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 […]
Jennifer Waits called advocate who "matters most" to college media
Radio Survivor’s college radio and culture editor received well deserved kudos from the College Media Matters blog over the weekend. Jennifer Waits was singled out as one of the “10 individuals who have mattered most to college media over the past academic year.” CMM partners with the Associated Collegiate Press, “the largest and oldest U.S. […]
Regulated Musical Diversity on Canadian Airwaves
On July 22, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a revised version of their Broadcasting and Regulatory Policy (PDF) as it applies to campus and community radio in Canada. Amid all of the policy changes (and a nice promise of funding), which for the most part are meant to simplify the ways that […]
Hughes, Warwick in smackdown over Performance Rights Act
From the pages of Essence and the Huffington Post, Radio One’s Kathy Hughes and singer Dionne Warwick take potshots over the Performance Rights Act. African American station owner Hughes is decidedly con on the proposed law, which would require over-the-air radio signals to compensate performers as copyright law has them pay royalties to song copyright […]
FCC FREE Radio in Content Deal with SF Station Website
For the past year we’ve been chronicling the evolution of FCC FREE Radio in San Francisco. Starting out as renegade LPFM community radio broadcasters in 2009, they went Internet-only in May 2010 and are now embarking on a mission of becoming a broader-based Internet radio station and content provider. When I visited a few weeks […]