Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Generation(s) of Television Studies symposium, held at the University of Georgia, made visible just how influential Horace Newcomb has been to the field.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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Tags: radio studies, SCMS
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Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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Tags: American Public Media, Audioposition, Jonathan Mitchell, Media Convergence, Mercury Theater on the Air, musique concrete, Orson Welles, podcasting, Radio Drama, Radio Plays, soundscape, Studio 360, The Magnet Theater, The Truth, This American Life
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Can an Internet college radio station cultivate a local audience in today's diffuse media environment? Some experience from Louisville's Bellarmine University suggests that a local focus in an online context allows college stations to reach a variety of listeners who have community ties but who are presently located in far-flung locales.
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Tags: Bellarmine University, Clear Channel, College radio, College Radio Day, internet radio, KVRX, local media, WBGU
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A few concerns about open access, and especially about the predatory journals that swim in them.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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By broadcasting exclusively online and abandoning space-based FM or AM broadcasting, college radio stations run the risk of losing the local focus that has been integral to the programming and operations of the campus and community radio sector.
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Tags: canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CKUW, College radio, community radio, internet radio, KUSF, local media, public media, radio, WYBCX
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