The Nostalgic Pleasure of Signing Off
Broadcasting from sunrise to sunset I have to admit, I listen to most of my “radio” online. Be it local community sponsored, pubic radio, college radio, or streaming commercial music stations from...
View ArticleAereo and “Free” Broadcasting
Broadcast networks Fox, ABC, Univision, along with PBS, are suing Aereo, a service that retransmits broadcast signals to paying subscribers over the internet, for copyright infringement. Such suits are...
View ArticleESPN, Wimbledon, and the Limits of Broadcasting Equality
On Tuesday, ESPN debuted the first film in its Nine for IX series, focusing on women’s equality in the sports world. The first entry, Venus Vs., documents tennis player Venus Williams’ career and her...
View ArticleWhy Care About Radio Broadcast History in the On-Demand Digital Age?
Post by John McMurria As the Radio Preservation Task Force embarks on a collective effort to identify and make publicly accessible radio broadcast recordings and the documents that inform their...
View ArticleCrumbsucking the FM Dial
FM transmitter tower Post by John Anderson Brooklyn College at the City University of New York For more than a decade now, a spectrum-grab of impressive proportions has been taking place on the FM dial...
View ArticleEdgar Dale, Educational Radio, and Sensory Learning
Post by Brian Gregory, Pace University Much research on educational technology reforms in the twentieth century has placed emphasis on the idea that their inception and implementation has often been...
View ArticleHonoring Hilmes: Across the Borders
This is the fourth post in our “Honoring Hilmes” series, celebrating the career and legacy of Michele Hilmes on the occasion of her retirement. Post by Jason Jacobs, University of Queensland The...
View ArticlePublic-Service Streaming: BBC Three and the Politics of Online Engagement
Post by Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham This post continues the ongoing “From Nottingham and Beyond” series, with contributions from faculty and alumni of the University of Nottingham’s...
View ArticleTeaching Radio’s History
Map of NBC’s combined red, blue, orange, and gold networks in 1928. Post by Bruce Lenthall, University of Pennsylvania Teaching a media history course nearly 15 years ago, one day I found myself...
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