Podcast Survivor: Community Radio Must Podcast
First off, if you didn’t catch the big news that streaming music platform Deezer is acquiring Stitcher be sure to read my take on what it means for podcasting. I should also note that former WFMU host Tom Scharpling has announced that he is bringing back The Best Show “sometime in November.” This coincides with […]
WFMU doc will screen soon in New York, then San Francisco
Some tickets are still available for Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU (our review here). The documentary will premiere at the Doc NYC festival on November 15 and 17. Director Tim K. Smith will appear at both showings at the IFC Film Center in Manhattan. There’s also a San Francisco showing scheduled for February. Full details […]
Mad Genius Radio Debuts Personalized Ad-Free Subscription Radio
A new streaming music radio platform launched today, Mad Genius Radio. Entering into an increasingly crowded space, Mad Genius differentiates itself by customizing each station to the individual listener rather than relying on data correlated and aggregated across audiences to program music choices. Founder Eric Neumann is a radio industry veteran with more than twenty […]
There will be video: how community radio can adapt to digital disruption
This is the second in a series about how community radio stations can adapt to and embrace digital disruption. There Will Be Video At a strategic planning meeting for a community radio station I used to work for, the facilitator asked if we wanted to make any changes to the mission. I raised my hand. […]
Introducing the Radio Survivor Academic Series
The work of media history serves to not only enrich our understanding of the past and of the everyday use of communications technologies, but it also offers helpful methods and frameworks for making sense of new technological developments and new uses and practices. A number of scholars have tempered the revolutionary claims of newness that […]
Possible Reprieve for Back-Door FM Stations on TV Ch. 6
There are approximately 18 low-power TV stations posing as radio in the US. They are stations that broadcast on channel 6. And because low-power stations are still permitted to transmit in analog, that means their audio can be received at the very low end of the FM dial, around 87.7 MHz. For all intents and […]
Future of Music Policy Summit Begins Monday
The Future of Music Coalition is holding its 14th annual Policy Summit this week in Washington DC. The Summit features keynote presentations from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, Damin Kulash of the band OK Go, Jon Abodeely from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and comedian, writer and radio artist Harry Shearer. Last year […]
NASA conquers space music with SoundCloud channel
OMG I am totally, happily lost, wandering about NASA’s new SoundCloud channel, which is full of amazing audio. Check out this set of tracks, which begins with “Chorus Radio Waves Within Earth’s Atmosphere”: Next comes a Sputnik beep, a sample of lightening on Jupiter, and some Saturn based radio emissions from Casini. You can also […]
Deezer Buys Stitcher – What It Means for Podcasting
This morning the global #2 streaming music service Deezer announced that it is acquiring Stitcher, the audio platform focused on talk, entertainment and podcasts. In an interview Deezer Chief Marketing Officer Beth Murphy explained that the deal is intended to help introduce more talk listeners to streaming music, while also provide music listeners with talk […]
Dead and Present: Does Anyone Really Die In Night Vale?
Before we get to the subject at hand, WTNV is going to do a live recording of The Librarian, which I saw and had my mind blown at last January. If you’re in New York, I’d suggest investigating the matter. And now, onto Episode 56: Homecoming. This week, Night Vale High School geared up for […]