Updates: how WHUS makes obeying the FCC’s indecency rules look cool
WHUS of the University of Connecticut has posted a video on its Facebook page explaining its late night music playing policies. “Attention,” the video explains, “between the hours of 10 PM and 6 AM WHUS regularly observes safe harbor period of time recordings . . . ” “Safe harbor” refers to the aforementioned late night […]
Puzzling Anti-Pirate Radio Proposal from FCC Commissioner O’Reilly
Despite years of enforcement action and the establishment of low-power FM, unlicensed pirate radio has not gone away, though it hardly qualifies as a runaway problem or nationwide epidemic. True, there are some hotspots with a high density of communities underserved by local broadcasters–such as Brooklyn, NY and South Florida–where unlicensed broadcasting is arguably more […]
FCC’s Quarterly Radio Station Count Reveals Big Boost in LPFM Stations
The FCC just released its quarterly list of the total number of licensed broadcast stations and the total number of radio stations in the United States remains about the same as it has for the past few quarters, with a grand total of 15,442 licensed full power radio stations. (more…)
Grassroots radio gets profile in new online archive
There’s a lot of remarkable stuff to check out in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s new work-in-progress website. Sure, there will be plenty of public TV footage of George Lucas and John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and wuddever. But the content will also include a boatload of material from the Pacifica Radio Archives, WFMU in Jersey […]
Syrian radio station focuses on women’s accounts of civil war
Syrian indie station Radio Souriat is in its third month of operation. The signal investigates and explains the condition of Syrian women within and beyond that war torn country. Although I’ve been able to find links to a online stream for Souriat, the best way to listen appears to be through its SoundCloud, Twitter, and […]
We Reached Our First Fundraising Milestone, Thanks to Readers Like You
If you take a look at the Radio Survivor home page today you should see something a little different. There are some things missing: banner ads. Thanks to fourteen Radio Survivor readers like you, we surpassed our first Patreon fundraising milestone of $100 per month. That gives us enough regular funding to get rid of […]
My TiVo Roamio is an Internet Radio
After putting up with painfully slow DSL Internet service for the past few years, my family just switched to cable and in the process moved to cable TV. I have always been a huge television consumer and was the master of my video cassette recorder (VCR) back in the day. Digital video recorders (DVRs) came […]
Visiting College Radio Station 9th Floor Radio at Laney College
Although I’m immersed in the world of college radio, I’m still catching up on visits to college radio stations in my local area. I was aware of a streaming radio station at Laney College in Oakland called 9th Floor Radio and was excited to hear that it would soon be broadcasting over low power FM […]
Podcasters Rejoice: So-Called ‘Podcasting Patent’ Ruled Invalid
Podcasters across the US can now breathe easier. Today the US Patent and Trademark Office invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” This patent, owned by a company called Personal Audio LLC (a/k/a the “Podcast Patent Troll”) was used to sue prominent podcaster Adam Carolla–ending with an out-of-court settlement but no payment from Carolla–as well as CBS, […]
College Radio Watch: Role of Radio in Local Concert Scenes, New Station at Cal State LA and More News
In the Buffalo News this week, Jeff Miers writes about radio’s role in the local concert scene in Buffalo. He points out that radio stations and promoters have differing views about the influence of radio on the types of artists that come to town, but he also acknowledges that college radio plays a unique role. […]