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WMAL/630am 2.0
A few months back I wrote a post with a headline in the form of a question: How will WMAL-AM survive losing its transmitter? Here was my best guess at the time: To stay on the air, WMAL will need to find … Continue reading
Why music radio is dying
The Rock face of the Music Radio island is eroding away, as station after station falls into the vast digital sea. Here’s a story in Radio Ink about how two FM rockers have been replaced by news and sports broadcasts … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Business, Future, Journalism, problems, radio, VRM
Tagged broadcasting, DAR.fm, LastFM, Michael Robertson, Pandora, radio, Radio INK, Rhapsody, Spotify
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Bruce Elving, professor of FM radio
I just learned from Dan Kelly that Bruce Elving passed away last month. Details are thin, but here’s a short list of links: Scott Fybush’s Northeast Radio Watch Augut 8 issue A facebook “public figure” page Bruce’s own Facebook page An obituary … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Broadcasting, Business, infrastructure, Personal, Places, radio, weather
Tagged Bruce Elving, radio
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Why Howard Stern’s next act is Internet radio
Howard Stern‘s contract with Sirius XM is up at the end of the year, and it was good to hear on the show this week that the full retirement option is off the table. That was one of five options Howard … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Live Web, radio
Tagged Howard Stern, radio, Sirius, Sirius XM
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WGBH and public radio’s future
@robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In this tweet and this one, Dan Kennedy asks pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, Live Web, music, News, Past, problems, radio
Tagged "Robert Paterson", AM, Berkman Center, BUR, Cambridge, channel 2, Chris Lydon, Dan Kennedy, FM, GBH, iphone, ipods, Morning Edition, music, Open Source, PRX, public radio, radio, The Takeaway, traffic, uhf, WBUR, WGBH
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Urban radio moves into white space
There’s something new on the FM dial in Boston. You might think of it as a kind of urban renewal. Grass roots, up through the pavement. (There’s a pun in there, but you need to read on to get it.) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, infrastructure, Live Web, music, Places, radio
Tagged "Boston Globe", 87.7, 87.7fm, Boston, Boston Phoenix, Boston.com, Boston.com TOUCH-FM, Brian R Ballou, Channel 6, Hot 97, Hot 97.5, Providence, radio, urban, white space, white spaces, wlne, WLNE-TV, WPOT
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Geology vs. Weather
I love this: … and I hope the good (or evil, depending on your perspective) folks at Despair.com don’t mind my promoting their best t-shirt yet. (If it helps, I just ordered one.) You’ll notice that blogging isn’t in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging, Geology, Ideas, Journalism, Life, Live Web, News, radio
Tagged advertising, Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dan Gillmor, Ellen Foley, Geology, Improprieties, Larry Josephson, radio, Tom Matrullo, WBAI, weather, Wisconsin State Journal
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Tuning time and place
In Curation, meta-curation, and live Net radio, Jon Udell begins, “I’ve long been dissatisfied with how we discover and tune into Net radio”, but doesn’t complain about it. He hacks some solutions. First he swaps time for place: I’ve just … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Fun, Ideas, infrastructure, Live Web, music, News, radio, VRM
Tagged Calendar, Cluetrain, Delicious, iCal, iCalendar, iTunes, Jon Udell, KUOW, Public Radio Player, radio, Ross Reynolds, The Cluetrain Manifesto, The Conversation, Tony Karrer, topical hub, tuning, Webjay
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