Live Blog: Radio Survivor Twitter Chat on LPFM
Head over to Twitter, follow the hashtag #lpfm, and you’ll be able to join our Twitter chat on Low Power FM and college radio. I’m going to live blog the event here (or at least try), serving up some of the highlights of the discussion. The conversation starts at 10 AM PST / 1 PM […]
Radio Survivor Twitter Chat on LPFM and College Radio
At Radio Survivor we’ve been eagerly anticipating the LPFM filing window in October and in advance of that will be hosting several Twitter chats. Please join us tomorrow at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern for the first Radio Survivor Twitter chat. Focusing on the topic of college radio and LPFM, we will discuss your questions with a […]
Pacifica radio Executive Director: foundation by-laws must be rewritten “from scratch”
The New York Times has weighed in on situation at Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City with a story titled “Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI.” The New York station has laid off a huge percentage of its staff, we reported last week. Excessive fixed costs and inadequate programming played a big […]
Ethnic minorities: Britain’s vanguard online radio market
The summary of Ofcom’s new study on minorities and mobile gadgets reads as follows: “Ethnic minority groups are . . . more likely to have home broadband and a mobile phone, although they are less likely to watch TV and listen to the radio, compared to the British population as a whole.” But what the United […]
NPR’s CEO door keeps revolving as Knell resigns
The revolving door at the top office of National Public Radio keeps spinning. Tuesday current CEO Gary Knell announced that he is resigning this fall to take over the much-bigger National Geographic, for about twice as much salary. Knell has been on the job at NPR for fewer than two years, and is largely credited […]
Exploring second wave feminist radio at the Pacifica Radio Archives
As we reported in July, the Pacifica Radio Archives has received a $128k grant to preserve and publish around 1,644 historical radio programs (2,013 reel-to-reel audio recordings) documenting the cultural and political activism of women in the United States from 1963 to 1982. The whole project will take around two years. The recordings will be […]
Celebrate National Radio Day on Tuesday
It’s an obscure holiday, whose origin is likely less than 20 years old, and which we Radio Survivors only discovered last year–National Radio Day is Tuesday! Brown Paper Tickets is celebrating the day with a lunch to bring together potential low-power FM license applicants in the Seattle area. If your Seattle-area group is considering going […]
Fund to support new LPFM stations named to honor community radio veteran Nan Rubin
The Prometheus Radio Project is honoring veteran community radio supporter and activist Nan Rubin with a fund named for her. The Nan Rubin Community Impact Fund will provide scholarships for services to assist groups in building low-power FM community radio stations. The fund will also give an annual impact award. According to Prometheus Development & […]
CMJ Announces College Radio Events for its 2013 Music Marathon
The CMJ Music Marathon is a college radio rite of passage for many. I have fond memories of taking the train to New York City in order to attend my first CMJ event in the 1980s. The long weekend was jam-packed with shows (Fishbone at the Cat Club!), panels (yes there really was a panel […]
The secret radio life of Second Life
Some weeks ago we posted that Hollow Earth radio has received a grant from the city of Seattle to apply for a Low Power FM license and transition the signal to a terrestrial operation. During my research on the station, I learned that Hollow Earth streamed into a Second Life room for a while. Just […]