Noncommercial US public radio broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) doesn’t get the same level of vitriol from conservatives as its television counterpart, PBS. However, NPR… Read More »What are the advantages of NPR?
Last week news came that radio giant iHeartMedia (formerly known as Clear Channel until it changed its name in 2014) is filing for bankruptcy. For… Read More »iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy
A recent study by Reuters shows that there’s a split along generational lines for how news is obtained. Reuters’ survey (PDF) reports that those over… Read More »Millennials, some Gen Xers prefer online news sources over TV
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… Read More »Internet media jobs now eclipse newspaper jobs
Despite the dominance of streaming audio and digital music everywhere else (ignoring the improbable resurgence of vinyl), there’s supposedly one place where old-fashioned AM/FM radio… Read More »Radio still dominates in cars?
NPR’s one of the most popular sources of podcasts online. The public radio broadcaster’s the home of shows like “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” “Ask… Read More »NPR doesn’t want on-air promotion of its own podcasts
In the United States, the Internet is now the dominant way of discovering new music, finally topping the decades-old mainstay, radio. That’s according to a… Read More »The Internet’s now surpassed radio for music discovery in the US
News outlets are reporting that Casey Kasem, who’d been in declining health for some time, has passed away at the age of 82. Kasem is… Read More »RIP Casey Kasem