All Entries in the "Media" Category
Media: February 2011
Bands! Get Your Money!
The SoundExchange clearinghouse is slated to deliver $260 million in royalties to musicians for digital airplay in 2010. That’s a huge jump from $100 million in 2008, and $155 million in 2009.
Media: January 2011
Blast From The Past: Triad Magazine
I recently scoured local record stores for 7-inch vinyl with Grinderman drummer Jim Sclavunos — who found plenty of records to play at the band’s L.A. after-party.
Media: December 2010
Third Coast Festival
Johanna Zorn got the idea to start a showcase for documentary radio back in 2000, when she was producing the WBEZ-FM (91.5) series “Chicago Matters.”
Media: November 2010
BGA Hires John Conroy
It’s hard to get work as an investigative journalist in today’s cash-strapped, superficial, blog-driven media environment.
Media: October 2010
Faces For TV: Chicago’s Fabulous Manno Brothers
“Growing up, I never thought beyond Q101,” says Kevin Manno, 27, who recently left the WKQX-FM show he co-hosted with older brother Ryan Manno, 29, for the MTV show “The Seven” – a live countdown of the day’s top seven pop-culture stories that debuted September 20th.
Media: September 2010
The Decent Thing To Do
Fucking brilliant! Those two words uttered by U2’s Bono while accepting an award for “The Hands That Built America” on a January 2003 NBC broadcast of the Golden Globes sparked a battle with the Federal Communications Commission that lasted until July of this year.
Media: August 2010
Fear No Art, Chicago
“I felt that there was nothing that went behind the scenes showing how human the process of making art is: its mistakes, conundrums, miracle moments, etc. I wanted to discover the artists behind the art, showing the human side, and thus making the arts more approachable for people,” says Elysabeth Alfano, host [...]
Media: July 2010
Where Are They Now: Podcasts, Blog Posts, & Black Holes
Local radio stations began jettisoning their high-priced talent in the late 2000s, when the new Portable People Meter ratings system showed that big names were no longer pulling in the big numbers. Now, it seems the days of the high-priced, well-loved, hyper-local radio personality are long [...]
Media: June 2010
Three Decades Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Roots
Congratulations are in order for WDRV-FM (97.1) midday host Bob Stroud, who recently celebrated 30 years of “Rock & Roll Roots,” which airs Sunday mornings from 7 to 10.
Media: May 2010
Truly Local – And Scrappy, Too
When Conscious Choice published its final issue last April, its employees refused to let the dream die.
Media Contest!
I’m Your Venus
To celebrate the new issue, Venus Zine is offering one lucky winner . . .
Media: March 2010
Chicago’s Very Own: CHIRP Radio & ‘JBTV’
photo by Cara Jepsen
Two of the nation’s coolest indie-rock outlets originate right here in Chicago. Both “JBTV” and CHIRP radio are staffed by volunteers who are more passionate about music than money. And both have launched 24-hour Internet stations.
Media: February 2010
Satellite Of Love
Late last year I got fed up with mechanics and bought my first-ever new car. It came with satellite radio, and in no time I was hooked — even though it didn’t get Howard Stern.
Media: January 2010
Three Years Of ‘Outside The Loop’
Mike Stephen and Andy Hermann launched “Outside The Loop” radio on September 28th, 2006 as a way to “create an independent program that featured stories and discussions about local issues that weren’t always getting media attention,” says Stephen. At the time, they were producers at WGN, and launched the weekly [...]
Media: December 2009
Radio Ceiling Crasher Says Not Much Has Changed
Groundbreaking radio personality Connie Szerszen wrote her new memoir, Top Rock Girly Jock: A Chicago Radio First, four years ago, when she was still an on-air personality at oldies station WJMK-FM. “It had a happier ending in the first draft,” admits the Chicago native, who, along with the [...]
