Digital Watch: Where’s All That Streaming Music Money Going?
A number of prominent musicians have complained loudly about the royalties they receive from streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora, from indie rock veteran David Lowery to pop star Taylor Swift, who pulled all of her music from Spotify. Mike Masnick at TechDirt decided to look closer at the numbers and determined that “Yes, […]
KZSC will listen to its history during April alumni weekend
The University of California, Santa Cruz is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the campus’ radio signal will do its part on UCSC Alumni Weekend, scheduled for Friday April 24 through Sunday the 26th. All former Slug Radio Wizards at KZSC are invited to “spin some classics and share personal reflections about their glory days on […]
Will podcasting kill the video star?
The New York Times and Boston Globe online are all about video these days. But at Slate, the energy is on audio. Consider this meditation at Medium.com on Slate’s podcast prowess. Apparently everyone at the news/blog was spending so much time pondering the Serial series out loud that the staff just decided, what the hell, […]
1942: when “freedom” meant women listening to radio
I’m blogging about this World War II United States propaganda poster for no other reason than that I just love it. I adore that young woman in the middle there, brows clenched, fist clenched, leaning over a notebook with a shadow across her forehead, staring at and listening to that radio as if her life […]
College Radio Watch: Student Media Advocates Decry Restrictions on Student Sports Broadcasts; LPFM News, and More
This week, College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) issued a joint statement about athletic department prohibitions on the broadcast of sports programming by student media outlets. (more…)
LPFM Watch: New Radio Stations for Georgia Radio Hall of Fame, University of Oklahoma, Northside High and 11 Religious Groups
This week, a wide range of groups were granted construction permits for new low power FM (LPFM) radio stations, including 11 church-related organizations. Additionally, a high school that has had its permit for a year, just launched a streaming radio station in anticipation of building its LPFM, while another school district is working on plans […]
Digital Watch: Net Neutrality Is Here; Teens Prefer Streaming
Welcome to our new Wednesday feature, Digital Watch. Each week I’ll be tackling news and analysis about radio’s intersection with the digital world, online and off. This takes the place of Podcast Survivor, but it doesn’t mean podcasting coverage is going away. I’ll explain further at the end of this post. The week’s biggest news […]
Will new FCC net neutrality rules kill “sponsored data” plans?
It’s all buzzy buzzy out there about Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler’s new proposed net neutrality rules, which rest on reclassifying broadband as a utility, thus worthy of Title II telecommunications regulation. Wheeler has a statement posted on Wired. Those who thought he would never do this are happily eating their hats. The telcos are […]
Today’s Rich Audio Environment: An Interview with Michele Hilmes
As part of the Radio Survivor Academic Series, we share an interview with scholar and radio studies luminary Michele Hilmes. Hilmes is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leading scholar of radio and broadcasting. (more…)
UK LGBT community radio station seeks mission overhaul
LGBT listener oriented Chorley.fm of Lancashire county is having a bit of an identity crisis. The community radio station, located in the market town of Chorley in the United Kingdom’s northwest, says it still wants to serve young and LGBT listeners, but within the context of service to a broader audience. In the UK, radio […]