Next time your musical ensemble is about to do a big concert, take a lead from this group and do a warm up performance first at a nearby community radio station. Here’s a YouTube of Balkan Alien Sound getting limber with a few songs at Connemara Community Radio just before the band went live at Mullarkey’s […]
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College Radio Watch: Music App for College Radio, CMJ Winners + More College Radio Stations Launch
As I was writing this week’s MASSIVE College Radio Watch (I’m catching up on several weeks worth of news), I saw a post from XMU DJ Jenny Eliscu that read, “Sadly, yes, @SIRIUSXM’s Classic College Radio channel is only alive for another week. Enjoy it before it’s #RIP.” SiriusXM will still continue programming its other […]
LPFM Watch: New LPFM has interest in Historic Preservation and the Arts
I was pleased to see evidence of the growth of low power FM (LPFM) in the FCC’s latest quarterly update about the number of licensed broadcast stations in the United States. By the end of September, 2015, there were 1,364 licensed LPFM stations, which was 215 more than at the end of June, 2015. (more…)
Number of Radio Stations in the U.S. Grows this Quarter According to FCC
The FCC released its quarterly list of the total number of licensed broadcast stations. Following the same trend that we’ve seen, the number of licensed stations continues to grow, with the current grand total at 15,470 licensed full power radio stations as of September 30, 2015. (more…)
Reenacting a 1972 men-on-feminism community radio show
This should be interesting: performance artist Andrea Fraser will reenact the voices of four men speaking candidly about feminism on a 1972 KPFK-FM radio show. The event is called “Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism.” Fraser performs as all four participants based on excerpts of what they said during the Los Angeles based […]
Negativland’s ‘Over The Edge’ Catalog Now Available at Internet Archive
When Don Joyce of the band Negativland passed away in July we learned that the group is in the process of archiving the 34-year catalog of its Over The Edge radio show, anchored by Joyce since the very beginning. Now the first stage of the project is public, with 941 episodes of the program available […]
Centenary College Radio Station WNTI to be sold to University of Pennsylvania’s WXPN
Today it was announced that Centenary College plans to sell the license for its public radio station WNTI 91.9 FM to University of Pennsylvania for use as another outpost for programming from its Philadelphia-based public radio station WXPN-FM. The sale price is $1,250,000. Additionally, part of the contract specifies the equivalent of $500,000 in underwriting […]
India’s formulas for community radio democracy
I am reading an interesting document produced by scholars at the University of Hyderabad titled the “Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit.” Sponsored by UNESCO, it focuses on best practices for community radio stations around the world. The survey is quite long, but I direct your attention to the section called “Content Generation and Programming,” which […]
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Minneapolis has a Somali Low Power FM station
In the wake of the Somali civil war of the 1990s, many people from that country have migrated to Minneapolis. In fact, the city has a neighborhood called Little Mogadishu where Somali immigrants live—around 14,000 of them. Now Minneapolis also has a Low Power FM radio station that focuses on their lives and concerns. KALY-FM 101.7 FM […]
College Radio Watch: Is October College Radio Month?
I hope that you took the opportunity to celebrate College Radio Day last Friday. Did you check out a new station? Do something special at your own station? We’d love to hear your stories, so please feel free to comment on this post. This week’s edition of College Radio Watch will be brief, with just […]