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NEA Shows Little Love for Classical Radio

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In what was a surprise to virtually all the major producers of classical radio, the National Endowment for the Arts has taken a hard left turn, and diverted long-standing television and radio funding to gaming, mobile, and web projects. A detailed and scathing article in the New York Times gives examples of organizations that have lost some or all of their funding after years of building partnerships with the NEA.  The MET Opera, PBS, and American Public Media (Performance Today and SymphonyCast) all had their funding decimated.  Some of these organizations regularly received large grants, but … Continue Reading

Mobile Classical Radio – Apple vs. Android

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The mobile phone radio app TuneIn has more than 30 million users in 230 countries.  A new app released today makes it even more user-accessible.  Connie Guglielmo writes about it in Forbes. They’ve added features that recommend new stations and music based on what listeners are tuned into (pun intended) and present a list of stations “Now Playing” the kind of music or talk radio you’re interested in. (In addition to letting you search by station or genre, or seeking out what station is playing a song by your favorite artist right now). … Continue Reading

World’s Best Job: Pandora Music Analyst

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How would you like the job of listening to music all day and getting paid to judge what you hear without having to write a review? That’s what Pandora’s 26 human — not computer — analysts do all day.  They sort and catalogue Pandora’s library of some 350 genres, encompassing nearly a million tracks by 90,000 artists. There’s a great article about the Music Genome project here.  Michelle Alexander is a senior music analyst and supervisor. …music analysts go through thousands of songs, one by one, rating various music attributes. There are between 200 and 450 attributes for … Continue Reading

Huge News for Radio

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The FCC has just made a major and overdue decision about Low-Power FMs that could affect the classical radio landscape.  The commission has cleared — basically denied —  hundreds of applications for repeaters that have been waiting for approval and instead has opened up the airwaves to hundreds of potential new community stations to broadcast on low-power signals in urban areas. The applications for repeaters were filed by corporate and religious broadcasters who wanted to spread their biased content even further. …what a lot of right-wing, conservative radio stations have been able to do is expand their reach … Continue Reading

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