Eric, Jennifer and Paul return with a new episode of Radio Survivor, recapping some of the latest news from our travels. Jennifer shares highlights from the annual student media conference hosted by Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) and from her visits to college radio stations in New York City. Just back from South by Southwest, Paul lends perspective on some of the latest trends in podcasting. Additionally, we provide details about an opportunity for radio stations to broadcast the Wetland Project‘s annual Earth Day 24-hour slow radio event, featuring the sounds of nature. If you are interested in airing all or part of the broadcast, the organizers can be reached at INFO at WETLANDPROJECT dot com.

Show Notes:

• Wetland Project
• Wetland Project artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings were our guests on episode 333 in 2023
• IBSNYC25 conference hosted by Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
• Jennifer’s IBS conference reports from 2009 on Spinning Indie
• Paul’s report on the 2012 regional IBS conference in Chicago
• Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC)
• Radio Survivor episode #335 about DLARC with guest Kay Savetz
• IBS collection in DLARC
• DLARC College Radio collection + December 2024 blog update about the project
• SXSW website
• Vox Media Podcast Stage at SXSW
• Sounds Profitable
• SXSW Radio Day Stage, with performances presented by various radio stations, including KCRW, KEXP, BBC Introducing, NPR Live Sessions, and Austin community radio station KOOP
• KUTX is the University of Texas-owned music radio station launched by NPR station KUT
• Douglas Rushkoff’s website
• iHeart Podcast Awards
• On Air Fest website
• College radio station WKCR at Columbia University + Jennifer’s 2017 station tour report
• College radio station WNYU at New York University + Jennifer’s 2008 station tour report
• Columbia University Amateur Radio Club

Show Credits:

Edited by Eric Klein

This episode was produced by Jennifer Waits

Hosted by Paul Riismandel, Eric Klein and Jennifer Waits

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In the last few years YouTube has become one of the most popular platforms for consuming podcasts, even though it’s a primarily a video platform, and podcasts have traditionally been an audio-first medium. This fact has raised both questions and concerns with podcasters. Paul has worked on research studies intended to better understand why and how people use YouTube to consume podcasts. He shares that data along with analyses and thoughts on how podcasters might think about YouTube and video.

Show Notes:

• Sounds Profitable’s Sound You Can See study
• The Download on Podcasts, Fall 2023
• YouTube and Video Will Grow Podcasting in 2024
• Podcasting on YouTube

Show Credits:

• This episode was produced by Paul Riismandel
• Hosted by Jennifer Waits, Eric Klein and Paul Riismandel
• Edited by Eric Klein

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Jennifer, our intrepid radio station tour guide, leads us through some of her recent visits to college radio stations in New York and Rhode Island. This most recent academic year (2022-23) was an active one, with college campuses and radio stations coming back to life as pandemic restrictions have eased. We also discuss a long-running college radio program that just turned 50 years old. We are curious if listeners know of other programs of a similar vintage. We close the show with a discussion of the 20th anniversary of podcasting.

Show Notes:

• Podcast #329: New York College Radio Tours
• College Radio Station KXLU at Loyola Marymount University
• Alma Del Barrio – show at KXLU
• International Polka Party
• Radio Station Visit #141: WKCR at Columbia University
• College radio station WSLC at Sarah Lawrence College
• Radio Station Visit #171: WSLC at Sarah Lawrence College
• BSR aka Brown Student and Community Radio
• Radio Station Visit #170: BSR at Brown University
• WBRU radio at Brown University
• Brown Student Radio to go Online-Only (July, 2011 article on Radio Survivor)
• WBRU Programming Leaves FM in Advance of $5.63 Million License Sale to EMF (September, 2017 article on Radio Survivor)
• 360 Degrees Experience in Sound show on WBRU
• A Matter of Degrees (film)
• College Radio Survivor: Remembering Film “A Matter of Degrees” and More News
• WPIR Pratt Radio Tumblr
• WPIR Pratt Radio site
• Celebrating Podcasting’s 20th Birthday
• Podnews: Happy 20th Birthday, Podcasting
• Paul’s former podcast: Mediageek
• Jennifer’s appearance on Mediageek: The Value of College Radio (July 16, 2009)
• Why Every Radio Station Sounds the Same
• Paul appeared on the New Media Show episode: Unleashing the Potential of Audio and Video Content #547
• Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History
• College Radio Station WSVA at the School of Visual Arts

Show Credits:

• Produced by Jennifer Waits
• Hosted by Eric Klein, Jennifer Waits and Paul Riismandel
• Edited by Eric Klein

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Thanks to James Cridland at Podnews, I was reminded that today, July 9, 2023, marks the 20th birthday of the first-ever podcast recording. As James notes, this was the day that Dave Winer – author of the enclosure tag added to RSS to make it possible to automatically download an audio file – recorded the first episode of what would become Radio Open Source, hosted by Christopher Lydon. The show is still heard on the radio and via podcast today. 

Though on-demand radio show audio had been posted to the internet for at least a decade prior, podcasting as we know it was born when RSS made it possible to build applications – once called “podcatchers” – to automatically check for new episodes of a show and download them, as we do today using platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify. That was the birth of the “podcast feed” that you could subscribe to, so that you didn’t have to check a website to see if a new show was posted. 

I remember doing just that before 2003, to catch both broadcast and internet radio shows. I was on the other side, too, posting my community radio program, “mediageek” for non-local and time-shifted listening. 

I’d already been using RSS to keep tabs on my favorite blogs, pre-Google Reader (R.I.P.), and was excited for the system to gain the capacity to distribute audio. At the time, a lot of online audio was still distributed by proprietary and often expensive streaming systems like RealAudio, frequently beyond the reach of community and grassroots producers. I immediately understood the potential for RSS to make it easier for producers and listeners, alike. Note that we didn’t yet call this a “podcast.” Writer Ben Hammersley wouldn’t coin the term for another year.

I hand coded my first podcast feed – adding the enclosure tag to an existing RSS feed – somewhere in late 2003. Any evidence of that site and files is lost to several server and platform migrations. By 2004 blogging platforms started making it easier to add enclosure tags, so my radio show could now be subscribed to as a podcast. Those episodes are still online (though migrated to WordPress towards the end of the decade).

I didn’t become a regular podcast listener until some time in 2004. At the time you either listened to shows on your PC, or downloaded them to portable media player, such as the medium’s namesake iPod. Smartphones as we know them didn’t exist, and few people had mobile internet. iPods and MP3 players were not internet devices. 

Having never owned an iPod, I actually used my minidisc recorder (incidentally, Lydon also used a minidisc recorder in his portable “blog audio studio“). The NetMD feature let you connect it via USB to a PC and download audio to it. It was about as fast as downloading to an iPod, and a disc could hold up to four hours using the new long-play modes. This still meant you also had to plan ahead for your listening. I would often load up a disc the night before so I would have something to listen to on my next day’s commute. Discs were re-writeable, so I would just reuse the same ones over and over. 

The real magic of podcasting being built on RSS is that it isn’t owned and controlled by any one entity. It’s an open protocol. Anyone can build a podcast feed and submit it to a directory like Apple Podcasts or Spotify. But even if it’s not in a directory, a listener can get the feed URL and pop it into many a podcast player app. 

It means that a podcaster is not dependent on a single platform, like YouTube, TikTok, Twitch or Instagram. You just need an account with a web host, or a podcast-specific host. If you need to change that host, most provide pretty simple tools to export and migrate your content. Though, it’s highly recommended to also keep your own backups. Because podcasting isn’t just on one site, it can require a little more technical expertise than just hitting record on an app – even so, some hosts make that simple. But the payoff is that the whims of any one corporation are less likely to shut you down.

That said, I have to acknowlege that the definition of “podcast” is getting broader these days. There are plenty of shows on YouTube or Twitch that creators and consumers consider to be podcasts, that may not be distributed by RSS or available on any audio podcast platform. With the death of the iPod and a growing dependence on large social media platforms, the techical roots of podcasting have become obscured. So the term seems to have become more about the form than the technology. 

Though I’m still a strong advocate for the open ecosystem that RSS creates for podcasting, I’m not pedantic about it either. Instead, I’m amazed by how podcasting revitalized talk audio programming and nutured a widely diverse universe of programs across the internet. If someone sees their YouTube channel as a podcast I don’t want to argue with them. To me that’s too much like gatekeeping. Instead, I would like to introduce them to the wider world of the medium, so they might have the knowledge to become less dependent on any one platform, and possibly embrace distributing their show via RSS, in addition to YouTube. 

Podcasting’s decentralized nature may have slowed its growth, really not becoming particularly mainstream until its 10th birthday. But rapid growth isn’t necessarily the best possible outcome. Being decentralized means a single billionaire can’t entirely take it over and bend it to his will. That’s a feature, not a bug, and has been key to podcasting’s survival. I think it will continue, too. 

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The annual Infinite Dial survey from Edison Research was recently released, showing what people in the US are listening to, and where. It even includes social media platforms like TikTok, which Eric observes young people often use like radio, playing in the background as they go about daily activities. We review the stats, and also get into the FCC’s latest count of radio stations. Spoiler alert: there are more than ever.

Jennifer shares her recent visit to the Pyrite Radio art installation, featuring radios using fool’s gold as their crystal.

Show Notes:

• Edison Research Infinite Dial 2022
• FCC Broadcast Stations Totals for Q1 2022
• For comparison, Radio Station Totals for Q1 2012
• Jennifer’s dispatch on Pyrite Radio for Hii Magazine

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Franken FMs are the radio service that refuses to die, even after the FCC ostensibly pulled the plug this past summer. Recall that these are former analog low-power TV stations on channel 6 whose audio could be heard at about 87.7 FM. Analog LPTV shut down on July 13, 2021, but then Venture Technologies Group was granted “Special Temporary Authority” to keep a couple of its stations broadcasting an analog FM audio signal alongside their digital video signals.

Now the number stations has grown to about a “half-dozen,” according to Radio World, in an piece that taps some of the architects of the new generation 3.0 digital television standard to get their take on this experiment. One says to make space for the analog FM signal, “is to actually lower spectral efficiency.” Another is skeptical, as well, saying, “[t]he system may work and be useful, but the information is not available yet to prove it.” A third was more optimistic, noting, “[w]ith the limitations of FM spectrum, they are making use of the FCC rules and channel segmentation philosophy. They’re putting it to good use.”

That said, the experiment still is temporary, and it would seem the initial six month lease is coming due soon. The stations may still petition for an extension, which the FCC would likely grant at least once. But an actual rulemaking will be required if Franken FMs are to become permanent fixtures on the dial.

Radio futurologist James Cridland observes that the BBC has announced plans to make some radio shows available as podcasts exclusive to the BBC Sounds app for 28 days, which also means they’ll be unavailable outside the UK during that period. It also means these programs will not be playable on other podcast apps, like Apple Podcasts, even for UK listeners. Cridland deems it, “another disappointing move from a broadcaster that should be widening its potential audience, not limiting it.”

He also notes additional broadcasters doing the same, while others, like Norway’s NRK, are pulling older archives off open, third-party apps. “In an age where radio consumption is in slow decline in many parts of the world, I’d suggest that anything that removes opportunities for listeners to discover new stuff is regrettable,” he concludes.

