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Category: radio

  • Hear the rest of my interview with FMU’s Ken Freeman

    As a new experiment, I decided to post the rest of the interview with Ken Freeman of WFMU that aired on today’s radioshow. We get into radio geeky stuff like programming philosophy which I think is pretty interesting, but there wasn’t really time for in the regular program. Check it out at the radioshow page.

  • G8 Radio: Webcast and Broadcast

    G8 Radio will be providing streaming audio coverage of protests against the G8 in Scotland this weekend, in addition to related reportage and analysis. The venerable Amsterdam unlicensed station Vrije Keyser Radio will be carrying the broadcast at 89.6 FM. In their announcement they write: Amsterdam based independent free radio station ‘Radio de Vrije Keyser’…

  • Champaign-Urbana Community Radio on Media Matters this Sunday

    Media Matters is Prof. Robert McChesney’s weekly call-in talk show on our local NPR affiliate, WILL-AM 580. On this Sunday’s show at 1 PM I am one of the guests along with Mike Lehman, the founding force behind our new LPFM station taking to the air in June and a founding member of our local…

  • Ministry of Truth Radio

    The tireless Mitchell Szczepanczyk, of Chicago Media Action fame, now has a radio show on WHPK at the University of Chicago. Called The Ministry of Truth, Mitchell brings an hour-long mix of alternative news and features on such subjects as “NAB: The National Association of Bastards.” You can listen to mp3s on the show’s website.…

  • There’s a New Public Radio Exchange for Programming, but a Superior Grassroots Exchange Pioneered the Concept 8 Years Ago

    Slashdot takes note of the relatively new Public Radio Exchange, which provides an on-line sharing resource between radio producers and stations. While not a bad idea, this is public broadcasting, so participation is not free–producers pay $50 – $150 a year, and stations, obviously, pay more. The up side is that producers can get paid…

  • FCC’s LPFM Report to Congress Says More Room for Stations

    Last year the FCC finally released the Congressionally mandated Mitre report that examined the reality behind the National Association of Broadcaster’s claims that low-power FM station would interfere with full-power stations. The Commission released the report only under duress–a FOIA request and lawsuit threat. Now the FCC has officially released the report to Congress along…

  • Digital Radio Broadcasting Doesn’t Have to Suck?

    Back in 2002 the FCC chose a standard for digital radio broadcasting called IBOC (In-Band On Channel), that many deride for being low-quality and destructive to adjacent analog stations, especially low-power stations. Blogger Bill Middleton has an interesting analysis of the FCC’s poor choice in comparison to the system used by most of Europe and…

  • Another Kind of Low-Power Station Hogging Radio Spectrum

    As I covered in the news headlines for Friday’s radioshow, the industry journal Radio World is paying some attention to the mountain of 13,000 applications made for FM translator stations during a short application window. Translator stations are low-power FM stations that can only retransmit the signal of a full-power station — they are forbidden…

  • Whither Satellite Radio?

    Media writer Frank Ahrens asks, “Can XM Put Radio Back Together Again?” I still haven’t heard it, but would like to check it out. My concern is audio quality, since XM uses a lossy compression schema to cram in so many channels, and I understand that the bitrates are relatively low. Of course, the test…

  • Hacker Gets Back On Air

    After blowing $16000 on legal fees, the famed (and once jailed) hacker Kevin Mitnick had his ham radio license restored by the FCC, though he’s still barred from using the Internet until later in 2003. His license was revoked due to the so-called “character clause” in telecomm law that basically says licensees should be of…