Good news in Salt Lake. KCPW got a loan from the City Council to cover their debt.
KCPW General Manager Ed Sweeney is confident the station will be able to repay the loan before the end of the six month term.
KCPW is primarily an NPR news and information format with additional programming from APM and PRI.
According to PPM data for Salt Lake City provided by Radio Research Consortium their Share and AQH in the metro if about a quarter of the size of the audience for KUER. KUER is their primary competitor for the public radio news audience.
There's more in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
College radio stations fear budget cuts could silence them – USATODAY.com
A posting yesterday commented on how some colleges and high schools are selling or entering in an LMA with larger non-commercial stations and moving student content on-line. Not everybody agrees this is the best thing to do.
350 college radio stations formed a loose alliance today to fight against a steady stream of universities that have been selling or transferring their FM licenses to non-student operations. This is usually in response to tighter budgets and a rapidly changing media industry. To many of the students involved in college radio losing an FM signal is a lost learning opportunity.
College radio stations fear budget cuts could silence them – USATODAY.com
350 college radio stations formed a loose alliance today to fight against a steady stream of universities that have been selling or transferring their FM licenses to non-student operations. This is usually in response to tighter budgets and a rapidly changing media industry. To many of the students involved in college radio losing an FM signal is a lost learning opportunity.
College radio stations fear budget cuts could silence them – USATODAY.com
Monday, October 10, 2011
Shape of Things To Come
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things to Come was an okay movie. It was adapted as Things to Come (1936) Actually, it put me to sleep. There way too much preaching. The song by the Yardbirds (Shape of Things) was much better. Jimmy Page plays the solo. But that's not the point of this posting.
In a recent blog I pointed to a frequency swap in Rhode Island that allows Latino Public Radio to offer programming 24/7 and gives Rhode Island Public Radio an FM signal on Providence. The other winner was Wheeler School. The Head of School, Dan Wheeler is quoted as saying, "streaming the student shows is actually the way our students listen to the radio these days." The programming that was previously aired on 88.1 FM the Wheeler’s student station, will shift almost entirely to Internet streaming through a new website. www.wheelerschoolradio.org.
The Future of Radio
I recently had a discussion with Paul Kamp and Richard Cerny of Backbone Networks Corporation. They see what Wheeler has done as the future of College and High School Radio...and perhaps the future of radio. They have 40 clients for their service. College Radio does not need to be tied to expensive terrestrial based stations. Backbone and their major competitor Live 365 make "Having your own Internet radio station is a lot easier than you ever imagined. Backbone Radio is truly a radio station on your Macintosh." Now, think about what Dan Miller said. "Streaming the student shows is actually the way our students listen to the radio these days." Cerny and Kamp also pointed out that Internet Radio is coming to automobiles. Some luxury models will be offering it soon. The same things was supposed to happen for HD Radio but, I don't think the same fate lies ahead for internet radio because of the proliferation of mobile media. The only thing holding back mobile media is spectrum. Demand for mobile media is likely to spur more spectrum. There does not seem to be a lot of demand for HD Radio.
Being There
The way the audience get their information and entertainment is changing rapidly. Public radio needs to be on the platforms being used by its audience and future audience. WUMB (A station I spent a cup of coffee with) is doing some of this by offering multiple streams of programming using Live365. The offer Celtic, Contemporary Folk, Traditional Folk, Blues and and a couple more streams on their 24/7 Music Streams. It's an attempt to super-serve their audience. Clear Channel is now offering I Heart Radio. Clear Channel is putting their 750+ radio stations on platforms that are preferred by many younger listeners. It also links their stations offering a service that promises to be similar to Pandora allowing users to create their own radio station. WUMB is not necessarily going after the same demographic, but on-line listening and mobile media is being adapted by a broad spectrum of public radio's older demographic. WUMB has an iPhone App for their terrestrial signal. I'm not sure they have it for the Music Streams.
Backbone is optimistic about the future of internet radio. Their service can be used by low power stations, community radio stations, college stations and high school stations to extend their reach. It can also be used by stations willing to cut the chord entirely.
