The Current is launching a new stream dedicated to music from Minnesota’s north shore. Online only stream.This stream is in addition to their primary stream, their MN local stream, their kids stream, and the American Heartland stream. That’s 5 streams. Only one of which has an over the air presence. Which means, today, 80% of […]
Category: Radio
Garrick’s Quick on the UpTake, 950AM Thurs 5:20pm
Every Thursday on Mike McIntee’s Quick on the UpTake program on AM 950 – I’ll be talking about the week’s crazy technologies for a quick 10 minutes. If you’re not near the AM dial, it’ll be available at TheUptake.org’s ‘Quick on the Uptake’ site.
RSS-Powered, Low-Powered FM
Mike O’Connor pinged me about an idea he had to build-out a low power FM radio station using RSS-based technologies. I completely agree – and the idea gets me all giddy. No only does it combine 3 of my favorite things: RSS, podcasts, and reaching a small community with simple technologies – it dovetails nicely […]
For the Future of Radio – Tune to 802.11
Yesterday, at the Village gym, tired of my normal workout playlist, I brought up JungleTrain on the iPod Touch. My favorite, niche internet radio station, streaming from somewhere in Europe, picked up by a device in my pocket, on a random treadmill in Minnesota. Exactly the audio I was looking for. No ads, no data […]
Quoted in APM’s ‘The Pork Wars on YouTube’
As part of APM’s Public Insight Journalism program, I was interviewed as about the use of sites like YouTube for political issues (vs. campaigns) – specifically in the context of the recent tennis match between animal rights groups vs farm industry groups. Here’s the bit of my interview they used on-air and online. “Garrick Van […]
Drive 105 Repo’d. Replaced with Love
The last hold-out in the Twin Cities commercial ‘alternative’ radio dial succumbed to Love today. “Every mini-van driving soccer mom with a 15 year old will be pleased as punch when she turns on her radio and hears this festival of shit pouring forth from her speakers.” – Sornie Two choices remain; The Current, or […]
So, You Want to Be a Public Radio Star?
I had a great conversation with Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson this weekend at MinneBar, we started talking about the early days of podcasting and how Tim and I both saw podcasting as a farm league for broadcast radio in general – and public radio in particular. The problem is by the time those institutions […]
Friday, April 13, 2007 1:33:51 PM
I re-listened to the proceedings from February’s Public Media conference yesterday. The first time around I missed the ‘origins of objectivity’ bit (not taking a positioning makes it easier to attract the widest range of advertisers). Seems consistent both in light of this week’s Imus drama and in why the difficulty in advertising on blogs. […]
If Radio Changed Would Anyone Hear It?
“If radio featured significantly less advertising, would that keep listeners away from their CD’s and iPods and satellite radios and TV’s and video games? Indeed, would that make the radio industry a healthier one?” – Mark Ramsey, Mercury Radio Research. These days, after more than 5 minutes of broadcast radio, I need to turn it […]
Sending Static to the Satellite
“It’s only a matter of time until this content is free, FCC-filtered, and ad-supported.” – Mark Ramsey Ramsey’s talking about Sirius’ new Internet Radio offering. While I’m not a big fan of the satellite model, the strength of satellite is that it’s an alternative to the AM and FM dials. Admittedly, I’m coming at this […]