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Explore Fascinating Radio Archives with The Kitchen Sisters’ #KeeperoftheDay
Rosa Parks interviewed on KPFA in 1958. A 1986 recording of Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack on WLBS in New York City. A clip of astronaut Jose Hernandez from the “Historias de Si Se Puede” series. These are a...
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Podcast # 218: Archiving Public Media
On this week’s episode, Karen Cariani, the David O. Ives Executive Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives, joins us to talk about the work of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting...
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Walter Benjamin diary: on earthquakes and radio time
“Have you ever had to wait for a prescription at the pharmacy, and watched it being made? Gram by gram or decigram by decigram, the pharmacist weighs out all the substances and powders needed for the...
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Podcast #226 – Irish Pirate Radio Encore
Here at the close of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 we’re celebrating the 31st anniversary of the end of one of the most fascinating periods in radio broadcast history, when pirate radio ruled the...
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Preservation is One of the Most Important Radio Trends of the Decade
Welcome to 2020! As Matthew Lasar noted this week, this year marks the 100th anniversary of some significant moments in radio history, including KDKA’s first broadcast. While other stations were on...
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Podcast #230 – The Library of Congress Launches Podcast Preservation Project
On this week’s episode we learn about a brand new project at the Library of Congress that is focused entirely on archiving podcasts. Ted Westervelt, Manager of the Podcast Preservation Project at...
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Podcast #256 – The Robin Hood of the Avant-Garde
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component...
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Preserving Pieces of Microradio History
For the first time in a while I needed to dip into my dwindling archive of cassette tape airchecks. A couple of tapes immediately caught my eye and spurred me to restart the digitizing project I’ve...
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Podcast #283 – Project STAND is Archiving Student Activism
On Radio Survivor we are interested in not only audio, but also its history as well as preservation efforts. Along those lines, we have done numerous episodes about archives. We additionally have a...
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Podcast #284 – SpokenWeb and Literary Sound
On this week’s show we learn about SpokenWeb, a Canadian project focused on the preservation of literary sound recordings. Partly inspired by the energetic poetry scene of the 1960s, SpokenWeb works...
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Podcast #286 – Native American Voices on the Air in the Early Days of Radio
On this week’s show we take a look at the ways that Native Americans used sound technology during radio’s earliest days and how that inspired and led to the flourishing Native media landscape,...
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Podcast #289 – Celebrating Women in Sound
In honor of Women’s History Month, this week’s episode focuses on women in sound. Our guests, Jennifer Hyland Wang and Jenny Stoever, return to the show to discuss sound studies, the cultural politics...
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Podcast #297 – Radio Studies and Soundwork
Renowned radio scholar Michele Hilmes is Professor Emerita, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been a long time proponent of...
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Podcast #301 – Digitizing & Transcribing the Archives of NYC Progressive...
From 1961 to 1976 WRVR-FM broadcast a progressive slate of social justice and jazz programming from the Riverside Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Beginning in 2018 those archives are being...
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Podcast #302 – Feminista Frequencies
This week, we take a close look at the history of an influential Spanish language community radio station: KDNA. Located in Washington State, the station launched in 1979 and serves a rural community...
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Podcast #313 – PodcastRE’s Archive of Podcasting Culture
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 podcasts. Our guest Jeremy Morris is the founder of PodcastRE (which...
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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 MAL). She’s also an Associate...
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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 includes a range of amateur...
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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 college and university-based...
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Podcast #337 – Catching up on Radio News including LPFM, a College Radio...
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 radio history, radio...
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