Ten essential radio movies for the holidays
I love movies about radio. Here are some classics to give to your friends for the holidays. Pirate Radio (2009). The fictionalized story of Radio Caroline, “the boat that rocked” the British Isles from offshore in the 1960s. Fabulous performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy. My favorite Nighy line from the film: “Carl? […]
College Radio Watch: Recapping the CBI Conference, New LPFM in Mississippi, and KUCR’s Radio History
In late October I had an amazing time at the College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) conference in Seattle. In addition to attending lots of informative sessions about student broadcasting, I was also on a few panels devoted to college radio history and to the diversity of college radio. (more…)
Holiday Gifts for Easy and Enjoyable Radio Listening
For this year’s Holiday Gift Guide I want to focus on some great ways to listen to the radio. Because we are living in the digital age, many of these gifts also work well for consuming other digital media. Also, don’t miss Jennifer’s eclectic holiday gift guide featuring a radio in a jar, a radio […]
Podcast Recommendations for Serial Addicts
Editor’s note: Jenny Benevento helped select our top podcasts of 2013 and recently published this guide to her own website. She kindly gave us permission to republish it. So as you might know, I love podcasts (so much so I have my own!). Like everyone you know, I enjoy the podcast Serial, which you either binge […]
LPFM Watch: New Community Radio Stations Coming to Chicago, Toledo, Philadelphia, and More
As I compose this post, it’s “stormageddon” in the San Francisco Bay Area. On stormy days like this, I’m incredibly grateful for hyper-local media like low power FM radio stations. We’ve been glued to local TV news to see the trajectory of wind and rain today and I’ve also never heard so many Emergency Alert […]
Podcast Survivor: Resources for Listeners, Enthusiasts & Podcasters
This week I want to share some resources for the podcast enthusiast. This might be an avid listener, a producer, or someone new to the medium who wants to learn more. While much has been made about the “discoverability” problem that podcasting has, after giving this a lot of thought I’ve concluded that it’s no […]
Vancouver Radio Project launches website and stream
We just received the first dispatch from the Vancouver Radio Project, serving the region of Vancouver, Washington. VRP’s new website is up, along with various playlists curated by the station’s founders (hit the play button at the bottom of the website page to listen). The plan is to launch a commercial free, locally based FM service some […]
Lincolnshire, UK gets festival oriented community radio station
Ofcom has been busy of late, giving permanent community radio licenses to three United Kingdom media operations. One goes to Endeavor Radio of the Boston/Lincolnshire area. Endeavor started out with a temporary license in 2006 (its name was Stump Radio back in those days). Then it toggled between Internet broadcasting alone and Internet/FM service, covering […]
Radio Poetry and the Archiving of Acoustic Space
Lisa Hollenbach is a literary scholar interested in poetry broadcasts from the 1950s to the 1970s. In her recent post for Antenna Blog‘s Radio Preservation Task Force series she describes her work as dealing with “several neglected cultural fronts at once, examining forms long declared dead” including poetry, radio, spoken word recording, and the Pacifica […]
XRAY.fm Sheds Light on the Business of Music
Last fall I wrote “an immodest proposal” that independent and community stations should work more closely with independent musicians. With that in mind I was pleased to listen to the first episode of a new series from XRAY.fm in Portland, called “The Future of What?” focusing on the business of music. The show is hosted […]