UK classical station to air Sir Neville Marriner marathon
Classical radio marathons usually take place around the holiday season, and they generally involve asking listeners to name their favorite composers. Then the station streams the top 100 picks. But on April 15, Classic FM in the United Kingdom will run a ‘thon that breaks this mold. The station will air 24 hours of performances […]
Podcast Survivor: In Defense of Hobby Podcasting
Despite the title of this post, I don’t actually think there’s any attack on hobby podcasting from which the genre needs defending. Rather, I feel like much of my writing about podcasting for the last six months has been so focused on the questions of sustainability and funding that I don’t want to give the […]
Let’s get meta: Marketplace covers the viral audio question
In the spirit of seeing if audio content can go viral, APM’s Marketplace asked journalist Stan Alcorn to make a short radio version of his report for Digg, “Is This Thing On,” which explored the question of why audio doesn’t tend to spread across the internet like cat videos. Marketplace has also installed a little […]
Community Radio News: Hungary’s Civil Radio Facing Financial and Political Threats, and more
With the FCC approving dozens of LPFM applications there’s a lot of excitement about community radio right now. But let’s not forget about the thousands of other community stations around the world serving their local communities in a variety of ways. Here’s some recent community radio news. Robin Hood Radio Taking Over AM Station in […]
SoundCloud’s progress: Explore, messaging, and Visual
Over the last four months SoundCloud has added significant visual, search, and messaging capability to its environment; here’s the rundown: In late January, SoundCloud released its Visual Player. The Player adds larger graphic backgrounds to your embedded tracks. Below an embed of a tune by Punjabi singer and actor Gippy Grewal. Some embedded visuals seem to […]
High School Radio Station in Alaska Loses License
High school radio is such a rare thing that it saddens me when a station goes dark. Earlier this month, the FCC cancelled the license for the Akiachak School’s class D FM radio station KHKY because the license holder (Yupiit School District) did not renew the license. (more…)
College Radio Survivor: LPFM News, Anniversaries, and New Stations
With spring semester underway, many college radio stations are actively recruiting new members and plotting out programming schedules. Some are preparing for conferences, including the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) conference in New York City in March, the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) convention in Las Vegas in April, and regional events like the University of California […]
LPFM Watch: Close to 1000 stations granted & more LPFM news
This week we’re up to 983 low-power FM construction permits granted, leaving a little more than 100 singleton, non competitive, applications left to be processed. More Top 20 Urban Stations As I reported a couple of weeks ago, the first LPFM in the urban core of a Top 20 market was granted in Phoenix. Since […]
Net neutrality, mobile data caps, and the future of Internet radio
The Federal Communications Commission has opened up a new conversation on net neutrality in light of an Appeals Court’s mid-January strikedown of some of the agency’s Open Internet rules. “We establish a new docket within which to consider how the Commission should proceed in light of the court’s guidance in the Verizon v. FCC opinion,” […]
KCRW comes to Santa Barbara: KUSC to run classical signal
Updated: February 20: Ok, second try on this story . . . A solution has been found for financially ailing classical station KDB 93.7 FM in Santa Barbara, California. It will be sold to innovative NPR affiliate KCRW-FM of Santa Monica. When last we left KDB its parent, the Santa Barbara Foundation, was on the […]