Earlier this week, Entercom Rochester fired “Breakfast Buzz” hosts Kimberly and Beck after they went on a 12-minute tirade about the City of Rochester’s decision to extend health care benefits to transgender individuals and their families. This morning, the duo issued a statement apologizing for their comments. Whether anyone will buy it is another matter, but […]
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New waves
The current media landscape is a mess, riddled with corporate interests and commercialism. As people continue to shift their primary sources of information and entertainment to the internet, consumers are caught up in debates about media monopolies and the battle for net neutrality. But amid all of this noise, a subculture has been quietly emerging, […]
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Where have all the cowboys gone?
Country music is huge. Yet the appeal seems to drop off sharply when it comes to country music on a local level. Where are the bands? Where are the country-music fans the other days of the year that megastars like Chesney aren’t here?
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Soul man
You’ve heard “Bernadette” by the Four Tops, “Back Stabbers” by the O’Jays, and “Natural Woman” by Aretha Franklin more times than you can count. You probably think you know soul music pretty well. Think again. What you know are the relatively few soul tunes that have made it into the Top 40 over the […]
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Mixed signals
If you are used to tuning in to the non-stop line-up of African-American programming on Friday or Sunday evenings on WRUR 88.5 FM, you might find yourself scratching your head this summer. Car Talk? What station is this anyway? Over the past several weeks, WRUR, the radio station run by the University of Rochester, has […]
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Smokin’ signal
It’s been on the radio dial for 30 years and it’s been playing jazz for more than a decade. But WGMC has just recently found its groove.
