mediageek 25 September 2008: A New Beginning

This show marks the debut of mediageek on its new home station, WNUR 89.3 FM in Evanston, IL, broadcasting to the north side of Chicago and the North Shore suburbs. My pal John Anderson guests to help re-inaugurate the program as we review the raison d’ete of mediageek, and new producer Andrew Gothelf shares his own brief experience interning in a commercial radio newsroom that quickly disappeared.

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mediageek 2008-06-20: Digital Radio in Europe

Digital HD Radio in the US has been available for a couple of years now, but doesn’t seem to be clicking with the listening public. Europe has had a completely different digital radio system available in many countries for several years, too, but it doesn’t appear to be much more popular. Mediageek’s resident digital radio expert John Anderson recently spoke at a radio conference in Budapest, Hungary and tells us more about the role of digital radio on the continent.

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