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Category: radio

  • NY Times Discovers College Radio Doesn’t Suck… er, no duh.

    It’s got to be tough to be a NY Times reporter. As the stalwart standard-bearer of US print journalism, whenever you report on a cultural phenomenon you’re responsible for ostensibly declaring it as new, or newly rediscovered, newly viable…. newly whatever. While at the same time cultural insiders view that coverage with both “no duh”…

  • Tom Roe on free103point9’s New FM Station and Microradio Past

    Tom Roe, program director for free103point9, was my guest for last week’s radioshow where we discussed that organization’s approach to transmission arts and how they were able to obtain a rare noncommercial full-power FM broadcast license. That show is now available for downloading or listening online. In the second half of the live broadcast version…

  • Occasionally There Is Justice: free103point9 Receives an FM License

    There are so few open frequencies for new full-power noncommercial radio stations in the US, so it’s all the more exciting to learn that the great folks at free103point9 have received a license from the FCC to start a 3,300 watt FM station in New York’s Hudson Valley. free103point9 is an amazing group that promotes…

  • On tonight’s radioshow: Chicago Independent Radio Project

    While there is a lot of good non-commercial radio in Chicago, one thing the city lacks is a true community station, programmed entirely by community volunteers and funded by community donations. Of course, it’s great that college stations like Northwestern’s WNUR and University of Chicago’s WHPK actively open their studios to community programmers. However, even…

  • No fresh, live radioshow this week

    Due to a pre-emption to make way for live improvised music event on WNUR, there will be no live mediageek this week. An “encore edition” of the show will air on affiliates. Given that I’m working 10 – 12 hour days this week, it’s a fine coincidence. I had no guest yet scheduled for tomorrow,…

  • Post-First-WNUR-Show Recap

    Just finished my first hour-long mediageek on the mighty WNUR. We had some phone system troubles during the first 10 minutes or so. First I couldn’t hear my guest, John, then he couldn’t hear me. But the very able producer/engineer Andrew figured out the glitch and got us up and working for the balance of…

  • A New Chapter for the Radioshow

    In the best blogger style, I’m remembering to post this only hours in advance… Beginning tonight at 9 PM CDT the mediageek radioshow begins a new chapter with a new station. Tonight is the debut of the mediageek radioshow on WNUR 89.3 FM, the radio station of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, serving the north…

  • Catching Up

    It seems like all of my available mediageek energy has been poured into the radioshow lately, the result of having a firm weekly commitment to dozen stations. Were the radioshow a non-broadcast podcast I’m not so certain I would be so diligent. At least I can say that I’ve had a couple of great guests…

  • WTF? Pacifica Docks Free Speech Radio News $13 Grand a Month

    Being kind of distracted the last few months, I missed the news that the Pacifica network has cut its contribution to the Free Speech Radio News budget by $13,000 a month. For those not familiar with these two organizations, Pacifica is the nation’s first community radio organization, currently owning and operating five stations around the…

  • Goodbye minidisc, Hello Zoom H2

    I’ve finally broken down and abandoned my beloved minidisc for mobile audio recording. I held out for as long as I could, which wasn’t hard. Until recently the format that never caught on (in the US) was the best portable digital audio recording format, especially when Sony finally unveiled Hi-MD four years ago finally allowing…