Mike Janssen

Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog. Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

More from the Music Personnel Conference

April 13, 2009 by Mike Janssen

This is the final post in the series by Mona Seghatoleslami of West Virginia Public Broadcasting summarizing sessions at this year’s Music Personnel Conference. Many thanks to Mona for sharing her thoughts and observations! You’ll find links to her previous posts at the end of this wrap-up.

One day of the conference was dedicated to all things digital: blogging, digital rights, HD Radio, and “Thriving in a Digital World” (mostly the world of new/social media — building an online audience there and making money off of that audience).

New hires in Louisville and Toledo, plus a new jazz show

April 8, 2009 by Mike Janssen

A few notices of new hirings and assignments worth pointing out today:

WUOL-FM, the classical station in Louisville, Ky., has a new general manager. Daniel Gilliam is described as a “musician, composer and radio host” by the city’s Business First. He replaces Alan Brandt, now a senior staff announcer.

Lutheran synod may sell St. Louis’s KFUO

April 3, 2009 by Mike Janssen

It looks as if KFUO-FM, the only classical music station in the St. Louis market, is in danger of being sold. The city’s Post-Dispatch reported recently that the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church, which owns KFUO, may be asking for upwards of $20 million for the commercial station, which has been broadcasting for 61 years.

A little bit of horsing around

March 31, 2009 by Mike Janssen

I can’t resist the opportunity to add another chapter to what is becoming an ongoing Scanning the Dial series: Animals Enjoying Classical Radio. I get the chance this time thanks to an article in the British Telegraph newspaper about a woman in the U.K. who runs a stable. She was playing a classical radio station to keep her horses mellow — until The Man caught up with her.

A British entity known as the Performing Rights Society called Ms. Rosemary Greenway to inform her that playing the radio station qualified as a “performance” and she thus owed the PRS an annual license fee of 99 pounds. Greenway opted not to pay the fee and now plays the station only when alone at the stable (only employers of two or more people have to cough up the fee).

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