FCC Provides Guidelines for Japan Relief Fundraising over Non-Commercial Stations
As was the case after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the FCC is softening its stance on fundraising for outside organizations over non-commercial educational stations. In a statement (PDF) released today, they provide details on how a non-commercial station can obtain a waiver from the FCC in order to fundraise for the relief efforts in […]
College Radio is Revived at Youngstown State with Rookery Radio
I was excited to hear a few months back about the work going on at Youngstown State University to launch Rookery Radio, a brand new online-only radio station. It’s easy for me to get fixated on sad news about station shutdowns, so it’s nice to see that there are campuses where new radio ventures are […]
Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan, and the Woman Question: The Virtues of Thinking Twice
Susie Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s lover in the early sixties, died last month, and NPR recently played an excerpt from a 2008 interview with her. I was very moved by the interview, and felt that it gave me a startling and fresh perspective on an important part of Dylan’s early work—his love (and hate) songs, and […]
Radio Guide to SXSW 2011
As I’m watching various friends’ Facebook updates and check-ins from Austin, I’m getting a serious case of SXSW-envy. Although I can’t be there at the famed music/interactive/film festival this year, there are tons of radio-related events that I wish I could be a fly on the wall at (especially the How to Save College Radio […]
Thank you Canada! Unused FM app for Samsung Galaxy S now in play
The Canadian government’s communications technology lab has released a new Android application: FM TwoO (pronounced: two “O,” as in Web 2.0). FM TwoO accesses’ the embedded FM receiver in the Samsung Galaxy S class series. “FM TwoO can be tuned to any station manually or by seeking through usual FM frequency bands,” the Communications Research […]
FCC eases rules for new Tribal stations
At the Commission’s March meeting the FCC approved changes to the rules governing priority for new tribe-owned stations intended to serve Native American populations. Previously, priority for licenses was granted to federally-recognized Tribes seeking licenses to serve Tribal-owned lands, such as reservations. The March 3 report and order (PDF) now gives Tribes the opportunity to […]
Radiocollective.org—a great new site for noncommercial music radio lovers
If you’re looking for a site that aggregates the best music on non-commercial college and community radio stations, look no further than radiocollective.org. “We’ve spent countless hours listening, researching, and getting recommendations from DJs and now have around 500 programs featured on the calendar,” radiocollective’s main guy Sujay Vennam wrote to us yesterday. The site […]
Hannity and Limbaugh deny using parent company’s fake caller service
Relatively under the radar, the jewish lifestyle magazine Tablet reported a story on Premiere Radio Network’s Premiere On Call service which provides voice actors to call in to radio shows. Premiere is the syndicator for the nation’s top conservative talk radio programs like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The article’s author, Liel Liebowitz, quotes an […]
NPR and the “educated elite” problem
The NPR galaxy is in shock following the resignation of its CEO, Vivian Schiller. She received a vote of no-confidence from NPR’s board following the release her development director Ron [no relation] Schiller’s off-the-cuff remarks with a conservative group pretending to be the Muslim Brotherhood. Among Schiller’s comments, that the Tea Party isn’t “just Islamaphobic, […]
Chicago user-generated station Vocalo to re-launch with more convential format
Vocalo is a rimshot station owned by Chicago Public Media‘ based in Chesterton, Indiana that went on the air in 2007 as an experiment in bringing user-generated content to broadcast radio. When it launched CPM president Torey Malatia hailed the idea with a lot of rhetoric about making radically public radio, emphasizing public affairs and […]