#lpfm — Public Fediverse posts

Helping start a new community radio station here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Please do reach out (or follow) if you are interested to hear more, or have resources you'd like to share!

#Eugene #Springfield #SpringfieldOR #KalapuyaCounty #LaneCounty #Oregon #lpfm #radio #CommunityRadio

Helping start a new community radio station here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Please do reach out (or follow) if you are interested to hear more, or have resources you'd like to share!

#Eugene #Springfield #SpringfieldOR #KalapuyaCounty #LaneCounty #Oregon #lpfm #radio #CommunityRadio

Helping start a new community radio station here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Please do reach out (or follow) if you are interested to hear more, or have resources you'd like to share!

#Eugene #Springfield #SpringfieldOR #KalapuyaCounty #LaneCounty #Oregon #lpfm #radio #CommunityRadio

Helping start a new community radio station here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Please do reach out (or follow) if you are interested to hear more, or have resources you'd like to share!

#Eugene #Springfield #SpringfieldOR #KalapuyaCounty #LaneCounty #Oregon #lpfm #radio #CommunityRadio

Helping start a new community radio station here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Please do reach out (or follow) if you are interested to hear more, or have resources you'd like to share!

#Eugene #Springfield #SpringfieldOR #KalapuyaCounty #LaneCounty #Oregon #lpfm #radio #CommunityRadio

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

just realized it's #WorldRadioDay !!

here's a custom-etched 40-watt transmitter from Oakland, CA, designed by Jake Watters

look closely at the bottom for Nina Simone and Rosa Parks

#radio #LPFM

I am looking for people near Des Moines who have radio engineering and/or Linux skills who would be interested in building a low power radio station. #Linux #ham_radio #LPFM #radio #communityradio

I am looking for people near Des Moines who have radio engineering and/or Linux skills who would be interested in building a low power radio station. #Linux #ham_radio #LPFM #radio #communityradio

I am looking for people near Des Moines who have radio engineering and/or Linux skills who would be interested in building a low power radio station. #Linux #ham_radio #LPFM #radio #communityradio

I am looking for people near Des Moines who have radio engineering and/or Linux skills who would be interested in building a low power radio station. #Linux #ham_radio #LPFM #radio #communityradio

I am looking for people near Des Moines who have radio engineering and/or Linux skills who would be interested in building a low power radio station. #Linux #ham_radio #LPFM #radio #communityradio

#sacramento #radio #lpfm

https://www.abridged.org/news/freeform-radio-station-has-big-dreams-for-indie-music-in-sacramento/

Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this Columbia Journalism Review story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚
https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-funding-cut-low-power-radio-lessons-community-broadcasting.php

#LPFM #media #radio #PublicMedia

Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license

For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.

That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.

In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.

When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.

WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:

The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.

But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.

(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)

Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.

(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)

Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.

You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.

But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.

#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD

Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license

For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.

That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.

In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.

When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.

WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:

The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.

But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.

(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)

Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.

(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)

Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.

You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.

But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.

#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD

Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license

For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.

That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.

In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.

When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.

WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:

The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.

But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.

(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)

Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.

(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)

Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.

You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.

But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.

#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD

A few of the last things I did before everything shuttered were related to the launch of a new #LPFM #radio station in Long Beach, KLBP-LP. I spoke at a ribboncutting and went to a launch party with music

(That's not me speaking, but sitting waiting to speak or having just spoken, March 1, 2020)

Have really, really avoided crowds since, to the degree I can

#FiveYearsOn

The site is #PrometheusRadioProject, an activist collective in Philly who began as a pirate station and then turned towards policy advocacy and helping people build radio stations, low-power FMs.

This book doesn't feel this old to me, even tho I started research 20 years ago(!) 2/

(📸 JJ Tiziou, in Urbana, IL, 2006)

#LPFM #CommunityRadio

Happy Sunday! Tune into my CHIRP Radio show today and every Sunday from 4-6pm CST at 107.1fm in Chicago and chirpradio.org everywhere! Download our app at chirpradio.org/mobile and teach your smart speaker at chirpradio.org/smart 📻

#chicago #indieradio #lpfm #communityradio #chicagomusic #indiemusic

Tune into my CHIRP Radio show today and every Sunday from 4-6pm CST at 107.1fm in Chicago and http://www.chirpradio.org everywhere! Download our app at http://www.chirpradio.org/mobile and teach your smart speaker at http://www.chirpradio.org/smart 📻

#indiemusic #indieradio #lpfmradio #lpfm #communityradio #Chicagomusic #chicago

Only radio can serve a community in this way.

The Wolfe family is moving back to California soon, but I hope y’all know what an important asset KUZU is to Denton and that you will care for it. You may need it one day

#radio
#lpfm
#community

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/30/helene-north-carolina-canton-radio-station/

🎵 Support Your Local Radio Station! At CHIRP Radio, we’re passionate about bringing you great music, events and community. Our fall fundraiser is happening and we need your help to keep the station on the air. Please donate at https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/JennyLizakFall24 and help us cover our bills.

