ATC host Michelle Norris will “step away” while husband works with Obama Campaign
The This is NPR blog discloses that All Things Considered host Michelle Norris’ husband Broderick Johnson has taken a top position with the Obama Campaign. “After careful consideration, we decided that Broderick’s new role could make it difficult for me to continue hosting ATC,” Norris explains in a published memo: Given the nature of Broderick’s position with […]
WBAI and Occupy Wall Street—where is the live coverage?
I’m picking up a lot more frustration with Pacifica radio station WBAI-FM in New York regarding Occupy Wall Street—a general sense that the station could be providing much more live coverage of the actions and events than it currently airs. Apologies for the textblock approach to this issue. Here’s what economist and former WBAI programmer […]
Ham radio alive and well in Bernal Heights, San Francisco
Today Radio Survivor contributor Bob Mason and I were taking a stroll through Holly Park in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Suddenly we ran into Art, who had set up a complete amateur radio setup on a park bench and table. The following brief interview ensued:
Lisa Simeone keeps job with World of Opera
The good news is that Occupy DC participant Lisa Simeone will retain her job as host of NPR World of Opera. The This is NPR blog has a brief notice mentioning that World of Opera sponsor WDAV will keep Simeone on. She came under fire yesterday for her participation in the Occupy Wall Street related […]
FCC examination of TV public file may foreshadow what’s in store for radio
The public file is a an actual file of paper documents that every broadcast station is required to maintain in its main office. In it are records like a copy of the station’s license and ownership report, along with a quarterly Issues and Programming report which is supposed to detail public service programming. Although very […]
NPR opera host under fire for “Occupy DC” role
This just in from the This is NPR blog. We recently learned of World of Opera host Lisa Simeone’s participation in an Occupy DC group. World of Opera is produced by WDAV, a music and arts station based in Davidson, North Carolina. The program is distributed by NPR. Lisa is not an employee of NPR […]
How to get new turntable.fm themes on Chrome
Thank you Dalton Gore, for producing a nice Chrome extension app that give Turntable.fm users new themes. The uniformity of the tt.fm interface has been bugging me for a while, so this is welcome. I’ve been playing around with the extension and it’s relatively easy and intuitive. Here’s what the “graffiti” theme looks like: Given […]
College Radio’s Fight for FM
Students who returned to their campuses this fall at University of San Francisco (USF), Vanderbilt University, Brown University, and Bryant University found, much to their surprise, that their FM radio stations have been taken off the air. In the past year, there’s been an uptick in the number of colleges and universities that have opted […]
Occupy Wall Street organizers will hold live interactive teleconference on Wednesday
Occupy Wall Street organizers Justin Wedes and Sandra will hold a live interactive Tele-Forum on Wednesday, October 19. The call-in will begin at 4:00 PM EST (1:00 PM PST, USA) and last for an hour and thirty minutes. “During this Tele-Forum we will have an in-depth and interactive discussion with two of the OWS movement’s […]
Radio Guide to CMJ 2011
The CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in New York City with a full schedule of live music performances, panels, film screenings, and an entertainment business law seminar. As was the case last year, there are a lot of radio happenings in the mix. For college radio DJs, the most important event […]