Radio

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  • Radio's big bully

    Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America.
  • Fighting pay-for-play

    Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola.
  • Pay for play

    Why does radio suck? Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse.
  • Dis-"Connection"

    When a Boston station locked out Christopher Lydon, it silenced public radio's most civilized -- and swinging -- talk-show host.
  • The ratings game

    I was a post-teen Arbitron diarist -- and all I got was a lousy 4 bucks.
  • Do-it-yourself broadband stereo

    My music system includes the future of Internet audio -- a home-brewed component that lets me listen to any Net-connected radio station, anywhere.
  • Big radio bites back!

    Major broadcasting companies and NPR are ganging up on low-power FM radio. Can John McCain save the day?
  • The day the music died

    The merger of America's largest concert promoter with its largest radio station owner will mean Pringles, payola and more Top 40 from coast to coast.
  • Three-way radio

    A minage ` trois is broadcast over Finnish radio, leading to a legal investigation.
  • Letters to the editor

    Is Martha Stewart's move a "good thing"? Plus: Ungrateful bride should send thank yous anyway; why we loathe Hillary Clinton.
  • Public radio's bad dream

    Joe Frank conjures up the nightmares that "This American Life" and "A Prairie Home Companion" have when they go home at night.
  • Pirate radio goes legit

    Micro-broadcasters can't believe their ears as the FCC moves to legalize low-power stations.
  • Groove Radio gets its groove back

    The all-electronica Los Angeles radio station that went off the air three years ago is back -- online.
  • Vin Scully

    For 50 years, an Irish redhead from the Bronx has been the gold standard for baseball announcers.
  • Vox populi

    An interview with "Sound Portraits'" mike-shy producer, David Isay.
  • "29,000 people and a million butterflies"

    Vin Scully's radio call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game against the Chicago Cubs is pure baseball literature.
  • Will RealAudio kill the radio star?

    Commercial radio will have only itself to blame if the Internet ends up eating its pablum lunch.
  • Words in your ear

    Audible's digital Walkman delivers on-demand spoken-word programming -- but only in limited doses.
  • Turning the tables on Terry Gross

    Salon gets personal with NPR's Maestro of conversation.
  • Cursed Words

    The FCC just made cussing less costly -- did it fuck up?
  • Media Circus

    Quirky, intelligent and unpredictable, "This American Life" is the best thing on the air waves
  • Radio Priest

    Maud Casey reviews Donald Warren's book "Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin The Father Of Hate Radio".
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