#lpfm #lpfmradio #communityradio #CommunityRadioStation #chicago #chicagomusic #indiemusic #indieradio #pledgedrive

An inexpensive Arduino-based ATS-20+ #radio arrived yesterday, and the FM performance is quite remarkable. I’m pulling in several #pdx area LPFMs that are otherwise difficult to receive in my Southeast home. Enjoyed KISN-LP’s Beatles Basement this morning.
#lpfm

https://www.goodguyradio.com

Hey, #Denton. I watched the Public Utilities Board meeting on Monday so you didn't have to.

And does it feel like utility bills are rising fast in #Texas? Yes, in fact, they are.

Full report on all those rate hikes coming to your utility bill on the Local News at 10 a.m.
Please tune in.

#news
#radio
#fm
#lpfm

https://kuzu.fm

I'll personally match the next $100 donated at
Http://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak today only! Help me reach my personal goal of $500 - I'm about halfway there - & know you're supporting Chicago's best community radio station, CHIRP Radio!

#lowpowerfm #lpfm #lpfmradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #fundraiser #nonprofit

I'll personally match the next $100 donated at
Http://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak today only! Help me reach my personal goal of $500 - I'm about halfway there - & know you're supporting Chicago's best community radio station, CHIRP Radio!

#lowpowerfm #lpfm #lpfmradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #fundraiser #nonprofit

I'll personally match the next $100 donated at
Http://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak today only! Help me reach my personal goal of $500 - I'm about halfway there - & know you're supporting Chicago's best community radio station, CHIRP Radio!

#lowpowerfm #lpfm #lpfmradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #fundraiser #nonprofit

I'll personally match the next $100 donated at
Http://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak today only! Help me reach my personal goal of $500 - I'm about halfway there - & know you're supporting Chicago's best community radio station, CHIRP Radio!

#lowpowerfm #lpfm #lpfmradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #fundraiser #nonprofit

It's time for the spring pledge drive at CHIRP Radio and the thank you gifts are some of our best yet! $60 gets you the stainless steel tumbler, $10/month or $120 gets you this adorable new shirt, and $20/month gets you the camp chair! The station runs on the blood sweat and tears of 250+ volunteers, 1 paid employee, and donations from listeners and supporters just like you!

Help me make my personal goal of raising $500 this drive by donating at
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak or at http://www.chirpradio.org/donatenow and telling them I sent you.

#lowpowerfm #lpfmradio #lpfm #communityradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #volunteerradio #nonprofit

It's time for the spring pledge drive at CHIRP Radio and the thank you gifts are some of our best yet! $60 gets you the stainless steel tumbler, $10/month or $120 gets you this adorable new shirt, and $20/month gets you the camp chair! The station runs on the blood sweat and tears of 250+ volunteers, 1 paid employee, and donations from listeners and supporters just like you!

Help me make my personal goal of raising $500 this drive by donating at
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak or at http://www.chirpradio.org/donatenow and telling them I sent you.

#lowpowerfm #lpfmradio #lpfm #communityradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #volunteerradio #nonprofit

It's time for the spring pledge drive at CHIRP Radio and the thank you gifts are some of our best yet! $60 gets you the stainless steel tumbler, $10/month or $120 gets you this adorable new shirt, and $20/month gets you the camp chair! The station runs on the blood sweat and tears of 250+ volunteers, 1 paid employee, and donations from listeners and supporters just like you!

Help me make my personal goal of raising $500 this drive by donating at
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak or at http://www.chirpradio.org/donatenow and telling them I sent you.

#lowpowerfm #lpfmradio #lpfm #communityradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #volunteerradio #nonprofit

It's time for the spring pledge drive at CHIRP Radio and the thank you gifts are some of our best yet! $60 gets you the stainless steel tumbler, $10/month or $120 gets you this adorable new shirt, and $20/month gets you the camp chair! The station runs on the blood sweat and tears of 250+ volunteers, 1 paid employee, and donations from listeners and supporters just like you!

Help me make my personal goal of raising $500 this drive by donating at
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/lizak or at http://www.chirpradio.org/donatenow and telling them I sent you.

#lowpowerfm #lpfmradio #lpfm #communityradio #indieradio #chicagoradio #volunteerradio #nonprofit

Back in 2007, a small group of committed music fans in Chicago decided to form their own community radio station. 17 years later, we're not only going strong, we're going to renovate and expand our space this year. Chirp Radio is driven by 260 volunteers and 1 paid GM, and funded by listeners like you. If you believe in the power of community radio, of just the right song that makes your day a little brighter, please donate any amount at
https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/Lizak

#lpfm #lpfmradio #communityradio #volunteerradio #chicagoradio #pledgedrive #chicagomusic #indiemusic #chicago

Did you know that the majority of #Denton residents are renters?

We take a deep dive with some really smart people into the troubling local rise in #evictions and the burden of the high cost of #rent on Weekend Edition.

Please tune in at 4 pm today.

#radio
#news
#lpfm

Https://kuzu.fm

Just rolled up to the studio to play Local News at 10a.

