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Site of the Week 5/17/2013: Gallup, New Mexico, 2011

May 17, 2013 2 Comments by

Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH We’re playing some big games with the timeline in this week’s installment of Site of the Week in the interest of narrative consistency. If you’re driving from Winslow and Holbrook, Arizona (as seen in last week’s installment) to Grants and Albuquerque, New Mexico (coming up in the next few [...]

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NERW 5/13/2013: Oneonta loses a radio voice

May 13, 2013 4 Comments

In this week’s issue…Backyard Broadcasting sells – Oneonta noncomm silenced – Morning show for Nash? – Auction yields new Erie FM By SCOTT FYBUSH *Seven years after an upstate NEW YORK state college entered the public radio business, it has abruptly shut down its station, leaving behind plenty of questions about a newly open space [...]

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Site of the Week 5/10/2013: Winslow and Holbrook, AZ, 2011

May 10, 2013 1 Comment

Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH This week’s installment of Site of the Week kicks off our recap of our second “Big Trip” of the very busy year of 2011. After two weeks all over Florida and a week in Ireland, our usual April jaunt to Las Vegas for the NAB Show was followed by [...]

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NERW 5/6/2013: Local TV newscasts shuttered

May 06, 2013 4 Comments

In this week’s issue…WBIN cancels local news – New signal for New York’s WQXR -  WEEI shifts overnights – NERW Bookshelf: “New York City Radio” By SCOTT FYBUSH *Conventional wisdom says we’re living right now in a time of transformative media change, as established news sources come under siege from newer, more nimble ventures. In [...]

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Site of the Week 5/3/2013: RTE Radio Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 2011

May 03, 2013 2 Comments

Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH Back in April 2011, a family wedding brought your editor across the Atlantic for a delightful weeklong jaunt across Ireland. And while we showed you a few of the (silent) medium-wave sites that we saw on that trip in a later 2011 installment of Site of the Week, we’ve [...]

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