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December
Cap-Ex Will Be Taut in '09 - Broadcasters plan to make little to no new investment in their infrastructure, what with the economy (and the industry) in the toilet. (Dec. 30)
The Story of Bootleg Radio 1610 - An old-timer relives the good-old days of tinkering one's way into piracy. (Dec. 30)
Why Local Radio Is No Longer Local - A good critique of the state of the dial from the San Diego Reader. (Dec. 30)
I got an HD radio for Christmas - And it relatively sucked! (Dec. 28)
How about pirate radio in the white spaces? - An interesting dialog between Stephen Dunifer and EDN.com. (Dec. 25)
They're turning off HD in Washington, D.C. - So claims in a brief bit from the Radio Business Report, which speculates it's due to licensing fees. (Dec. 25)
Reboot the FCC - Lawrence Lessig throws out a fairly radical, yet unpractical, policy suggestion via Newsweek. (Dec. 23)
In Search of Julius Genachowski - Matthew Lasar provides some primer on the FCC Chairman-to-be. (Dec. 22)
WSU Students are Modern-Day Pirates - Dorm-based pirates leave the "Underground" after too much publicity. It sounded like a good run. (Dec. 21)
Good News For Radio & Records - Sez Jerry Del Colliano: "the future of all media will be mobile." (Dec. 19)
RIAA Replaces Mass Lawsuits With Potentially Dumber Ideas - Some of which have just taken root in France, of all places.... (Dec. 19)
FCC Begins Granting Power Increase Requests for Test Purposes - Ah, the old "creation of facts on the ground" maneuver, to set the stage for a raise in HD Radio power levels. (Dec. 18)
Harmful Interference: The Definitional Challenge - Thought-provoking brainstorming from a master in the field of spectrum policy. (Dec. 18)
Opinions Clash on Digital - Radio World superficially samples the comments received on the HD power increase and finds non-consensus. (Dec. 18)
Saga Uses FM translators to Spread Multicast Programming - Not content to wait for an (expected) sideband power increase to their main stations, Saga's changing the very definition of what a translator is: does HD programming count as local origination? (Dec. 18)
Army Wages iPod Warfare in Baghdad - Actually, it's pirate radio in disguise, no kidding! (Dec. 16)
Concerns Raised About "Franken FMs" - It would seem the practice of applying for a Channel 6 TV station license and running it as a radio station is catching on.... (Dec. 16)
Hear from the man behind KBFR, Boulder's pirate radio station - In its apparently second re-incarnation. (Dec. 12)
Is The End of Television The Beginning of a New Resistance? - Paul the Mediageek ponders a plan to reclaim some of the analog TV spectrum by direct appropriation next year, and what it might signify. (Dec. 10)
House Probe of FCC Finds "Egregious Abuses of Power" - Summary and full-text are provided. It's pretty damning. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Kevin. (Dec. 9)
OPEN Call: The End of Television - Learn how to submit videos for the reclamation-project that is planned for Philly. (Dec. 9)
Changes for Media Access Project, And For Me Personally - Harold Feld announces he's moving on from being a bulldog on media policy to another phase in life. Let's hope he's still a bulldog in whatever he does. (Dec. 8)
Freeing Airways: Santa Cruz's pirate radio station continues fight against FCC - UC Santa Cruz's student-run newspaper gives props to FRSC's masterful longevity. (Dec. 4)
Opponents Worry About Digital Power Hike; Would It Be 'Highly Destructive'? - The data's in, so why is the jury still out? (Dec. 4)
At Citadel, A "Fagreed" Kind of Christmas - Just a sad sample of the state of commercial radio these days. (Dec. 2)

November
What's Next For the FCC? Beats the Heck Out of Me - So I'll Just Describe the Terrain - Harold Feld pontificates on what the early-appointments of Obama's telecommunications-policy team might mean for the future. (Nov. 30)
Tom Roe on free103point9's New FM Station and Microradio Past - Paul the Mediageek combines textual, audio, and video goodness to make the magic of free103point9's history come alive. (Nov. 24)
Radio Station Emerges as Voice of Black Boston - A perfect example of how microradio brings communities together, regardless of the legal risks involved. (Nov. 22)
