Make Your Own Radio Kits and DIY Projects
As I get more and more interested in radio and its history, I’m thinking it’s about time that I try my hand at building my own radio. As I began researching this, I found that there are many simple ways to create a radio using household objects. Make Magazine has a great video in which […]
Radio Nonchalance Hits Pirate Radio with its Urban Participatory Game
A mysterious pirate radio station cropped up today during the 2010 01SJ Biennial Build Your Own World conference in San Jose, California. According to the festival website, ZER01 and other artistic collaborators will convene in San Jose from September 16-19 to present various events and performances. The pirate radio arm of this event is airing […]
FCC reboot gives us improved license searches
Ever want to know how many licenses Clear Channel actually owns? How about AT&T or Verizon? For years the FCC has had searchable online databases for distinct services, like broadcast radio, but not all have been equally easy to use or find. At the same time many entities own many different types of licenses–for instance […]
Is this the coolest turntable ever, or what?
Oh man, somebody buy me one of these for my birthday. It’s Crosley’s newest turntable and it’s totally portable, battery powered, comes with a USB connection to link to a PC or Mac, includes a software suite for ripping the audio, plays 33-1/3 and 45 RPM records, has an FM transmitter, and full range stereo […]
Conservative AM talk is the new home for aging shock jocks
Long-time Chicago radio host Mancow Muller lost his last hometown gig last February when he was canned from Citadel Broadcasting‘s AM talk powerhouse WLS. But the Mancow has many lives, it seems. While he won’t be back on the air in Chicago, Vocalo’s Robert Feder reports that Mancow will be the new Sunday evening host […]
NPR listeners irate over clipped circumcision interview
The prize for discussion of an issue with a straight face goes to Alicia Shepard, Ombudsman for National Public Radio. Shepard’s latest blog post concedes that a recent Weekend Edition story mishandled the controversial question of male circumcision by (sorry, I can’t help it) cutting an interview with an expert in the field short. The […]
App store streaming audio rule: 5MB max over 5 min
As everybody in Apple-land already knows, Apple has published its new guidelines for Apple Store app developers. James Gralian, one of our regular Radio Survivor readers, was kind enough to point out the parameters for media applications, which include the following guidelines relevant to radio app developers (note section 9.3, to which we added italics): […]
KTRU Alumni Continue to Fight for Their Station
It’s been about 3 weeks since word came out that Rice University was planning to sell of the transmitter and broadcast license for its college radio station KTRU. Ever since that time there’s been an active campaign by KTRU staff members, Rice alumni, fans of the radio station, and students to convince both Rice University […]
Can Al Jazeera save Pacifica radio?
The Washington Post reports what everybody involved in the Pacifica radio network has known for years, that the foundation’s staff are in conversation with Al Jazeera to broadcast the service over its five listener supported stations. I don’t know whether the discussions are going anyplace, but it’s obviously a great idea, so of course it […]
Radio Obsessive Profile #9: Engineering Radio’s Paul Thurst
Back in the olden days radio was owned by the geek crowd, with every science-savvy kid worth her salt crafting a home-made radio out of wires and household objects while sitting at the kitchen table. The earliest radio stations were created and run by physicists and engineers who had the skills to build transmission equipment […]