I continue to be fascinated by Riverwest radio, the Milwaukee Low Power FM station where everything gets videoed and you can just sit back and watch. Here’s a Riverwest radio deejay bopping to the music in his deejay chair: Your browser does not support iframes. There’s a whole feature about Riverwest in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. […]
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India on community radio: we are getting no complaints (so far)
Good news (or at least sort of) on the India community radio front. That country’s Rajya Sabha (Council of States) recently received some kind of report-back from India’s Minster of State for Information and Broadcasting. According to India’s Business Standard, the Minister said that “so far” his office has received no formal complaints about the […]
Colorado community radio station auctions off Joe Cocker’s Jaguar
KVNF-FM, community radio service for western Colorado and eastern Utah, has auctioned off Joe Cocker’s Jaguar for a little over 25,000 dollars. The happy couple (below) who purchased the item look deservedly pleased with themselves. Grand Junction Couple Takes Home Joe Cocker’s Jaguar https://t.co/SBNCNWXSV3 pic.twitter.com/dRAJCJMafM — KVNF Community Radio (@KVNFradio) December 11, 2015 The Jaguar in question is a 1995 […]
LPFM Watch: A Couple of Dismissals and an Impending Launch for Riverwest Radio
As the year draws to a close, more and more low power FM (LPFM) stations are getting on the air. In light of that, Paul offers some sage advice to new LPFMs, suggesting that they look closely at how a station is programmed from the very beginning. In FCC news, two LPFM applications were dismissed […]
Podcast #28 – A Deep Dive into the Public Radio Bid for KUNV
We follow up on Nevada Public Radio’s proposal to take over programming on KUNV, the community radio station owned by the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, that we first reported on last week. We hear from a volunteer programmer, Ken Lange, who opposes the deal, and from Flo Rogers, CEO of Nevada Public Radio, […]
New LPFMs: Don’t Let DJs Own Their Time Slots; Be Ready to Fire the Bad Ones
I’m so excited that hundreds of new LPFM community radio stations are going on the air right now. First, because it represents massive growth in the number and diversity of broadcast voices. Second, because it’s an unprecedented opportunity for experimenting with what it means to be a community radio station. I’ve had the pleasure of […]
A Trip to One of Portland’s Newest Community Radio Stations: XRAY.fm
During my summer road trip to the Pacific Northwest, I visited a trio of radio stations (including college radio stations KWVA and KAOS), concluding with a journey to see community radio station XRAY.fm in Portland, Oregon. (more…)
India gov’t to community radio: send us your broadcasts via MP3
The Hindu has the details and backstory on India’s security regimen for its 180 or so operational community radio stations. Bottom line: send the government everything you broadcast in digital form. “You are requested to provide recordings of all programmes broadcast on daily basis from the date of receipt of this letter along with the […]
Touring Community Radio Station KBOO in Portland
Although I’d been to Portland, Oregon-based community radio station KBOO back in 2013 (when I did a crazy, jam-packed day of touring four radio stations), it was an unplanned, drop-in visit and didn’t warrant an official post. For that reason, I was glad to be able to schedule an proper visit when I was in […]
United Kingdom celebrates ten years of community radio
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its community radio licensing drive. Ofcom says that since September of 2004 it has awarded 230 community radio station licenses across the country, the operations staffed by around 20,000 volunteers. The first went to The Eye in Melton Mowbray, which since then has doubled […]