With 24 days left to go in its Indiegogo campaign, College Radio Day is hoping to raise a total of $5000 in order to produce volume 2 of College Radio Day: The Album. When the album is completed, it will be distributed to college radio stations all over the United States. The CD compilation will […]
In the provocative piece, Why College Radio Still Matters, Columbia College junior Torsten Odland dissects the role of the college radio DJ today, comparing it with the presumed pinnacle of college radio DJ influence in the 1980s. A DJ himself at Columbia College radio station WKCR-FM, Odland explains that he had a particular archetype of […]
We’ve been reporting on the rapidly approaching low power FM (LPFM) licensing window and recently conducted a Twitter chat specifically on the topic of college radio and LPFM, but there are still plenty of people out there who are either unaware of the opportunity or who are reluctant to apply. It would be a shame […]
In March, 2008 I was on a family vacation to Boston and decided that I’d like to visit a college radio station. I had no idea at the time that my trip to WECB at Emerson College would launch an epic project of radio station tours that would take me to stations all over the […]
On Tuesday night I attended a panel discussion at University of San Francisco (USF) on the topic of the past, present, and future of college radio station KUSF. I’ve been closely following the trials and tribulations of the station since the shut-down of KUSF 90.3 FM on January 18, 2011. Two and a half years […]
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first Radio Survivor Twitter chat on Thursday, August 22. In particular, we appreciated all the experts who fielded questions for us about college radio and LPFM. Julia Wierski (Prometheus Radio Project), Vanessa Graber (Common Frequency), and Sabrina Roach (LPFM National Make Radio Challenge project for Brown Paper Tickets) […]
At Radio Survivor we’ve been eagerly anticipating the LPFM filing window in October and in advance of that will be hosting several Twitter chats. Please join us tomorrow at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern for the first Radio Survivor Twitter chat. Focusing on the topic of college radio and LPFM, we will discuss your questions with a […]
The CMJ Music Marathon is a college radio rite of passage for many. I have fond memories of taking the train to New York City in order to attend my first CMJ event in the 1980s. The long weekend was jam-packed with shows (Fishbone at the Cat Club!), panels (yes there really was a panel […]
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois has announced that it will be moving its student radio programming off of 90.7 FM in order to provide space for regional public radio network, Tri States Public Radio (TSPR). Beginning next month, long-time student radio station WVKC will broadcast online and on HD radio. A statement on the Knox […]
Arcane Radio Trivia’s Jose Fritz (one of the first people who I profiled for my Radio Obsessives series) just wrote up a nifty post about the early days of radio at Temple University in Philadelphia. He unearthed a 1947 account from the Temple University News which reports on the status of the nearly-built carrier current […]