If CDs were recently declared dead, they’re sure enjoying the afterlife in 2022, as the format approaches the ripe age of 40. This past week erstwhile online music publication Pitchfork tossed its hat in the ring, but taking the additional step of talking to actual young people who’ve acquired the compact disc habit. A New York University sophomore and WNYU DJ says that she and her friends are, “on the CD wave.” Another college radio DJ at the University of Texas at Arlington reveals, “I have three big cases full of CDs that I play all the time,” while a student who writes for the Lawrence University newspaper reports, CDs are desirable because, “[w]hen all your life is virtual, even looking on Spotify can seem like draining work.”

As I’ve noted before, at least some of the Gen Z interest in CDs is driven by the current price advantage. The co-owner of California chain Amoeba Music says many classic albums can be had for just $4 to $5. I saw that for myself when I visited the Hollywood outlet back in 2019.

Meanwhile, across the pond, NME columnist Mark Beaumont admits,

“When the coroners come to collect my body, with ghoulish press photographers trailing behind to document the horror and depravity, local press will no doubt dub me The Disc Man. Entering my office space will feel like unearthing Spotify’s underground database – thousands upon thousands of CDs, stacked high to the ceiling and piled in mounds across doorways.”

Yet, despite his own passion, he had doubts about a full-fledged revival in 5-inch silver discs. Comparing the physical operation of playback to operating a household appliance, lacking in the romanticism of vinyl and turntables.

Back in April 2020 we talked with author, filmmaker and former DJ Bill Lichtenstein about groundbreaking Boston freeform radio station WBCN, the subject of his documentary “WBCN and the American Revolution.” Lichtenstein has authored a new companion book about the station, and recently guested on Monocle Radio’s “The Stack” to discuss it.

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As the year and semester draws to a close, we get real on this week’s episode and talk about work, burnout, volunteer labor, and how podcasting is not immune to the everyday stressors and challenges that we are all feeling right about now! Two of our favorite scholars, Jennifer Lynn Stoever and Hannah McGregor, join us to lend their perspectives on the work of podcasting and sound studies. We touch on the often-under acknowledged labor behind this work, discuss ways to create personal boundaries around work expectations, and learn about the concept of “hope labor.” Jennifer Lynn Stoever is an Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, and the author of The Sonic Color Line. Hannah McGregor is Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University as well as co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network and co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the world of Harry Potter.

Show Notes:

• Jennifer Stoever’s website
• Sounding Out! is a scholarly publication and podcast focused on sound studies
• Jennifer Stoever’s book: The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
• Hannah McGregor’s website
• Amplify Podcast Network
• Witch, Please podcast
• SpokenWeb Podcast
• Secret Feminist Agenda podcast
• Previous Radio Survivor episodes with Jennifer Stoever and Hannah McGregor
  • Podcast #132: Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound & Listening (Jennifer Stoever)
  • Podcast #275: Making Scholarly Podcasts Count (Hannah McGregor)
  • Podcast #284: SpokenWeb and Literary Sound (Hannah McGregor)
  • Podcast # 289: Celebrating Women in Sound (Jenny Stoever and Jennifer Hyland Wang)
• Digital Sound Studies book
• Not Sorry podcasting network
• Patreon
• Podcast #321: The Long Sordid History of Broadcast Indecency Enforcement
• Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Sounding Out! on Twitter
• Sounding Out! Podcast #63: The Sonic Landcapes of Unwelcome: Women of Color, Sonic Harassment, and Public Space
• Locatora Radio

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On this week’s show, we revisit a topic that is near and dear to us, the preservation of sound. This time around the emphasis is on podcasts. Our guest Jeremy Morris is the founder of PodcastRE (which is short for Podcast Research), a searchable, researchable archive of podcasting culture. Morris is Associate Professor, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and that’s where PodcastRE was launched. We dig into the functionality of PodcastRE and talk about some of the reasons why scholars are interested in researching podcasts.

Show Notes:

• PodcastRE website
• Jeremy Morris
• Podcast #230: Library of Congress Launches Podcast Preservation Project
• Podcast #253: Sound Streams: Dissecting the History of Internet Radio (episode with Andrew Bottomley that we re-aired the week of August 24, 2021)
• Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History (with Jennifer Hyland Wang)
• Podcast #289: Celebrating Women in Sound (with Jennifer Hyland Wang and Jennifer Stoever)
• Eric Hoyt directs the Media History Digital Library
• PodDB
• Preserve this Podcast
• A few of the podcasts mentioned in this episode
  • How to Be a Girl
  • Serial
  • This Week in Blackness on YouTube
  • 99% Invisible
  • 3620 Podcast from doctoral students of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
  • Reasonably Sound
  • Archive 81

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As we wrap up Pride Month, our podcast discussion turns to queer spaces and queer community on the radio and in podcasting, specifically lesbian broadcasters in Canada. Our guest, Stacey Copeland is a media producer and Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication in Vancouver, Canada. Stacey has been researching the history of lesbian radio shows, including The Lesbian Show and Dykes on Mics. Community radio played an important role in welcoming gay and lesbian programming, with shows airing on stations like Vancouver Co-op Radio and campus-community radio station CKUT. Bringing the conversation to 2021, we also talk about connections between these early shows and current-day queer podcasts.

Show Notes:

• Stacey Copeland‘s website
• SpokenWeb podcast
• Amplify Podcast Network
• Podcast #284 – SpokenWeb and Literary Sound
• Podcast #275 – Making Scholarly Podcasts Count
• Podcast #297 – Radio Studies and Soundwork with Michele Hilmes
• The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
• FemRadio at CJRU
• Vancouver Co-op Radio
• Dykes on Mykes on CKUT
• Listen to The Lesbian Show on Co-op Radio in The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
• Pride FM Toronto
• Podcast # 187 – Archiving LGBTQ Radio History
• This Way Out
• The World Soundscape Project was established by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University
• Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist, and sound ecologist
• Barry Truax is a composer and acoustic communication researcher
• The Heart podcast
• Procyon Podcast Network
• BC Gay and Lesbian Archives
• Queer FM on CITR
• Country Queers podcast
• Podcast #302 – Feminista Frequencies with Monica De La Torre
• KPFA show Lesbe Friends in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• Podcast #135 – Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History with Jennifer Hyland Wang
• The ArQuives – Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
• Mermaid Palace
• Warriors Bards ‘n Brews podcast about Xena: Warrior Princess

Image Credit: Graphic for The Lesbian Show in Vancouver Gay Community Centre Newspaper from City of Vancouver Archives AM1675-S1-F1433

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Colleges and high schools are finishing up their first – and, with hope, last – full academic COVID year, and all indicators are that student radio remained on the air, as students adjusted to online classes and socially distant campuses. Jennifer Waits reports back from the Intercollegiate Broadcast System annual conference, held virtually this year, where she gauged the temperature of student broadcasters and the radio professionals who shared their advice with conference attendees. She and Paul Riismandel discuss what the long-term implications of virtual and hybrid broadcasting may have for college and community radio, taking into account that the accessibility that remote technology offers is weighed against the benefits of face-to-face interaction.

Paul shares some highlights from the 2021 Infinite Dial survey from Edison Research, delivering stats on what audio Americans are using in the car, and the growth of podcast listening. He also reminds us about the upcoming non-commercial radio license opportunity, which now has a firm date in November. Jennifer and Paul then finish things out with a look at Franken FMs, which are scheduled to leave the airwaves in July, when the FCC will require all remaining analog low-power TV stations to convert to digital.

Show Notes:

• Intercollegiate Broadcast System
• Podcast #295 – High School Podcasting with the Hosts of Rice and Shine
• High School Radio Station KMIH “The Bridge”
• HBO series “Mare of Easttown”
• Haverford on the Radio
• Haverford College’s Radio Heyday in the 1920s
• The Infinite Dial 2021
• Podcast #269 – How To Get an FM Radio License in 2021
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
• Netflix series “Daredevil“
• Leah Steuer
• Time Is Running Out for FrankenFMs – Just 4 Months Left
• The Antenna Man on YouTube: 87.7 Franken FM Radio Stations May Go Dark in July

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Renowned radio scholar Michele Hilmes is Professor Emerita, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been a long time proponent of the importance of studying radio and sound, which have often been neglected in the broader field of media studies. She joins us on the show to discuss radio studies, her call for new terminology surrounding audio works, and the growing interest in sound studies.

Show Notes:

• Michele Hilmes website at University of Wisconsin
• Michele Hilmes piece Soundwork: Something to Work With in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture
• Radio Preservation Task Force
• Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History
• Podcast #167: Alternative Histories of Podcasting
• The Music Theory of TikTok Sea Shanties – A YouTube essay by Adam Neely
• Podcast #141: How Radio Isn’t Done According to Negativland’s Don Joyce and the archives of Over The Edge
• Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
• Eric realized during the editing process that the best example of the experimental sound documentary format he was struggling to name is probably The Kitchen Sisters.

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This week, we are joined by the hosts of the podcast Rice and Shine. Led by four Seattle-area teenagers, the chat-style program provides a glimpse into the lives of 9th graders beginning high school from a distance during a pandemic. Rice and Shine is an incredible time capsule of the current school year, as hosts Lauren, Sophie, Ava and Grace talk pop culture, discuss the challenges of remote learning, address anti-Asian American violence during the COVID-19 outbreak, and share their experiences as Asian-American girls. They launched the podcast in 2020 as part of their participation at high school radio station KMIH-FM.

Show Notes:

• Rice and Shine podcast
• High school radio station KMIH 88.9 FM The Bridge
• Jennifer’s tour of KMIH
• Podcast #177: Seattle’s Rich High School Radio Scene
• Podcast #263 – Broadcasting High School Radio through Wildfires and a Pandemic

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In honor of Women’s History Month, this week’s episode focuses on women in sound. Our guests, Jennifer Hyland Wang and Jenny Stoever, return to the show to discuss sound studies, the cultural politics of listening, the history of women’s voices on the airwaves and on podcasts, as well as broader issues of representation.

Jennifer Hyland Wang is an Adjunct Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jenny Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog.

Show Notes:

• Sounding Out!
• The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening, by Jennifer Stoever
• Jennifer Hyland Wang piece “Producing a Radio Housewife: Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em, Gendered Labor, and the Early Days of Radio”
• Podcast #132: Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound & Listening
• Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History
• Podcast #186: African-American Preachers on Wax
• Podcast #250: Aimee Semple McPherson and the Early History of Radio Evangelists
• The Read
• Locatora Radio
• Sounding Out! Podcast #63: The Sonic Landscapes of Unwelcome: Women of Color, Sonic Harassment, and Public Space
• Waiting to X-hale
• Unladylike
• Zigzag
• Why Aren’t There More Female Producers? – A Youtube essay by Benn Jordan about women in music production
• https://www.womeninsound.com/
• https://womensaudiomission.org/
• https://sammusmusic.com/
• The episode of the podcast in which a younger person tells the hosts about their thoughts on physical music – Podcast #179 – Don’t Throw Your CDs Away in 2019
• https://www.standforsonicdiversity.com/

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Jennifer, Eric and Paul join together to review what’s news as we kick off the month of March. Top of the list is an upcoming FCC radio license auction. Originally planned for April 2020, but delayed by the first coronavirus lockdowns, the auction will see 140 commercial radio construction permits up for bid. We discuss if this is a good opportunity for community organizations hoping to broadcast, and things to keep in mind when applying.

