LPFM News: More Urban Stations, MX Fight in Philly
The count of new LPFMs inched forward this week with ten more, bringing the total to 1350. Several of these are in major metroplexes, including Sacramento, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle. The Open Media Foundation received the construction permit in Denver. That group is a media and technology nonprofit that helps socially conscious organizations use […]
College Broadcasters Inc. Reaches Settlement with SoundExchange Regarding Fees for Student Webcasters
College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) has announced that it has reached a settlement with SoundExchange in regards to the fees paid by student webcasters. According to a press release from CBI, this tentative settlement will “freeze royalty payments for the next five years. It would also continue to allow student webcasters to continue to file proxy […]
Spinning Indie Field Trip 64 – College Radio Station WQHS at University of Pennsylvania
On a day when it seemed impossible to visit one more station, I did just that and ventured into Philadelphia to tour University of Pennsylvania’s student radio station WQHS on the night of Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The morning and afternoon were a whirlwind of visits to see stations at Villanova University, Swarthmore College, Haverford […]
The Library of Congress Launches Radio Preservation Task Force
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, John Anderson shared with Radio Survivor readers some details about a Library of Congress initiative focused on the preservation of local radio history all over the country. As he mentioned, The Radio Preservation Task Force is now hard at work identifying radio collections in every corner of the United […]
Jones College Sells WKTZ-FM and WJAX-AM Licenses to Religious Broadcaster EMF
The FCC has granted the assignment of two radio licenses held by Jones College to religious broadcaster Educational Media Foundation (EMF). Licenses for WKTZ-FM and WJAX-AM in Jacksonville, Florida were sold to EMF for the purchase price of $3,375,000. This ends a 50-year legacy of radio at Jones College, with has up until recently broadcast […]
Podcasting News: Carolla Breaks Silence on Podcasting Troll
In this week’s podcasting news: KQED spends an hour exploring podcasting; Serial brings long-form journalism to podcasting; Adam Carolla discusses the podcast patent troll dismissal. Podcasting continues to enjoy traction in at least a segment of the popular consciousness this week. On Friday San Francisco public radio station KQED dedicated an hour of its Forum […]
St. Louis public radio covers Ferguson protest before Brahms
As the St. Louis Symphony revved up to perform the Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, live on St. Louis Public Radio, symphony Vice President and program co-host Adam Crane probably thought he had an uncomplicated evening ahead of him. Instead he wound up narrating a requiem for the martyr of Ferguson, Missouri: Mike Brown. A […]
Midnight tweets: Sun Ra at KBOO; open Philadelphia; Louisville late nite locker; Hell in San Francisco
Some quick twilight tweets from the Radio Survivor tweet-watch committee. Here’s what’s going on. From ARTxFM in Louisville: Midnight Locker now! http://t.co/bDYUdlNq4U — ARTxFM (@ARTxFM) October 7, 2014 From Radio Valencia in San Francisco: On Now: A Season in Hell with @JohnHell. Whether is’s punk, funk, or crunk, you’re sure to get an earful of […]
Deezer Makes 2nd Foray into the US with Premium Plus
Last month the world’s #2 music stream service Deezer introduced itself to the US with a new high-fidelity, uncompressed service called Deezer Elite. Now the company is bringing its compressed Premium Plus service stateside. Like Elite, at launch Premium Plus is tied to specific hardware. The service is only available to users of Bose SoundTouch […]
New Weird Order: Night Vale May Not Be Alone
This week, Joseph Fink announced that Welcome To Night Vale will finally be taking its first break in November. About time. They’ve been at it for two and a half straight years. Then again, I usually don’t (read: shouldn’t) get projects very far past the “Whoa, [terrible idea] would be so cool!” stage, so I’m […]