IBOC Critic Opposes Power Boost - Oh, Canada! Will you help us come to our HD senses? (Nov. 21)
3G or Not 3G? That Is the Question - Skip Pizzi suggests radio broadcasters move away from their primary service into datacasting, using mobile devices as the vector for future industry growth. (Nov. 19)
The change we need: four ways to fix fcc.gov- Matthew Lasar probably spends more times plumbing this information resource than the FCC staff does, combined. It would be worth taking his suggestions to heart. (Nov. 19)
Digital TV Transition: Ford Fusion Doesn't Crash in Final Race!!!! - But was the $350K of mostly-wreckage well-spent? (Nov. 19)
More on HD's Stalled Status - Glenn Fleishman is understandably concerned about the technology's future, given that all-important (and sad-sack) metric: receiver penetration. (Nov. 17)
Radio: High Deception - John Gorman tears apart the future of HD, just by looking at the marketing data. (Nov. 17)
Pirate radio stations wiped off the air in crackdown raids - Authorities make a big sweep of London and surrounding vicinities; should put but a slight crimp in the scene. (Nov. 15)
CC's Radio Format Lab gone? - Radio Business Report that Clear Channel's apparently radically downsized the pre-programmed HD2 formats available to its stations. (Nov. 12)
On Fire, Digital TV Transition Ford Fusion Takes to the Airways - Literally - The FCC's most expensive promotion of the DTV transition - sponsoring a NASCAR car - goes up in flames. (Nov. 10)
The BMC Plan to Remap and Revamp Radio - Radio World's Guy Wire succinctly details the project to expand the FM dial. (Nov. 5)
Hijacking the airwaves again - "Pirate radio is back in Boulder - but for how long?" Good question. (Nov. 2)

October
NAB: the lobby that cried wolf - Michael Largesse artfully deconstructs the FUD surrounding the broadcast industry's objection to using formerly-analog TV spectrum for new, unlicensed wireless applications. (Oct. 28)
Radio: The Benefits of Bankruptcy - Jerry Del Colliano assesses the sordid state of radio stocks, and the potential for a reversal of fortune. (Oct. 27)
Free Radio: Liberating the Commons - The latest manifesto from Stephen Dunifer, courtesy of Indybay. (Oct. 26)
Free Association: Low Power to the People! - The Nation gives a fair overview of the LPFM situation as it presently stands. (Oct. 24)
Stick a fork in it: a broadband over powerline post mortem - Let's hope this half-assed technology stays dead.... (Oct. 23)
Karmazin: Merging Sirius, XM Tech Years Away - As long as 15 years, possibly...good luck with that. (Oct. 21)
NAB/MSTV Embrace Radio Pirates, Make Up Engineering Data, and Do Whatever Else It Takes to Kill White Space Devices - Harold Feld calls the bluff on the broadcast industry for opposing the re-appropriation of analog TV spectrum. (Oct. 20)
Number 38 Crashes, Leaving FCC at 0-1 on the NASCAR Circuit - This DTV outreach effort is not going well...or perhaps it's simply going symbolically. (Oct. 20)
The FCC Heads For the Pit - CommLawBlog breaks the news about the FCC's controversial decision to sponsor a NASCAR driver in order to raise awareness about the upcoming DTV transition. (Oct. 17)
L'Affaire NASCAR: The Yellow Caution Flag Comes Out - CommLawBlog wonders: whose cockamamie idea was this? (Oct. 17)
Heavy Debt Endangers Media Giants CBS, Clear Channel, and Westwood One - The New York Post notes how the recession is affecting media conglomerates. Debt is the operative word. (Oct. 14)
Ten Years After Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronics Companies Regret Supporting Law - Hard to rectify the right of "consumer choice" with locking the same thing down. (Oct. 14)
Bush Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar - The idea is to consolidate intellectual property crime-fighting functions under one command. (Oct. 13)
Interview: laying it on the line with FCC chair Kevin Martin - Matthew Lasar probes one of the most mercurial FCC chairmen in history about his tenure at the agency. (Oct. 6)
$700 Billion Would Buy A Lot Of Fiber - Bailing out the banks to no effect is equivalent wiring every home in the country with broadband, with enough left over to retrofit half the nation's housing with solar energy improvements. (Oct. 2)
The Empire State Triangle - free103point9 explores this strange electronic "Bermuda Triangle" in Manhattan. (Oct. 2)