A new Nielsen report shows that the podcast audience has grown more diverse than the US population as a whole, and Jennifer alerts us to a fascinating new podcast the dives into the audio diaries of former first-lady Ladybird Johnson. Then we dig into one of the biggest controversies in podcasting right now, the “Reply All” mini-series on the racist workplace culture at “Bon Appetit” magazine, that brought a spotlight on the racial inequities in the podcast’s own corporate home. Rather than picking apart the details, we analyze how simply being a new medium open to fresh ideas and voices isn’t enough to escape the racial and gender biases that are still pervasive in media organizations and the culture at large.

Show Notes:

• FCC: Auction 109 announced
• Completion of this July commercial station auction is a pre-requisite for the upcoming non-commerical and LPFM license windows.
• Inside Radio: Podcast Audiences Are Increasingly Diverse with Different Strokes for Different Folks.
• ABC News: Audio diaries reveal Lady Bird Johnson’s unseen influence in husband’s administration
• Podcast #135 – Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History
• Podcast #184 – Hidden Women’s Radio History in Uruguay
• NY Times: ‘Reply All’ Podcast Is Paused After Accusations of Toxic Culture
• “Mystery Show” podcast
• “Back to the Double R” is Jennifer’s new “Twin Peaks” rewatch podcast

Feature image credit: Wikimedia Commons – CKUA Radio Tower on campus / Public Domain

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There are a few stories we were watching closely at the end of 2020, and we wanted to bring listeners up to date. First up is Section 230, the law that provides a degree of immunity to online platforms – from social media to community radio stations – for consequences resulting from what their users might post or share on their platforms. Trump had urged its repeal, apparently to get back at big tech companies like Twitter, and installed a new FCC commissioner in December who is very supportive of the FCC taking over administration of the statute, regulating online speech. That put eyes on the FCC’s January meeting. We’ll tell you what happened.

We’ve also been tracking controversies at the Voice of America, where a political appointee has been pressuring staff to avoid news coverage critical of the US. The situation recently came to another head. Then our reflection on VOA’s mission spurs Paul to share the story of when his grandmother was a broadcaster for the service.

We also spend some time learning about Jennifer’s new podcast project, and discuss the evolution of podcast formats since the early days of the medium.

Show Notes:

• On these two episodes Prof. Christopher Terry discusses the recent controversies over Section 230:
  • Podcast #277 – How Does the FCC Solve Anything?
  • Podcast #258 – Trump Admin Raises the Specter of the Fairness Doctrine
• Podcast #265 – Inside the “Little Known” Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media
• PBS Newshour: What we saw the day the Capitol was attacked | ‘America, Interrupted’ Podcast
• Marc Maron reflects on the medium of podcasting in the 300th episode of WTF
• Updates on changes at the USAGM and VOA in the days following the recording of this episode: Leadership Changes at U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America

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Podcasting is increasingly being taken up by people in academia, for myriad reasons. Some professors are looking for ways to share their work, others use it as a research tool, some include it as part of their teaching practice, while others seek to include podcasting as an official part of their scholarly output. We dig into these ideas on this week’s show with our guest Hannah McGregor, Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University and co-director of Amplify Podcast Network. A podcaster herself, she is co-creator of the feminist Harry Poster podcast Witch, Please and also the creator of the podcast Secret Feminist Agenda.

Show Notes:

• Hannah McGregor’s website
• Amplify Podcast Network
• Secret Feminist Agenda podcast
• Witch, Please podcast
• Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter
• “Scholarly Rap” article about rap album that was part of a PhD dissertation project (Inside Higher Ed)

Episodes on Related Topics:

• Podcast #132: Sounding Out! on the Cultural Politics of Sound and Listening
• Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History
• Podcast #230: Library of Congress Launches Podcast Preservation Project

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Internet radio was born more than 25 years ago, yet, according to Edison Research, only in the last month has the medium garnered just 10% of all broadcast listening time in the US. We might lay at least some blame on the commercial radio industry, which didn’t embrace it until well into the 2000s, long after the college, community and public radio trailblazers.

Prof. Andrew Bottomley returns to the show to help us understand the reasons behind mainstream broadcasters’s delayed acceptance, and explore why college broadcasters were at the forefront. His new book is “Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence,” detailing the first comprehensive history of online streaming audio.

We also discuss the similarities between long-distance listening, a/k/a DXing, and internet radio, and how the societal changes wrought by COVID-19 are affecting online radio and podcasting.

Show Notes:

• University of Michigan Press – Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence
• “Sound Streams” at Amazon
  (Radio Survivor will receive a small affiliate commission if you buy through this link)
• Andrew Bottomley’s website
• Andrew was the guest on: Podcast #167 – Alternative Histories of Podcasting
• Edison Research: Streaming accounts for 10% of broadcast radio’s consumption during covid-19 disruptions

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Over the course of four seasons, the Peabody-nominated podcast “Scene on Radio,” a production of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, has earned a reputation for tackling head-on difficult topics around race, gender, justice and equity. But it didn’t start out that way.

It started life as a documentary anthology that host and producer John Biewen calls a “hodge podge.” Then, for the second season John decided to take on race in America by exploring the history and meaning of whiteness. That season, “Seeing White,” forged a new path for the podcast, proving that there was an audience willing to take a deep dive into challenging topics.

John joins the show this week to talk about “Scene on Radio,” and help us understand why and how a white male radio journalist, such as himself, can and should spearhead critical examinations of whiteness and men – the topic of season three – and a revisionist history of democracy in America, as in the current season, “The Land That Never Has Been.” Though he takes on much of the production work himself, for analysis and guidance he turns to co-hosts like Celeste Headlee (“Men”) and Rutgers professor Chenjerai Kumanyika, alongside the many historians and experts who provide facts and perspective.

Though the podcast is unflinching in challenging accepted and closely-held narratives and beliefs, John notes that he’s received relatively little backlash, and tells us why he thinks that is. He also gives us a peek behind the scenes at how he produces a multi-part documentary podcast, and how he and Chenjerai navigate their signature introductions and wrap-ups that help listeners digest each episode.

Show Notes

• Scene on Radio
• The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
• Transom: “Vocal Color in Public Radio” by Chenjerai Kumanyika
• Rutgers University: Chenjerai Kumanyika
• Celeste Headlee

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Jennifer, Eric and Paul have some college radio news to review, but first they pull back the curtain to survey the state of affairs in Radio Survivorland. They note some recent attention from The A.V. Club and Podnews along with a nice uptick in podcast audience as they reflect on the importance of sticking with and your niche, and how passion for that niche can build a like-minded community over time.

Sad news comes from the University of the South, which just turned in its license for WUTS-FM to the FCC, apparently prompted by outsized and unrealistic fears of a massive fine for public file violations. Jennifer puts these fears in stark perspective, as the reality is much less dire. The job of the FCC, Paul comments, is to keep stations on the air, and Jennifer observes that the Commission has worked with many college stations to bring them into compliance. Yet, there’s no indication WUTS got good advice or ever reached out to the FCC.

Happier news comes from the University of Illinois, where former cable radio station WBML – “Where Black Media Lives” – appears poised for a comeback.

Show Notes:

• The AVClub reviews episode #232 – Documenting & Preserving Radio at HBCUs (6th review down)
• Podcast #232 – Documenting & Preserving Radio at HBCUs
• Podnews gives a tip of the hat to episode #231 with Eric Nuzum
• The unedited bonus version of the Eric Nuzum interview, in which the guest helps Eric Klein frame how the interview should go
• Podcast #145 – Hip-Hop Radio Archive
• Podcast #152 – The Longest Running Hip-Hop Radio Show in The World?
• Jennifer’s Radio World cover story, “KSFP Highlights Journalism, Public Affairs“
• Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Conference 2020
• College Radio Watch: WUTS-FM Turns Back License, the Return of WBML and More News

Photo by Rots Marie-Hélène on Unsplash

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On this week’s episode we learn about a brand new project at the Library of Congress that is focused entirely on archiving podcasts. Ted Westervelt, Manager of the Podcast Preservation Project at Library of Congress, joins us to share early details from this new initiative. He explains that the hope is that a wide variety of all types of podcasts will be part of the collection, including the Radio Survivor Podcast.

Show Notes:

• Library of Congress
• Artist in the Archive: Be the Bit (Library of Congress)
• Podcast #167 – Alternative Histories of Podcasting
• Podcast #186 – African-American Preachers on Wax
• Podcast #221 – The Intertwined History of Radio and the Recording Industry
• Preserve this Podcast

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Matthew Lasar starts off this episode by declaring that this was the year that his undergraduate students stopped listening to broadcast AM/FM radio. Then he admits, he’s nearly stopped, too. Find out why in this lively rundown of what was significant to radio in 2019.

On the other hand, our resident college radio expert Jennifer Waits reports that she’s listening to more terrestrial radio than ever, even as she notes that college broadcasters are making more podcasts, often focused on increasing the diversity of voices in audio media.

Paul Riismandel notes that the comeback of physical audio media is reaching a kind of apotheosis, as he’s received word of a new Minidisc Day coming our way in 2020, inspired by the likes of Record Store Day and Cassette Store Day. It seems all audio and radio tech is good as we close out the second decade of the 21st century.

Show Notes:

• Beloved paranoid community: the meaning of Welcome to Night Vale
• KSQD-FM Santa Cruz, CA – The Squid
• Technician: MargRock highlights underrepresented local artists
• Podcast #221 – The Intertwined History of the Radio and Recording Industries
• Reddit: International Minidisc Day – March 7th 2020

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Jennifer is back from travels, that included Hawaiian community radio, to join Eric and Paul. First up, a question: is “pathfinder” a good replacement for the word “pioneer,” the latter of which has an unfortunate colonial heritage? Listener Pat Flanagan suggested it to us after we asked for input a couple of episodes, so we provisionally adopt it here to talk about people who are finding new paths for our favorite audio media.

Jennifer updates us about a new pathfinding low-power FM station backed by the San Francisco Public Press, and announces that the call for papers is open for the next Radio Preservation Task Force conference in October 2020.

Paul reports back from Podcast Movement, where some 3000 podcasters of many stripes met for 3 days in Orlando, Florida. He remarks on the wide variety of podcast email newsletters he learned about, and the Podcast Brunch Club. We note recent allegations of plagiarism against a popular true crime podcast, using it as a launching point for a discussion about journalism and ethics in community broadcasting and podcasting.

Show Notes:

• Call for Papers – ‘Century of Broadcasting: Preservation and Renewal’ Conference
• Podcast #192: Saving Radio History with The Radio Preservation Task Force
• Muni Diaries
• San Francisco Public Press
• Podcast #191: How an LPFM Produces an Hour of Hyper-Local News Every Weekday
• Podcast Movement 2019
• Preserve This Podcast
• Podcast Brunch Club
• The Adventure Zone podcast
• NY Times: Popular ‘Crime Junkie’ Podcast Removes Episodes After Plagiarism Accusation

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With mergers, acquisitions and millions of dollars changing hands, podcasts continue to be in the news. But just when it seems like well-funded networks are edging out the indies, Paul and Eric are here to assure community and college broadcasters and independent podcasters that there is growing opportunity for them, too.

Show Notes:

• Paul on The Wolf Den Podcast
• The Verge: iHeartMedia will start airing its own podcasts on over 200 of its radio stations every Sunday
• That NY Times articles that podcasters hated so much: Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
• Podcast #98 – Celebrating ‘Small’ Podcasts
• Podcast #195: Telepathy and Radio Mind
• Podcast #178 – Irish Pirate Radio Archive

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Jennifer, Eric and Paul sit down to review the latest research on podcasts from the Infinite Dial and Podcast Consumer reports, which leads to consideration of the transition between analog and digital media, inspired by Vinylthon.

