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...when Don Imus, host of CBS Radio??s “Imus In The Morning” program, referred to the “nappy-headed hos” of Rutgers women’s basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders...
...smaller stations.They also accept data only in digital format, making it difficult for stations that play CDs and LPs and do not use automated software for the bulk of their programming to comply.Beyond the administrative and logistical nuisances is the threat to the financial viability of small, streaming operations.Internet radio??s low overhead allows for stations to broadcast on a shoestring budget and still access a worldwide audience. For some college stations that only have small transmitters or broadcast in small communities, streaming actually becomes the main source for listeners. The newest SoundExchange royalty rates are so dangerous...
...generic programming. Since the FCC only regulates the content on “free-to-air” radio, listeners have the illusion that satellite radio, with Howard Stern as its icon, is more edgy than local radio. But other than the notoriously vulgar Stern, the bulk of satellite radio??s content is as bland and commercialized as the music in the Gap. Satellite service is embraced as the future of radio because it is new technology, and new technology seems like the only way to save old-fashioned broadcast radio. But in placing itself in direct competition...
...when you can watch Tom Cruise stop one?Instead of continuing to use the live music format that most stations have been using since the late 1920s, radio began to turn back to the recorded album in an attempt to save itself. At first, it seemed, the answer to radio??s problems was music and the public’s faith in a reliable DJ. The burgeoning record industry found its own personal soapbox in DJs who championed new releases.And, for the most part, the format worked. Martin Block, Alan Freed, and John Peel rose to national fame...
...Kong: fine for scorpion bowls and chicken dumplings, but an unlikely place to go for intellectual stimulation. Until now. Last Monday, Charlie P. Pierce, a staff reporter for The Boston Globe’s Sunday Magazine, author, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio??s “It’s Only a Game” discussed his newest book, “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything,” at Hong Kong restaurant in collaboration with Harvard Book Store and The Boston Phoenix. “We wanted to hold...