These lazy days of summer are turning out to be anything but lazy for me. One of the problems with writing a blog is keeping it up, and I’m so buried in the new American Music Festivals series that the blog has languished. I did promise you some comments that were running on the AMPPR [...]
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Just sayin’.
We’re drowning in a river of words: blogs, emails, text messages, tweets, comments, speeches, oratory, rhetoric, verbal engineering, commentary, and spin, spin, spin. Sure, we contribute our fair share right here on Scanning the Dial, but our contribution to the torrent hopefully sets just the right tone, is just clever enough and feels just right. [...]
Kicking the tires of philanthropy.
To give or not to give, that is the question. Not-for-profit radio stations around the country are entering into the spring fund-raising season, facing the same challenges as last year and the year before that, and the year before that. The perennial challenge is engaging the listener in a conversation about the relevance of the [...]
Programming – Our Ongoing Controversy in Public Radio
Responding finally to Mike’s query last week about how programmers choose their music, I think a good place to start is to look at how the successful stations program. Of course I have my own opinions but I’ll save them until the end of this post. If you look at the big commercial stations, WQXR [...]