From 78s to CDs, and music memories to smooth jazz, just how great is this episode? Ask Dr. Science.

The 20th anniversary of the birth of Indymedia at the Battle of Seattle is coming this November.

Underlying this is a nearly forgotten history of independent media that connects unlicensed radio, pre-social media open publishing on the internet and the birth of LPFM. With your help we want to record and document this important history at Radio Survivor.

To do this we need to get to 100 Patreon supporters by July 1. That will help give us the resources we need to begin this work in time for the N30 anniversary.

Show Notes:

• Vinylthon
• 10 Reasons Why CDs are Still Awesome
• Podcast #179 – Don’t Throw Your CDs away in 2019
• Ask Dr. Science
• Locked In: The Making of Vinyl Locked Grooves
• Christian Marclay
• Podcast #186 – African-American Preachers on Wax
• Podcast #184 – Hidden Women’s Radio History in Uruguay
• Radio Survivor Bonus Episodes
• Podcast #154 – One Tape at a Time: Preserving Music Memories
• Myspace, Once the King of Social Networks, Lost Years of Data From Its Heyday
• KFJC.org
• Foothill College Radio Station KFJC Plays More than 100 Straight Hours of Vinyl
• Podcast #8 – Bainbridge Community Broadcasting Chose Podcasting over LPFM
• Podcast #107 – Exploring Community Podcasting
• Edison Research: The Infinite Dial 2019
• The Podcast Consumer 2019
• College podcasting club at Hofstra
• Podcast #146 – Volunteer Radio in Antarctica
• History of Muzak: Where did all the Elevator Music Go?
• Podcast #150 – Sympathy for Kenny G
• Podcast #124 – Seattle Hosts Young Podcasters & a New LPFM
• Podcaster Lauren Shippen answers criticism about producing a new show behind a paywall
• Podcast #15: Retiring Rendered
• Radio Survivor Patreon Campaign
• Radio Survivor Affiliate Stations
• Help Us Tell the History of Indymedia and LPFM
• High School Radio Week Approaches
• VCS Marathon Reaches out to Interstellar Travelers
• Radio Station Visit #144 – High School Radio Station VCS Radio
• Podcast #147 – Prison Radio Exhibit and a High School Station in a Band Room
• Podcast #187 – Archiving LGBTQ Radio History
• Sounding Out!
• Podcast #132 – Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound and Listening
• Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force

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A change in Ontario university funding rules threatens more than a dozen campus community stations in Canada. Barry Rooke, executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association is our guest to help explain the situation.

He explains how the structure of Canadian community and college radio stations differs from those in the U.S. and elsewhere, and why these differences make some stations north of the border vulnerable to changes in the way student fees are allocated. Barry also offers advice to campus stations on how they can better gird themselves to survive funding threats. It’s advice that’s useful to community and college stations anywhere.

Our Patreon supporters can hear more of our conversation with Barry in a bonus episode. We get nerdy about Canadian radio arcana, like networks of unlicensed stations broadcast by First Nations.

The 20th anniversary of birth of Indymedia at the Battle of Seattle is coming this November.

Underlying this is a nearly forgotten history of independent media that connects unlicensed radio, pre-social media open publishing on the internet and the birth of LPFM. With your help we want to record and document this important history at Radio Survivor.

To do this we need to get to 100 Patreon supporters by July 1. That will help give us the resources we need to begin this work in time for the N30 anniversary.

Show Notes:

• National Campus and Community Radio Association of Canada
• NCRA: Campus Radio Stations & Student Newspapers Demand reversal on Ford’s fee policy
• CBC: Campus media in jeopardy of ‘closing down’ if students opt-out of fees
• “Dead Air With A Difference” is the NCRA podcast

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Every week we seek out compelling stories about sound and radio and share them on Twitter. Here are some of the most intriguing from the last week:

Vote looms on bringing jazz radio back to MHCC
“The Mt. Hood Community College Board will vote next week on whether to bring jazz radio station KMHD back to campus, but the chairwoman of the college board, for one, opposes the move.” 

College Threatens Student Radio With Probation Following Lil Pump Event
“A Harvard College official threatened Harvard Radio Broadcasting…WHRB –with ‘administrative probation’ because the group hosted a widely publicized event featuring the rapper Lil Pump, according to an email sent by the station’s president.”

New exhibit shares how the city’s hip-hop scene evolved through the decades
“…put on headphones and listen to music and old community radio stations — an outlet co-curator Dave Clarke says was essential back in the day. ‘Community radio stations were the backbone for emcees and DJ’s in the 90s,’ Clarke said.”

Strong: New Valley NPR station will be fully bilingual
“A new National Public Radio station for the Rio Grande Valley would be bilingual, with programming in Spanish and English, says W.F. Strong. The…educator is leading the effort to get UT-Rio Grande Valley to invest in a new public radio station.”

An On-Air Legacy: Loyola Remembers ‘Doc’
“He founded WLUW — Loyola’s student-run radio station — in 1978. WLUW’s debut was grandiose — the first song to grace the airwaves was the theme to ‘Star Wars’” according to current station manager Eleni Prillaman.” 

iHeart claims to launch first all-podcast radio station, but then folks remember CBS Radio’s KYOU which broadcast an all-podcast format to the Bay Area in 2005.

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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the “Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act,” but does it actually have a chance at putting a dent in unlicensed broadcasting? We review the provisions of the the bill – called the PIRATE Act for short – and wonder if an uptick in the war on pirates can be any more successful than the war on drugs.

Then Eric and Paul note the major push into podcasting by the nation’s largest radio broadcaster, leading down a garden path that ends with Eric reminiscing about his days making an independent national community radio newscast.

As we discuss on this episode, the 20th anniversary of birth of Indymedia at the Battle of Seattle is coming this November.

Underlying this is a nearly forgotten history of independent media that connects unlicensed radio, pre-social media open publishing on the internet and the birth of LPFM. With your help we want to record and document this important history at Radio Survivor.

To do this we need to get to 100 Patreon supporters by this July. That will help give us the resources we need to begin this work in time for the N30 anniversary.

Show Notes:

• Radio World: Six Things Broadcasters Should Know About the PIRATE Act
• Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map
• Podcast #178 – Irish Pirate Radio Archive
• Podcast #133 – Preserving Brooklyn Pirate Radio
• Podcast #181 – Visiting Community Radio Stations Around the World
• Podcast #103 – The Popular Community Radio Movement in Argentina
• Free Speech Radio News
• Indymedia

Feature image credit: Wikimedia Commons

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In addition to co-hosting the show, Eric Klein edits most episodes, and is a professional freelance audio editor. He put some of his philosophies of editing radio and podcasts in writing for last year’s Grassroots Radio Conference, and for a recent post at Radio Survivor. On this episode Eric elaborates on his advice to “know your values,” and “do no harm.”

Then Paul puts Jennifer on the spot on order to do a little market research for Radio Survivor, asking her why she doesn’t listen to more podcasts. Her answers will probably resonate with many radio lovers, who have so many great sounds competing for their attention.

Then Jennifer takes us on a short tour of three Seattle-area stations, where there’s a rich high school radio scene, including one with a dance music format, and one where every DJ designs their own show poster.

Radio Survivors supporters on Patreon can listen to a bonus “after dark” episode, where Jennifer, Eric and Paul dig deeper into why even radio nerds don’t listen to podcasts, and even more podcast nerdery. A contribution of just $1 a month gives you access to this bonus episode and more exclusive content.

Show Notes

• Eric’s “Philosophies of Editing for Radio“
• KNHC-FM aka C89.5
• Radio Station Visit #152: Dance Music-Oriented High School Radio Station C89.5
• Alex Bennett
• Radio Station Visit #153: Bellevue High School Radio Station KASB
• KASB-FM
• National High School Radio Network
• Jennifer’s piece about the HS Radio Network for Radio World
• KMIH-FM
• Radio Station Visit #154: Mercer Island High School Radio Station KMIH-FM
• Jennifer’s Radio Station Tours

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From the “Classical Radio Era” to today’s hottest podcasts, we’re here for the love of radio drama and fictional sound-art. Our guest is Neil Verma, author of a book and teacher of classes on the subject, although as he tells us on today’s episode, the class became a lot more popular with students after he changed the name from “Radio Drama” to “Audio Drama.”

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Show Notes:

Theater of the Mind – Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

Neil Verma essay on The Shadows

Some audio drama recommendations from this episode

The Classical Radio work of Norman Corwin

J.G Ballard’s Radio Plays on the BBC

The Shadows

Wolverine: The Long Night

The Truth

Homecoming

Classic Radio’s The Shadow

Nightvale and affiliated programs

Pacific Northwest Stories

Ars Paradoxica

Limetown

Deathscribe

Jennifer Waits’ article on Unshackled

Matthew Lasar writes about and speaks on the podcast about Mae West

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We’ve talked a lot about archiving and preserving radio here at Radio Survivor, especially on our podcast. Inevitably during these discussions I’ll open my big mouth and muse about how I should archive my own work somewhere it’ll be in safe hands, like the Internet Archive. But up to now, it’s just been talk.

Now, I’m walking it like I’m talking it.

More than three years ago I began the process of going through old air check cassettes, CD-Rs and minidiscs to be sure I have a good digital copy on a hard drive that’s decently labeled or named. I started with the minidiscs, because players and recorders are no longer in production, and I still own the one model that lets you upload recordings directly to your computer over USB, rather than having to capture the analog output.

By May 2017 I’d completed transferring about 300 discs and tapes. That’s when work came to a halt due to needing to move. While I still have a few dozen items to deal with, I’ve decided to take the next step.

Last weekend I completed uploading a full year, 2004, of my old radio show, “mediageek” to the Internet Archive. In the process of going through my personal archives I was chagrined to find that most of the year’s files had disappeared from my web host. Most certainly, I just did something stupid in the intervening 15 years. Luckily, I found all but one episode well-organized on my (backed-up) hard drive.

I’m pretty sure I have an original studio master of the missing episode on a poorly labeled minidisc, or a copy on CD-R. But I didn’t want the hunt to find that one file get in the path of finishing the upload of the other 45. Of course, I uploaded them to the show’s website, updating the posts so that you can now listen to them in-browser – something that could only be accomplished with a browser plug-in like Flash back in 2004. I also added links to each episode’s Internet Archive entry, just in case my files get lost again.

“Mediageek” actually started in March 2002, but I decided to start the Internet Archive project with 2004 because that’s the year when I began seriously offering the show online as a podcast and as a syndicated community radio show. That means there’s at least a date and description for each episode, and it also marks a time when I was more systematic about keeping copies at least somewhat organized.

I’m operating under a philosophy of “good enough and finished is better than not started at all.” So I’ll continue working through the years from 2005 to the last show on New Year’s Eve 2009 right now. It took about a day to do all of 2004, so I expect to be able to get through these years within the next few months.

Then I’ll turn my attention to 2002 and 2003, where the files are much less organized, and I’ll probably have to listen to at least part of every episode to determine the topics. Looking at my hard drive archive I know there are many missing episodes or files that are misnamed. Since I still have a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-R backups to tackle, I suspect many are in a box in my closet.

