Former volunteer and board member Chuck Reinsch is on a mission to preserve as much of the station’s legacy as possible. He created and administers the KRAB Archives website to house airchecks, recordings and other artifacts so that they’re accessible to the world. Chuck joins the show to discuss his efforts and shed light on the KRAB’s vital place in history.

Then we catch up with news about the nation’s largest radio owner, iHeartMedia, which just declared bankruptcy. It’s not a story about the decline of radio, but instead the story of a disastrous business model built on ownership deregulation and consolidation.

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David joins us on this episode along with Prof. John Anderson of Brooklyn College, who has been tracking and researching unlicensed radio for two decades. We discuss the unique qualities of Brooklyn pirates, and how they fulfill the needs of communities that are underserved by other media, why it’s important to preserve their legacies, and why the expansion of low-power FM failed to provide sufficient opportunities in cities like New York.

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Prof. Jennifer Stoever thinks about these questions, a lot. And so do a growing number of scholars working in a field called Sound Studies. That’s the topic of the “Sounding Out” blog and podcast, which Prof. Stoever co-founded. She’s an associate professor of English at the University of Binghamton, and she’s our guest to discuss the cultural politics of sound and listening, and how these analyses apply to music, radio and podcasting.

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Sam Mills from Vancouver Public Library and Sarah Felkar from the West Vancouver Public Library explain how their libraries help people be digital media creators, not just consumers. They also detail how just about any library can help you be a better media maker, lending assistance with starting your podcast or YouTube channel, selecting equipment, and doing research on topics for your show.

This focus on media making signals a shift in how libraries interact with communities. We expand on this conversation with Ellen Knutson, who specializes in community engagement in her work as a research associate with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and as an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. We talk about different ways in which libraries are not just building partnerships, but becoming part of community. It’s something that also applies to community media.

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To help explain this effort we’re joined by four people who are deeply involved with it: KBOO Program Director Erin Yanke, Development Director Becky Meiers, Designer Rob Lacosse and Archivist Marti Clemmons. They help us understand why this project is important, and some of the process behind it.

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Miri also tells us about the podcast she co-hosts, called “Always Here: An LGBT History Podcast.”

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Also included in the interview, Ernie Smith explains how he approaches writing about things for the internet. Tedium.co covers topics as diverse (and uniquely inconsequential) as FrankenFM and the inventor of the mouse pad.

This interview is an encore presentation from episode #58.

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Every week the editors of Radio Survivor receive, and answer, queries like these from readers and listeners. While we enjoy corresponding with people, we thought we shouldn’t reserve our replies to just individual interlocutors. So here we have our very first mailbag episode, responding to the most frequently asked questions we receive.

Maybe we tackle your most pressing questions about radio and community media. If not, drop us a line: [email protected].

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They also share some of their own radio experiences. Abrams talks about the community station he helped to found in Boise, Idaho. Pushkin tells us about the syndicated college radio show he started in the early 1980s, which had to be distributed via vinyl LP. It’s a side helping of tasty radio history.

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