Matthew Lasar, media historian and writer for ArsTechnica, joins again to discuss the future of radio and the new line up of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission.
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Jennifer Waits is a college radio enthusiast. From getting her start at Haverford College’s carrier-current WHRC to DJing at Foothill College’s KFJC Waits has worked at a variety of stations, always propelled by her love of independent music and media. She blogs about her passion at Spinning Indie where she posts reports from her tours of stations around the country, along with news of relevance to college radio. She joins the program this week to talk about the important place college radio has in our media environment.
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Nearly four years ago the four largest commercial radio owners promised to play more independent music as part of a consent degree arising from the payola scandal. But still, not much has changed. The Future of Music Coalition has been tracking radio playlists to see if commercial stations have been keeping their promises. FMC’s Kristin Thomson joins to discuss the situation.
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Tags: cbs, clear channel, commercial radio, consent decree, Cumulus, fcc, FMC, Future of Music Coalition, independent music, music, payola
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This week is an encore presentation of this program from January 22:
RetroThing.com is a website and blog dedicated to interesting and fun retro and vintage gadgets, electronics, toys and technology that might have been forgotten, but still have their uses. Co-editor of the site, Bohus Blahut, joins us to talk about the appeal of vintage tech, and how useful and fun stuff may be waiting for you in the back of your closet.
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