September
Bill would force satellite radio units to go digital - While the FCC asks for comment on whether XM/Sirius receivers should be interoperable with terrestrial digital AM/FM signals, Congress may preempt it. (Sept. 29)
Evaluation of the Comcast/Bitterer Filing - Really Excellent, Except For The Gaping Hole Around the Capacity Cap - Which, as Harold presciently pointed out, has come back to bite us. (Sept. 23)
The Financial Meltdown & Media Deregulation Connection - Jeff Chester connects the dots - we don't know how bad it really is because Big Media has a stake in mitigating the damage. (Sept. 23)
iTunes Tagging, Conditional Access Featured at iBiquity Booth - HD still struggles for that elusive killer application.... (Sept. 19)
Ex-chiefs have earful for candidates, sharp words for FCC - When former chairmen William Kennard and Michael Powell agree on something, then something must be wrong.... (Sept. 18)
Sirius XM Is in a Serious Bind - Businessweek breaks down the numbers of the newly-merged company, and finds it has a steep uphill climb to sustainability. (Sept. 17)
FCCDataharms - The agency degrades the data it collects on broadband penetration and growth; that can't be good. (Sept. 10)
Florida Pirate Shut Down - A commercial station dimes on a pirate, and then the local police move in. (Sept. 10)
Sirius XM Having Trouble Paying Off Debt - The Washington Post questions the newly-merged company's liquidity. (Sept. 10)
The HD Radio Alliance's Blame Game - Are rats leaving a sinking promotional ship? (Sept. 6)
Steve Cohen, East Village Radio - The Gothamist interviews this quirky station's founder and his motives. (Sept. 5)
Building community one watt at a time - The Catskill Community Center hosts a temporary barnraising to engage citizenry in the power of community radio. (Sept. 2)

August
More HD Fun - A working engineer expresses frustration with the shortcomings of the technology, especially for stations that have newly-upgraded their existing analog transmission structure. (Aug. 29)
UC Berkeley raid infoshop, confiscate computers of several organizations - Some of Berkeley Liberation Radio's gear was collateral damage in the raid, but the station does not appear to be the primary target. (Aug. 29)
HD Radio's Last Stand - "Time to turn off the HD and get ready for WiFi, streaming and podcasting – the future relatives of an industry that used to know by sheer instinct alone what to do next." (Aug. 28)
HD Stalled, Struggling - The question on everyone's mind is, where are the affordable receivers? Without them, terrestrial radio stands to be surpassed by alternate broadcast technologies. (Aug. 18)
The Leslie Report: August 14, 2008 - Arbitron's new metering system finds that more people listen to radio online than via HD. (Aug. 14)
HD Radio: Followup - Spectrum Talk finds receivers are still hard-to-find, expensive, and underperforming. (Aug. 11)
Beijing Olympics Pirate Radio Broadcast - Reporters Without Borders ran a one-day operation to protest the China's restrictions on press freedom. (Aug. 8)
Minow, Fowler: Strip FCC of Indeceny-Enforcement Authority - Two of the most ideologically-polarized members of the FCC agree on this one controversial issue. (Aug. 8)
Church Hill police won't charge FCC agents; TBI may take up misuse of police radio investigation - Lucky for the rogue FCC agents, impersonating a police officer is only a misdemeanor in Tennessee. (Aug. 7)
Church Hill, Mount Carmel Police Departments, undercover FCC agents embroiled in misuse of police radios brouhaha - Rule #1 of being an FCC "cop" - you're not a cop. (Aug. 6)
Colombian Station Airs HD Radio Tests - iBiquity makes another beachhead in a country without a digital radio transition policy yet. (Aug. 1)
Engineer's Group Has an Idea: Move AMs to Channels 5 & 6 - As if there wasn't enough demand for new entrants to the FM spectrum already... (Aug. 1)
Nuts and Bolts of BMC's AM Migration Plan - Radio World breaks down the details of this controversial proposal. (Aug. 1)

July
EMF: Expanded Band Could Accommodate LPFMs - Though that's not what the godcasting conglomerate wants the spectrum for: it's just a cover story to proliferate more FM translator stations. (July 31)
Was the FCC Comcast Investigation A Farce? - A worthy question to ask, given the agency's record on "consumer advocacy" and "protection." (July 31)
