Radio
How a radio program director builds a weekly schedule
Dayparts, clocks, and add meetings: the unglamorous craft that decides what a station sounds like from Monday morning to Sunday night.
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Community stations, specialist shows and internet streams: who is broadcasting, what they play, and how a live hour is assembled and held together.
Radio
The strange culture of the late-night radio host
Overnight radio has its own rituals, its own legends, and its own intimacy — a broadcast tradition built for the hours when almost everyone else is asleep.
Radio
How radio audience measurement actually works
Diaries, portable meters, and surveys — the unglamorous machinery that decides who gets advertisers, who gets a license renewal, and what you hear.
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How community radio stations fund themselves without ads
Pledge drives, underwriting, and volunteer labor keep noncommercial stations alive — here is how the model actually works.
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Who preserves decades of radio broadcasts, and why it matters
Most of radio history was broadcast once and erased — the institutions racing to save what remains are libraries, national archives, and volunteers.
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College radio 101: why campus stations still matter
Student-run, lightly funded and stubbornly curious, college radio stations remain where independent music meets its first real audience.