Clear Channel and web radio

An interesting piece on the development of web radio use beyond feed streams. Well worth checking out for folks wanting to grow KPFT’s web presence.
Clear Channel Preps for Web Radio Push
Sat March 26, 2005 9:24 PM GMT-05:00
By Brian Garrity
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Clear Channel Communications plans to make a big push into Internet radio [...]

New Signage

I’ll be putting up new signs around the studio to remind volunteers and guests about our policies. Most are all but forgotten, but as we’re gearing up for FCC compliance, we do need to demonstrate our efforts to state policies clearly. Some are obvious (don’t steal; no illegal drugs on premises), others not. I’ll also [...]

Listener Feedback

Over the next few weeks, I will be forwarding to programmers the email form comments I get from listeners about your shows. Some is good, constructive stuff. A little is not so constructive, but gives you an idea of how listeners feel. The old customer service adage is that, for every one person who contacts [...]

Tech Update: Mic Arm in Production Room

Many apologies to programmers regarding the missing mic arm in the production room. It broke a few weeks ago and Chief Engineer Steve Brightwell worked diligently to get us a new one, only to be shipped the wrong size for our needs. The provider corrected the problem and we should have a new arm in [...]

New Music Lists

Every week, Music Director Phil Edwards makes available for programmers an Excel spreadsheet of our latest CDs available. You can find the sheet posted in the control room. He can also email you a list too. Touch base with him at phil@kpft.org to receive it, or to make suggestions.
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Gathering Pieces for National Poetry Month

From PRX:
We’ve been gathering pieces around themes to make it easy for stations to shop for date-pegged programming. Our most recent theme, Women’s History Month, has been driving a lot of licenses:
http://www.prx.org/for_stations.do?articleId=44
So now April is National Poetry Month, and we’re doing it again.
Come on. You know you taped some poetry somewhere. Now it has [...]