The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator says Londoners could save “up to” £1 million by cracking down on that city’s remaining pirate radio stations. As we’ve noted earlier, Ofcom has pretty much gone medieval on unlicensed radio of late, smashing and grabbing at least 400 stations, mostly in two London boroughs. “Pirate stations typically use high-rise […]
Plug.dj is gone, but the idea of a service that offers virtual dj rooms to music sharers will not die. Four alternate turntable room style applications have become more prominent over the last six months: Dubtrack.fm, Juqster, Beatsense, and Soundtrack.io. Compared to plug.dj and its predecessor turntable.fm, they’re pretty bare bones. But maybe that’s the application/economic […]
The music-techno-chattering classes are pondering recent Pandora news: a huge drop in the online song server’s stock price, largely attributed to the launching of Apple Music. Bottom line: in the third quarter of this year Apple Music, claiming 6.5 million paying customers, pinched Pandora audience expansion to the tune of 1.3 million listeners. “Let me […]
A quick YouTube thank you post to the Watford Borough Council from United Kingdom non-profit radio station Vibe 107.6 FM. Earlier this summer the council gave Vibe £2,000 from its Small Grants Fund to go towards new equipment. Vibe focuses on hip hop and R&B, old skool, and pop. This grant will help unsigned local bands get […]
As of this writing over 125 people have raised more than $8k in GoFundMe support for Todd Urick, a co-founder of the Common Frequency grass roots radio advocacy group. Todd managed the University of California at Davis’ KDVS-FM for a spell, and he has been an indispensable advocate for Low Power FM radio for years. […]
Rabble.ca of Canada has posted a great WINGS interview with Freda Pigru, the manager of a north Ghanan community radio station supported by the Foundation for Rural Education and Development. #radio has the power to make and unmake #development it is up to us all to use radio wisely #GCRN @kunveng26 @gcrntweets @odoijulius — freda […]
Next time your musical ensemble is about to do a big concert, take a lead from this group and do a warm up performance first at a nearby community radio station. Here’s a YouTube of Balkan Alien Sound getting limber with a few songs at Connemara Community Radio just before the band went live at Mullarkey’s […]
This should be interesting: performance artist Andrea Fraser will reenact the voices of four men speaking candidly about feminism on a 1972 KPFK-FM radio show. The event is called “Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism.” Fraser performs as all four participants based on excerpts of what they said during the Los Angeles based […]
I am reading an interesting document produced by scholars at the University of Hyderabad titled the “Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit.” Sponsored by UNESCO, it focuses on best practices for community radio stations around the world. The survey is quite long, but I direct your attention to the section called “Content Generation and Programming,” which […]
![Getting the KALY ready antenna for installation [photo: Prometheus Project]](https://www.radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/antennakaly-250x125.jpg "Minneapolis has a Somali Low Power FM station")
In the wake of the Somali civil war of the 1990s, many people from that country have migrated to Minneapolis. In fact, the city has a neighborhood called Little Mogadishu where Somali immigrants live—around 14,000 of them. Now Minneapolis also has a Low Power FM radio station that focuses on their lives and concerns. KALY-FM 101.7 FM […]
