Broadcasting
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Operation Desert Furry
So today I went all the way with it I just realized I’ve been naming each day’s Wordland posts (such as this one) kind of the way the US military names campaigns. I’d hardly change a word Escaping the Black Holes of Centralization is getting some visits lately. I wrote it in 2014. Here is how… Continue reading
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Unday
Climbing while Rome burns FCC Chair Brendan Carr likes to climb towers. I did too, decades ago. That kind of thing runs in my family. I also salute the workers who do it. As does Carr. That’s the claimed reason why he climbed the KELO TV tower in South Dakota last summer, and WCTI TV* a few days… Continue reading
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Twos Day
One small test I wanted to know when the transmitter site for Denver radio station KHOW/630 (above), which I shot from an airplane in 2018, was built. So I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Three had the answer, sourcing this report by Scott Fybush from January 2018. (Answer:1979.) The AI that found nothing was… Continue reading
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Someday
Bad Karma In August of 2024, Audacy killed off WCBS/880 in New York, handing its ratings over to sister station WINS/1010, which now identifies by its new FM signal on 92.3 (even though the AM signal is much bigger). In the process, Audacy also handed off the 880 channel to Good Karma Brands, which already… Continue reading
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Tryday
MVP thoughts I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship game. This season, without Haliburton, the Pacers are among the league's worst. Why? No… Continue reading
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From Mainstream to Allstream
David Weinberger once said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.” It’s the future now, and he was right, or close enough. Because today we live in a world where the power to publish and distribute no longer belongs just to institutions, but to everybody. Me included. Here are some stats for… Continue reading
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Sat a Day
Time for her own Wikipedia page I just ran across Aiyana Lee. She's good. More. Bonus link. Rutilance The FCC has green-lit Nexstar's purchase of Tenga. This will move much of local TV into the red, politically. Wrote about that here and here back in September. Pull-quote: Trump and Carr want MAGA-aligned affiliates. Simple as that. Sinclair is… Continue reading
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Midweekend
And now we are hear Our vacationing crew likes The Rippingtons, so I played some of their music through CarPlay on the rental car’s dashboard while sitting in the Lihue Costco parking lot. The above came up. How to enjoy bad but not worse weather Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side… Continue reading
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Time to Why
What he says Jamie Burke: Why the Intention Economy might finally be near. He predicts what I predicted (in the book above), with a DLT (distributed ledger technology) spin. Note that credit for the original portrait used in the piece should go to Peter Adams and his Faces of Open Source project. What I said My Big… Continue reading
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Saturdaze
Exceedingly common, turns out I was excited to see and shoot a butterfly (above) that a search (remember that?) tells me is a Common Buckeye. The News in Hues Poynter says Nexstar hopes to get its bid to buy Tegna (politically speaking) red-lit. It’s one more way the Redstream eats the Mainstream. Heavy Earth is two… Continue reading
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Hey look
Cluetrain is in an Epstein file, as are the names of its authors, mine misspelled. A cool space launch from Vandenberg is scheduled for Sunday at 9:02pm. That's an hour when it's likely to leave a "jellyfish" exhaust where sunlight hits it while it's night below. I just appended an update what I wrote about… Continue reading
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The End of Radio as We Knew It
Over the past couple of decades, I’ve written a lot about what is happening to radio in our Digital Age. See here and here. Or, if you want to read just one post, look here. In this post, I’m adding some of the latest studies on the topic. Here is Pew from 2023. Here is… Continue reading
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Well, that didn’t work
I had a whole post that disappeared. This is where it would have been. The categories give a little away. Live and re-learn. Continue reading
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On the frontier of caring
Adopt a Station is a way to compensate for the funding lost to US public radio stations when the CPB shut down. No state is more dependent on public radio, or hurt by lost CPB funding, than Alaska. Here is a table of all the stations there, with graphs showing how much lost funding they… Continue reading
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My Three Hooks
For many years, I attended an annual gathering of folks who wanted to save the Internet for future generations. Aspirational guidance was provided by the metaphor “big hooks:” ones meant for catching big fish. Since I was a kid, my life has always been about big hooks, especially ones that maximize personal and collective agency,… Continue reading
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On the Continuing End of OTA TV, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a post that began with a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, but really wasn’t about that. It was about the grave situation in which over-the-air (OTA) TV finds itself. Here is Part 1. Even people who don’t like leftish comedy should admit that Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue after he returned to the air… Continue reading
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The Continuing End of OTA TV, Part 1
I’ve split this post into two parts, because it’s important to unpack how legacy TV works, and why the whole thing is falling apart, with OTA—over-the-air—TV dying first and fastest. Here is Part 2. I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel Live, or any late-night talk shows since Carson, and I didn’t watch much of him either.… Continue reading
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In fewest words, yes.
Here is my answer to the question Does SiriusXM know what station you are listening to? The SiriusXM streaming app logs what you listen to, when, and how you interact with programs and channels across your devices (phone, pad, smart speaker, website through your browser, whatever). This data is used to personalize your “experience” (as… Continue reading
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New Life for LIVE
Colbert’s cancellation looks political, but it’s not. The show was a ratings winner, but a money loser. And the ratings for all of late night, like all of live TV, have been in decline for decades, along with the question, “What’s on?” We live in the Age of Optionality now. Watch or listen to whatever… Continue reading
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The Eagle in the Coal Mine
Public broadcasting is the strongest form of broadcasting that’s still left. One reason is that it’s the only form of broadcasting for which its consumers are also its customers. Yes, not all those customers pay, but the market is there. If you donate to public radio or television stations, or to public radio programs and… Continue reading