CHRS Seeks Funds to Purchase Home for Bay Area Radio Museum
Last month we wrote about the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS)’s plans to move from its current home at the KRE building in Berkeley to a new space in Alameda. Due to some ownership changes at the Berkeley location (which is also a transmitter site for KVTO-AM, the descendent of historic radio station KRE), the […]
NPR experiments with viral audio
On the heels of radio journalist Stan Alcorn’s inquiry into why web audio does or does not go viral, the Nieman Journalism Lab lets us in on a little experiment that NPR has been running to see if public radio stations can create viral audio segments. Though the report says there’s too little data to […]
Free Speech Radio News returns on Feb. 11 with daily online updates
A little more than four months after ending production, the independent and non-profit daily Free Speech Radio News program is launching the first phase of its reboot with a new website and fresh updates on February 11. Administrative Coordinator Nell Abram said that the new site will feature daily updates, including audio segments ranging from […]
LPFM Watch: First LPFM granted in a Top 20 urban market
The FCC’s Media Bureau continues its breakneck pace approving low-power FM license applications. More than 200 additional construction permits have been issued since our report last week, bringing the grand total to 708 new LPFM stations authorized. Yesterday the first LPFM in the urban core of a major top 20 market was issued. That went […]
Thank you Spotify’s Forgotify for songs I don’t think I knew in the first place
The endlessly creative Spotify applications keep coming. The latest: Forgotify, which randomly streams long forgotten tracks, or, in my case, songs I don’t think I ever knew from the getgo. Here’s what I got in 20 minutes or so of listening: Mani Demon Chants, by Men of the Wilkili Village from the album “The Living, Dead […]
Podcast Survivor: This week’s podcasting news
In this week’s podcasting news: PRX launches podcast network focused on sustaining the medium Podcasts continue to dominate Stitcher Awards Podcasting veteran Rob Greenlee joins PodcastOne Patent troll demands “Save Podcasting” campaign donor info. PRX Launches Podcast Network I’ve been writing quite a bit about how podcasting and independent radio can become sustainable. This week […]
Veteran shock jock Tom Leykis bets on internet radio for a third year
I’m always interested in learning more about broadcast programs and personalities that made the transition to being online-only. So when a representative for veteran talk show host Tom Leykis contacted me about an interview my curiosity was piqued. I wanted to learn how a highly rated and well compensated host who broadcasted in the nation’s […]
Pete Seeger tops playlist chart as college radio stations pay tribute
Pete Seeger’s “American Favorite Ballads, Volume 1-5 ” clobbered Spinitron’s weekly playlist chart for February 2, as college deejays across the country rushed to honor the legendary folk singer. Seeger died in Manhattan late last month at the age of 94. The Smithsonian Folkways Seeger album came in number one at 151 “spins” according to […]
Radio Shack’s Super Bowl ad tickles and teases radio nerds
Even though fans attending the Super Bowl received a free radio from Westwood One so they could listen to the game at the stadium, I discovered that the Super Bowl broadcast was indeed blacked out from stations’ internet streams yesterday. So I settled down in front of the television to watch the Broncos get utterly […]
Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Pirate Radio”
Like many folks, I’m still shocked and saddened about the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman yesterday. He left us too soon. Writers across the web have been paying tribute by taking a look at some of his most iconic film roles. But as a long-time observer of the clandestine art of unlicensed radio, I […]