The news from Norway is that the country plans to dump FM and go all digital by 2017. The United Kingdom isn’t quite ready to do the same, but over fifty radio outlets have responded to the UK’s invitation to apply for a digital experiment for smaller broadcasters. Ofcom, Britain’s broadcast regulator, has announced trials to […]
National Record Store Day has once again come and gone and [doh!] I keep forgetting to post a piece on that day mentioning that for years I worked for one of the biggest post World War II record chains on the East Coast: Sam Goody records. I clerked at the 49th street and Broadway store […]
Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler is at the National Association of Broadcasters NAB show in Las Vegas and just gave a talk at which he told the suits that although the FCC wants to streamline its field office system, that doesn’t mean the agency won’t crack down on unlicensed broadcasters when necessary. Indeed, “flying teams” […]
Should radio stations have to upload their public files to a publicly accessible database? These days if you want to read the public files of television stations, it’s no problem. Just go the Federal Communications Commission’s public and political file web interface and type in a TV station’s call letters and there you are: a […]
WHUS of the University of Connecticut has posted a video on its Facebook page explaining its late night music playing policies. “Attention,” the video explains, “between the hours of 10 PM and 6 AM WHUS regularly observes safe harbor period of time recordings . . . ” “Safe harbor” refers to the aforementioned late night […]
There’s a lot of remarkable stuff to check out in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s new work-in-progress website. Sure, there will be plenty of public TV footage of George Lucas and John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and wuddever. But the content will also include a boatload of material from the Pacifica Radio Archives, WFMU in Jersey […]
Syrian indie station Radio Souriat is in its third month of operation. The signal investigates and explains the condition of Syrian women within and beyond that war torn country. Although I’ve been able to find links to a online stream for Souriat, the best way to listen appears to be through its SoundCloud, Twitter, and […]
More updates from our community/college radio Facebook page followers: Pacifica signal WPFW in Washington, D.C. is well into the process of moving. The station has posted some video of the ensemble BSQ performing a piece at the operation’s new K Street Studio digs. WZRD of Chicago is reminding its listeners that Wizard Fest is nigh: “Tune […]
There’s so much going on among our many community radio Facebook page followers that I thought I’d mention a few items: The Prometheus Radio Project is celebrating the first broadcast of KOGI-LP 97.7 last Tuesday over at Big Pine, California. “It was joy to help the Big Pine Paiute Tribe get on the air,” Prometheus’ […]
We got some interesting e-mail and Facebook updates this week from various developers who wanted to catch our eye (or ear). These included: Boomboxfm. “Let us introduce you to your next favorite song,” the site explains. “Get free, downloadable songs every week directly to your inbox, personalized to your tastes. . . . We scour the world […]
