College Radio News Round-up: Turkey Drop, Station Kudos, and FCC License Questions in Montana
Recent Radio Survivor contributor Gavin Dahl has been doing an awesome job keeping tabs on radio stories in the press and has been compiling a massive list of recent stories over at Common Frequency. Hopefully some time soon Gavin will be doing a regular feature for Radio Survivor in which he recaps radio stories, as […]
College Broadcasters Inc. Announces Student Radio Awards
A few weeks ago student radio organization, College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) held its fall conference in Louisville, Kentucky, allowing college radio participants to participate in workshops, panel discussions, and meet and greets with other radio DJs and staff members. As part of the conference, CBI also presented its 2010 Student Production Awards to students involved […]
Channel 6 “radio” stations could be silent by 2012
Currently the FCC is accepting comments on a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the low-power television service [PDF]. Unlike full-power TV, LPTV is still analog. Now the FCC is considering a timeline for closing that gap. The fact that LPTV is still analog is why some stations on channel 6 have been able effectively […]
Move over Pandora? TuneIn radio introduces song search
I am enjoying the heck out of RadioTime’s TuneIn radio, which is just about the best online radio station aggregator I’ve ever used. It lets you search for local radio stations, national radio stations, international radio stations. You can even use to it pick up police and fire signals across the country. I’m currently listening […]
The small government argument for LPFM
We’re now in the waning days of the lame duck Congress and due to backroom machinations of a few Senators the fate of low-power FM radio hangs in the balance. As I wrote in September, one lone Senator (that we know of) has a hold on the Local Community Radio Act, keeping it from moving […]
U.S. government admits it sort of blew it around radio
The Federal Communications Commission has released an overview of its decision-making history that concedes that the government could have done a better job regulating radio in the 1920s and 1930s. “Although commercial radio produced a Golden Age of programming in the late 1930s, the question remains whether the [government’s] decision to favor corporate-sponsored networks—rather than […]
Chicago White Sox to get their own HD Radio channel
The Chicago White Sox just signed a new multiyear agreement with CBS Radio station WSCR-AM to broadcast the home team’s games. Normally this isn’t the sort of news we cover here at Radio Survivor, but the unique twist to this contract is that it comes with a all-White-Sox HD channel on WSCR’s sister station, WJMK-FM. […]
Letter Writing Campaign to Protest Sale of KTRU Begins while New Details about Secret Dealings Emerge
As we reported earlier this month, paperwork has been submitted to the FCC in reference to the sale of Rice University radio station KTRU to University of Houston. Fans of the student radio station have expressed concern and outrage ever since rumors of the sale first came to light and have mounted an impressive effort […]
Arlene Engelhardt: welcome to Pacifica radio
It was a classic Pacifica radio moment over at the network’s flagship station, KPFA in Berkeley, on Tuesday. Having laid off the Morning Show staff, new Pacifica Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt thought she had it all figured out. She was going to pipe in programming from KPFK, KPFA’s sister station in Los Angeles. The dumped […]
Seattle Radio Theatre’s Next Live Radio Drama: “Green & White Christmas”
Last year I featured Seattle Radio Theatre founder Feliks Banel in our Radio Obsessives series. Since that time Feliks has been busy crafting more radio dramas, a recent Halloween show in which they did a live radio drama and broadcast (listen to the audio here) of the 1938 Mercury Theater version of “Dracula.” According to […]