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How Not to Stream Your Station
As I write this, I’m listening to an aircheck of Inland Northwest Broadcasting’s KZFN, Z-Fun 106, from Moscow, ID. This aircheck exists because one of the people I serve on Washington Council of the Blind’s communications committee lives on the Washington side of that small market in Clarkston, some 30 miles away from the station,…
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What’s the strategy with Townsquare’s national streaming channels?
In last week’s commentary, I focused on the overall streaming experience of Townsquare’s stations on various platforms. This week, let’s drill down to specific national stations, and why their programming strategy doesn’t make sense either. Launched just before Christmas 2012, the only promotion these stations ever got was in the update description for Radio Pup.…
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Why Townsquare’s streaming strategy makes no sense
Everyone in radio is trying to figure out the streaming world, but one company’s strategy makes no sense to me, and that is Townsquare. Townsquare is one of the largest radio companies in the country, yet its streaming strategy feels to me like a company stuck in some earlier era of internet radio. Why do…
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How my understanding of radio programming has shaped my concept automation
This is a commentary I have been meaning to write for quite a while, but I’ve been pretty busy the last month, so haven’t done it yet. Over the years, I’ve been playing with the concept of developing my own radio automation system. This concept has evolved over the years. How it has done so…
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Nearly a year later, where does AI on the radio stand?
In November 2022, CHATGPT burst onto the scene, fundamentally changing the national conversation around AI. Just three months later, Futuri launched a radio specific AI, RADIOGPT, later revamped as AudioAI. It was a year ago this month that Alpha Media made headlines when it launched an AI version of Live 95.5 KBFF/Portland midday host, Ashley…
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Is it possible for free automation to sound good?
In the past few years, I’ve become more interested in the technical side of radio. No, I don’t want to be an engineer, but I’ve become interested in how radio automation systems work, and from a listener’s standpoint, what’s necessary or not. I’ll be comparing two systems today, both of which can be downloaded free…
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Is radio in a better position today than it was in the past?
This post appears to have been written in early November of 2018 for the Radio crytic, but never got posted up there. It seems to have held up well in the subsequent five and a half years, so with a few corrections, here it is. Also of note, there may only be one more post…
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Updated thoughts on iTunes Tagging
Unlike my posts here so far, this post will not be a direct copy of a Radio Crytic post with only a few minor edits, but rather an updated version of a page on that site. I can’t remember why I even went with a page for this content, but my guess is that because…