Radio Survivor
The Radio Survivor podcast is a weekly show that explores the future of community media, with a focus on community radio, college radio, low-power FM and public access TV, along with podcasting and internet radio. Hosts Paul Riismandel, Eric Klein and Jennifer Waits highlight the best and most innovative audio programming and keep you updated on the news that affects our ability to make, create, hear and see great community media.
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Podcast #278 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts (rebroadcast)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts.
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Podcast #277 – How Does the FCC Solve Anything?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Even though Trump is leaving the White House on January 19, he’s set up the FCC to carry on his idiosyncratic policy goals well into the Biden administration, especially if a Republican-led Senate resists the new president’s nomination for a new chairm...
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Podcast #276 – 2020 the Year in Radio and Sound
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Though there are many good reasons why one might not want to look back at the year that was, we still see some aspects worth noting. In particular, radio and podcasting proved to be resilient media, with broadcasters and podcasters rallying to meet the...
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Podcast #275: Making Scholarly Podcasts Count
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Podcasting is increasingly being taken up by people in academia, for myriad reasons. Some professors are looking for ways to share their work, others use it as a research tool, some include it as part of their teaching practice,
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Podcast #274 – UbuWeb is a Hand Coded Archive that Stands the Test of Time
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive,
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Podcast #273: Thanksgiving and Radio Traditions with Alice Brock of “Alice’s Restaurant”
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
On this most unusual of Thanksgiving weeks, we are honored to speak with Alice Brock, the woman who provided much inspiration for Arlo Guthrie’s inadvertent Thanksgiving Day radio staple, “Alice’s Restaurant.
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Podcast #272 – ‘Geek of the Week’ and the Beginning of Internet Radio
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Carl Malamud is credited with having one of the very first streaming internet talk radio shows, “Geek of the Week,” beginning in 1993. And because it was available for download, too, it’s considered a proto-podcast.
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Podcast #271: AM Radio Goes Digital as It Celebrates a Centennial
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Eric, Jennifer and Paul reconvene to catch up on all that is news to us in the worlds of radio and sound. The FCC just unanimously approved all-digital operation on the AM band, while commercial radio – born on the AM band – celebrates its centennial.
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Podcast #270: Public Media for All
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
In the last few years a number of large and prominent public media organizations have been forced to confront the effects of sexism, racism and harassment within their own organizations that has been tolerated for too long.
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Podcast #269 – How To Get an FM Radio License in 2021
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will open two filing windows for non-commercial FM radio licenses. First up will be an opportunity to apply for a full-power non-commercial / educational (NCE) license,
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Podcast #268 – Scene on Radio
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
Over the course of four seasons, the Peabody-nominated podcast “Scene on Radio,” a production of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, has earned a reputation for tackling head-on difficult topics around race, gender,
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Podcast #267 – Live from the Grassroots Radio Conference: Community Radio and Protests
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
This week, the Radio Survivor crew did its first live broadcast from a virtual conference held over Zoom. As part of the 2020 Grassroots Radio Conference, we presented a live radio show during the event, which aired over host station ARTxFM’s (WXOX-LP)...
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Podcast #266 – Flirt FM Celebrates 25 Years of College & Community Radio in Ireland
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Flirt FM at the National University of Ireland at Galway was one of the first “community of interest” stations to go on the air in that nation. Effectively, this means it was a trailblazing college and community station,
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Podcast #265 – Inside the “Little Known” Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Over the past few months, there’s been a flurry of media attention focused on the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Some reports describe it as a “little-known” agency and, in fact, it may seem mysterious to many in the United States,
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Podcast # 264 – Joe Boyd
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
Joe Boyd is best known as a record producer (he worked with Pink Floyd and Nick Drake just to name two artists) and he is the author of the book “White Bicycles, Making Music in the 1960’s.” In 2015 he launched a podcast.