The Shape of Things to Come was an okay movie. It was adapted as Things to Come (1936) Actually, it put me to sleep. There way too much preaching. The song by the Yardbirds (Shape of Things) was much better. Jimmy Page plays the solo. But that's not the point of this posting.
In a recent blog I pointed to a frequency swap in Rhode Island that allows Latino Public Radio to offer programming 24/7 and gives Rhode Island Public Radio an FM signal on Providence. The other winner was Wheeler School. The Head of School, Dan Wheeler is quoted as saying, "streaming the student shows is actually the way our students listen to the radio these days." The programming that was previously aired on 88.1 FM the Wheeler’s student station, will shift almost entirely to Internet streaming through a new website. www.wheelerschoolradio.org.
The Future of Radio
I recently had a discussion with Paul Kamp and Richard Cerny of Backbone Networks Corporation. They see what Wheeler has done as the future of College and High School Radio...and perhaps the future of radio. They have 40 clients for their service. College Radio does not need to be tied to expensive terrestrial based stations. Backbone and their major competitor Live 365 make "Having your own Internet radio station is a lot easier than you ever imagined. Backbone Radio is truly a radio station on your Macintosh." Now, think about what Dan Miller said. "Streaming the student shows is actually the way our students listen to the radio these days." Cerny and Kamp also pointed out that Internet Radio is coming to automobiles. Some luxury models will be offering it soon. The same things was supposed to happen for HD Radio but, I don't think the same fate lies ahead for internet radio because of the proliferation of mobile media. The only thing holding back mobile media is spectrum. Demand for mobile media is likely to spur more spectrum. There does not seem to be a lot of demand for HD Radio.
Being There
The way the audience get their information and entertainment is changing rapidly. Public radio needs to be on the platforms being used by its audience and future audience. WUMB (A station I spent a cup of coffee with) is doing some of this by offering multiple streams of programming using Live365. The offer Celtic, Contemporary Folk, Traditional Folk, Blues and and a couple more streams on their 24/7 Music Streams. It's an attempt to super-serve their audience. Clear Channel is now offering I Heart Radio. Clear Channel is putting their 750+ radio stations on platforms that are preferred by many younger listeners. It also links their stations offering a service that promises to be similar to Pandora allowing users to create their own radio station. WUMB is not necessarily going after the same demographic, but on-line listening and mobile media is being adapted by a broad spectrum of public radio's older demographic. WUMB has an iPhone App for their terrestrial signal. I'm not sure they have it for the Music Streams.
Backbone is optimistic about the future of internet radio. Their service can be used by low power stations, community radio stations, college stations and high school stations to extend their reach. It can also be used by stations willing to cut the chord entirely.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Changes at KLCC
A declining audience and declining in listener sensitive income lead to some big changes in Eugene.
Music is not gone but, there's a lot more NPR news and information before noon. All Things Considered starts at 3pm. Schedule
Friday, October 7, 2011
R.I. Latino radio station going 24/7
This is a win/win/win situation in Rhode Island. The Latino community gets full-time public radio service, The NPR station Providence gets the FM signal it was desperately seeking in Rhode Island's major market, and The Wheeler School keeps it's student station on the Internet while offering NPR programming to Rhode Island. "Dan Miller, who is Wheeler’s Head of School, said, “Because we are the license-holder, we can not only bring Rhode Island Public Radio to the FM dial, but we can also help create a permanent home on the AM dial for Latino Public Radio.” The lease-agreement “also creates an affiliation between Wheeler School, Rhode Island Public Radio and National Public Radio, which we consider to be a very positive affiliation.” He said streaming the student show “is actually the way our students listen to the radio these days."
BBC Announces Further Reductions
The BBC has announced further reduction that could mean the loss of 2,000 jobs. The streamlining is deemed necessary because, "the licence fee settlement agreed with the Government in October 2010, which sees the licence fee frozen to 2017, and the BBC assuming new funding responsibilities, including for the World Service, S4C, BBC Monitoring and local TV and broadband." With fees frozen and costs rising, savings needed to be found.
You can find the BBC's release from the BBC Trust here.
You can find the BBC's release from the BBC Trust here.
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