Remembrances from Touring College Radio in the Early 1950s
Editor’s Note: As a follow-up to Fred Krock’s three-part series on San Francisco Bay Area radio in the early 1950s, he shares his remembrances from touring radio stations while a student at Stanford. He reflects on what he saw during those visits and provides short updates on some of the featured stations. Coincidentally, Jennifer Waits […]
The “Jungle” of Calais, France is gone, but where is its radio station?
The New York Times reports that a huge refugee camp in Calais, France is “finally” gone. “The Jungle,” as its residents called the site, offered shelter to thousands of North African and Middle Eastern migrants. It was a great big ramshackle humanitarian crisis, and now authorities have cleared it out. Al Jazeera says that some of these […]
College Radio Watch: CBI Student Production Awards Winners, WSOU Kudos and More News
Well, I’m back from my travels and am full of even more college radio wisdom thanks to both the College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) conference and my numerous radio station tours. I’ll be recapping my trip to the CBI conference for Radio World in a forthcoming issue and will also share some tidbits from the event […]
n10.as and The Lot radio: still alive and kicking
This post notes the continued existence of two interesting online community radio venues: n10.as in Montreal and The Lot Radio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It celebrates their persistence because, given recent events, I no longer take any local radio station for granted anymore. I know that some of you disagreed with my support of Triple A formatted KUSP-FM in Santa […]
College Radio Watch: Philadelphia on My Mind
I’m having a great time immersing myself in all things college radio while in Philadelphia this week for the College Broadcasters Inc. conference. Visiting college radio stations is always a priority and I never miss an opportunity to pop by my alma mater, Haverford College, to continue with my ongoing research about the history of […]
Podcast #68 – Report Back from the Grass Roots Radio Conference 2016
“Grass Roots Radio Conference has been a giant jump start in my learning process,” said Julia Rose of KPSQ lp in Fayetteville Arkansas. Radio Survivor’s Jennifer Waits attended the GRC and she reports back for us with her own observations as well as with the voices of the people she met there at this year’s […]
Rough notes: NPR pushes back on my LPFM “ace in the hole” comment
The New York Times has a nice feature story on the latest wave of Low Power FM radio stations sweeping the country, thanks to the Federal Communications Commission’s licensing spree of 2014 through this year. Authored by Brett Sokol, it surveys LPFMs from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The piece even quotes little old me saying something. To […]
College Radio Watch: Metal Donut, College Radio Drive-In, Saving College Radio Artifacts, and More News
I’m in the midst of my fall travels, having just returned from a trip to Arkansas for the Grassroots Radio Conference (GRC). Along the way, I squeezed in several college radio station visits, including trips to KXUA-FM at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, KUOZ-LP at University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, and Hendrix College’s class […]
Podcast #67 – New Community Radio in Borneo
Jim Ellinger of Austin Airwaves joins us on the program to share a preview of his talk “Community Radio, A Global View,” which he is giving at this year’s Grass Roots Radio Conference. Jim is recently back from the highlands of Borneo, where he helped with the launch of a new community radio station that […]
Ireland’s Longwave Station RTÉ 252 Spared from Imminent Closure
Listeners located in the U.K. who enjoy Ireland’s RTÉ 252 radio service are breathing a sign of relief. The planned 2017 closure of this longwave station has now been put on indefinite hold, according to Independent.ie. I first reported on RTÉ 252 two years ago, when news of its shutdown–originally set for January 2015–put longwave […]