Knight study raps public radio on local coverage
A new report says that public broadcasters fall short when it comes to providing their audiences with news and information about their city or neighborhood.
A letter from Radio France
Radio France has quite a few devotees in the San Francisco Bay Area, among them the noted filmmaker Veronica Selver. You can listen to the service live, or you can download podcasts via your iPhone, as does Veronica. It helps if you understand French, of course. If not, she sent us this summary of some […]
All-Obama Radio Stunt in Athens, Georgia
Sometimes unexpected things really do happen on commercial radio. Yesterday’s buzz surrounded the introduction of a new “All-Obama” radio station in Athens, Georgia. According to Talking Points Memo: “A radio station in Athens, Ga., is drumming up publicity by calling itself ‘Obama Government-Controlled Radio’ and playing Hawaiian pop, songs like ‘Superfly’ and ‘Disco Inferno’ and […]
WXPN Lets the Listeners Program Desert Island Picks for Fundraiser
I’m always interested to see how various radio stations handle the daunting task of fundraising, especially since I’m now in the thick of things begging for cash at my own station KFJC (hint, hint…if you’re a fan of the station we need your dough!). Well, public radio station WXPN at University of Pennsylvania has a […]
Internet radio silent on net neutrality?
Why are most of the big Internet radio sites so quiet about net neutrality? Probably because they haven’t been pinched by an ISP, yet.
Goodbye to Bus Radio
We just got word that BusRadio is no more. As we reported back in July, BusRadio was the source of controversy and parental ire for its radio service which was piped in to school buses around the country. Congress even asked the FCC to take a look at BusRadio, to make sure that its practices […]
How to avoid breaking the FCC’s ridiculously lenient rules against non-commercial radio advertising
It never ceases to amaze me that some public radio stations continue to run afoul of the Federal Communications Commission’s sieve-like rules against running advertisements, but they do. The latest station to wrangle with the Commission on this matter is religious non-profit WKSG-FM in Cedar Creek, Florida, run by Daystar Public Radio. WKSG seems like […]
Could 92.7 FM’s new owner have kept Fernando and Greg?
A footnote to the controversy over the loss of KNGY-FM, “Energy 92.7,” San Francisco’s Gay oriented dance music station. It appears that had the frequency’s new management wanted to, it could have retained the old format’s staff, or at least retained the services of Energy’s popular morning show duo: Fernando and Greg. Radio Survivor has […]
The Romance of Radio Rediscovered on the iPod Nano
I probably don’t have to convince anyone reading Radio Survivor that radio rules. But just in case you need some persuading, I’d like to share a beautifully written love-letter to radio (written by a reviewer at Popular Mechanics of all places). While checking out the new FM radio feature on the iPod Nano, former college […]
Celebs Rally to Help WLIU Stay Local and On the Air
As Paul Riismandel reported in August, Long Island University-owned public radio station WLIU is about to lose funding from its institution and is entertaining offers to purchase the station. Yesterday was the deadline for bids and a star-studded group of “friends” held rallies and pulled together an offer to save the station from extinction or […]