Author Archives: Fred Stiening

I came up with this comparison while engaged in a discussion about India railways on YouTube. India railways employees 1.4 million people, making it one of the largest non-military employers of the world. Because India railways is operated essentially to … Continue reading →

Is it the quality of the music? The opinions of the people listening? Probably not. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radio-stations-hit-pay-for-play-867825/ It adds a detail that might explain why there are so many country music stations in a genre which maybe isn’t that popular.

This is an old, but very powerful, search tool that is only slightly related to radio. The FCC makes available a database of every fixed location transmitter license (including broadcast licenses, excluding federal agencies, of course). Access to this search … Continue reading →

August is already upon us

So Bill Bennett and Michael Medved have retired, moving the magnanimous Hugh Hewitt to early mornings. I don’t have the sense that their new talent has exactly caught fire. Salem’s hosts basically are heard only on Salem radio stations. Bill … Continue reading →

From the main streaming guide menu page, there is a choice that says radio stations by frequency. This was one of the first pages I created and had very little updating and was just plain ugly. It has the potential … Continue reading →

Well, radio Disney country is off to a great start. They now have a studio in Nashville on music row. It sounds like they’re going to use voice tracking, where these two women featured in this article are going to … Continue reading →

Educational Media Foundation (EMF) now is the second largest radio station operator if you count AM and FM licenses. EMF is the operator of two Christian music services called K-LOVE and Air1. They only own AM-stations briefly when they have … Continue reading →

My car said that it’s 103 degrees outside – i’m a little skeptical – 98 perhaps. I am a global heat denier. So after my relatively uneventful doctor appointment, I decided to go visit McDonald’s, joining the huddled masses yearning … Continue reading →