I look at some of the advantages of NPR as a noncommercial public radio broadcaster.
Tag: radio
iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy
Radio conglomerate iHeartMedia’s announced that it’s filing for bankruptcy. Despite this, the radio conglomerate will continue operating.
Millennials, some Gen Xers prefer online news sources over TV
A recent study by Reuters shows that there’s a split along generational lines for how news is obtained. Reuters’ survey reports[…]
Internet media jobs now eclipse newspaper jobs
Another Internet-related milestone has been reached, this one coming at newspapers’ expense. A study by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has shown that the number of Internet-related media jobs (labeled as “Internet publishing and broadcasting”) has as of 2016 eclipsed the number of newspaper jobs.
Radio still dominates in cars?
Despite the dominance of streaming audio and digital music everywhere else (ignoring the improbable resurgence of vinyl), there’s supposedly one[…]
NPR doesn’t want on-air promotion of its own podcasts
NPR’s one of the most popular sources of podcasts online. The public radio broadcaster’s the home of shows like “Wait[…]
The Internet’s now surpassed radio for music discovery in the US
In the United States, the Internet is now the dominant way of discovering new music, finally topping the decades-old mainstay, radio.[…]
RIP Casey Kasem
News outlets are reporting that Casey Kasem, who’d been in declining health for some time, has passed away at the age[…]
