Radio, Radio

Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.

"...Think about the history of radio as a medium. It has defined entire generations, starting..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Worldwide Radio Wrestling!

HD format hopes to body-slam satellite radio to an industry draw

"...approaching the ring, the drumbeat has begun for HD Radio, the long-awaited entrance of traditional radio into the digital..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Chronolog Radio (April 4)

Play ‘Misty’ for me

"...a reason we don’t take calls on the Chronolog Radio. No telling who you’ll find hollering on the other..."

April 4, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Faster Than Sound: Shared Frequencies Radio Connects Austin DJs with the World

Online electronic station celebrates third birthday Saturday at Coconut Club

"...on a work trip of sorts for her underground internet radio station...."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Musicians and Radio Have to Stick Together

"...good look at what they are proposing. If small Internet radio stations have to pay royalty fees, they will..."

July 7, 2007 Postmarks

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...his "Good morning, cabal" sign-on signaling the start of Radio Unnameable, his midnight-to-dawn show on WBAI. Sitting in a..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

You Won't Hear That on Commercial Radio

"...at KUT, the University of Texas at Austin's non-commercial radio station (90.5 FM). It's especially true after pledge drives...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Internet Brings the World to Rural TexasThe Road to the Wild

"...gotten more foreign guests as a result of the Internet than I've ever had before," says Carolyn Durr, who..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature by Janet Heimlich

Abandoning Commercial Radio

"...Austin music. Now they are just another generic corporate radio station. Emmis Radio is adding more commercial time per..."

July 22, 2004 Postmarks

Turning the Internet on its Ear

Thomas Dolby's Euphonious Headspace

"...fantasy. And though we haven't heard him on the radio in years, this icon of the MTV generation is..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Talk Radio Turns Blue

Leading with Al Franken, Air America lands in Austin

"...seat to that day's live broadcast of Al Franken's radio show on the Air America network – the local..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Internet Outlaw Michael Wolff Shoots Straight

"...The Wild Wild West." -- Michael Wolff on the Internet, Burn Rate..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Death and Life of Free Radio

Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?

"...to let you in." The recorded voice of Free Radio Austin's last broadcaster. "Just show me your search warrant...."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat

Capstar's Austin-based Empire

"...When bureaucrats in Washington changed the laws that govern radio some 70-odd years ago, a goateed doctor from Kansas..."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?

"...man should have to suffer through. Why these old radio programers don't have a clue about real rock music..."

April 1, 2013 Postmarks

Radio Waves

Changes at the Current

"...the two entities. Could we expect to see the radio station rise to the level of the Current, which..."

April 16, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Psychographical Communities

Internet Radio: Sounds Heard 'Round the World

"...car in the shop, chewing nails. Skittering over the Internet, I fasten on to the Hyperreal Streaming Page (http://www.hyperreal.org/~cyberia/streaming.html),..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...odds are it will hit someone who thinks Austin radio sucks. Take, for example, Ryan Goeller, a one-man focus..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Media Watch: Shiver Me Timbers

Pirate radio station tells FCC to go walk a plank

"...Com­mun­i­ca­tions Commission moved to shut down an unlicensed Austin radio broadcast, the pirate station is still on the air,..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Handicapping the SXSWi Food-Related Panels

Your intrepid reporter learns about all things food and internet.

"...community through websites like Yelp, vegan activism on the Internet, and so on...."

March 8, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Anthem of the Sun

Non-commercial frequency Sun Radio broadens its solar-powered Americana throughout Central Texas

"...Up on the second-story rooftop of Sun Radio, one looks east to the antenna farm near Loop..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Paying the Piper Online

Stations, labels, and musicians wrestle over new Web royalties

"...an alliance of unlikely compatriots, the current fight over Internet radio royalty payments has managed to unite in common..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Is the Net Neutrality Repeal Another Blow to Tex-Mex Musicians and Broadcasters?

Bidi bidi bom bom

"...previous President Barack Obama's net neutrality rules, which prohibited internet service providers – the companies users pay to access..."

July 6, 2018 Music Feature by César E. López Linares

Don't Believe the Hype

Local Digiterati on the Good, the Bad, and the Internet in Between

"...we found ourselves talking less about technology than the Internet's effects on society, politics, and economics, as well as..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Online, Unplugged

Wireless Internet is cost-effective, accessible, of the people rather than gouging the people. So what are you waiting for? It's time to cut the cord.

"...Where do you keep your Internet?..."

April 26, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

After Napster Part 2

Does having your music free online bring more or less cash?

"...its peak in February 2001, more than 17 million Internet users were logging onto Napster servers and "trading" (downloading)..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

After Napster

The world of online music after the fall of Napster.

"...music and how you, the consumer, download off the Internet...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...www.SaveInternetRadio.org..."

May 3, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Awards lineup starts to trickle out.

"...The Wavefly people up on 183 say they're taking Internet music (MP3s and the like) "the last 100 feet"..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Deep in the Heart

"...to pull up everything from Joe Blow's homemade crystal radio transmissions of his kid sister's Spice Girls singles to..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature

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