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Podcast #263 – Broadcasting High School Radio through Wildfires and a Pandemic
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
With wildfires raging up and down the west coast of the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic, many radio stations are facing different types of challenges than a year ago. Vacaville Christian Schools’ radio station KVCB-LP (aka VCS Radio) is in ...
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Podcast #262 – Eric Nuzum (rebroadcast)
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Eric Nuzum started NPR’s podcasting efforts in 2005. He worked at NPR for over a decade and helped produce hit shows like “TED Radio Hour” and “Invisibila.” He left NPR for Audible, where he led Amazons efforts in short form audio and podcasts until 20...
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Podcast #261 – Remembering Lorenzo Milam
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Jennifer, Eric and Paul get the gang back together to remember community radio innovator Lorenzo Milam, who passed away on July 19. We reflect on how he helped to propagate a community access model of broadcasting that departed somewhat from the model ...
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Podcast #260 – Radio History on the Northern Border of Mexico
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Border radio is one of our favorite topics at Radio Survivor and on this week’s episode we dig into the history of radio broadcasting on the northern border of Mexico. Scholar Sonia Robles shares the stories of some of the lesser-known,
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Podcast #259 – Radioee.net Celebrates 100 Year History of Wireless Communication
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
On August 27, 2020, nomadic online radio station Radioee.net is presenting a live, translingual 24-hour broadcast, Wireless, featuring 24 radio stations from all over the world. Taking place on the 100th anniversary of the first radio broadcast in Arge...
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Podcast #258 – Trump Admin Raises the Specter of the Fairness Doctrine
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
The FCC is testing its luck with the Supreme Court, after years of failure in attempting to revise media ownership regulations using justifications that pass Constitutional scrutiny. Prof. Christopher Terry from the University of Minnesota joins us to ...
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Podcast #257 – Marking a Quarter-Century of MP3
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
On July 14, 1995 the file extension .MP3 was chosen and set in place for an audio format that would go on to change music. Artist, scholar and curator John Kannenberg marks the 25th anniversary of this event with an online exhibit,
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Podcast #256 – The Robin Hood of the Avant-Garde
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive,
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Podcast #255 – ‘Geek of the Week’ and the Beginning of Internet Radio
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Carl Malamud is credited with having one of the very first streaming internet talk radio shows, “Geek of the Week,” beginning in 1993. And because it was available for download, too, it’s considered a proto-podcast.
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Podcast #254 – The Intertwined History of the Radio and Recording Industries
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
On this week’s show, we take a trip back to the early 20th century to learn about the recording industry’s intertwined relationship with radio and music culture. Our guest is Kyle Barnett, Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Commu...
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Podcast 253 – Sound Streams: Dissecting the History of Internet Radio
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Internet radio was born more than 25 years ago, yet, according to Edison Research, only in the last month has the medium garnered just 10% of all broadcast listening time in the US. We might lay at least some blame on the commercial radio industry,
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Podcast # 252 – Exploring the Seeds of Public Radio in Educational Radio Archives
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
This week, we explore the ancestor of public radio in the United States: educational radio. Our guest, Stephanie Sapienza, helps to bring educational radio archives to life through her work on the multi-institution “Unlocking the Airwaves” project.
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Podcast #251 – The Global Queer Read-In
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Our guest on Radio Survivor is producing The Global Queer Read-In: A Virtual Pride Event; a 12 hour long webcast to celebrate LGBTQ literature. Brian DeShazor is the brand new CEO of Overnight Productions, which produces the radio show This Way Out.
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Podcast #250 – Aimee Semple McPherson and the Early History of Radio Evangelists
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
One of the biggest celebrities in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century was Aimee Semple McPherson. She inspired scandalous headlines and fictional depictions, including the character Sister Molly on the current Showtime series,
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Podcast #249 – Documenting & Preserving Radio at HBCUs
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
Scholar Jocelyn Robinson says about one-third of Historically Black Colleges and Universities have radio stations. Her mission is to survey them and help preserve their histories and recorded legacies through the HBCU Radio Station Archival Survey Proj...
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