A MODEL FOR WHAT RADIO MIGHT BE - AND HOW IT COULD HAVE A FUTURE

[MattParker]

A fascinating story in the morning's New York Times. This station sounds like the public radio version of KBHR in Cicely, Alaska. It's nice to know there are still a few places where radio has buzz and where radio keeps itself relevant by doing what mp3 players and even Internet Radio can't. Radio's winning formula has always been personalities and one station hasn't forgotten that.

PS: You can listen yourself at Robin Hood Radio

From an NPR Minnow, Lessons for Whales

...There can’t be many NPR stations quite like WHDD, the smallest outpost of that embattled empire, serving both urbanized weekenders and local farmers and other residents in a varied slice of the Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills and Dutchess County, N.Y.

Amid the whales of contemporary radio, there are still a few distinctly independent minnows, like the anarchically eclectic WFMU in Jersey City or William O’Shaughnessy’s intensely local WVOX in New Rochelle. But in its own eccentric way, in these quite perilous times for public broadcasting, WHDD is not a bad model for what truly public radio might be. ...
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