“Mediageek” is really where I learned how to do public affairs radio and podcasting, trial by fire, just by doing it. In the early days I was working in a community radio studio that was more conducive to music shows than interview programs. When I started syndicating I resorted to often recording phone or Skype interviews from my home studio, sometimes even producing whole episodes from home.

Though some episodes, especially earlier ones, are a little rough-around-the-edges, I think the show preserves some history of community media from the early 2000s that might otherwise be lost. I talked to a lot of unlicensed radio activists and did a lot of coverage of the Independent Media Center movement, which was pivotal in invigorating critical approaches to community and grassroots media in the wake of the Seattle WTO in 1999. Many of the local IMC websites are now gone, as are too many blogs and podcasts from that time, as hosting platforms have gone offline or people abandoned their web hosting accounts.

I hope having “mediageek” on the Internet Archive serves as a record of this time, and perhaps can be a resource for historians and scholars researching this period.

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I’ve been following the work of historian and archivist Jason Scott for more than a decade, ever since he released his film “BBS: The Documentary” (available on the Internet Archive). He’s known for relentless efforts to preserve digital artifacts and media, like the text files that were the stock-in-trade of the early internet, Usenet and pre-internet bulletin board systems, and as an organizer of the Archive Team, which has archived the user-generated work on platforms like Geocities before they shut down forever. He now works for the Internet Archive, helping to facilitate the preservation of all sorts of collections.

I recently stumbled upon his podcast, “Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It,” which he’s been producing for more than a year. In each episode Scott delivers a monologue on topics like his current work, an historical note or a reflection on some of his past efforts and experiences. He’s an engaging speaker, and each edition resembles a short conference talk, which makes sense, since Scott is a well-practiced public speaker. His monologues sound well organized, possibly pre-written (or at least outlined), and are well-edited. (Shortly after publication he let me know by Twitter DM that the show is not scripted, but entirely impromptu. That’s impressive, indeed)

This style of podcasting isn’t very common. More often, non-fiction podcasts feature conversations between regular hosts, interviews or journalistic storytelling. My guess this is because delivering a solo 20-minute discourse that isn’t rambling, digressive and overlong is much more difficult than having a conversation or conducting an interview.

It seems these sorts of podcasts were more common in the medium’s earlier days, though my recollection is that they tended to be more stream-of-consciousness and less polished than what Scott does. The closest well-known contemporary analogs that I can think of are those produced by Dan Carlin – “Hardcore History” and “Common Sense” – which are unadorned straight-up solo presentations, without any music beds or sound effects.

Archiving and media preservation are close to our heart at Radio Survivor, so I think most readers will find “Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It” to be informative and engaging. Some recent episodes should be of particular interest.

In “The Radio Radio Episode” Scott reflects on his college radio days at Emerson College, where he DJ’d – and got fired from – student-run WECB, and filled in on the more professional WERS.

He explains his mid–2000s effort to save all the podcasts in “The Podsucker Episode.” I wrote about this project in 2016 when Scott uploaded that collection to the Internet Archive as the “2005 Podcast Core Sample.”

Finally, there is the “The Don Joyce and Negativland Episode,” which should be self-explanatory. The full archive of Joyce’s KFPA show “Over The Edge” is also preserved at the Internet Archive.

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I was invited to be on the “Philosophies of Editing” panel at the 2018 Grass Roots Radio Conference. I edit podcasts for love and as a professional, including the Radio Survivor program, and I got my start as a radio editor on the daily news program “Free Speech Radio News.” The panel included other experts in radio and editing and the room was full of experienced community radio folks who contributed to the discussion. What follows is mostly from the outline I created to prepare for the panel.

This was a nice opportunity to put into words some of the ideas that I take for granted as I grind away at my work. My favorite part was focusing on philosophies of editing, as opposed to the techniques. Big picture stuff instead of recommendations for software.

First Edit Out Mistakes and Then Use These Guiding Principles
When cutting large chunks out of your audio it’s helpful to think about some core values that can guide your choices. This is even more important if you are on a team of producers collaborating on the work.

It’s an art not a science.

Know your audience.

Know your values.

It’s an art not a science. There are no right or wrong answers, especially in podcasting. Sometimes a chunk of an interview that would be cut from an NPR style program is the most fun part to leave into your podcast or community radio show. I often fantasize that when I’m going through an interview, cleaning up the ums and removing the mouth sounds, and polishing out the stutters or adjusting the length of a longish pause, that I am doing work a computer program will be able to do very very soon (every year that I do this is one year closer to the day I’ll be replaced by AI.) But when I make a choice to perform a big edit, I’m making a very human value judgement. When computers can do that as well as I do then it’s probably no longer appropriate to call them computers.

The point is that choosing what to edit out of an interview can be a lot more fuzzy than it is formulaic.

Know your audience. If you are editing a business podcast you are going to make different choices than if you are editing a podcast for children. If you are editing a podcast for an audience of Harry Potter fanatics you are going to make different choices than if you are editing the same material for an audience of Muggles.

Know your values. This is a lot like knowing your audience, but goes a little bit deeper. For example, when I am editing an interview for the Radio Survivor podcast, one of our core values for the show is that community media is valuable and must be preserved and strengthened, and another is that community media is flawed and we should talk about it to help it grow. It’s possible to imagine a scenario where those two values might contradict each other, and deciding which one is more important can help when you think about what parts of an interview to edit and what to emphasize.

Judge with Your Ears
Audio is different than text. The inflection of a person’s voice gives a lot of unique information to the listener that the written word can’t. If you plan your edits on paper with a written transcript of the audio you’re missing out on what makes radio (and podcasts and sound) special. The written sentence may end in a period, but many people speak a language that follows rules beyond punctuation: Run on sentences, unfinished thoughts colliding with other ideas, ideas tossed off as a joke or spoken in deadly earnest. There’s still no way to comprehend the subtleties of sarcasm (or alternately genuine joy) with text alone. The emotions that accompany a statement of facts and data can be the heart and soul of a piece of audio. Judge with your ears, not just your eyes. That being said, a transcript of your audio is a very useful tool for radio editing and I’m not suggesting it should be discarded.

Radio’s power as a medium is the emotional weight of the voices we hear. When weighing what to edit out and what to emphasize I always keep that in mind. To that end, jump in right at the height of the action (like writing fiction). Especially if time is short in the finished piece.

Do No Harm
Don’t edit someone’s voice in a way that makes them sound weird, like not allowing them to speak in complete ideas or sentences, unless that was the way they in fact sound on the tape before you started hacking away at it. Don’t delete breathes just to save time. Sometimes even “um” is a word that holds meaning, such as when “um” is a stand-in for the word “or” and the word “a” and “I” or ums that are used as verbal commas in a list, or ums which carry the emotional weight of the entire interview like when your guest is pausing before they answer a difficult question.

Never alter or subvert the intentions of the voices you are editing by removing their qualifying statements. If your guest said: “I’m not entirely sure about these numbers, but the last time I checked there are eight thousand dying trees in the city of Portland.” It would be wrong to cut the qualifying statement “I’m not entirely sure…” even though the second half of the quote makes a much stronger headline.

Reporters and radio producers always have the power (and sometimes the mandate from their boss) to put people into boxes and reduce them to 2 dimensional sound bites. Your guests, your sources, and your audience are better served when the voices on your show are allowed to speak their full truth. Don’t edit people into versions of themselves they wouldn’t recognize, or even agree with.

Writing for Radio – Techniques as Philosophies
I tried to exclude technical concepts of editing from my thinking about the topic of the Philosophies of Editing, but some techniques kept creeping back in. Is using a written script to help you “edit” a piece of radio a technique or a philosophy?

Either way, writing for radio is a super power that can be deployed to clarify and simplify an interview. When writing and editing for radio is used to bring more than one person’s voice into the flow, that’s when you get radio documentary. (Someday I’ll write a post about why I believe the radio documentary is the greatest art form of our time.)

Editing and writing are complimentary skills in radio. Selecting an audio quote for your piece is both an act of writing and an act of editing, combining the worlds of text and audio. Thinking along these lines, my next posts on this topic might be titled: Philosophies of writing for radio; Philosophies of mixing; and The techniques of editing.

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Álvaro Burns is a community radio broadcaster in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, where he hosts a local sports show on Rádio Paraty FM and he produces the podcast “A Hora do Cafezinho.” Álvaro is a long-time friend of the show, and Paul recently traveled to Brazil and was able to meet up with him at Radio Paraty for an interview.

Álvaro recounts his journey as a college broadcasting student who became disenchanted by commercial radio, but fell in love with community radio. He discusses the place and role of community radio in the Brazilian media and political environments, especially in light of the country’s recent election of the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to be the next president in 2019.

Listen to our follow-up bonus episode, #170.5, to hear a bandscan of the São Paulo FM dial.

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Show Notes:

• Rádio Paraty FM
• A Hora do Cafezinho podcast
• Álvaro Burns was a guest on Podcast #99: The Beginning Of The End For AM Radio In Brazil
• Listen to our bonus episode #170.5 to hear an FM bandscan from São Paulo.

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Do you remember audioblogging? Prof. Andrew Bottomley does, and he’s here to tell some alternative histories of podcasting. From “Geek of the Week” to Odeo, he illuminates many more bygone shows and platforms from the 1990s and early 2000s that gave rise to what we’ve now settled on calling “podcasts,” for better or worse.

Bottomley is assistant professor of Communication and Media at SUNY Oneonta.

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Show Notes:

• From the Internet Archive:
  • Carl Malamud’s Internet Talk Radio
  • Audioblog.com
  • Audioblog founder Noah Glass’ first audioblog post
• Wikipedia: Odeo
• Journalist Ben Hammersley’s first use of the word “podcasting” in The Guardian
• Wikipedia: The Daily Source Code podcast
• Podcast #160 – Marking a Quarter-Century of Internet Radio

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Radio Survivor co-founder Matthew Lasar declares we’re in the post-“Radio Is Dead” era, during a time when audio media has survived and thrived, whether you listen over the broadcast airwaves, podcast, satellite or internet stream.

Jennifer Waits and Paul Riismandel join Matthew live in San Francisco for a discussion about radio’s recent evolution, including the satellite-internet radio hybrid being born out of the Sirius/XM acquisition of Pandora, and a review of this year’s Grassroots Radio Conference.

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Show Notes:

• How SiriusXM won me over with its “Jzz/Stndrd/Clscl” zone
• Inside Radio: Q3 Brings Another Record Number Of Translators & LPFMs
• Current’s “The Pub” podcast sadly ended production this year
• Podcast #132 – Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound & Listening
• Bloomberg upgrades radio to cockroach status
• The Drum: How radio has consumed the podcast world
• Radio Survivor Visits Gramophoney Baloney Show at KPOO-FM in San Francisco
• Podcast #146 – Volunteer Radio from Antarctica
• Podcast #124 – Seattle Hosts Young Podcasters & a New LPFM
• Meow! Get ready for Low Power FM radio for cats and dogs
• SiriusXM 40s Junction

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Programming changes draw attention at one college station, while another might be close to the auction block, and a new San Francisco LPFM steps in to the spiritual space left behind by a beloved departed station. Team that with some big changes in the podcasting industry, and we’ve got a full episode.

