How Automation Changed College Radio at KUTE
When I began my graduate program at the University of Utah I was lucky enough to be the recipient of the Jay W. and Sharlene B. Glasmann Teaching Fellowship. Upon receiving the fellowship my responsibilities were two fold: 1) Teach Comm 1510 Radio Performance and Production and 2) Serve as graduate oversight for the university’s […]
Beyond polka battle, WMUA changes may represent a dramatic age shift
I strongly recommend that Radio Survivor readers tune into our thirtieth podcast, in which Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein offer an overview of the changes taking place at University of Massachusetts radio station WMUA-FM in Amherst. This transition reached my ear when management announced that, to make the signal more student focused, WMUA’s polka weekend […]
College Radio Watch: KZSU’s Day of Noise, WSOU Blizzard Coverage and More News
For the past few years I’ve been an avid listener of KZSU’s “Day of Noise,” a celebration of live experimental music. The tightly scheduled 24-hour broadcast features non-stop live performances from Stanford University’s college radio station. (more…)
Radio Art and New Media in Radio Studies: An Interview with Magz Hall – Pt. 2
We’re happy to return to the second part of our interview with radio scholar and radio artist Magz Hall. In the first part of the interview, Hall detailed the many ways in which we can understand radio, in both a contemporary and historical context, through the lens of radio art. She introduced us to a […]
LPFM Watch: Seattle’s LPFM Bounty & More News
Seattle has been a hot-bed of low power FM (LPFM) activity, with numerous groups applying for and receiving construction permits for new radio stations. An article in Seattle Weekly last week recounts the progress that these applicants have made towards getting on the air. (more…)
Podcast #31 – It’s the 13th Hour for Small Webcasters
It’s the 13th hour for small webcasters, as broadcasters and supporters scramble to find a solution to new performance royalty rates that threaten to put hundreds, or even thousands of stations out of business. If that many small community or commercial broadcasters were about to go under, there most certainly would be a loud public […]
Here comes the PacShara Wisconsin tri-LPFM radio trivia contest
Gird thy memory loins, northwestern Wisconsinites, and mobilize for the “PacShara Pursuit” three way Low Power FM radio trivia contest, scheduled to cut loose on Saturday, February 27. Not long ago three Badger State LPFM signals decided that the live simulcast competition “would be a fun activity to provide to our area communities ‘in the dead of […]
I Pity The Fool Who Listens To This (trash and treasure from the KZSC library #5)
Most people remember 80’s icon Mr. T. either for pitying fools, or lovin’ his mama. Some might have even remembered his time as one of the first memes back in the internet dark ages. What you may not have known is that he released a deeply religious, for-children rap album. (more…)
College Radio Watch: MLK Speech Found in WAMH Archives & WKDU Brings Back Sports
On the Radio Survivor Podcast this week, I talked about the ongoing controversy at college radio station WMUA at University of Massachusetts, Amherst surrounding changes to the station’s programming schedule which are reducing the number of hours devoted to non-student programming. Matthew Lasar brought my attention to the protests surrounding the decreased number of hours […]
LPFM Watch: More Stations Close to Getting on the Air, Including ARTxFM
This week, the FCC granted one construction permit for a new low power FM (LFPM) radio station and the lucky recipient is The Church in Lafayette, Inc. in Lafayette, Indiana. Competing applicant Great Lafayette Chinese Traditional Culture Association in West Lafayette, Indiana had its application dismissed. This is the first construction permit granted in 2016 […]