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June 01, 2005
the democratization of radio?
There's been some buzz lately about 'Whatever' Radio - with San Francisco's KMAX 95.7 recent format change, moving to play music like an iPod on shuffle. Unfortunately it may just be "oldies wrapped up in new wrapping paper and a new bow" in their case. But Houston's KPFT is doing Random Radio for real. They kicked off their first session early this morning (4am-6am), by bringing in a blogger/listener, and plugging his personal iPod into their mixing board for two hours of random play. It was a good first step. But a good next step? How about moving the sessions to a time slot when more listeners are awake...
Posted by Sharyn at June 1, 2005 10:28 AM
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Infinity Broadcasting, the radio division of Viacom, converted San Francisco's 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content (which of course they're trying to promote under the buzzword 'podcasting'). A way to avoid paying a DJ? The KPFT broadcast sounded interesting. How does this work with intellectual property and royalties?
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at June 3, 2005 02:15 PM