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The Radio Survivor podcast is a weekly show that explores the future of community media, with a focus on community radio, college radio, low-power FM and public access TV, along with podcast...
On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University’s nearly 50-year...
Jennifer Waits reports back from the Grassroots Radio Conference, held in Spokane Washington from September 11 to September 14, 2025. We rec...
While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ou...
Eric, Jennifer and Paul return with a new episode of Radio Survivor, recapping some of the latest news from our travels. Jennifer shares hig...
Several years ago, Radio Survivor had the pleasure of speaking with artist and restaurateur Alice Brock, the woman who provided much inspira...
We travel back to the 1980s, when the show, The Famous Computer Cafe, initially launched over the radio in southern California. With a focus...
Journalist Marc Masters joins us to discuss his book, High Bias: the Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. We dive into how the oft-malign...
Williams College student Josh Picoult arrived on campus with a fascination for both history and radio. Four years later, he’s about to...
Matthew Lasar talks with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of KPFA’s Upfront to commemorate the Birthday of Pacifica Radio. The post Podcast...
In the last few years YouTube has become one of the most popular platforms for consuming podcasts, even though it’s a primarily a vide...
The Radio Survivor team returns for a new episode, during which Jennifer, Eric and Paul recap some of the latest radio news. Topics this wee...
On this edition of the show, we explore public radio history, specifically the origins of public radio in the United States, including the i...
On this week’s show, we peek behind the scenes of The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC). A project of the In...
World College Radio Day takes place on October 6, 2023 and in honor of that, we dig into the early history of college radio on our latest ep...
10/17/23 Update! The new low power FM filing window has been delayed and is now opening on December 6, 2023. See the FCC’s announcemen...
Jennifer, our intrepid radio station tour guide, leads us through some of her recent visits to college radio stations in New York and Rhode...
It’s been nearly three years since the FCC first announced that a new low-power FM (LPFM) application window would be forthcoming. Now...
The Radio Survivors return with a new podcast episode! On this edition of the show, we discuss soundscapes and the concept of slow radio. Ou...
The Radio Survivors return with a new podcast episode! Jennifer reports on her visits to four college radio stations in New York state in No...
The Radio Survivors return with a new episode! For this edition, recorded in July, 2022, our guest is Lori Emerson, Founding Director of the...
On this week’s program, we turn our attention to the history of industrial music – not the noisy music genre – but music played...
The annual Infinite Dial survey from Edison Research was recently released, showing what people in the US are listening to, and where. It ev...
The Radio Survivors return to their microphones to review what’s new in radio. Of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine hangs heavy...
Your host Eric Klein has dug deep into some personal radio archives to produce this week’s episode… The waning days of each Dece...
As the year and semester draws to a close, we get real on this week’s episode and talk about work, burnout, volunteer labor, and how p...
On the show this week, we explore one of our favorite topics: college radio history. Our guest, Andreas Preuss, just completed a multi-facet...
Few topics create as much anxiety at college and community radio stations – not to mention many a commercial radio morning show – than broad...
On this week’s show, we return to the topic of hip-hop on the radio. While on Radio Survivor, we typically focus on non-commercial rad...
The Fairness Doctrine – a Federal Communications Commission rule that’s been out of commission since the 20th century – just doesnR...
A year-and-a-half ago high school, college and community radio stations shut their studio doors in response to safety measures to prevent th...
Musician, DJ and radio artist Don Joyce passed away nearly six years ago, leaving behind a voluminous archive of his unparalelled collage ra...
Mitch Jeserich has been working as a host, producer and reporter for Pacifica Radio and KPFA for two decades. His career in radio was just g...
On the show this week we explore a pivotal period for radio news in the 1930s and learn why the Lindbergh kidnapping changed everything. Tra...
On this week’s show, we revisit a topic that is near and dear to us, the preservation of sound. This time around the emphasis is on po...
Portrayals of radio in popular culture provide an interesting glimpse at radio’s role in society. At Radio Survivor, we’ve long been fascina...
Today on the show we rebroadcast one of our favorite episodes from one year ago, which was described this way: On August 27, 2020, nomadic o...
What do home made short wave radios, flexi discs, and cyanotype photography have in common? Kirk Pearson is a composer and founder of Dogbot...
Shortly after its 26th birthday, we revisit this interview celebrating a quarter-century of the MP3. On July 14, 1995 the file extension .MP...
On this week’s show, we take a trip back in time to look at radio in the 1940s and 1950s. During this post-war period, women’s r...
What are the odds that a popular television series would feature your college radio station as a backdrop for two episodes? That’s exa...
Border radio is one of our favorite topics at Radio Survivor and on this week’s episode we dig into the history of radio broadcasting...
As we wrap up Pride Month, our podcast discussion turns to queer spaces and queer community on the radio and in podcasting, specifically les...
Just when we thought the Franken FM era might be over for good, the FCC grants “Special Temporary Authority” to a LPTV channel 6...
This week, we take a close look at the history of an influential Spanish language community radio station: KDNA. Located in Washington State...
From 1961 to 1976 WRVR-FM broadcast a progressive slate of social justice and jazz programming from the Riverside Church on Manhattan’...
The Federal Communications Commission recently announced that November 2, 2021 will mark the opening of the next licensing window for full-p...
It seems like physical media continues to have a hold on humans, even while most of us in the West engage with online, streaming and virtual...
Colleges and high schools are finishing up their first – and, with hope, last – full academic COVID year, and all indicators are that studen...
Renowned radio scholar Michele Hilmes is Professor Emerita, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at University...
Amanda Dawn Christie is an artist enamored with radios and radio waves. The Assistant Professor, Studio Arts at Concordia University (Montre...