n10.as radio: gossiping on the command line
I am enjoying listening to live and archived shows out of n10.as radio in Montreal (n10.as = “antennas”; get it?). Musically speaking, the station is roughly comparable to an online stream just started in Brooklyn called The Lot Radio. But while The Lot’s main draw is its Williamsburg storage compartment live studio, n10.as’s attraction, at least to […]
Harassment of community radio in Zambia; getting worse?
Last time we checked in on the community radio scene in Zambia, government officials were thwarted in their bid to dissolve the board of a local signal in that country’s Mkushi district. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to have discouraged various law enforcement functionaries from mucking around with other community radio operations. The Panos Institute of Southern […]
College Radio Watch: College Radio News Round-Up
For the past few weeks I’ve been focused on college radio history and college radio touring. As I mentioned last week, I had a great time at the Radio Preservation Task Force conference. Be sure to listen to this week’s Radio Survivor Podcast to hear a more extensive recap of the event. While I was […]
LPFM Watch: New LPFM Accused of Interference + WNXA-LP Nearing Launch
This was a pretty quiet week in the world of low power FM (LPFM). Stations continue to work towards getting on the air and the FCC is still making its way through some lingering applications. (more…)
Peconic Public Broadcasting Asked to Forfeit $10K for Public File Violations
Public radio station WPPB-FM in Southampton, New York must forfeit $10,000 to the U.S. government due to public file violations. According to an order released by the FCC this week, the station, whose license is held by Peconic Public Broadcasting, neglected to maintain 13 of its quarterly issues and programs lists. After the FCC issued […]
WQXR unveils “classical moonlighter” semi-finalists (and they’re really good)
My favorite classical radio station has released thirty Vimeos of the semi-finalists for its “classical moonlighters” competition. I wrote about this when WQXR in New York City first announced the contest last year. These folks have posted vids of themselves playing various masterpieces and they’ve made it to first cut. The final finalists in this event will […]
Podcast #37 – Preservation, Pirates, and Radionomy
On this week’s show we hear about efforts to preserve radio’s past, and the FCC’s letter writing campaign intended to undermine pirate operators. Jennifer Waits joins to talk about the Library of Congress’ recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference. She explains why preservation efforts provide not just an important record of radio’s past, but also […]
FCC Weighing the End of Clear Channel AM Stations
As the first round of AM stations get a shot at having translator repeaters on the FM dial, the FCC’s AM revitalization proceeding is still not completely resolved. There are still several questions that the Commission is accepting comments on, until March 21. Broadcast attorney David Oxenford presents a very thorough rundown of these issues […]
Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium
My third book about radio is scheduled to be released on March 31 by its publisher, ABC-CLIO. It is titled Radio 2.0: uploading the first broadcast medium. The writer Susie Bright has already noticed its release via her Twitter account. The press has a very nice page for the small tome on its website. I […]
College Radio Watch: Preserving College Radio’s History at the RPTF Conference
I’m back from my whirlwind East Coast travels, which included numerous radio station tours and the Radio Preservation Task Force‘s inaugural conference: “Saving America’s Radio Heritage: Radio Preservation, Access, and Education” at the Library of Congress and University of Maryland. The two-day conference was a wonderful opportunity to talk radio with an incredible roster of […]