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FCC makes official proposals for AM revitalization, but nothing on the all-digital question

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is a fan of AM radioIt looks like Commissioner Ajit Pai got…
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Halloween is a pirate radio holiday

Photo credit: flickr / Nomadic LassAs the Shortwave Listening Post reminds us, Halloween is a peak…
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Santa Barbara classical radio in peril

Santa Barbara, California's eight decades old classical radio signal KDB 93.7 FM is up for auction. The Santa Barbara Foundation,…
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FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel champions radio and LPFM to the Future of Music Summit

FCC Commissioner Jessica RosenworcelIn her Tuesday keynote address to the Future of Music Summit, FCC Commissioner…
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Learn radio storytelling and production with Transom Online Workshops

Burgeoning radio producers have the opportunity to learn critical skills online with the new Transom Online Workshop. Transom, which calls…
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Poof!? Why are Low Power FM stations vanishing?

In our last post on the latest broadcast station statistics I noticed that while the number of FM radio stations…
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Monitoring Times ends 33 years of publication, The Spectrum Times to take its place

The SWLing Post tips us off to a changing of the guard in one corner of the radio publication world.…
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Number of AM radio stations down; FM stations up; FM translators down

The latest broadcast station count from the Federal Communications Commission is out. Quick headline: AM stations down; FM stations up. And…
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Indie stations and indie musicians working together? An immodest proposal

This piece originally appeared in our free weekly email newsletter, the Radio Survivor Bulletin. Sign up now to get a…
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“More dirtbags” on public radio podcasts & more podcasting wisdom from RadioVision

Comedy podcasters at WFMU's RadioVision 2013 (L to R: Tom Scharpling, Julie Klausner and Jake Fogelnest)Here…
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Radio Survivor launches discussion forums site

We've been talking about this for a while, and at last it has happened. Radio Survivor has fired up a…
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Classical Radio Station Deals Hint at Consolidation in Public Radio

KUSF space in advance of building construction in summer 2011 A lengthy article on The Deal…
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Post-shutdown LPFM application deadline extended to Nov. 14

Now that the FCC is back in business and clearing out its queue the deadline for low-power FM applications has…
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Groups request LPFM application extension from FCC due to government shutdown

As they promised, a coalition of low-power community radio support groups submitted a filing with the FCC today, the Commission’s…
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Pacifica asks for proposals to lease WBAI (see strings attached)

As expected, the Pacifica Foundation has released a Request for Proposals to run Pacifica station WBAI in New York City…
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CPB worries about two public radio Presidents

Dr. Alan Chartock (source: Wall Street Journal). Reading Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ombudsman Joel Kaplan's recent…
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