Done Deal: XM/Sirius Merger Approved - Radio Ink has some of the backstory behind how the vote actually went down. (July 25)
Public Radio Absorbs HD Radio Power Implications - "[T]he proposed power increase has raised many questions with regard to planning digital conversion and upgrading existing installations." (July 25)
Senator fuses controversial IP bills into big, bad package - Ars Technica has the dirt on the Frankensteining of the "PRO-IP" and "PIRATE" Acts. (July 25)
Intellectual-Property Bill Introduced in Senate - It's a big, wet kiss to the movie studios and record labels, truth be told. (July 24)
NPR Labs: With Higher IBOC Power Levels Comes Honkin' Interference to Analog - That's a direct headline quote from Radio World, which pretty much says it all. (July 24)
Satellite radio companies to pay US$19.7 million to settle rules violations - A slap on the wrist, given the scope of piracy XM and Sirius have been involved in for at least the last two years. (July 24)
Stern on XM/Sirius Merger: "I Will Never Vote for a Democrat Again." - What's he so worked up about? He's still a hundred-million dollar personality... (July 24)
Pirates ahoy! Is legal radio boring? - And what happens when pirates go legit? (July 23)
XM-Sirius: The Dossier on the Woman Who Decided the Vote - A bit of background on FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor-Tate, who ended up casting the vote that counted...and possibly why. (July 23)
Wireless Mic Follow-Up: Turns Out Public Safety Gets There First - Who knew wireless microphones posed a hazard to public-safety frequencies? Harold Feld is following the tale. (July 21)
Alaskan company to test new shortwave technology - It's believed to be the first field experiments of Digital Radio Mondiale in the United States. (July 18)
New Wireless Microphone Complaint and Petition - Why should unauthorized users of these frequencies get a free pass from the FCC, asks Michael Marcus? (July 18)
Pirate radio station 99.9 is silenced - By local authorities in Georgia, no less. (July 16)
We File Wireless Microphone Complaint: Shure Says Breaking Law Should Be OK If You Sound Good - Harold Feld is hot on the trail of one of the most egregious spectrum-squatters of the present day. (July 16)
Alaska DRM Experiment: License Granted - Few details on the tests, except that the Department of Defense is involved. (July 15)
Texas city evicting KSAP from city hall - Sez the mayor, "Free speech has its limits," even on the only LPFM station in town. (July 14)
Clear Channel's Book Strategy Said to Be Unusual - When the mega-broadcaster found out a critical tome was in the works, they paid a ghostwriter to publish a counter-puff piece. (July 11)
ACLU Sues Over Incantation Dragnet Wiretapping Law - Is there still a First and Fourth Amendment to save? (July 10)
Bush Signs Spy Bill, ACLU Sues - Obama rolled on the vote; McCain abstained. (July 10)
Price of HD Radio Receivers Drops to Under $100 - With rebates, of course...but they're still not price-competitive with good-old analog radios. (July 8)
Lessons from Amateur Radio - Think it's old-skool? It may be our only reliable lifeline in times of national crisis. (July 3)
Can DRM Work in High Latitudes? - Radio World's Leslie Stimson digs a bit more deeply into the proposed Digital Radio Mondiale tests in Alaska. (July 2)
Ibiquity Licensee Fees Go Up - Late-adopters, ye shall be penalized. (July 1)

June
Keep Speech Free - MicroKind's founder, Joe Ptak, writes an editorial correcting some misconceptions about microradio and LPFM. (June 28)
HD-R Traffic Coalition Expands, Names President - Is this to be the killer application for digital radio? It's not even audio. (June 27)
United Kingdom Eyes Digital Radio Migration - They'd like to go all-digital by 2020. (June 27)
Low Power to the People - The Boston Globe editorializes that an expansion of LPFM is necessary for media democracy. (June 23)
IBOC Power Increase Request Stirs Reaction - Many engineers do not like the idea, because of the increased interference it will cause. (June 19)
Voted items at FCC are secret, agency says - Score another one for non-transparency. (June 18)
Reaction on both sides of pirate radio issue - Augusta, Georgia is up in arms because there's hip-hop where there shouldn't be! The horror! (June 16)
