FCC Affirms Decision to Allow Release of Privilege Log from KUSF Letter of Inquiry
With 2012 drawing to a close, there’s a new twist in the nearly two-year-old saga of KUSF 90.3 FM. Although the FCC has approved the license assignment from University of San Francisco (USF) to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN), various appeals are ongoing. Former KUSF listener Ted Hudacko, who filed a Freedom of Information Act […]
South Florida pirate radio station bites Lexus owners?
The Sun Sentinel, which covers all matters related to Broward County, Florida, has an interesting pirate radio story this week. Apparently a slew of folks around the Hollywood police station (Hollywood, Florida, that is, north of Miami) were having trouble opening their Lexus and Toyota vehicle doors via their keyless entry gizmos. Fingers pointed all […]
Weird but good holiday radio stuff
Here we are in the middle of the Holiday season, and here’s some of the stuff coming through my RSS reader: WFMU Manager Ken Freedman has released his favorite gifs of the year image map. Looks like you have to go to his blog to access the image linking dots. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas from the […]
Looking for holiday music on the ‘Net? Here are some places to go . . .
I like to listen to Christmas music on Christmas day. It’s not a particularly religious thing; the holiday just happens to come with a lot of truly wonderful music, that’s all. Ironically, most of the broadcast radio stations I usually tune into don’t do a very good job of responding to this need: themed shows […]
Big radio to FCC: stop making us explain contest rules over the air
The big radio companies are massively dittoing a proposal from Entercom that would relax Federal Communications Commission requirements that radio stations announce the “material” rules of a radio contest over the airwaves. “In today’s fast paced world, Americans expect to instantly access information at their fingertips by merely logging on to a website, conducting a […]
2012 Radio Survivor Gift Guides
Happy Holidays! Over the past month we’ve been compiling gift suggestions for our radio-obsessed fans. Here’s the complete run-down of ideas for your end of year shopping. As a bonus, if you make purchases using the Amazon links on Radio Survivor, you’ll be helping to support our efforts as well. 1. Radio Gifts from Whimsical […]
Orson Welles promotes WABC talk radio in 1982 commercial
And here’s an alternate viewpoint on AM talk radio, compared to the earlier xkcd post. It’s from 20 years ago, before consolidation and Clear Channel. Orson Welles promotes New York’s WABC talk radio:
This comic must be about conservative talk radio
The often brilliant xkcd takes on talk radio (I’m the one suggesting it’s conservative talk radio):
Happy holidays: here’s an emergency radio
I live in San Francisco, where we have big nasty earthquakes. You may live in New York City or New Jersey or Texas, where you have truly scary hurricanes. Chances are that wherever you dwell, some planetary upheaval happens every now and then. That’s why you need an emergency AM/FM radio. The holiday season is […]
Got a one minute radio documentary? Send it to First Spark
I’ve listened to a lot of radio documentaries, but I’ve never heard one that concludes “within a hair’s breadth of 1 minute.” Then I noticed this call-for-content item on the free103point9 newsroom blog: Your radio documentary can be on any theme and told in any format, so long as it is audio only. It should be […]