In the 1970s NPR lobbied the FCC to get rid of low-power FM radio, and in 1978, the Commission did. Then in 2000 NPR lobbied Congress to hem in the new low-power FM service, and Congress did that. Now it’s 2005 and it should be no surprise that the public radio network would air a […]
Archive | December, 2005
Making DXing Fun
WFMU‘s the Professor has been writing a series of posts about his late night AM and shortwave radio listening, documenting both his approach and his finds in a breezy, fun style that stands in stark opposition to the typical DXing logs you find. He also includes MP3s of his finds, so that you can DX […]
Mainstream Radio In Deep Denial
The CEOs of some of largest radio companies, like Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey, are trying to convince themselves that satellite radio is just a passing fad. The astute Harry Helms points me to this article in the Billboard Radio Monitor about the responses of radio executives attending two media investment conferences. Investors aren’t happy with […]
House OKs End Date for Analog TV, Poorest Households Set To Get Screwed
This is a story I’ve been following on the radioshow, though not so much on the blog. Monday the House passed a bill that sets Feb. 17 , 2009 as the date when your analog TV officially becomes obsolete, and all stations must broadcast exclusively in digital. One of the big controversies, besides the transition […]
Tracking the Biggest Godcaster
This month’s edition of Mother Jones magazine is focused on the religious right and its political machinations, and a lot of it is kinda frightening. There’s a good article on Salem Communications, the largest commercial chain of Christian stations in the country. Like its secular brethren, such as Clear Channel, Salem has actively lobbied for […]