Podcast #170.5 – Bonus: São Paulo FM Bandscan
Paul shares a few more details of his trip to Brazil, and then he and Eric listen to a bandscan of the FM dial recorded on a Sunday night in São Paulo, the country’s largest city. Christian radio? Check. Bad 80s pop music? Yep. One takeaway is that commercial radio everywhere kinda sucks, in general. […]
Podcast #170 – Community Radio in Brazil
Álvaro Burns is a community radio broadcaster in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, where he hosts a local sports show on Rádio Paraty FM and he produces the podcast “A Hora do Cafezinho.” Álvaro is a long-time friend of the show, and Paul recently traveled to Brazil and was able to meet up with him […]
College Radio Watch: Internet Radio Pioneers, College Radio in the 1920s and More News
On episode 167 of the Radio Survivor show/podcast, our guest Andrew Bottomley digs into the roots of podcasting and internet radio. The story includes some college radio pioneers, namely the college radio stations that debuted simultaneous internet radio streams concurrent with their FM broadcasts. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s WXYC and Georgia Institute of […]
Podcast #169 – The Free Music Archive is Dead, Long Live the Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is shutting down. A website attached to the listener-sponsored radio station WFMU, the FMA expanded the role community radio played in the online space. It was a library of a huge and always growing amount of free mp3’s that spanned every genre of music. Cheyenne Hohman is our guest. Radio Survivor […]
2018 Holiday Guide: Quirky Radio-Themed Gifts for the Audio Obsessed
Being a radio fanatic, I keep an eye out for unusual radio-themed items. With the holiday shopping season upon us, it’s as good a time as any to share some recent finds, particularly since we haven’t done any Radio Survivor gift guides in awhile. With that, here’s my 2018 Holiday Gift Guide for those in […]
There’s a place for us (and it includes Jewish music + oldies)
I am increasingly confident that there is a place for everyone, especially on the radio. The other day in response to Jennifer’s annual Alice’s Restaurant survey we received a response from Al Gordon of WJPR in New Jersey. The station broadcasts a hybrid format: “Jewish all day and oldies all night.”
Podcast #168 – A Time Machine for All the Radio plus Shortwave
Perhaps you are like me and you have wished that you could go back in time and spin a radio dial and just listen to and browse the full radio spectrum from another time and place. Our guest on the show, Radio Anthropologist Thomas Witherspoon, is building a website for just such a thing. It’s […]
Alice’s Restaurant Maintains Spot on Thanksgiving Radio Dial in 2018
Catch Alice’s Restaurant on the 2023 radio dial. See our latest listening guide. For many, tuning in to hear Arlo Guthrie’s epic tune Alice’s Restaurant on the radio is an annual Thanksgiving ritual. Inspired by events that transpired on Thanksgiving day in 1965, the 18+ minute “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” became a radio staple following multiple […]
Four great pieces for a Sunday AM classical music community radio show
My friend Sherry Gendelman, who hosts a popular Sunday morning classical music show on KPFA in Berkeley, started her program last week with a piece for violin and orchestra. No sooner did the performance begin than the phones started ringing. ‘What is this?’ six listeners in a row immediately demanded. “I woke up to this […]
Podcast #167 – Alternative Histories of Podcasting
Do you remember audioblogging? Prof. Andrew Bottomley does, and he’s here to tell some alternative histories of podcasting. From “Geek of the Week” to Odeo, he illuminates many more bygone shows and platforms from the 1990s and early 2000s that gave rise to what we’ve now settled on calling “podcasts,” for better or worse. Bottomley […]