NPR will more closely manage website comments (hooray!)
NPR has announced the use of a new comment filtration process in an article innocently dubbed “The Right Chord With Less Discord.” Comments left by new website users will temporarily undergo review from a “community manager,” a process that NPR predicts will take less than 15 minutes: The vast, vast majority of our community members […]
Friends of KUSF File Petition to Deny with FCC Opposing Sale of KUSF
This has been a busy week for the Save KUSF crew, with a faculty-led teach-in taking place at University of San Francisco on Monday, just as paperwork opposing the proposed station sale of KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network was being filed in Washington, D.C. with the FCC. At the teach-in, faculty, students, alumni, and […]
Questions Raised at Pirate Cat Radio and KPDO after Leader Leaves the Country
Last year there was a lot of buzz about San Francisco’s formerly pirate radio station Pirate Cat Radio going somewhat legit, with its founder and owner, Daniel “Monkey Man” Roberts, taking over the management and re-launch of nearby FCC licensed community radio station KPDO in the coastal community of Pescadero. In the months following that […]
My New Favorite Podcast: WTF with Marc Maron
There aren’t enough hours in the day. I really like audio media, from radio to podcasts, but I just don’t have enough time and attention to take it all in. I commute to work primarily by bicycle here in Chicago, and there are only about 6 to 10 days every winter that make the roads […]
Infowars calls Rolling Stone feature on Alex Jones “largely positive and accurate”
The Rolling Stone feature called Alex Jones “the most paranoid man in America” and “a multiplatform prophet of paranoia who sees diabolical plots in every turn of the news cycle.” “For a man of otherwise high analytical ability, his logic and reading-comprehension skills are often victims of his Ahab-like obsession with the New World Order,” […]
iHeartRadio plus Thumbplay equals . . . ?
The news that Clear Channel has bought the Thumbplay online music service (except for ringtones) is all over the blogosphere by now. The question, of course, is what does it mean? “Joining Thumbplay’s custom radio and subscription services with Clear Channel’s streaming expertise, HeartRadio’s Internet and mobile audio and music services, including 750 online radio […]
Wireless broadband coalition: lift satellite radio price caps if Sirius gets off our back
The great war between Sirius satellite radio (SIRI) and the Wireless Communications System Coalition has taken another interesting turn as the Federal Communications Commission ponders whether to lift the price caps the FCC imposed on Sirius as a condition for its merger with XM in 2008. The WCS Coalition—backed by Comcast (CMCSA), Nextwave (WAVE), and […]
Vancouver Island community radio station banned from college campus
Canadian newspapers and TV stations say that community station Radio Malaspina CHLY 107.7 has been told to stop hosting events at Vancouver Island University‘s Nanaimo campus. VIU’s administration is restricting CHLY’s access to the school due to the “drugs, drunkeness, and general debauchery” that allegedly took place the last time the signal held an event […]
WFMU-FM show will issue its own currency for next station marathon
Hey community radio stations, here’s a great idea for your next fundraiser. Issue your own currency and offer to exchange it to listeners for United States Federal Reserve notes (aka: dollars). That’s what Jersey City, New Jersey free form community station WFMU-FM’s popular Thunk Tank show plans to do. “In our quest to boldly violate […]
Reports and tweets say Libyan protestors are taking over radio stations
Right now it is very difficult to get confirmed news out of Libya due to the internet and phones being restricted and foreign journalists being kept out. Twitter is alive with reports from Libya, but with all the re-tweeting it’s difficult to following things back to a source and then determine if it’s credible. Earlier […]