After hearing from many listeners, Jennifer checks in with UNLV station KUNV. It’s a station we’ve been keeping up with since a takeover was averted back in 2015. The station recently had some staff and programming changes, but we find that students are still involved. Jennifer also reports on University of Evansville’s WUEV, which students and alums are concerned might go up for sale. And there’s happy news from San Francisco, where new community station KXSF-LP just launched to fill the void left behind when KUSF left the airwaves in 2011.

Paul has news about the the exit of a major podcast network, but also words of encouragement for all the current and would-be community podcasters: there’s so much room for podcasting to grow, and somewhere there’s a listener who wants to hear the show you want to make.

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Show Notes

• Podcast #28 – A Deep Dive into the Public Radio Bid for KUNV
  • Other episodes where we covered KUNV: #27, #77, #113
• Oct. 17, 2011: Fighting for College Radio…and Winning: Part Two – WUEV
• May 25, 2018: College Radio Watch: WUEV Sale?, Radio Conferences, and More News
• September 7, 2018: College Radio Watch: WCWS to Leave FM, Fight to Save WUEV, and More
• Tristate Homepage: Group forms in hopes of saving UE’s radio station WUEV
• Courier & Press: University of Evansville alumni fight for radio station WUEV’s future
• September 14, 2018: College Radio Watch: WGTB’s 1976 Shutdown, KXSF-LP Launches, and More News
• KXSF-LP 102.5 FM San Francisco
• Visiting KUSF.org at University of San Francisco
• Panel Explores Past, Present and Future of KUSF
• Nieman Lab: Podcast shakeup! Panoply, iHeartMedia, Stuff, and…Malcolm Gladwell? are all making industry moves

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On this week’s show Eric and I answer another frequently asked question we hear: how do I start podcasting?

We give some basic advice to get started, focused on the basic gear you need, along with hints and tips along the way. To complement that segment I’ve put together some of that advice here, along with some suggested equipment. At the end are links to some more comprehensive resources if you want to really dig in.

This isn’t intended to be a comprehensive guide, nor a step-by-step guide or manual for starting a podcast. Instead, these are some pointers for getting started.

The equipment suggestions aren’t intended to be definitive, or even the very best you can get for any given price-point. Rather, these are items that will get you off the ground and running. There are many varied opinions, and plenty of reviews on the web and YouTube if you want to truly maximize.

A Note About Gear

There’s an understandable tendency to worry about equipment before ever getting started podcasting. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you need the best microphones, mixers and headphones first, or else your podcast can’t possibly be good.

The good news is that’s not true. Really decent gear can be had for very little money, and many now-popular podcasts got started with bargain-basement stuff. If you’re a real bargain hunter you might even be able to equip yourself with used gear from a thrift store, or (even better) a local music store.

While a $300 microphone can sound better than a $15 one, the difference is subtle. And a lot of people may never notice. You might impress some audio nerds with the $300 mic, but unless they’re your key audience, it’s probably not worth the extra cost.

Moreover, many podcasts go away after a few episodes. If it turns out that podcasting isn’t for you, do you want to have hundreds or thousands of dollars of equipment gathering dust in a closet? You can always upgrade strategically down the line. And, it never hurts to have extra microphones. So if you upgrade mics, it just means you have some spares for extra guests or emergencies.

All links to equipment are Amazon affiliate links. Radio Survivor gets a commission on every sale, at no cost to you.

Step 0: You’ll Need a Computer

Before I get started, these instructions assume you own or have access to a computer you can install software on (or already has audio editing software). Though it’s possible to podcast using a phone, tablet or Chromebook, these methods have unique challenges and workflows. Luckily, you don’t need a brand new top-of-the-line computer. You can get by with a machine that’s under 10 years old, and running almost any variation of Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Your local library or community center may have just what you need.

Step 1: Get a Microphone (or Microphones) and Headphones

Sounds pretty basic, eh? But having an actual microphone in front of your mouth is the single most important thing to having a clear, pro-sounding podcast. Headphones are key because you really do need to hear yourself in real time, so you can identify any noises and be sure you’ll be audible. To get started almost any headphones will do.

If You’re Hosting Alone: Get a USB Microphone

A USB microphone connects directly to your computer, requiring no other equipment. However, it’s only good for one person – unless you and your co-host are very close friends and don’t mind sitting really close.

For the most part, you can’t connect two USB microphones to a computer and expect to use them simultaneously with any ease. (There are ways to accomplish this with some software and operating systems, but it’s quirky and beyond the scope of this article.)

If You Have 2+ People Recording Together: Get a USB Mixer and Microphones

You really want every person talking to have their own microphone. Like it’s name implies, a mixer puts these microphones’s signals together for recording.

Mixers use more traditional microphones that have an XLR connector, so you don’t want USB microphones. There are some models of USB microphone that also have XLR. These are fine, but you need to be sure they actually have that connector.

Your mixer should have enough microphone inputs for as many people as you want to record at one time. Inputs are usually in multiples of two. The cost differential between a two-input and four-input mixer is small, so I’d opt for one with at least four, just in case.

Decent microphones can cost as little as $15 and as much as $1500 or more. To get started I see no reason to spend more than $25 or $30. The microphones at these levels are similar to the kinds you’d see on stage at a small club or music venue. The technical term name is a dynamic cardiod microphone (this means it requires no power, and has a relatively narrow pick up range).

They’re all variations on the venerable Shure SM58 design (which itself only costs about $100), like the Behringer XM8500, which I’ve used for years, and only costs $20. Again, you should have one microphone per person.

Step 2: Install Audacity On Your Computer

Audacity is free, open source audio recording and editing software. It does everything you need to record and edit your podcast. It also works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux – pretty much any computer.

You will also want to download and install the LAME MP3 encoder, since your final podcast file will need to be an MP3.

There are other audio applications out there, and there are apps you can use on a tablet or Chromebook. But Audacity on a computer is simplest way to get started. Plus, because Audacity has an enormous worldwide user base, it’s very easy to find tutorials or get help online.

Alternative Step 1 and 2: Get a Digital Audio Recorder

You can use a digital audio recorder to record a podcast instead of using a computer. One big advantage that Eric points out is that it’s less likely to crash than a computer. It’s a single-purpose device and isn’t also trying to run a web browser or games. The disadvantage is that nice ones can cost more than the mixer and microphones, and you’ll most likely still need a computer for editing and uploading your podcast.

Option 1: Low-Cost Digital Audio Recorder with Built-in Microphones

Recorders with built-in microphones can be a good all-in-one solution for recording yourself. The Zoom H1n and H2n have decent microphones and can even record directly to MP3 if you think you can do it in one-take, both for under $200. There also similar models from other brands listed below.

In a pinch you can record two people with these recorders. It works better for an interview situation where you can point it back and forth between yourself and your guest. This is better than just having the microphone in the middle, where it will pick voices up less clearly and will also pick up lots more room noise and echo.

That said, the H2n does this a little better because it has microphones on both sides, so you and a guest or co-host can each talk into one side. I’ve owned an H2 for a decade and does this on many occasions, with some success. Though I still wouldn’t want to record all my podcast episodes this way. The method still isn’t as good as having a mic right in front of your mouth.

Option 2: Digital Audio Recorder with XLR Mic Inputs

You can use an external SM58-style mic with a recorder that has XLR inputs, like the Zoom H4n Pro. They also have built-in microphones, so you have options. With this type of recorder you get the best of both worlds, though once you buy microphones you’ve probably spent more than if you bought a mixer and mics.

However, one of the biggest benefits of a digital recorder is that it’s super-portable. It’s very easy to record interviews or episodes outside your home/office studio, without lugging around a laptop and extra gear.

Step 3: Get a Podcast Hosting Service

Once someone has started recording and editing their podcast, they usually ask us: how do I get my podcast onto iTunes or Apple Podcasts?

The thing to understand is that iTunes is not a hosting service, like YouTube. It’s just a directory of podcasts. You actually have to host your podcast on the web with a service, then submit it iTunes.

There are many services out there, and the better ones will make this as easy as possible for you. We at Radio Survivor just moved our podcast from SoundCloud to Blubrry, which has very good customer support and will submit your show to iTunes and other directories, like Stitcher. Libsyn is another host that’s been around since the early days of podcasting and continues to update its service.

There are lots of other services out there, and plenty of reasons to choose one or another. We don’t want to recommend one over another because we haven’t tried them all. The only counsel we’ll give is to avoid SoundCloud. At one point several years ago SoundCloud started courting podcasters, adding podcast-friendly features. But since then the company hasn’t really kept up with the times, and has run into financial trouble.

Some website hosting companies, like Squarespace, include podcast hosting features, too. These can be a good choice for getting started, though may not be the best choice for a show that gets really popular. The podcast-specific hosts are designed to scale with you.

Note that most good podcast hosting services come with a fee. That’s because they’re mostly small companies focused on podcasting, rather than arms of big tech giants that can pay for everything with advertising revenue. Of course, the benefit is that you won’t suddenly have an ad stuck in your podcast like with YouTube.

Step 4: Promote Your Podcast

Once you’ve recorded and edited your first episode, then uploaded it to a host and submitted it to iTunes, Stitcher and other platforms, now it’s time to tell people about it.

The big difference between podcasting and radio is that a listener is much less likely to stumble upon a podcast. On the radio you always have the chance that someone will scan the dial or hit seek and find your station. But podcasting doesn’t have the same kind of browsing experience.

While Apple Podcasts and Stitcher both have front pages that feature new, interesting and popular shows, the editors have to choose from amongst thousands of podcasts to feature only dozens. There certainly is a chance you might get featured, but if you’re just starting out you shouldn’t count on it.

Instead you should go find your audience. Think about who would enjoy or benefit from your podcast and tell them about it. They might be in an online community, or maybe they already follow you on social media. And don’t discount people in your own geographic area. Just because podcasts are potentially global doesn’t mean you shouldn’t promote your show locally. Plain old face-to-face contact and word-of-mouth are still valuable. Make up fliers or business cards so you always have something to leave with a person you just told about your podcast.

Final Tips

• If you’re recording your podcast on a computer, quit all other apps.
  That includes web browsers and email apps. You don’t want these apps to either crash – possibly destroying your recording – or making noises that might interrupt your show. This is particularly true if you’re using an older computer.
• Record in a quiet place.
  It doesn’t have to dead quiet, but especially try to avoid things that hum or cycle in and out, like refrigerators. When we’re in a noisy environment our hearing is designed to tune out the noises, but a microphone doesn’t, and those noises will be much more prominent in your recording.
• Record in a smaller, deader space.
  The smaller the space, and the more stuff that’s in it, the less echoey it’ll be. A small bedroom, that has lots of furniture, is probably better than a big living room with wood floors. To test: clap your hands. Do you hear a lot of echo? Then find a better space. If you’re recording alone, try an old radio correspondent’s trick: record in a closet.
• Get close to the microphone.
  Though you want to avoid making lots of mouth sounds, the closer you are to the mic, the clearer your voice will be. It will also be louder than other noises.
• Listen to yourself.
  Monitor with headphones while recording, then listen closely during editing. Use headphones for editing, too. Listening to yourself will help diagnose and avoid noise problems, and also help you learn good mic technique.
• Use microphone stands.
  SM59-style stage microphones are designed to be hand-held, so they’re pretty good at minimizing handling noise. However, they’re not wholly immune, and the handling noise is much more obvious in a quiet recording space than in a noisy music venue. Using a table-top or free-standing mic stand eliminates this problem.

  Beginner’s Podcast Equipment

  Here are some suggestions to get you started. This isn’t necessarily the best gear around, but it all works, and won’t cost a fortune.

