Subject: Radio

• More Messages: The Right Direction

  August 9, 2006

• John Temple Melts Down

  June 19, 2007

• Defining HD

  June 21, 2007

• A Former Colorado Public Radio Board Member Takes Her Concerns Online

  July 24, 2007

• KUNC gives Colorado Public Radio More Metro-Area Competition

  July 26, 2007

• Longtime KRCC General Manager Mario Valdes Dies

  September 19, 2007

• Colorado Public Radio Purchases FM Signal

  January 17, 2008

• Best of Denver Winners from 2000

  January 31, 2008

• 2001 Best of Denver Winners

  February 6, 2008

• Q&A With Hayes Carll

  June 4, 2008

• Focus on the Family's James Dobson Strikes Out Against the Fairness Doctrine

  June 24, 2008

• Colorado Public Radio Boss Max Wycisk Running for NPR Board

  June 27, 2008

• McCain Comes to Denver, Tries to Make Friends

  July 8, 2008

• Colorado Public Radio Makes Its Moves

  July 9, 2008

• NPR Resurrects the Colorado Bridge Troll

  July 10, 2008

• New Qwest CFO gets away from XM Radio while the getting is good

  September 16, 2008

• Colorado Public Radio's still simulcasting on AM

  September 16, 2008

• Help Not Wanted

  Thanks to voicetracking, radio stations need fewer DJs than ever before.

  March 21, 2002

• Mile High Makeout: The spirit of Christmas present

  As many of you know, I got an early Christmas present on Wednesday night when I had the honor of being a guest on Dave Herrera's amazing new radio show, Mile High Fidelity, on 101.5 FM. Though it had been many years since my passionate college-radio days, I fell immediately back into the groove. And I couldn't help but be struck by the significance of both the station and the show to the Denver music scene.

  December 19, 2008

• We're an Arbitron family!

  Watch out, radio stations. I'm no longer impotent when it comes to determining your success of failure. Suddenly, I'm a force to be reckoned with. Sort of. Kind of. In a way. A few days back, my beloved received a letter from Arbitron, the Maryland-based radio-ratings service. "Be Part of the Radio Ratings!," the note from Arbitron president Steve Morris began. "Whether you listen a little, a lot, or not at all, you are important. Yours is one of the few households in your area chosen to tell

  January 9, 2009

• From the week of June 4, 2009

  June 4, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  February 28, 2002

• Colorado Public Radio dials back on new talk show

  In the July 2008 blog "Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block," Sean Nethery, CPR's vice president of programming, said that "in a matter of weeks, not months," the service would formally announce the expansion of its weekday news program, Colorado Matters, from thirty minutes to an hour in length. As a bonus, this supersized effort would be paired with an hour-long daily talk show that Nethery likened to a local varation on Talk of the Nation, a National Public Radio favorite

  January 27, 2009

• Backwash

  August 1, 2002

• Widowers live on the (Internet) radio

  Just received word that psych-pop magicians Widowers are making an appearance on KVDU, the University of Denver's college radio station (wait, DU has a college radio station? Who knew?). Tune in to your Internet -- it appears that KVDU is an Internet-only radio station (sorry commuters!) from 4 to 6 p.m. today to catch a live acoustic set in the studio from frontman Mike Marchant and a few of his cohorts. Click here to find info about KDVU and tune in to the show.

  February 12, 2009

• New KOOL 105 owner Jeff Wilks on cuts, additions to station's staff

  Today's blog "Da Boogieman Turns Down Offer to Return to KOOL 105" tells the tale of the headlined DJ, who says a misunderstanding between him and executives at Georgia-based Wilks Broadcasting, the new owner of KXKL/105.1 FM, aka KOOL 105, led to rumors that he'd soon be returning to the station where he'd garnered the biggest audiences of his long radio career. In addition to responding to assorted comments made by Da Boogieman in that item, Wilks Broadcasting CEO Jeff Wilks provided facts a

