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Unfortunately, even its "higher quality" webcast is full of digi-swish and hiss. Unlistenable to my 
ears. I just can't do digital noise and distortion. It's like hands scraping on the blackboard to 
me. Others don't seem to mind it as much.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Hamm" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Community Radio


> My local favorite is KSDS - Jazz 88.3 broadcast from the campus of San Diego City College. They 
> have been broadcasting jazz (yes, real jazz) 24/7 for the past 30 years or so. Every Tuesday 
> evening since 1977 they have broadcast a live performance show called "Jazz Live". On July 25, the 
> show will feature pianist and singer Floyd Dixon and will honor my friend Lou Curtiss who has 
> hosted his Sunday evening radio show "Jazz Roots" for 20 years now. By the way, they webcast 24/7 
> also at  http://www.jazz88online.org/
>
> Just click on the "Listen Now" link.
>
> Russ
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>>There might very well be one. They are scattered all over, tiny little
>>stations with low watt transmitters generally, although some have fairly
>>strong signals - you can pick up WAIF on the outskirts of Cincinnati even a
>>little better than in the city. There is WFMU in NYC, which is by no means a
>>small player in the game. The politics of many of these stations tend to
>>veer to the left, which is one reason why they don't get listened to as much
>>as maybe they should. Music programming is all over the map, and you might
>>tune in one time and hear something you really, really hate, but on the same
>>station there might be some old timer spinning records from the 1920s, say,
>>on a Sunday afternoon.
>>
>>Jerry Fabris, on this list, has an excellent show on WFMU, which plays
>>records from the Edison National Historic Site. I love it and listen to it
>>when I can.
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>>I was hoping to find some single listing of all the various "community" (i.e
>>as opposed to "public") radio venues, but there isn't one. There is a
>>listing at the NFCB (National Foundation of Community Broadcasters) site,
>>but not all stations are necessarily members of this organization - WCBN and
>>WFMU are not, for example. It doesn't matter now as to low wattage - if you
>>have a web-stream, that levels the playing field, as anyone with a computer
>>can listen to the programming.
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>>These stations, in a lot of cases, have been around for decades, a leftover
>>from the 60s and 70s approach to expanding access to media in the public
>>interest. The RIAA have not come after us full-bore quite yet - I don't know
>>the details, but right now a decision as how to collect from stations like
>>WCBN is tabled. We're such small potatoes, raising our own money from
>>donations and a slim amount of underwriting, that it isn't a priority. And
>>it is a problem in terms of enforcing the DMCA; a fair number of community
>>stations are based on Indian Reservations, and to pay to the RIAA the
>>equivalent of what they want could consume the entire revenue stream for an
>>Indian station for a calendar year, and he government didn't want to do
>>that. So now the decision is on hold.
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>>We have set up a system whereby we record every music track played into a
>>database, so if they come calling, we're ready. So far as I know, no one has
>>shown up from the RIAA or any other concern at WCBN just yet. Is there
>>anyone else on this list who volunteers on community radio?
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>>By the way, my show airs every other Thursday morning from 6-9am ET at
>>www.wcbn.org
>>I do it next week, my collaborator Keith Larsen does it this week, and he
>>also plays a lot of obscure stuff. I'm hoping to sign him up with ARSC this
>>year as he is very interested in attending the Wisconsin conference.
>>
>>David N. Lewis
>>Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
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>>My life is the clearest proof that if you have talent, determination and
>>luck, you will make it in the end: Never Give Up. - Sir Georg Solti
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:37 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mercury co-founder Irving Green passes
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>>How do these stations afford to pay the yearly royalties to ASCAP and BMI?
>>Very curious -- and sure
>>wish there was one in this neck of the woods!
>>
>>-- Tom Fine
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:29 PM
>>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mercury co-founder Irving Green passes
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>>I'm a community volunteer radio programmer on WCBN-FM 88.3 in Ann Arbor,
>>based out of the University of Michigan. Many might feel that this is "there
>>for the grace of God go I" type radio, but I have been on community radio,
>>off and on, for a period of nearly 28 years - I was on WAIF-FM Cincinnati
>>for many years before I joined WCBN.
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>>If you show up, have a broadcast license and can operate the gear, then they
>>don't worry about what you play, as long as there's no foul language.
>>Musically you can play practically anything. We do play a lot of classical
>>music on the station, it takes up roughly half of my bi-weekly three-hour
>>program, and others will even mix it in with the pop, jazz and other things
>>that they play.
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>>My program is on the web, and I have listeners both locally and abroad. I
>>get fan email from places like Taiwan and Scotland.
>>
>>David N. Lewis
>>Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
>>1168 Oak Valley Dr.
>>Ann Arbor, MI 48108
>>734 887 8145
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>>My life is the clearest proof that if you have talent, determination and
>>luck, you will make it in the end: Never Give Up. - Sir Georg Solti
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> Russ Hamm
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> San Diego County, California
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