Podcast #38 – Survey Says: Stations Must Be on the Internet & YouTube

The annual Infinite Dial survey of American listening habits is out. Paul and Eric analyze the results and what they indicate for community and college radio and podcasting. In particular, Paul argues that declining radio ownership and young people’s affinity for YouTube mean stations absolutely must broadcast online and should use video. He asks: Are […]

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The annual Infinite Dial survey of American listening habits is out. Paul and Eric analyze the results and what they indicate for community and college radio and podcasting. In particular, Paul argues that declining radio ownership and young people’s affinity for YouTube mean stations absolutely must broadcast online and should use video. He asks: Are you really community radio if 1/5 of your community can’t hear you because they don’t own actual radios?

In College Radio Watch Jennifer Waits discusses two recent blog posts that have people in college and non-commercial radio abuzz. We take up the central questions at hand: is college radio too small? And, if so, is that a bad thing?

Finally, Eric shares a rich music-focused podcast that he’s recently discovered.

As you’ll hear at the top of the show, we need a new tagline for the show. Help us come up with one sentence–that we can say in one breath–that describes what we do. Leave us a comment, or tweet us with your suggestion using the hashtag #radiosurvivortagline.

Show Notes:

Edison Research’s Infinite Dial 2016
Paul’s live tweets from the Infinite Dial live webinar:

21% of Americans have no terrestrial radio receiver in the home. For people 18-34 it's even higher: 32%. #infinitedial

— Radio Survivor (@RadioSurvivor) March 10, 2016

57% of Americans listen to online radio monthly. How will this year's steep decline in independent webcasting affect that? #infinitedial

— Radio Survivor (@RadioSurvivor) March 10, 2016

68% of Americans use AM/FM radio to keep up with new music. But only 58% of 12-24 year-olds. They prefer YouTube. #infinitedial

— Radio Survivor (@RadioSurvivor) March 10, 2016

"Over-the-air radio has a very real in-home hardware concern." Ok people, everyone buy a teenager a radio! #infinitedial

— Radio Survivor (@RadioSurvivor) March 10, 2016

The Free Music Archive is a source for music to use in podcasts without royalty worries
Liz Berg’s WFMU radio show plays FMA music that is also a podcast
Ken Mills’ blog posts on college radio:

Top College Stations: KUOM, Minneapolis; WSUM, Madison & WHUS, Hartford
Special Report: Inside College Radio

Radio Survivor Podcast #3 – Discussion of Judd Apatow’s high school radio past
New to Radio Survivor? We recommend sampling these past episodes:

Episode #8 – Bainbridge Community Broadcasting Chose Podcasting over LPFM
Episode #9 – Remembering Negativland’s Don Joyce

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