Websites catching up to radio as first weather news source for British
Looks like websites are slowly taking the lead as the primary source for weather news in the United Kingdom, just slightly below radio and TV as the goto place.
Radio-Themed Book Art Exhibit and Vintage Radio Print Ads
It’s hard for me to resist the lure of vintage books and I was pleased to see that our friend Feliks Banel posted a online exhibit called Radio with Pictures: Iconic Cover Art from Books about Radio on his I STILL Love Radio blog. Feliks is a radio historian, so he’s managed to curate a […]
KPFA raises $130,000 for Haitian relief
America’s longest running listener supported non-commercial radio station, KPFA-FM in Berkeley, raised a lot of cash on Wednesday for victims of Haiti’s horrific series of earthquakes. “In this economy, we would expect a normal day of fundraising to bring in about $45,000. For our Haiti fundraiser we set a goal of $100,000” said KPFA General […]
Radio Still Relevant for Youth According to New Kaiser Foundation Study
Today the Kaiser Family Foundation released its latest report about media consumption among young people. The study, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, indicates that youth are consuming more media than ever before and that this trend is largely due to the increasing availability of mobile media and the tendency for […]
Clear Channel offers contextual advertising for radio, but where's the context?
Clear Channel has announced what the commercial radio giant calls a major step forward for radio advertising: technology that can “automatically and reliably insert any length of audio spot immediately after specific programming or commercial spots based entirely on content.” In blogoland that’s called “contextual,” or sometimes “semantic” advertising. Google Adsense and various Amazon widgets, […]
Radio's Starring Role on New TV Series "Life Unexpected"
Last night I checked out the premiere of a new television series on the CW called Life Unexpected, largely because one of the main characters is a radio DJ. Additionally, it’s a teen-centric drama, so right off the bat the show is hitting at my pop cultural sweet spots. [If you’re planning to watch the […]
Chicago Independent Radio Project hits the 'net, waits for an FM
I first heard about the Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) when I moved to Chicago in the spring of 2008. For all intents and purposes the project grew out of the former incarnation of Loyola University’s WLUW-FM which operated as a community radio station from 1997 to June 2008. In 2001 Loyola announced that it […]
Online audio pioneer Rob Glaser steps down from CEO post at RealNetworks
If we get into the wayback machine and set it for 1996 we’ll find that it was a time before MP3s, when online video was nearly an oxymoron and broadcast radio was, by-and-large, a healthy and profitable business. Online audio, including live streaming, was a new technology relying on high degrees of compression in order […]
Locating Martin Luther King Jr. speeches – audio and text
Amazon.com Widgets In honor of the upcoming holiday, I’ve compiled some different ways to access some of MLK’s influential speeches. If you’re interested in reading some of King’s speeches online, the King Center, which hosts the King Papers, has many of King’s speeches sorted chronologically, providing mp3 and written versions. Plain written copies of some […]
Stitcher adds gay Bay Area public affairs show to its lineup
The Stitcher mobile radio service is adding another gay oriented radio show to its schedule: Out in the Bay, a regular program on National Public Radio affiliate KALW-FM in San Francisco (91.7 FM). Out in the Bay is hosted and produced by Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman, both of whom have tons of radio experience […]