Pirate Radio Reconsidered - UK historians are looking back at the country's pirate heyday as an economic evolution, not just a cultural one. (June 13)
Pirate radio station admits it's not legit - DJ Shortdog makes no bones about playing what he wants. (June 13)
The Central Committee Is in Session: The trouble with the Federal Communications Commission - Jesse Walker does a good job of taking Kevin Martin's corrupt FCC to the rhetorical woodshed. (June 12)
Signal Interference: Tuning into the definition of "Corporate Media" - An awkward moment at the National Conference for Media Reform: just where do "we" draw the "line" with defining "allies"? (June 10)
IEEE-USA Sends Letter to FCC Urging Improvements in Consideration of Technical Issues - Professional engineers are aghast at the lack of the FCC's on independent analytical abilities. (June 6)

May
ENCO Will Build 'Hands-on Media Play Van' - Bringing the capability to teach media production skills to underprivileged kids in the United Kingdom. (May 30)
Ibiquity Rehabs Software Development Too - The company is contracting out application-development for HD Radio. (May 30)
Which Big Radio Groups Are Not Yet Jumping on the HD-R Train? - The names - and numbers - say much about the technology's floundering proliferation. (May 30)
FCC order could give ClearChannel backdoor to expand reach - A tentative green-light for a plan to allow the radio giant to own stations without really owning them - a clever way to circumvent local media ownership caps. (May 25)
Mexico Authorizes Transition to HD Radio Broadcasting for Stations Within 320 Kilometers of Country's Northern Border with the U.S - An iBiquity press release touts the encroachment of HD into Mexican territory. (May 21)
Once again NPR opposes expansion of low-power FM - Our so-called "public broadcaster" continues to use specious technical arguments to stop actual increased public access to the airwaves. (May 21)
Aye, there's a radio pirate out there on 103.5 FM: Who is it? - Palm Springs, CA residents get treated mostly to the Beatles. (May 16)
FCC Hires Ketchum for DTV Transition PR - This ethically-challenged firm was behind two previous domestic, bona-fide propaganda campaigns. (May 8)
FCC monitors Humboldt Free Radio Alliance - A Freedom of Information Act describes the depth to which the FCC uses the Internet to bust pirate stations. (May 7)
Listeners Say Pirate Radio Station Invading Orange County Airwaves With Profanity - Oh, the horror, exclaims a local TV station (includes video)! (May 7)
More Than Half Full - Radio World editorial issues a mixed prognosis on the long-term future of HD Radio. (May 7)

April
House committee investigation blames Martin for FCC's 'broken process' - The House Commerce Committee interviews agency employees and stakeholders, and a consensus on Martin's mismanagement is growing. (Apr. 30)
Alaskan DRM Experiment Proposed - Digital Aurora Radio Technologies has an experimental callsign, and is exploring Digital Radio Mondiale's characteristics in and around 26 MHz. (Apr. 29)
NPR's war on Low Power FM: the laws of physics vs. politics - Matthew Lasar takes NPR to task for fighting an expansion of real public radio. (Apr. 27)
Swoop forces pirate radio stations off-air - UK radio cops conduct a search-and-destroy mission in the Islington area. (Apr. 25)
The Digital Transition Down Under Examined - Radio World's Leslie Stimson takes a glance at how Australia is navigating the transition. (Apr. 24)
NY judge reserves judgment in Clear Channel case - This allows a lawsuit surrounding the company's $20 billion privatization to proceed. (Apr. 24)
Ontario's pirates of yore - A privately-published memoir details the province's pirate radio history, with special focus on the 1960s. (Apr. 24)
Radio: Hypocritical Deceiver - John Gorman calls out HD's shills for cooking the books and over-hyping the flawed technology's adoption rate. (Apr. 23)
NAB, RAB, HD-R Alliance Launch Marketing Campaign - Perhaps not much more than a last-ditch attempt to squeeze profits out of the slowly-receding business-as-usual. (Apr. 18)
NAB Was Key in Embedded Exporter Project - The radio industry's trade association is now beginning to call the shots for iBiquity, in terms of how future HD hardware will be designed and constructed. Interesting. (Apr. 18)
