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Podcast #150 – Sympathy for Kenny G
Radio Survivor Podcast
English - July 10, 2018 09:01 - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsTech News News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What killed smooth jazz radio? Why aren’t there any commercial classical stations any longer? And, why do radio stations have a “format” to begin with? Matthew Lasar joins us to explore these questions about the fundamental organizing principle of most music radio. Matthew is a co-founder of Radio Survivor and the author of three important […]
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What killed smooth jazz radio? Why aren’t there any commercial classical stations any longer? And, why do radio stations have a “format” to begin with? Matthew Lasar joins us to explore these questions about the fundamental organizing principle of most music radio.
Matthew is a co-founder of Radio Survivor and the author of three important books on radio, including Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network and Radio 2.0.
Show Notes:
Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music, by Eric Weisbard
Matthew likes: KKUP, KZSC, Second Inversion Radio, WQXR New Sounds (formerly Q2)
Hybrid Highbrow: New music for Paddle to the Sea + nobody told me that smooth jazz died
Hybrid Highbrow: Somebody stop killing jazz radio please
OMG a radio station actually keeps its classical format after protests
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