiness. First up, I can report that the Kickstarter for the WFMU documentary Freeform or Death–which I reported on in June–ended successfully last month. 736 backers pledged 61% more than producer Tim K. […]
