Radio
How DJs cue vinyl on air, and why the craft endures
Slip mats, cue burn, and the back-cue muscle memory that radio hosts have used since the 1940s — a technical primer on spinning records live.
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Community stations, specialist shows and internet streams: who is broadcasting, what they play, and how a live hour is assembled and held together.
Radio
The rise of the radio-podcast hybrid show
When a radio show becomes a podcast, the clock changes, the audience changes, and the program itself quietly becomes two different products.
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How community radio stations fund themselves without ads
Pledge drives, underwriting, and volunteer labor keep noncommercial stations alive — here is how the model actually works.
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How a radio program director builds a weekly schedule
Dayparts, clocks, and add meetings: the unglamorous craft that decides what a station sounds like from Monday morning to Sunday night.
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The future of internet simulcasting for terrestrial stations
Almost every FM station now also streams its signal online, and that quiet doubling of the dial has changed the economics, the law, and the sound of radio itself.
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How low-power FM stations reach the towns big radio forgot
LPFM transmitters run at 100 watts or less, cover a radius of a few miles, and carry local voices the big networks will never program.