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Podcasters gotta eat; Tom Scharpling to end The Best Show on WFMU

Tom Scharpling and Julie Klausner at RadioVision 2013Tom Scharpling announced on his program Tuesday that he…
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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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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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Radio should pay & no consensus on Spotify: Impressions from day 1 of the Future of Music Summit

Fighting off as-yet-undiagnosed intermittent internet issues I still managed to watch a good portion of several Monday sessions from the…
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Broadcast Engineering magazine to end publication Thursday

On the heels of the news that Monitoring Times will close this year, comes the news of the closure of…
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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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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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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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Is Terrestrial Radio Dead to Undergraduates? WVKC Changes Spark Debate

As we wrote back in August, changes were planned for Knox College radio station WVKC, following a deal with Tri…
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Groups making post-shutdown plans for LPFM support

The government shutdown was the topic of our weekly email newsletter, the Radio Survivor Bulletin, this week. In it we…
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The government shutdown’s impact on licensed and pirate broadcasters

We're nearly a full work-week into the government shutdown, and there have been many questions about what the effect will…
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Advice for radio mice: don’t break FCC indecency rules during the shutdown

[dancestudionation.com]The Federal Communications Commission's website is mostly down for the duration of the Federal government funding…
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FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s AM radio revitalization agenda

Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai spoke at the National Association of Broadcaster's Radio Show gathering on Friday. He talked up…
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ASCAP/Pandora war notes: is online radio really still “new media”?

By now everybody knows that Pandora has prevailed, at least for the moment, in its legal effort to win the…
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