According to this New York Times report, Christian broadcasting groups are threatening high school and college radio stations with petitions to the Federal Communications Commission asking that they be denied their renewal licensing. "I thought, 'Is this fiction?' " Steve George, faculty advisor to WRFT in Indianapolis recalled. "Who could do this?" He has since learned the answer. Hoosier Public Radio is largely the …
If We Don’t Measure Their Impact Maybe They’ll Go Away
Ad Age: Terrestrial broadcasters insist they’re not nervous about satellite radio’s 7 million subscribers, but they’ve successfully stalled Arbitron’s plan to add satellite and online radio listening to its diary measurement system. Arbitron was originally scheduled to instruct its diary keepers to record their satellite and online radio listening in the fall 2005 book. Instead, Arbitron now plans a 25-market test of …
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Gin Joins Juice On Satellite Radio
The New York Times: Sirius Satellite Radio is joining the growing ranks of media outlets that accept liquor advertising, as it begins running musical commercials for Diageo's Tanqueray gin. Neither Sirius Satellite Radio nor its rival, XM Satellite Radio, carries commercials on any of its scores of music channels. Both carry spots on most of their talk, sports, news and entertainment channels, although there are …
What Mercury Sounds Like
Ford Motor Company is offering four audio streams from their Mercury Radio page. VW was first-to-market with this technology a few years ago, but the German automaker discontinued its internet radio station last year. …
Ready For Roadcasting?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Just as commuters are catching up to the idea of satellite radio for their cars, former graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a next-generation radio concept that allows users to tune into music from iPods and other digital music players in nearby cars. The idea, which the students developed for an unidentified "major automaker" last year, is called Roadcasting. Using …
Mixing Media
New York Times: With its long reliance on talk formats and call-in programs, radio was arguably the first open-source media form. Now a new Public Radio International program, "Open Source from P.R.I.," will test whether the collective intelligence permeating the Web can make not just loud radio, but smart radio. Not only does the program pull from unfiltered voices and opinions found on blogs, Open Source uses its …
Satellite Radio A Hit With Baseball Fans
New York Times: Displaced baseball fans who used to need a pricey cable package or a high-speed Internet connection to follow their favorite teams now only require a hand-held satellite radio, the familiar voice of a hometown broadcaster and a healthy imagination. "I feel like a kid again," said Nathan Olson, a Cubs fan from Pine Bluff, Ark. "I haven't listened to the radio like this since the 80's." Technology has …
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Listening In On Microbrands. Hook It Up!
LA Times is running a piece on the return of internet radio. Since I listen to internet radio every day (I'm near a computer), I hadn't realized the medium had gone away. In fact, I'm still discovering new stations all the time. Just last week, thanks to Bret Dougherty, I found WXYC in Chapel Hill and it instantly became a new favorite. Doc Searls didn't think much of the article. However, I did find some of it …
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