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Radio Survivor

Though there are many good rea­sons why one might not want to look back at the year that was, we still see some aspects worth not­ing. In par­tic­u­lar, radio and pod­cast­ing proved to be resilient media, with broad­cast­ers and pod­cast­ers ral­ly­ing to meet the chal­lenges of quar­an­tines and social dis­tanc­ing brought on by the COVID-19 epi­dem­ic. This also brought on renewed inter­est in legal unli­censed Part 15 radio broad­cast­ing, while the FCC autho­rized the first-ever ter­res­tri­al all-dig­i­tal radio broad­cast ser­vice, on the AM dial, no less.

The mur­ders of George Floyd and Bre­on­na Tay­lor refo­cused the nation’s atten­tion on sys­tem­at­ic racism and the racial and gen­der inequal­i­ty that con­tin­ues to per­me­ate every aspect of Amer­i­can soci­ety. This brought about fresh calls for pub­lic and com­mu­ni­ty broad­cast­ers to address the effects of this with­in their own walls, along with efforts to pro­vide mutu­al aid, sup­port and guid­ance to BIPOC and advice to white allies.

An event­ful year, it was, and we’re here to run it all down.