I teach history courses at a big university in California. Classes started three weeks ago. One of mine takes place in one of the largest lecture halls on campus. I walked into the room, which holds almost 200 people, and there on the corner of a front desk sat two CDs, one by Tom Waits, […]
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College Radio Survivor: 2014 Starts Well, With New College Radio LPFMs on the Horizon
In this week’s College Radio Survivor, I look at two new potential LPFM stations on college campuses and recap some college radio news from the past few weeks. On Wednesday the FCC started granting new LPFM applications and in the mix of the first 107 grantees, there was one potential college radio station: York Technical […]
It’s official: Winamp and Shoutcast acquired by Radionomy Group
It’s finally for real: Winamp and Shoutcast live on. Though there have been reports that the online radio platform Radionomy purchased them from AOL, Radionomy just made the official announcement today. This comes some 26 days after Dec. 20, 2013, which was the date AOL said the services would be shut down and taken offline. […]
LPFM Watch: FCC Grants 107 LPFM Applications, More Oppositions Filed
This week there were some interesting developments on the LPFM front. Most notably, the FCC began to grant LPFM applications yesterday and by day’s end there were 107 non-profit groups that were one step closer to getting on the air with a new licensed radio station. These singleton applicants faced no competition for their frequencies, […]
Podcast Survivor: With PodcastOne Norm Pattiz wants to grow “the ultimate form of democratic delivery for radio”
I had the chance to speak with Norm Pattiz, a modern commercial radio pioneer who threw his hat into the podcasting ring last year with the PodcastOne network. Whether you’re a fan of commercial radio or not, Pattiz brings to podcasting decades of experience along with a good measure of vision and boldness that shouldn’t […]