In this week’s podcasting news: Ars Technica on a decade of podcasting; LA Podfest schedule; Philadelphia Podfest; Public radio producer on the advantages of podcasting. The Ten Year History of Podcasting Because I dedicated last week’s Podcast Survivor to the dismissal of the podcast patent troll suit, I failed to mention a recent Ars Technica […]
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Podcasting News: From Broadcast to Podcast
In this week’s podcasting news updates there are two new podcasting networks. One comes from the mainstream public radio world, while the other comes from the universe of local commercial morning shows. PRI Launches SoundWorks Public Radio International is catching up with NPR and PRX by starting its own podcast network. According to the network […]
College Radio Survivor: 2013 – A Year of Opportunity for College Radio
As I look back over 2013, I feel optimistic about the state of college radio, especially after a complicated 2012, a contentious 2011, and a challenging start to the 2000s. In November, 2013, I started writing weekly reports about college radio for our College Radio Survivor feature every Friday and for the most part, good news […]
Groups making post-shutdown plans for LPFM support
The government shutdown was the topic of our weekly email newsletter, the Radio Survivor Bulletin, this week. In it we touched on its effect on the upcoming low-power FM licensing window, as well as the impact on indecency and unlicensed broadcast enforcement. Here is an update on the LPFM front. Four business days of government […]
The government shutdown’s impact on licensed and pirate broadcasters
We’re nearly a full work-week into the government shutdown, and there have been many questions about what the effect will be on radio braodcasters. I covered this topic in this past week’s Radio Survivor Bulletin email newsletter. What follows is an updated version of that piece. To make sure you receive exclusive news and content […]
College Broadcasters Inc. asks FCC to Not Sanction Stations for Fleeting Expletives
In reply comments submitted to the FCC, College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) argues for a softer stance on the broadcast of indecent material. In its filing (PDF), CBI asks the FCC to cease enforcement of its fleeting expletives policy. CBI writes, “The enforcement of a ‘fleeting expletive’ policy is resource intensive, constitutionally suspect, creates a chilling […]
College Radio News Round-Up: WBGU DJ Winner, CBI to Seattle, WSUM ink, KMSM Changes
Although it’s the dead of summer, here’s a quick summary of some recent college radio news: WBGU DJ and Co-Music Director Wins DJ Competion Brody Ramone, a DJ from WBGU-FM at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, will be heading to Zurich, Switzerland this September in order to compete in the International Radio Festival (IRF). […]
Community radio broadcasters and builders converged at GRC 2012
Jennifer and I attended the Grassroots Radio Conference this past weekend in Urbana, IL. These are my old stomping grounds, having lived in the twin college towns of Champaign-Urbana for about 13 years until 2008. Home to the University of Illinois the cities are also home to a disproportionate of grassroots action and interesting radio. […]
Supreme Court blocks FCC “fleeting expletive” sanctions, but ducks First Amendment issue
In a case with huge implications for broadcast radio, the Supreme Court has overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s sanctions against Fox Television News for broadcasting so called “fleeting expletives”—essentially potty talk spoken on the fly. The same relief was extended to ABC for broadcasting a brief nudity scene on NYPD Blue. “Because the Commission failed […]
The 7 dirty words’ mid-life crisis
It was forty years ago this Sunday that comedian George Carlin recorded the Class Clown album which five years later would inadvertently provoke the Supreme Court to canonize seven simple words as the apotheosis of American verbal vulgarity. That case, FCC v Pacifica, would come to be known as the “seven dirty words” ruling, named […]