radio
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WMAL/630am 2.0
A few months back I wrote a post with a headline in the form of a question: How will WMAL-AM survive losing its transmitter? Here was my best guess at the time: To stay on the air, WMAL will need to find replacement acreage, somewhere that allows the signals … to cross as much of the Metro area… Continue reading
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Why music radio is dying
The Rock face of the Music Radio island is eroding away, as station after station falls into the vast digital sea. Here’s a story in Radio Ink about how two FM rockers have been replaced by news and sports broadcasts that were formerly only on the AM band. (The illo for the story is a… Continue reading
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Bruce Elving, professor of FM radio
I just learned from Dan Kelly that Bruce Elving passed away last month. Details are thin, but here’s a short list of links: Scott Fybush’s Northeast Radio Watch Augut 8 issue A facebook “public figure” page Bruce’s own Facebook page An obituary in Media Confidential Notice in the Worldwide TV-DX Association site Bruce and I were frequent… Continue reading
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Why Howard Stern’s next act is Internet radio
Howard Stern‘s contract with Sirius XM is up at the end of the year, and it was good to hear on the show this week that the full retirement option is off the table. That was one of five options Howard said he was considering. Says the Stern site (on a wrapup of Thursday’s show), Howard… Continue reading
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WGBH and public radio’s future
@robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In this tweet and this one, Dan Kennedy asks pretty much the same thing.) The short answer is, Because it wouldn’t be a war. Boston is… Continue reading
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Urban radio moves into white space
There’s something new on the FM dial in Boston. You might think of it as a kind of urban renewal. Grass roots, up through the pavement. (There’s a pun in there, but you need to read on to get it.) You might say that fresh radio moved in where stale TV moved out. Here’s some… Continue reading
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Geology vs. Weather
I love this: … and I hope the good (or evil, depending on your perspective) folks at Despair.com don’t mind my promoting their best t-shirt yet. (If it helps, I just ordered one.) You’ll notice that blogging isn’t in the diagram (though Despair does feature it in four other purchasable forms). I bring that up… Continue reading
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Tuning time and place
In Curation, meta-curation, and live Net radio, Jon Udell begins, “I’ve long been dissatisfied with how we discover and tune into Net radio”, but doesn’t complain about it. He hacks some solutions. First he swaps time for place: I’ve just created a new mode for the elmcity calendar aggregator. Now instead of creating a geographical… Continue reading
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Follow the falling brick road
New England is full of ruins. Woods everywhere are veined with stone walls, relics of an agrarian age that ended when the industrial one began. Shipping canals, which were thick with horse-drawn cargo when the Thoreau brothers rowed past them up the Concord & Merrimack Rivers, were abandoned once railroads did the same job better.… Continue reading
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After the advertising bubble bursts
Thesis #74 of The Cluetrain Manifesto says, “We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.” We wrote that in 1999, when everybody thought that advertising was going to be THE model for businesses on the Internet. The crash came less than a year later. Then the next bubble came, and this time everybody thought (surprise!)… Continue reading
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A capella wonderful
Whatever else you’re doing, tune right now to WERS. If you’re not in Boston, here’s the online stream. The show is All Acapella, and it’s freaking amazing. There is so much outstanding a capella music being made right now, by college students alone. Stevie Wonder’s “As” is playing now, sung by the Stanford University Everyday… Continue reading
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Digging KGSR
Until I hit SCAN on the little radio I carry with me on trips, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed KGSR/107.1 the last time I was here at SXSW. They’ve added some power since then (up from 39kw to 49kw), but their stream still plays hard-to-get. There appears to be no .mp3 stream coming… Continue reading
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PBS should become the NPR of TV
I’m sitting at #ima09, at one of the last panels: “Future of Public Media News: A Vision and A Plan.” Leonard Witt is speaking right now, and has a killer proposal: turn PBS into a “news powerhouse.” His case is brief and right-on. Newspapers aren’t the only news organizations that are faltering, he says. Local… Continue reading
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Blowing up radio. In a good way.
If you’re interested in music, or in radio — especially if you’re interested in both — listen (or watch) in on Tim Westergren’s talk, going on right now. Tim founded Pandora, and is its Chief Strategist. My notes… “We want to fix radio. And we want to fix it globally. And do it for musicians… Continue reading