Podcasting News: Anticipated Overcast App Drops
In this week’s podcasting news: Connecticut’s WNPR-FM dedicates an hour to “the culture and design of podcasts”; the anticipated Overcast app is released. WNPR-FM Explores the “Culture and Design of Podcasts.” Public station WNPR-FM dedicated the Tuesday edition of its morning talk show Where We Live to the topic of podcasts this week. Host John […]
Spike Lee’s ‘Radio Raheem’ returns to protest Staten Island man’s death
Filmmaker Spike Lee has revived his iconic cinematic radio figure “Radio Raheem” in protest of the death of Eric Garner. The Staten Island, New York resident perished last Thursday after three police surrounded and locked him in a choke hold. Garner, 43, had five children. Lee took the section of his movie “Do the Right […]
The Death Spiral of AM Talk Radio
Darryl Parks is the former corporate brand manager for Clear Channel talk stations and was program director for Cincinnati news/talk WLW-AM. Now independent, Parks keeps a blog where he recently has trained his sights on his old business. A couple of weeks ago he dissected the plummeting ratings across the mostly-conservative AM talk radio format. […]
College Radio Watch: WSCS to be Sold, WRAS Responds to GPB Letter, Troubles at KCPR?
Although it’s the dead of summer, there’s definitely lots going on in the world of college radio. With students mostly on summer break, sadly, much of the news isn’t so great. As we’ve seen time and time again, often big announcements from administrators occur either right before or during summer and winter breaks. In keeping […]
LPFM News: MX Settlements Begin, High School returns CP
In this week’s LPFM news: The MX settlements begin in western states; a woman is surprised to learn she has an LPFM; a high school returns its CP. Resolutions Proposed in Competition for 24 Low-Power FM Frequencies The settlements are happening, the MX group settlements that is. As we reported last week, the FCC issued […]
Podcasting News: Sound Levels are Important, Maron vs. Radio
This week’s podcasting news is mostly just light and fun. Though I’ll start with the very serious business of sound, which is pretty essential to podcasting. Though not expressly about podcasting, per se, public radio producer and journalism professor Adam Ragusea just published a well-researched commentary piece for Current all about audio levels, and why […]
Traffic Surge Pushes Open Internet Comment Deadline to Friday
Today the FCC announced that due to an “overwhelming surge in traffic” to its website the initial comment deadline on the Open Internet proceeding is being pushed to this Friday, July 18, at midnight. The Commission notes that if you run into trouble using the web-based comment submission system you may email your comments to […]
Live Internet radio’s case for the reclassification of broadband
I continue to scan the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality proceeding for radio related comments, and came across this interesting filing (reposted below), submitted on July 11. The author identifies himself as a radio host who, unable to obtain reliable ISP service for live streaming, resorts to an ISDN connection: “I host a radio show […]
Open Internet Comment Deadline Tomorrow, Twitter Chat Today
Tuesday is the first comment deadline for the FCC’s proceeding on the Open Internet. Hundreds of thousands of comments have been filed, and there will likely be a final rush in the next 27 hours or so. If you haven’t yet filed your comments, now is the time to do so. To help guide you […]
Will SoundCloud pay rent to labels as the price for existing?
I apologize for what some might experience as the presumptuous headline query, but I am unable to interpret the latest SoundCloud news otherwise. Here is the lead paragraph in last week’s Bloomberg report: “The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd., in exchange for […]