  USB Microphones – $100 and Under

  • Blue Yeti
  • Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone (can also be used with a mixer)
  • Samson Meteor Mic USB

  USB Mixers – Under $100

  • Behringer Xenyx Q802USB (2 mic inputs)
  • Behringer Xenix Q1202USB (4 mic inputs)
  • Monoprice 615808 8-Channel Audio Mixer with USB (4 mic inputs)

  XLR Microphones – Under $50 each

  • Nady Dynamic Microphone with Neodymium Element
  • Behringer XM8500
  • Shure PGA48-XLR Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
  • Samson SAR21 Dynamic Microphone 3-pack w/ (3) 20′ XLR Cables

  Podcast Hosts

  • Blubrry
  • Libsyn
  • Spreaker
  • Pippa

  Learn More About Podcasting

  • The Podcast Method, by Dan Benjamin
  • School of Podcasting

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  ]]> 42747 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/07/podcast-149-how-to-get-started-podcasting/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:01:13 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=42740 How do I start podcasting? That’s one of the questions we field most frequently. So we answer it, in this second installment of our “Frequently Asked Questions” series. But first we do some follow-up about phone phreaker ‘Captain Crunch’ Draper (#147) and the nearly 1,000 challenges filed against applications for FM translator repeater stations (#144). […]

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  How do I start podcasting? That’s one of the questions we field most frequently. So we answer it, in this second installment of our “Frequently Asked Questions” series.

  But first we do some follow-up about phone phreaker ‘Captain Crunch’ Draper (#147) and the nearly 1,000 challenges filed against applications for FM translator repeater stations (#144). Paul also reports on the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal to further loosen radio ownership regulations.

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  Show Notes:

  • One of our listeners recommends the book Exploding the Phone, all about phone phreakers, like Captain Crunch
  • FCC letter to Prometheus and Common Frequency dismissing their translator objections
  • NAB letter to the FCC on radio ownership rules
  • Podcast #126 – We Answer Your Frequently Asked Questions

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  ]]> 42740 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/05/the-podcast-patent-troll-is-dead-and-buried/ Tue, 22 May 2018 05:00:59 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=42379 The final nail in the coffin of the so-called “podcast patent troll” has been struck. Last week the Supreme Court declined the petition for review filed by Personal Audio, the company holding the original patent for “a system for disseminating media content” that it claimed applied to all podcasts. Personal Audio was challenging a 2015 […]

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  The final nail in the coffin of the so-called “podcast patent troll” has been struck. Last week the Supreme Court declined the petition for review filed by Personal Audio, the company holding the original patent for “a system for disseminating media content” that it claimed applied to all podcasts. Personal Audio was challenging a 2015 ruling by the US Patent and Trademark Office that invalidated the patent. Last fall a federal appeals court upheld that ruling, which prompted the company’s failed appeal to the Supreme Court.

  Personal Audio first struck fear into the hearts of podcasters in 2013 when it started contacting prominent hosts demanding royalties, filing lawsuits against Adam Carolla and CBS. Carolla later settled, and CBS lost in an East Texas courtroom where juries are known to be unusually sympathetic to the locally-based trolls filing these suits. The company’s claim was based on a 1996 patent intended to cover serialized audio delivered via cassette tape (think magazines on tape), a product that failed. The patent was later updated in 2012 to cover internet distribution, some seven years after the birth of podcasting in name and form.

  Podcasters can thank the Electronic Frontier Foundation for its dogged determination to see this patent invalidated. It did so by proving to the USPTO that there existed “prior art,” in the form of serialized audio that was distributed via the internet before the original patent’s 1996 filing date. Uncovering and showing evidence of early 90s proto-podcasts from CNN and the CBC demonstrated that Personal Audio was not the author of a fundamentally original idea.

  In court Personal Audio attempted to argue that the process by which any interested citizen may challenge the validity of a patent with the USPTO is unconstitutional. The EFF defended this process, and was ultimately successful.

  Had there been no organized challenge to Personal Audio’s patent, or if the company had been successful in defending it, the podcasting landscape would have been negatively impacted, in all likelihood. I expect that major commercial podcast companies and public radio producers would have found some settlement that would not have inhibited the creation of “Serial” and subsequent hit shows.

  The effect would have been most profound on small and independent producers. Having to pay a royalty – any royalty – just to distribute audio programs online certainly would have discouraged countless people from starting a podcast. Maybe some folks would have gone to YouTube, or maybe others would’ve kept their heads down, figuring Personal Audio wouldn’t be able to catch everyone, especially the smallest of minnows in the podcasting sea.

  Nevertheless, I’d bet just the plausible threat of getting a nasty letter in the mail from Personal Audio’s lawyer would have been enough discouragement for too many producers, especially those with fresh ideas coming from less privileged communities and backgrounds.

  I liken this to what actually happened to independent internet radio stations in the U.S., when the performance royalties they pay to record labels skyrocketed by 10x or more in 2016, with the expiration of the Webmaster Settlement Act. This caused untold dozens of small broadcasters to shut down, leaving the world of internet radio poorer, and less diverse, as a result.

  Podcasting, too, would have been much poorer had Personal Audio’s patent won the day.

  Luckily, we now live in a universe where there is no patent on podcasting. As a podcaster (and listener) I say thanks again to the EFF.

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  ]]> 42379 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/05/grassroots-radio-conference-2018-to-be-held-oct-5-7-in-portland-or/ Thu, 03 May 2018 04:53:00 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=42301 Community radio KBOO-FM is hosting this year’s Grassroots Radio Conference on the occasion of the station’s 50th anniversary. The conference is happening October 5 – 7, 2018 and registration is open now. Founded in 1996, the GRC is intended to be a space where broadcasters, producers and supporters can share skills, discuss important issues and […]

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  Community radio KBOO-FM is hosting this year’s Grassroots Radio Conference on the occasion of the station’s 50th anniversary. The conference is happening October 5 – 7, 2018 and registration is open now.

  Founded in 1996, the GRC is intended to be a space where broadcasters, producers and supporters can share skills, discuss important issues and learn together. The Grassroots Radio Coalition which started the conference is not a membership organization, so anyone is invited to participate. This includes folks involved in full-power and low-power FM community stations, college radio, internet radio, podcasting or other community media.

  The GRC’s theme for 2018 is “The Future is Community Radio.” The organizers are now accepting proposals for sessions at the conference. It’s an opportunity to share skills and knowledge, hold a workshop or host a discussion. Some suggested topics include: technical workshops on things like automation and engineering; volunteer coordination; building networks and collaboration between stations in a region; community podcasting; and social media and digital strategy.

  Personally, I’m hoping to see a diversity of attendees, with podcasters, independent producers, college radio volunteers, high school station broadcasters, and maybe even legal unlicensed Part 15 broadcasters joining the core group of people from full-power and low-power community stations.

  You can submit your proposal online. Then, make your plans to be in Portland this October.

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  ]]> 42301 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/05/podcast-140-from-podcasting-to-virtual-reality-with-reagan-jackson-and-sandy-cioffi/ Tue, 01 May 2018 08:01:52 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=42294 Our first live episode might just blow your mind. Recorded at the Alliance for Community Media Northwest Summit, it’s time to break down barriers between media platforms. That’s we’re tackling podcasting and virtual reality, and how they relate to social justice and equity. Our guests are writer, artist, teacher and activist Reagan Jackson and Sandy […]

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  Our first live episode might just blow your mind. Recorded at the Alliance for Community Media Northwest Summit, it’s time to break down barriers between media platforms. That’s we’re tackling podcasting and virtual reality, and how they relate to social justice and equity.

  Our guests are writer, artist, teacher and activist Reagan Jackson and Sandy Cioffi, founder and creative director of fearless360º, a new media and virtual reality production company in Seattle. Together we tackle the vital importance of building empathy in community media, regardless of the platform. Learn about “embodied journalism” and why “data is crude oil for communities.”

  Show Notes

  • Reagan Jackson
  • Reagan Jackson’s work for the Seattle Globalist
  • “The Deep End” podcast
  • Sandy Cioffi
  • fearless360º
  • Sandy Cioffi at TEDx Seattle
  • Alliance for Community Media Northwest Region

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  ]]> 42294 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/03/podcast-135-resurfacing-womens-contributions-in-podcasting-history/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 08:06:15 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=42021 Women made significant contributions to the initial development of podcasting that have been forgotten. Historian Jennifer Hyland-Wang has been resurfacing these contributions, and drawing parallels with women’s contributions to the formative years of radio. She joins us on this episode to share this history and examine the ways in which the structural biases of the […]

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  Women made significant contributions to the initial development of podcasting that have been forgotten. Historian Jennifer Hyland-Wang has been resurfacing these contributions, and drawing parallels with women’s contributions to the formative years of radio. She joins us on this episode to share this history and examine the ways in which the structural biases of the podcast industry have minimized women.

  Show Notes:

  • She Podcasts
  • Craft Lit Podcast
  • “Clara, Lu and Em”
  • “Clara, Lu and Em” at the Internet Archive
  • Edison Research: The Infinite Dial 2018
  • “Producing a Radio Housewife:Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em, Gendered Labor, a nd the Early Days of Radio“
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • DTFT The Podcast, by Julia Barton
  • PodcastRE
  • This American Life on “Vocal Fry”
  • Podcast #14 includes Matthew’s report on the censoring of Mae West

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  ]]> 42021 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/03/podcast-132-sounding-out-on-the-cultural-politics-of-sound-listening/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 05:20:53 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=41857 How often do you think about how you listen? What assumptions do you make about a person’s voice, their pitch or accent? What sound is desirable, and what’s rejected as noise? Prof. Jennifer Stoever thinks about these questions, a lot. And so do a growing number of scholars working in a field called Sound Studies. […]

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  How often do you think about how you listen? What assumptions do you make about a person’s voice, their pitch or accent? What sound is desirable, and what’s rejected as noise?

  Prof. Jennifer Stoever thinks about these questions, a lot. And so do a growing number of scholars working in a field called Sound Studies. That’s the topic of the “Sounding Out” blog and podcast, which Prof. Stoever co-founded. She’s an associate professor of English at the University of Binghamton, and she’s our guest to discuss the cultural politics of sound and listening, and how these analyses apply to music, radio and podcasting.

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  Show Notes:

  • Sounding Out!
  • Sounding Out Podcast #63: The Sonic Landscapes of Unwelcome: Women of Color, Sonic Harassment, and Public Space
  • The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening, by Jennifer Stoever
  • Radio Preservation Task Force
  • Sounding Out Podcast #65 on backstory of Sounding Out
  • Binghamton Historical Soundwalk Project
  • WHRW at Binghamtom University
  • KUCR
  • Sounding Out! Podcast #23: War of the Worlds Revisited

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  ]]> 41857 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/02/podcast-129-deaf-accessibility-for-podcasts-radio/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:13:42 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=41727 If you’re a hearing person, you might not expect that podcasts would be popular with people who are deaf or are hard of hearing. But you’d be wrong. Miri Josephs is a podcaster who also considers herself part of the deaf community. She joins this episode to explain why it’s important to make podcasts, and […]

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  If you’re a hearing person, you might not expect that podcasts would be popular with people who are deaf or are hard of hearing. But you’d be wrong. Miri Josephs is a podcaster who also considers herself part of the deaf community. She joins this episode to explain why it’s important to make podcasts, and radio, more accessible to people with hearing disabilities. She also offers tips for making your show more accessible to people with a range of hearing ability.

