Radio Survivor Podcast

Podcast #346 – The Fight for College Radio at Cleveland State Station WCSB

On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University’s nearly 50-year old student-run college radio stati

Podcast #345 – Catching up with Community Radio at the Grassroots Radio Conference and NCRC

Jennifer Waits reports back from the Grassroots Radio Conference, held in Spokane Washington from September 11 to September 14, 2025. We recap FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez

Podcast #344 – Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age

While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ourselves examining music and ta

Podcast #343 – Catching up on College Radio and Podcasting News (March 19, 2025)

Eric, Jennifer and Paul return with a new episode of Radio Survivor, recapping some of the latest news from our travels. Jennifer shares highlights from the annual studen

Podcast: Remembering Alice Brock of Alice’s Restaurant

Several years ago, Radio Survivor had the pleasure of speaking with artist and restaurateur Alice Brock, the woman who provided much inspiration for Arlo Guthrie’s inadve

Podcast #342 – The Famous Computer Cafe

We travel back to the 1980s, when the show, The Famous Computer Cafe, initially launched over the radio in southern California. With a focus on home computers, computer n

Podcast #341 – The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

Journalist Marc Masters joins us to discuss his book, High Bias: the Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. We dive into how the oft-maligned cassette influenced the mus

Podcast #340 – College Radio History at Williams College

Williams College student Josh Picoult arrived on campus with a fascination for both history and radio. Four years later, he’s about to graduate after completing his under

Podcast #339- 75 Years of Listener Supported Radio

Matthew Lasar talks with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of KPFA’s Upfront to commemorate the Birthday of Pacifica Radio. The post Podcast #339- 75 Years of Listener Support

Podcast #338 – YouTube, Video and Podcasting

In the last few years YouTube has become one of the most popular platforms for consuming podcasts, even though it’s a primarily a video platform, and podcasts have tradit

Podcast #337 – Catching up on Radio News including LPFM, a College Radio Archive, Documentaries, and More

The Radio Survivor team returns for a new episode, during which Jennifer, Eric and Paul recap some of the latest radio news. Topics this week including LPFM, college radi

Podcast #336 – Educational Radio and the Beginnings of Public Radio

On this edition of the show, we explore public radio history, specifically the origins of public radio in the United States, including the important role played by colleg

Podcast #335 – Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications

On this week’s show, we peek behind the scenes of The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC). A project of the Internet Archive, the DLARC collection

Podcast #334 – College Radio’s Hidden Early History

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 episode of the show. Jennifer Wa

Podcast #333 – Low Power FM for Dummies

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 announcement here. On our latest episode of Rad

Podcast #332 – More College Radio Tours & Podcasting Turns 20

Jennifer, our intrepid radio station tour guide, leads us through some of her recent visits to college radio stations in New York and Rhode Island. This most recent acade

Podcast #331 – New Low-Power FM Opportunity Coming this November

It’s been nearly three years since the FCC first announced that a new low-power FM (LPFM) application window would be forthcoming. Now we know that November 1 – 8, 2023 w

Podcast #330: Wetland Project and Slow Radio

The Radio Survivors return with a new podcast episode! On this edition of the show, we discuss soundscapes and the concept of slow radio. Our guests, artists Brady Marks

Podcast #329: New York College Radio Tours

The Radio Survivors return with a new podcast episode! Jennifer reports on her visits to four college radio stations in New York state in November, 2022. Part of a longti

Podcast #328: Media Archaeology and Other Networks

The Radio Survivors return with a new episode! For this edition, recorded in July, 2022, our guest is Lori Emerson, Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab (the MA