NAB 2008: Tim Robbins Decries Media 'Abyss' in NAB Keynote - Like Edward R. Murrow and Newton Minow before him. A four-segment video of the speech itself can be found in the Flash-based playlist at this site. (Apr. 14)
New HD Radio Book Published - Geared toward "proper" implementation of the protocol by stations. (Apr. 14)
Arbitron/Edison study chills the already thin air of HD Radio - Mark Ramsey boils down the obvious: consumer acknowledgement/adoption of HD receivers has stalled. (Apr. 11)
NAB Uses Nearly $9 Million to Lobby in 2007 - Notes Radio World. (Apr. 11)
Survey: American Awareness of HD Radio Technology Remains Low - American Media Services finds just about one-third of the population even knows it exists, and few are interested in buying in to listen. (Apr. 10)
Are Elevated FM IBOC Levels a Good Fix? - The industry is split over whether increasing sideband power levels by a factor of 10 is worth the noise it will cause to the analog portion of station signals. (Apr. 9)
Digital Alliance Moves to Shift Public from 'Awareness' to 'Purchase' - If you've failed to sell the idea, can you still sell the hardware? (Apr. 4)
Report: Ibiquity Raising More Venture Capital - Another $15 million, notes Radio World, bringing the company's entire venture-capital investment-debt up to approximately $130 million. (Apr. 4)

March
6 Banks Are Sued in Clear Channel Deal - The New York Times reports they allegedly negotiated the company's private buyout in bad faith. (Mar. 27)
Radio: Ponzi's Back! - John Gorman excoriates iBiquity for its shill-job. (Mar. 27)
Excellence in Engineering: Why the Secrecy at the FCC? - Although they get awards, the employees receive no public recognition. And you wonder why agency morale is bad? (Mar. 24)
Number of Licensed Radio Stations Grows - And it's not surprising that strongest growth was for translator stations. (Mar. 21)
S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Activists - The radio came in handiest, as always, providing real-time, street-level coverage to those in said streets. (Mar. 19)
FCC insider: This place is hell; silent protest planned - Ars Technica has a scoop on how mismanaged the FCC has become, straight from the mouths of disgruntled career agency employees. Bureaucratic mutiny ahoy? (Mar. 16)
Eliason Deplores Laughter, 'Slick Media Techniques' at Religious Confab - Radio World notes how one religious broadcaster complains at the NRB annual conference that Christian radio is slowly becoming more secular. (Mar. 14)
FCC Enforcement is Criticized by GAO - Radio World provides copious links to this damning story, including a link to the GAO report itself. The bottom line: a pathetic number of consumer-lodged complaints with the agency are actually settled. (Mar. 14)
Philly Pirate Fined $10,000 - Michael Stone Campbell appealed to a Senator to help, but he wasn't able to find any political cover. (Mar. 14)
Black Friday for HD Radio - According to industry insiders, the consensus is...laughable? (Mar. 13)
FCC chief Martin asked to produce extensive documents in probe - The House Commerce Committee may just be on the hunt for Martin's head. (Mar. 13)
NRSC Wraps Up Revised IBOC Standard Changes; Plans April Vote - The major change augments the spectrum-grab nature of the HD technology. (Mar. 13)
Let's Go Shopping: HD Radio in Cincy - Radio World guest commentator finds a sad state of affairs on HD's retail campaign. (Mar. 12)
Record number of New York City pirate radio stations contacted by the FCC - Free103point9 summarizes the vibrant state of the scene, through a somewhat enforcement-related lens. (Mar. 8)
HD Radio on the Offense - The East Bay Express writes the most critical piece of journalism to-date about the sham that is HD-R. (Mar. 7)
Radio: The U.K.'s Digital Death Notice - Many commercial stations are backing away from digital experimentation. Why? They can't figure out how to monetize the new system. (Mar. 5)
The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal - Nation writer Jerrold Starr notes how McClain used his influence for major media - where the real controversy about his behavior lies, not in how his influence got used. (Mar. 4)

February
NPR Takes No Position on FM IBOC Power Increase - It's still waiting for results from a CPB-commissioned field study of FM-HD interference more generally. (Feb. 28)
