Today the FCC released its quarterly list of the total number of licensed broadcast stations in the United States. Based on FCC statistics through December 30, 2012, the number of licensed broadcast radio stations is still on the rise, continuing the trend that we’ve seen every quarter this year. Based on this list, there are […]
Chicago’s commerical “progressive talk” station WCPT is becoming a foster home of sorts for popular radio programs that have lost their homes on the non-commercial end of the dial. The daily independent news hour Democracy Now began airing on WCPT January 2. The program joins Smiley and West, which was exiled from Chicago Public Radio […]
If you want to understand the Federal Communications Commission’s ground breaking Low Power FM decision, your first stop is Paul Riismandel’s nice summary of the Order, posted earlier this week. I just thought I’d rummage through the document and see what additional fun tidbits and further details I could extract for my own interest, and […]
Stephen Dunifer has been called the “Johnny Appleseed” of free radio for his work with Free Radio Berkeley which has been making and distributing FM transmitter kits for more than 17 years. FRB inspired many unlicensed broadcasters to take to the airwaves in the mid to late 90s, in part due to the publicity the […]
Next October future community broadcasters will be able to apply for more new low-power stations than ever before. On Tuesday the FCC released the text of its 6th report and order on the implementation of the Local Community Radio Act (LCRA) that was passed last Friday. As Matthew noted last Friday, the decision contains mostly […]
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously passed a Fifth Order updating rules and establishing a filing window for Low Power FM applications: October 2013. One hopes that these will be the last regulations needed, but since the process has gone through five iterations, you never know. In any event, we’ve been live blogging the meeting, […]
The Federal Communications Commission is holding a meeting this morning to finalize its rules on translators and Low Power FM. I thought I’d live blog a bit while listening to the event. If you have a commentary or statement on the subject as it develops, send it over to me here. [liveblog]
The Galveston Daily News is reporting that a local group, Galveston Community Radio, is calling for Cumulus to donate its silenced station KSTB 101.5 FM (Crystal Beach, Texas) to them. According to the article, “If Cumulus agreed, Galveston Community Radio would create a station offering local news, emergency information and a mix of music with […]
Two Sundays ago I was hanging out at free form radio station Radio Valencia in San Francisco, and in walked jazz singer/guitarist Meredith Axelrod. Axelrod spoke with the Gramophoney Baloney show’s DJ McShmormac, then schmoozed some more with DJ Ferrara and Malderor and Dr. Junk. Of course we all wanted Axelrod to sing. As a bonus, […]
Catch Alice’s Restaurant on the 2023 radio dial. See our latest listening guide. A few years back I wrote about the tradition of many radio stations playing the lengthy song “Alice’s Restaurant” on Thanksgiving. Every year I’m curious to see how many stations plan to play the classic folk song. Apparently listeners are vocal about […]
