Washed Out, punks, and vampires top August 11 Spinitron playlist
The Spinitron Top 25 Chart is out. Spinitron is a playlist management services company for non-commercial community and college radio stations. Every week Spinitron publishes the top 25 disks played at Spinitron subscriber stations. Here are the top ten spinners: Number one: Washed Out’s “Paracosm,” with 65 spins, followed by Hunx & His Punx’s “Street […]
NPR fact checker cites “five sins” in native foster care story
No doubt that just about everybody who cares about public radio spent the weekend debating NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos’ massive takedown of NPR’s award winning feature: Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families. Schumacher-Matos concludes that the piece on South Dakota’s Indian foster care system should not have been broadcast as it was written. He […]
Pacifica radio: “vast majority” of daytime WBAI paid programming to go next week
A sobbing Executive Director of the Pacifica foundation disclosed on Friday that union negotiations at Pacifica station WBAI have concluded and across-the-board layoffs are very near. “It is with great sadness that I have to tell the WBAI listening audience that many of the voices that you have been listening to for many years will […]
FCC schedules first Low Power FM webinar for August 20
“Making #LPFM a reality in San Francisco is like trying to climb the pyramids of Giza all at the same time,” one of my favorite radio station makers tweeted about twenty hours ago. To the rescue (hopefully) comes the Federal Communications Commission, which has just announced two webinars on Low Power FM. The first will […]
How to export and visually customize your Pandora stations
If you are a Pandora user and a blogger, you ought to know how to export your Pandora stations to your blog. What follows are some entry level tips on how to visually redesign the export panel as well. First, here’s how to export: Pandora provides a feeds page that generates code for your artist, […]
Report: broadcast radio news becoming less diverse
The standard narrative I usually hear is that broadcast media is slowly getting more diverse. More African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American voices are showing up at main studios . . . not as quickly as anyone would like, but at least it is happening. But those assumptions are not confirmed by the latest Radio […]
Riding the waves at Pacifica radio, by Andrew Leslie Phillips
Andrew Leslie Phillips has written a short history of the Pacifica radio network, published below. He is interim general manager of Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, California. Phillips is a native of Australia. He spent seven years in Papua New Guinea as a government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming to New York […]
2014 Princeton Review List of the Most Popular College Radio Stations
Today the Princeton Review released its latest college guide, which is full of college trivia, including the annual “best college radio station” list of the 20 schools with the most popular radio stations based on student surveys. The Best 378 Colleges, 2014 Edition collects the results of mostly online surveys conducted with more than 126,000 […]
College Broadcasters Inc. asks FCC to Not Sanction Stations for Fleeting Expletives
In reply comments submitted to the FCC, College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) argues for a softer stance on the broadcast of indecent material. In its filing (PDF), CBI asks the FCC to cease enforcement of its fleeting expletives policy. CBI writes, “The enforcement of a ‘fleeting expletive’ policy is resource intensive, constitutionally suspect, creates a chilling […]
NPR, foe of expanded Low Power FM, celebrates its revival
NPR ran a piece on Saturday about the impending wave of Low Power FM radio stations. The Weekend Edition story was about what you’d expect—a nice folks-helping-folks profile of a Germantown, Philadelphia Internet signal that hopes to get a LPFM license this October. This was followed by a general overview of Low Power FM applicants. “Low […]