Raid made on illegal radio station - Busted as part of an ongoing Ofcom enforcement-wave. (Feb. 27)
10 pirate radio stations taken off air in raids - UK radio police Ofcom are on the warpath. (Feb. 20)
Consumers, Wall Street not buying HD - A RAIN guest editorial sums up the financial situation of the technology very succinctly. (Feb. 15)
FM IBOC Power Increase Testing Details to Salivate Over - Yes, digital coverage may improve by making a ten-fold increase in the power of digital sidebands, but there will be consequences, and the solution may not be viable for all stations. (Feb. 14)
Guy's 2008 Forecast (and Surprise) - Radio World columnist Guy Wire makes some interesting predictions about HD radio and a convergent wireless environment. (Feb. 12)
Hong Kong pirate radio station gets OK from high court - Citizen's Radio wins legitimacy after the government fails to prove its allegations that the station "jeopardizes public safety." (Feb. 11)
Natterings of a "naysayer" - Watt Hairston cogently explains how any increase in HD sideband power will not fix a damn thing regarding the technology's fundamental flaws. (Feb. 11)
Curtis to make pirate radio film - The Boat that Rocked will dramatize the story of Radio Caroline for the big screen, as interpreted by the man behind Four Weddings and a Funeral. (Feb. 8)
HD Radio spinners claim a breakthrough year - But, if you look more deeply at the numbers, and relative to the penetration of competing media outlets and devices, it's still a dog. (Feb. 8)
Clear Channel Pulls the Plug On Some HD Radio Stations - This can't be good. (Feb. 6)
Angling for a Spot on the Airwaves - The Future of Music Coalition is profiling those involved in the recent noncommercial full-power FM filing window. (Feb. 4)
HD Radio Sales Restated - The number of digital-compatible receivers sold is less than half what the industry expected. (Feb. 4)
Don't Touch That Dial: Digital Radio Lags Behind TV Thanks to Upgrade Costs, Lack of Customers - The Charleston/Mattoon (IL) Journal-Gazette/Times-Courier says HD is not taking off in the heartland. (Feb. 3)
NAB Will Ask FCC to Up FM IBOC Power - Increasing the power of digital sidebands will create additional interference between them and a station's analog signal, but apparently the industry is (again) ready to sacrifice listening quality for coverage area. (Feb. 1)
Turning Some Tight Corners for IBOC - Skip Pizzi ruminates about the deteriorating situation for HD Radio in the pages of Radio World. (Feb. 1)

January
Germany flicks off-switch on DAB - The Eureka-147 system is not gaining traction among German listeners. (Jan. 28)
Empire State Building Car Zap Mystery - What is causing motorized vehicles to stall and die within a few square blocks of the Building? Might it be all the radio and TV broadcast apparatus on top of its historic spire? (Jan. 27)
The Dirt on KDRT - California LPFM station threatens to lose its spot on the dial to an alt-rock commercial blowtorch. (Jan. 24)
What's With FM Digital Power Increase? - Radio World's Leslie Stimson previews the pros and cons of such a move. (Jan. 24)
Will Small Markets Convert to HD Radio? Survey Suggests Not Soon - An academic study suggests HD is DOA in markets below #150, at the very least. (Jan. 24)
Watching the Martin Watch - The FCC Chairman's never bothered much for the press - and, when he does, he does so with much disdain and disrespect. (Jan. 21)
Trio Behind Pirate Hip Hop Radio Station Arrested - Two men and a woman are charged under Florida's anti-pirate law for bootleg broadcasting in the Orlando area - and their gangsta-rap playlist is apparently to blame. (Jan. 12)
House panel launches probe of FCC practices - Not happy with Kevin Martin's captaincy, the House Commerce Committee wants a closer investigation. (Jan. 8)
Radio: Gossip Churl - The buzz-mongering about HD is falling flat on its face over and over again, according to John Gorman, and he provides a few illustrative examples. (Jan. 8)
One radio station, two communities - The Boston Globe gives a positive profile of "Brockton Heat," a microstation uniting Caribbean immigrants via the airwaves. (Jan. 6)
GSD&M Preps $200 Mill.+ HD Radio Push - The new marketing campaign will, again, revolve around airtime donated by HD Radio Alliance-member stations. (Jan. 4)