Happy World Radio Day! In honor of this annual celebration, I’m exploring Radio.Garden and listening to stations from all over the world. Launched just two months ago on December 13, 2016, Radio Garden is a website where one can navigate to streams from different stations by mousing over a globe. It reminds me a bit […]
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5 Funky Last Minute Gifts for Radio Fanatics
Although it’s been a few years since we’ve put together our Radio Survivor Holiday gift guides, listing off radio gifts that we love, I’m always thinking about these lists. Whenever I run across an intriguing radio gift idea, I make a mental note and sometimes I race out to pick something up for myself. In […]
Tuning in to Alice’s Restaurant on the Radio on Thanksgiving 2016
Catch Alice’s Restaurant on the 2023 radio dial. See our latest listening guide. Happy early Thanksgiving! After a particularly contentious Presidential election, many families are anxious about upcoming holiday gatherings. Some are banning political conversations, whereas others are setting ground rules for polite discourse. Perhaps the long-standing radio tradition of listening to Arlo Guthrie’s […]
10 Weird Things Spotted by a Kid during Radio Station Tours
I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on my radio station tours as I prepare for my 100th tour report this week. During that process, I asked my daughter if she could list off for me some of the interesting and/or weird things that she’s seen when accompanying me on radio station tours. She’s […]
Reviewing the 2015 Yule Logs: They’ve Gone to the Dogs
A year ago I rhapsodized about my love of televised yule logs and gave my report on some of the examples that aired during the 2014 Christmas holiday. Well, Christmas 2015 also brought with it many opportunities to view yule logs on TV and I ended up catching a few that I’d never seen before. […]
Freddy’s Not Dead (treasure and trash from the KZSC record library #1)
This terrifyingly poppy little number is only the tip of the weirdo iceberg. As the elected Librarian of KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM, it’s more or less my job to have a cursory knowledge of everything on the shelves. Be sure to check back in weekly to learn more about the other tasty treats and […]
Good Advice: Make The Podcast You Wish You Could Hear
Zahra Noorbakhsh and Tanzila ‘Taz’ Ahmed launched their podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim in January 2015, and they hit the ground running. Their first radio interview about their show, for PRI’s Global Nation, was recorded before the first episode of their podcast was up online, but that didn’t seem to hurt their launch as far as they can […]
Negativland’s ‘Over The Edge’ Catalog Now Available at Internet Archive
When Don Joyce of the band Negativland passed away in July we learned that the group is in the process of archiving the 34-year catalog of its Over The Edge radio show, anchored by Joyce since the very beginning. Now the first stage of the project is public, with 941 episodes of the program available […]
Solving the Mystery of the Ubiquitous Radio Station Call Letter Signs: The Leo Blais Interview
For quite a few years I’ve been intrigued by and obsessed with the handmade 3-dimensional radio station call letter signs that I’ve seen at numerous college and community radio stations all over the United States. One of the signs is posted at KFJC, where I volunteer and DJ, so I see it every week. I […]
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