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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)
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