I'm not sure I've ever heard a DJ say anything about the chairs here. They are all hand-me-downs and kind of work. I usually end up balancing myself in the swivel chair that feels more like the T-stool my son used to sit on in occupational therapy sessions.

I may be a little prickly this morning, but not as prickly as the #Denton city council got yesterday. ;)

Please tune in.

#radio
#lpfm
#news

https://kuzu.fm

@cs Canada has different rules for #LPFM #CommunityRadio and #CampusRadio. Starting in 1974 we got Canada's first Community Radio FM station, CKWR, right here in @waterlooregion, followed by Campus Radio FM: CKCU at Carleton Uni in 1975, then CFMU at #McMaster Uni in 1977, then CKMS at #Waterloo Uni in 1978. All were initially restricted to 50W or 100W, but are now 250W to 1000W. Waterloo is particularly rich in Community Radio, there's also CJIQ at #ConestogaCollege, and #MidtownRadio online.

Please tune in at 10 a.m. We have a city council report for you on #LocalNews, on the police chief's advisory committee, which meets in private, the fate of the Traffic Safety Commission and priorities for the Persons with #Disabilities Committee.

Everyday people drive many of the governmental doings in #Denton, and it shows in our quality of life.

https://kuzu.fm

#radio
#lpfm
#news

For some reason, the timing gods were with me today.

I was in the KUZU studio this morning when a pipe burst. The city crews got there in time to prevent bigger damage.

#txwx

We also aired a story about the corrosive effect of HB 900, a book-banning law that a federal judge struck down, but the state had appealed to the Fifth Circuit, normally friendly to Texas's pushing of the conservative envelope.

But the Fifth Circuit struck most of it down this afternoon.

Here's that story:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/17/texas-book-rating-lawsuit-5th-circuit/

And if you want to read the script of this morning's story, here's that link:
https://peggyheinkelwolfe.substack.com

Not sure when the timing gods will be with me again, so I guess I'd better head out and buy that lottery ticket.

#news
#lpfm

On #LocalNews today, we talk with the head of the Texas Library Association about the coordinated effort to remove books from libraries.

A Texas #BookBanning law, found by a federal judge to violate the First Amendment, is before the 5th Circuit and an opinion is expected soon.

Just one of many new state laws to keep in mind as you head to the polls this spring, #Denton

Please tune in at 10 a.m. for more.

https://kuzu.fm

#news
#radio
#lpfm

We've got almost a play-by-play of yesterday's #Denton City Council meeting coming up at 10a on #Local News.

I wasn't able to pull live audio because of the city's internet connectivity problems yesterday, but I was still able to see what happened (and verify on background with a source).

Also, where to find Narcan in an emergency.

Please tune in.
https://kuzu.fm

#news
#lpfm
#radio

Back in the saddle with KUZU and Local News this weekend.
Please tune in at 4 p.m. Saturday. We've got three very different headlines for you. And a tip where to find a free salsa #dancing lesson.

#Denton
#news
#lpfm
#radio

https://kuzu.fm

Today is Edition No. 145 of Local News on KUZU. 🌠

We've got a couple of good year-ender, looking-back stories for you #Denton that contain actual new information (and not just those recap, first draft of 2023 history stories I used to write for the paper)

So please tune in at 10am.

Then, Imma gonna take a break for the holidays.

When we come back on Jan. 6, it will be the start of the third year of #LocalNews on KUZU.

No kidding, time flies when you're having fun.

#journalism
#lpfm
#radio

https://kuzu.fm

When I compare the journalism work I do now to the old newsroom days, it does feel a little lonely. That is, until I make a call, or go to a meeting, or chat with someone in my community doing something interesting. Then it feels like the same work I've always done.

I'm not the only journalist doing this kind of work. There are others reporting news on low-power fm radio and through other smaller platforms.

That makes reports like this one feel oddly out of touch. If their purpose is to inventory the media landscape, the researchers should do more than go back to the same pond to look for the wildlife, when many are migrating to other, more life-giving places.

#DeepThoughts
#radio
#news
#journalism
#lpfm

https://www.insideradio.com/free/as-public-radio-fights-for-local-news-total-sources-continue-their-decline/article_c8eb9b0a-9804-11ee-8c8b-5b6bd806b468.html?mc_cid=35aa6a0885&mc_eid=3fd746d600

#Denton may soon require all pets be microchipped, if proposed changes to the animal ordinances go through.

Would you comply?

(If you missed it, the report is linked below.)

#LocalNews
#news
#radio
#lpfm

https://peggyheinkelwolfe.substack.com/p/local-news-on-kuzu-929fm-denton-texas-8a0

Local News at 10a.

Talked with the fire chief, since rebuilds of Stations 5 and 6 prolly first construction projects to come from November bond election.

Also, brief reports on #Denton City Council struggles to reconfigure some citizen committees.

Please tune in.

#news
#LocalNews
#radio
#lpfm

https://kuzu.fm

US broadcasters: the FCC has GRANTED (partially) a petition to delay the CAP prioritization deadline for EAS equipment by 90 days to March 11, 2024, but ONLY for participants using Sage Alerting Systems devices that the required update is not yet available for.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-1111A1.pdf

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