Last week we declared that the 2010s were a ban­ner decade for com­mu­ni­ty radio. As Jen­nifer notes, though col­lege radio had a tough start to the last decade, with the loss of promi­nent sta­tions like KUSF, KTRU and WRVU, the ser­vice seri­ous­ly bounced back, aid­ed by fac­tors like the low-pow­er FM boom, inter­net radio, HD Radio and sup­port from the new Col­lege Radio Foun­da­tion. That all adds up to the defen­si­ble dec­la­ra­tion that it was also the biggest growth decade for col­lege radio, too. We unpack all that happened.

Dig­ging fur­ther into our sec­ond ​“Decade in Review” episode, Jen­nifer also looks at how efforts to pre­serve radio pro­gram­ming and mate­ri­als stepped up, seen most promi­nent­ly with the found­ing of the Library of Con­gress’ Radio Preser­va­tion Task Force. On that sub­ject, we’re pleased to report that this show has been select­ed for col­lec­tion by the Library of Con­gress as part of a new pod­cast pro­gram. We’ll talk to the man­ag­er of the Pod­cast Preser­va­tion Project on next week’s show.

Final­ly, we also dig into how video, and YouTube specif­i­cal­ly, has become radio, in many ways. A pic­ture may be required, but what does it mat­ter if it’s the audio that’s most important?