Paul shares some news from the commercial radio industry. One middle-sized radio owner has a plan to get bigger, while tripling its debt load, while the nation’s largest radio broadcaster gets ready to jump into the streaming music subscription market.

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“The best way to cultivate a sensibility of what makes for a good [radio] interview is to pre-tape your interviews and set aside large amounts of time to edit them down to half the length they start at. Because it makes you think really critically about where the wasted language is in that interview, when your questions have gone on too long, when your guest has gone off track, what you can fix with editing and what you can’t, and it cultivates the ear you need to start listening critically to other people’s interviews, to start editing in real time when you are listening to other people’s interviews and then to start editing yourself in real time when you are conducting interviews.”

Brian Edwards-Tiekert has been hosting and producing KPFA’s hour long news and public affairs program, “Upfront.” He joins us on this episode of the podcast to talk about his approach to the work of making public service, community radio with a local and international focus.

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College and community radio folks are starting to wonder what’s happening with CMJ. The longstanding music publication has been mostly silent for months, and signs are unclear that its annual Music Marathon is ready for its usual fall presentation. Jennifer Waits digs in to what we know and what we don’t know, and helps us understand why we should care. She also examines the Princeton Review’s 2017 list of so-called “best” college radio stations.

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Jennifer Waits brings us College Radio Watch, including a story about a station’s bedbug infestation. She then shares her tour of KCSU, the student-run station at Colorado State University.

This episode includes music from Little Glass Men and Broke for Free used under a Creative Commons license.

Image credit: Mark / flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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And of course, Matthew Lasar has been writing about community radio elsewhere:

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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.

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Then Jennifer Waits joins to share two radio station tours of new low-power stations in the Washington, DC area: Takoma Radio WOWD-LP and WERA-LP. These tours spark a discussion about how the great diversity heard in community radio still is easily taken for granted.

Feature image credit: Tom Godber / flickr / Creative Commons

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Eric Klein shares his current favorite podcast, the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast, which subtly stretches the boundaries of the form, unburdened by some of the assumptions that terrestrial radio broadcasting sometimes inadvertently imposes on podcasting. This sparks a lively discussion about experimentation in radio and podcasting, especially by embracing spontaneity and taking advantage of digital media platforms, from Facebook Live to Snapchat.

To close out the show Jennifer shares an FM bandscan recorded on her journey from Denver to Estes Park, CO.

It’s so much fun to hear another location’s radio dial–we want you to share your bandscan with us! Just use your smartphone to record a scan of your local radio dial, or a radio dial somewhere you’re traveling. Then just email it to us at [email protected].

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