Podcast #148 – Solving the Mystery of Summer Camp Radio
Did you know that upwards of 350 radio stations were established at summer camps across the United States? Dan Braverman, President of Radio Systems, Inc., joins us to share the history of summer camp radio, including his own experience setting up a camp radio station when he was just nine years old. Still involved with […]
LGBT Radio in Tunisia; LGBTQ Podcasts; Bar Inspired by Nikola Tesla | Around the Web June 17 – 24, 2018
Every week we share dozens of interesting radio and community media stories from all over the web on Twitter. Because we don’t want you to miss them, here’s some of the best, for the week ending June 24, 2018: “I was the first person to annoy people in the media and speak openly about LGBT […]
College Radio Watch: GRC Portland and CBI Seattle Proposals Due Soon and More News
It’s transition time at many college radio stations, as volunteers and staff members from the academic year graduate and pass the torch to new leadership. With these shifts, summer can be a good time for station projects and for making plans for the fall. A couple of fall radio conferences in the Pacific Northwest should […]
Podcast #147 – Prison Radio Exhibit and a High School Station in a Band Room
On this week’s episode we venture to prison and to a very unusual high school radio station. Members of the artist collective Provisional Island (Heidi Ratanavanich, Eileen Shumate, and Michael McCanne) speak with us about their prison-radio-themed exhibit, An Electric Kite, which is on view at the historic site/museum Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia through […]
Somebody stop killing jazz radio please
Oh for goodness sake would you people stop killing jazz radio already? You know who you are. And we know who you are, too. In North Carolina there’s Fayetteville State College’s Board of Trustees, who sold WFSS-FM back in 2015. Of late somebody wrote into the Fayetteville Observer and asked: “The Fayetteville State University public radio […]
Radio remembers Lorraine Gordon, impresaria of The Village Vanguard
Lorraine Gordon has died. She operated the world’s premier jazz club, the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, for almost 30 years. Gordon ran the place like clockwork. The New York Times obituary gives you the picture: Ms. Gordon, often nursing a glass of vodka, presided over the scene with a personal brand of tough love. […]
College Radio Watch: Antarctica, 80s Flashbacks, Radio Camp and More News
Broadcasting to a minuscule potential audience of around 130 people during the dark days of winter, Ice Radio has much in common with my own college radio show that beamed into my school’s cafeteria at mealtimes. Similar to a college radio station in the pre-internet days, the community radio station at McMurdo Station in Antarctica […]
Podcast #146 – Volunteer Radio from Antarctica
Inspired by an episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, we travel all the way to Antarctica to learn about mysterious community radio station, Ice Radio. Sadly, we learned of Anthony Bourdain’s death on the day that we recorded this episode. Ice Radio is the latest iteration of a radio station that began more than 50 […]
Net Neutrality Is Over (For Now) – What It Means for Radio
Monday, June 11 was the day the FCC’s repeal of the Open Internet Order took effect. That means federally mandated network neutrality is over. Internet service providers are now free to throttle or block specific sites or services, or to offer paid prioritization to others, with the only proviso being that they disclose it. (For […]
Radio Drama Changing Attitudes in South Sudan; Smartphone FM Chip a ‘Potential Life Saver’; On the Radio It’s Always Midnight | Around the Web June 4 – 10, 2018
Every week we share dozens of interesting radio and community media stories from all over the web on Twitter. Because we don’t want you to miss them, here’s some of the best, for the week ending June 10, 2018: "Fifty years ago this spring, a small, unlicensed radio station signed on in the Chestnut Hill […]