Will Performance Royalties Create a New Class of Radio Pirate?
Thousands of internet radio stations have gone silent in 2016, while thousands more may yet shut down, primarily because of new performance royalty fees that have skyrocketed for small and mid-sized internet radio stations. In this piece I explore how this challenge might encourage some webcasters to give up complying with the law and simply […]
Nostalgia Pangs of Brain Rash (trash and treasure from the KZSC library #6)
Some records just take you back. Brain Rash records force you back underground.
“Jungala” community radio station unites refugees in Calais, France
They call the camp “The Jungle.” It is a refugee zone on the northern edge of Calais, France. Around 6,000 migrants have streamed into the center of late. As this rough map of the area (below right) indicates, many are coming from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and various Kurdish regions. They also migrate in from countries in North […]
Independent Internet Radio Still Imperiled
Internet radio expert Kurt Hanson declared January 31 to be Sunday Bloody Sunday for the medium. Most significantly, that was the day that Live365 turned off 5000-some internet radio streams it hosted for broadcasters large and small. The shutdown comes after several other internet stations announced their closure, and countless more quietly went away. The […]
College Radio Watch: North Carolina Stations Rally to Help Venue, WGSU Covers Campus Tragedy & CIUT Embraces Podcasting
I hope you caught the plethora of college radio coverage on Radio Survivor this week. I shared my final radio station field trip report from 2015, which recounts my visit to University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF.org. It’s been 5 years since KUSF lost its FM signal and it was reassuring to see […]
LPFM Watch: Construction Permits Issued to Three Religious Groups & More News
Over the past few weeks, the FCC has granted construction permits to three new low power FM (LPFM) radio stations. Those new stations include Freedom Christian Fellowship in Madras, Oregon, Iglesia Cristiana Amor Y Restauracion in Houston, Texas, and Mount Zion Church in Bemidji, Minnesota. Additionally, a number of stations are set to launch in […]
How You Can Listen to Super Bowl 50 on the Radio
Looking for info on how to listen to this 2021’s Super Bowl LV? Click here. For football fans who can’t be in front of a TV or an internet-connected device this Sunday, February 7, radio remains one of the best ways to catch Super Bowl 50. In the US Westwood One Sports remains the exclusive […]
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How can we protect community radio talk show hosts from their listeners?
Morning show host Carl Wolfson has another ten days or so over at XRAY FM in Portland, Oregon, then he says he is quitting. “OK. I’m done,” Wolfson declared on his Facebook page in late January: “The vitriol of so many Bernie [Sanders] supporters and the threat they pose to Democratic unity is a bridge […]
Visiting KUSF.org at University of San Francisco
I’ve visited college radio station KUSF at University of San Francisco (USF) many times over the years and have watched it morph from being a terrestrial college/community station at 90.3 FM to its present incarnation as a student-oriented online-only station. It was seven years ago when I first visited KUSF. At the time, it occupied […]
Podcast #32 – FBI Files, Public Files, and Winter Storms
The FCC just ruled that radio stations will have to upload their public files into an online database, making certain records much more accessible. We discuss what this means for both stations and listeners, and why, even though it seems like an extra burden, this can be a good thing for college and community radio. […]