  Miri also tells us about the podcast she co-hosts, called “Always Here: An LGBT History Podcast.”

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  Show Notes:

  • Happy World Radio Day
  • Podcast #33 1/3 – World Radio Day with Francesco Diasio, AMARC Secretary General
  • Always Here: An LGBT History Podcast – “Oscar Wilde”

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  ]]> 41727 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/01/podcast-124-seattle-hosts-young-podcasters-a-new-lpfm/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/01/podcast-124-seattle-hosts-young-podcasters-a-new-lpfm/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:01:46 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=41469 Eric and Paul met young enthusiastic podcasters and podcast fans when they attended Podcon in Seattle at the beginning of December. It’s almost an understatement to say they were impressed by diversity of the attendees, and their love of radio drama style shows. Your hosts learned a lot (there’s a library with free public podcast […]

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  Eric and Paul met young enthusiastic podcasters and podcast fans when they attended Podcon in Seattle at the beginning of December. It’s almost an understatement to say they were impressed by diversity of the attendees, and their love of radio drama style shows. Your hosts learned a lot (there’s a library with free public podcast studios!) and they share some of the takeaways in this episode.

  The same weekend Paul and Eric had the opportunity to attend the launch party for KBFG, a new LPFM community station in the Ballard neighborhood. The station was also featured in a recent New York Times feature on low-power FM. We share an interview with station staffers, co-founder Pam Burton, board member Jerry Russell and programming and promotions director MacKenzie McAninch.

  Paul also gives an update on the FCC’s decimation of network neutrality now that the FCC finally released the approved policy. He explains the timeline ahead for when the new rules will take affect, and when court challenges can begin.

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  Show Notes:

  • Ars Technica: FCC releases final net neutrality repeal order, three weeks after vote
  • Multichannel News: Parsing a New Net Dereg Reality
  • Podcon
  • KBFG-LP
  • New York Times: As Low-Power Local Radio Rises, Tiny Voices Become a Collective Shout

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/01/podcast-124-seattle-hosts-young-podcasters-a-new-lpfm/feed/ 0 41469 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-117-soundwork-preserving-legacy-radio-podcasts-alices-restaurant/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-117-soundwork-preserving-legacy-radio-podcasts-alices-restaurant/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:01:32 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=41157 “Podcasts are luring people into listening,” Jennifer Waits reports, quoting the esteemed radio scholar Susan Douglas, from her keynote address at the recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington DC. Jennifer also relays some important reasons for studying radio history shared at the conference, especially to help understand the present and plan for the […]

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  “Podcasts are luring people into listening,” Jennifer Waits reports, quoting the esteemed radio scholar Susan Douglas, from her keynote address at the recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington DC. Jennifer also relays some important reasons for studying radio history shared at the conference, especially to help understand the present and plan for the future, and she fills us in about efforts to preserve the early history and recordings of podcasts, as well as women’s pivotal role in the medium.

  Then we discuss Jennifer’s annual charting of the stations that will observe the Thanksgiving tradition of playing Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” and a mysterious 1970s public access TV artifact depicting a pirate radio station that once broadcast from Paul’s Portland, OR neighborhood.

  Show Notes

  • Radio Preservation Task Force
  • The Library of Congress Launches Radio Preservation Task Force
  • Podcast #37: Preservation, Pirates and Radionomy
  • Podcast #40: Radio Treasure Hunt
  • College Radio Watch: Preserving College Radio’s History at the RPTF Conference
  • Radio Preservation Task Force Announces Radio History Conference in DC in November
  • Sounding Out!
  • Sounding Out! Podcast Episode Guide
  • Radio Atlas
  • Alice’s Restaurant on the Radio (Radio Survivor archives)
  • Alice’s Restaurant and more 2017 Thanksgiving Broadcasts
  • Public Access TV Archive Documents 1970s Portland Pirate Radio

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-117-soundwork-preserving-legacy-radio-podcasts-alices-restaurant/feed/ 0 41157 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-116-community-podcasting-community-radio/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-116-community-podcasting-community-radio/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:05:39 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=41096 We’ve talked about community podcasting on the show, now we want to connect the dots to community radio. The apparent ubiquity of public radio podcasts makes it seem like a podcast of a radio show is just automatic. But, in fact, turning terrestrial shows into consistent podcasts requires work and thoughtful planning behind the scenes. […]

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  We’ve talked about community podcasting on the show, now we want to connect the dots to community radio.

  The apparent ubiquity of public radio podcasts makes it seem like a podcast of a radio show is just automatic. But, in fact, turning terrestrial shows into consistent podcasts requires work and thoughtful planning behind the scenes. Community radio KPOV in Bend, OR is starting a project to do just that. Station Manager Jill Mahler joins us to explain the history of the project, how it’s funded and how they plan to launch.

  Show Notes:

  • Community Radio KPOV Bend, OR
  • Podcast #107 – Exploring Community Podcasting
  • Paul’s old radio show that he syndicated and turned into a podcast: Mediageek
  • KPOV shows that are syndicated:
    • Calling All Cowboys
    • The Ultimate Oldies Show
    • Storyland

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/11/podcast-116-community-podcasting-community-radio/feed/ 0 41096 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/10/air-radio-survivor-show-station/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/10/air-radio-survivor-show-station/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:01:40 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=40862 We are very happy to announce that our weekly radio show and podcast is now available for broadcast to all non-commercial broadcast and internet radio stations. The show is available at no charge every week for all qualified stations, including college, community, public and LPFM stations as well as non-commercial internet-only stations. You do need […]

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  We are very happy to announce that our weekly radio show and podcast is now available for broadcast to all non-commercial broadcast and internet radio stations. The show is available at no charge every week for all qualified stations, including college, community, public and LPFM stations as well as non-commercial internet-only stations.

  You do need to sign up to get access to broadcast-ready files—click here to learn more or sign up.

  Airing Radio Survivor is a great way to help educate your listeners about the wider world of community media and the issues and policies that affect it. It’s also a great way to build awareness of community radio and media, and why your listeners should support your station.

  Big thanks go to XRAY.fm in Portland, OR which became our first pilot affiliate earlier this year and helped us get into the rhythm of producing a broadcast-ready show every single week.

  Each week’s episode is available Tuesday by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, and runs 58 minutes. The show is available as broadcast quality mono uncompressed WAV files and high bitrate MP3s that are compatible with most major automation and play-out systems. These files are only accessible through a password-protected affiliates’ page.

  Please note that the broadcast version of Radio Survivor may differ from the podcast version, and that we guarantee that the broadcast version is fully FCC compliant. The podcast version may be longer or shorter than 1 hour, and may contain content that is not fully FCC compliant. That’s why we’re offering this special feed just for radio stations.

  Click here to learn more, and to request access to our radio affiliates’ download page.

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/10/air-radio-survivor-show-station/feed/ 0 40862 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-109-news-bainbridge-island-reykjavik/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-109-news-bainbridge-island-reykjavik/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:05:38 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=40783 As autumn kicks off in the northern hemisphere Jennifer, Eric and Paul circle back to share responses to last week’s episode, all about community podcasting, and look forward to what’s in store for community media this fall. Jennifer lets us know about two international festivals being broadcast by her home station KFJC, and reports on […]

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  As autumn kicks off in the northern hemisphere Jennifer, Eric and Paul circle back to share responses to last week’s episode, all about community podcasting, and look forward to what’s in store for community media this fall. Jennifer lets us know about two international festivals being broadcast by her home station KFJC, and reports on the impending sale of the Brown University affiliated commercial station, WBRU. We also preview College Radio Day, the Grassroots Radio Conference, and Radio Preservation Task Force conference.

  Show Notes:

  • Bainbridge Community Broadcasting
  • Podcast #107 – Exploring Community Podcasting
  • KFJC in Iceland
  • KFJC in Liverpool for Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
  • KFJC website
  • WBRU Programming Leaves FM in Advance of $5.63 Million License Sale to EMF
  • Country Music and a 70-Year Commercial College Radio Legacy: Visiting WUVA at University of Virginia
  • Commercial College Radio: A Unicorn on FM
  • Grassroots Radio Conference
  • Podcast #68: Report Back from the 2016 Grassroots Radio Conference
  • Radio Station Visit #121: Solar Powered LPFM KUHS-LP in Hot Springs, Arkansas
  • College Radio Day on October 6
  • International Podcast Day is September 30
  • Radio Preservation Task Force

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-109-news-bainbridge-island-reykjavik/feed/ 0 40783 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-107-exploring-community-podcasting/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-107-exploring-community-podcasting/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:05:59 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=40743 On this episode we revisit our features on Bainbridge Community Broadcasting, and our interviews with founders Barry and Channie Peters. BCB started out as a low-power community radio initiative, but pivoting into podcasting when the group discovered that would better serve their community. We’ll listen to our first conversation with them from July 2015, and […]

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  On this episode we revisit our features on Bainbridge Community Broadcasting, and our interviews with founders Barry and Channie Peters. BCB started out as a low-power community radio initiative, but pivoting into podcasting when the group discovered that would better serve their community. We’ll listen to our first conversation with them from July 2015, and then Paul’s follow-up visit to their studios in November 2016.

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  Show Notes:

  • Bainbridge Community Broadcasting
  • Radio Survivor Podcast #8: Bainbridge Community Broadcasting Chose Podcasting over LPFM
  • Podcast #73 – Catching Up with Bainbridge Island’s Community Podcasting Experiment

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/09/podcast-107-exploring-community-podcasting/feed/ 0 40743 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/podcast-106-not-yet-big-enough-fail/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/podcast-106-not-yet-big-enough-fail/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2017 05:03:01 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=40726 Paul reports back from the Podcast Movement 2017 conference with some fresh facts about this growing medium, along with observations and advice from speakers and keynotes. There are definitely nuggets of information that will be useful to community and college podcasters and podcasters. Radio Survivor is a listener-supported podcast. You can support us two ways: Make […]

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  Paul reports back from the Podcast Movement 2017 conference with some fresh facts about this growing medium, along with observations and advice from speakers and keynotes. There are definitely nuggets of information that will be useful to community and college podcasters and podcasters.

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  Show Notes:

  • Podcast Movement

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  ]]> https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/podcast-106-not-yet-big-enough-fail/feed/ 0 40726 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/podcast-104-soundcloud-patent-troll-legacy-talk/ https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/podcast-104-soundcloud-patent-troll-legacy-talk/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2017 04:29:05 +0000 https://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=40639 We catch up on news that’s important to podcasters and broadcasters. Soundcloud received emergency investment to keep running, but is it still a sustainable host for podcasts? The podcast patent troll is totally dead, finally. And, responding to reader and listener questions, Paul reviews the history of proposals to create a low-power AM radio service […]

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  We catch up on news that’s important to podcasters and broadcasters. Soundcloud received emergency investment to keep running, but is it still a sustainable host for podcasts? The podcast patent troll is totally dead, finally. And, responding to reader and listener questions, Paul reviews the history of proposals to create a low-power AM radio service in the U.S.

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  Show Notes:

  • Podcast #103 – The Popular Community Radio Movement in Argentina
  • Groucho Marx and Truman Capote on the Dick Cavett Show
  • SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
  • “Podcasting patent” is totally dead, appeals court rules
  • What about Low-Power AM (LPAM)?

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