Rice University Plans to Sell Off KTRU's FM Frequency
There’s more sad news on the college radio front today, with the report that Rice University is selling off the 50,000 FM signal for their long-time college radio station KTRU. According to a press release issued today, University of Houston System plans to buy KTRU’s tower, frequency, and broadcast license for $9.5 million in order […]
Pandora fans: send us your videos!
Pandora radio lovers, you have until Wednesday noon Pacific time to submit your videos about why you like the service: We’d like to hear – and see! – what you think and have to say about Pandora. We’re putting together a fun video piece of user-submitted videos about your experiences with Pandora: what it does […]
Clear Channel spent almost $1.4 million in lobbying in Q2
It’s always a treat to check in with the House Office of the Clerk’s lobbying disclosure database and see what broadcast radio’s big boys are spending on Congress these days. Needless to say, the top roller is usually Clear Channel Communications, which forked over $1,370,000 in the second quarter of this year. And what did […]
Radio Valencia Launches in San Francisco
Back in June I shared the news that new community radio station Radio Valencia was in the works in San Francisco. After several months of hard work, Radio Valencia is now officially webcasting. Live shows began yesterday at 5pm with a program hosted by DJ Dirty Needles. Promising a mix of music and talk programming […]
Help Radio Survivor… survive
More than a year into writing for Radio Survivor it’s been a real blast. It’s been especially satisfying to find out that there’s plenty of truth to our fundamental premise: that there are still lots of people who listen to and care about radio. We’re grateful for readers like you who come here and read […]
Will Ferrell tells Fresh Air why he's better than Supercuts
What do Will Ferrell’s snotty comments about Marshalls and Supercuts on a liberal show like Fresh Air tell us about the state of politics today?
First day with HD Radio – not impressed
I spent the better part of this afternoon listening to my new HD Radio receiver, the Sony XDRF1 HD, tuning through the Chicago FM dial. There are 33 FM stations broadcasting HD in Chicago according to iBiquity, which owns the technology. I was able to tune in the HD signal for 19 of them. After […]
Crossing over to the (HD Radio) Dark Side
Amazon.com Widgets Perhaps the title for this post is a little hyperbolic, however I feel like I have a confession to make: I just bought an HD Radio receiver. Yes, I’ve been quite critical here about the technical specs of In-Band-On-Channel digital broadcasting, a/k/a IBOC, a/k/a HD Radio. However, I must admit that I have […]
The 20 "Most Popular" College Radio Stations 2011
Princeton Review just released its annual latest college guide, The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition, and in it, as always is a listing of colleges with popular radio stations. As I mentioned when I wrote about last year’s survey, I take issue with the methodology of these rankings and with the way that they have been […]
Sirius XM launches four day Star Wars channel
Good news for Yoda and Princess Leah freaks who can’t attend the Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, Florida. Sirius XM radio is going to cover the whole kibosh for four days. This will include live coverage of the Droid races (which presumably fans could listen to via a Sirius app on their Droid), and […]