Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Posts Tagged ‘ radio ’
On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 1]
On Radio: Ira Glass, Radio Star
Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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On Radio: Strange Bedfellows
Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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On Radio: The Practice of Podcasting
And this is what still remains exciting about podcasting: the format has prompted a reconsideration of what we can expect from radio.
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On Radio: “Mirth, Music, and Mayhem”: In Praise of The Best Show on WFMU
Broadcast over Jersey City’s listener-supported radio station WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is what happens when many of commercial radio’s most noxious elements—bizarre callers, comedy routines, running gags, and irascible hosts—transform and coalesce into a singularly entertaining program perfectly calibrated for cult attraction.
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On Radio: Radiolab and the Art of the Modern Radio Feature
On Radio is a new Antenna column dedicated to contemporary radio programming and other issues surrounding the medium in all its forms. Here, in the series' first entry, Andrew Bottomley offers a critical appreciation of the radio feature Radiolab.
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On Norman Corwin, Poet Laureate of American Radio
Norman Corwin's recent passing provides an ideal opportunity to consider the legacy of the man who has often been described as the poet laureate of American radio.
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What Are You Missing? August 14-27
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Converse Rubber Tracks: What’s a Shoe Company Doing With a Recording Studio?
Are lifestyle brands the new record labels? A new recording studio owned by Converse is offering musicians the opportunity to record their music for free, further reducing the need for artists to work with traditional record labels. There are, of course, some strings attached.
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What Are You Missing? August 1-August 14
And...we’re back. Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Report from the On, Archives! Conference
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research hosted a major conference this past week that featured a symposium on broadcasting in the 1930s, several thought-provoking keynote addresses, and presentations on all manner of issues pertaining to archives and the historical past.
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences
Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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What Are You Missing? February 1-13
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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What Are You Missing? December 6-12
Your current Antenna editors join forces to bring to your attention ten media-related tidbits you might have missed this week.
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The Nostalgic Pleasure of Signing Off
A radio station that signs on and off with the phases of the sun? Well that's something I haven't experienced since. . . well, ever.
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