A couple of interesting and related articles out recently on Radio:
The Resurrection of Indie Radio
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/radio.htmlAll Hail The Death Of Radio
Clear Channel suffers and rock radio is gasping its last and, more importantly, does anyone care
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/03/02/notes030205.DTL
As a follow up to Wednesday’s Modern Art Market Superheats, check out yesterday’s page one NYT: A New Prince of Wall Street Buys Up Art
I am quoted ever so briefly in the Wired piece, which focuses a lot on Steve Jones, the Sex Pistols guitarist (How cool is that?).
Thomas Leavitt over @ Seeing the Forest has this post: http://seetheforest.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_seetheforest_archive.html#110979690873985920
He links to indie station KPIG: excerpt “What is KPIG?
We’re an anachronism – a throwback to the days when real DJs picked out the music, and listeners expected something more from a radio station than
just a couple of hundred songs repeated over and over, with some “big voice” guy yelling about how great it all is.”