  February 17, 2009

• Best Hip-Hop Label

  March 25, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  June 24, 2004

• Colorado Public Radio story goes national

  This morning, National Public Radio broadcast a first-rate report about mortgage scams. Yet its source was more surprising than its content -- because it's a product of Colorado Public Radio. The appearance of a CPR package on the national broadcast shouldn't be that rare. After all, the service is by far the largest of its kind in the state of Colorado, with the resources that come along with such status. Even so, the vast majority of pieces from our fair state that get national airing are h

  March 10, 2009

• Colorado Public Radio dropping plans to expand news programming

  Dan Drayer won't be hosting a new Colorado Public Radio talk show anytime soon. In the July 2008 blog "Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block," CPR vice president of programming Sean Nethery said an announcement about expanding Colorado Matters, the service's thirty-minute weekday news program, and launching a one-hour weekday talk show would be made "in a matter of weeks." But things changed, as Nethery conceded in the January blog "Colorado Public Radio Dials Back on New Talk

  March 25, 2009

• Going Public

  Colorado Public Radio is selling itself as a kinder, gentler network. But its critics aren't buying it.

  February 21, 2002

• True Lies

  The Wait is over for local fans to see NPR’s comedy hit.

  August 29, 2002

• DenverSportsRadio.com prepares to launch ambitious online station

  Dino Costa beside the new Denver Sports Radio logo. According to talk-show host Dino Costa, one of the principals behind DenverSportsRadio.com, a new online project that will be introduced at a press conference today in advance of its scheduled Monday, April 20, launch, the sports-radio offerings in Denver at present are "below mediocre." He adds, "We're confident we can provide an independent, fearless talk-radio model that will eclipse anything that's available now." Of course, Costa has nev

  April 17, 2009

• Changes in the Air at KUVO

  Public-radio veteran Gene Craven tries to keep KUVO alive with help from the man he beat out for the station's top job.

  January 10, 2008

• Going Public

  The fight is on at Colorado Public Radio, where one high-powered boardmember has resigned, and at the Denver Post, where the bloodletting has begun in earnest.

  June 14, 2007

• Progress?

  With troubles at Air America and sluggish ratings, AM 760 struggles to convince liberals that they have a place on talk radio.

  March 22, 2007

• Def Jam

  HD radio rocks -- but is anyone listening?

  August 10, 2006

• The Message

  Road Show

  February 17, 2005

• The Message

  Left's Turn

  September 2, 2004

• The Message

  Power Up

  September 25, 2003

• Backwash

  Radio waves: Clear Channel clears the air about independent promoters.

  April 17, 2003

• Piracy, Hip-Hop Style

  Skyjack Radio briefly took over Denver radio -- and its pilots are eager to hit the airwaves again.

  December 5, 2002

• Cyber Slams

  A local college student is on a one-man mission to attack lousy radio.

  October 17, 2002

• A Different Qwest

  Meet a corporate lawyer's alter egos: a DJ and a space-age musician.

  October 3, 2002

• Is the media focusing too much on principal Frank DeAngelis in regard to the Columbine anniversary?

  Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis during an "Oprah" interview that reportedly will not air today. Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis has made himself the face and the voice of tenth anniversary coverage related to the killing spree that took place at the high school on April 20, 1999. Indeed, he got started weeks before the actual date. On April 2, FM 104.3/The Fan host Jim Armstrong had to take a break from discussing that afternoon's trade of Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler to the Chicago B

  April 20, 2009

• Colorado Public Radio lays off classical host amid continuing fundraising campaign

  Stephanie Wendt. Colorado Public Radio is reporting that it's collecting almost $700,000 of late -- a sum that goes a long way toward meeting the $1.6 million goal established by the service's "Drive to Thrive" fundraising campaign. But money woes remain. After dropping plans to expand the Colorado Matters news program and launch a daily talk show, CPR is laying off Stephanie Wendt, a classical-music host based in Minnesota. A note credited to CPR executives Max Wycisk and Sean Nethery blames t

  May 7, 2009

• Colorado Public Radio announces pay cuts, salary freeze despite successful fund drive

  Photo by Anthony CameraMax Wycisk, in a 2002 photo. Colorado Public Radio met its $1.6 million goal at the (blessed) end of its recent Drive to Thrive campaign. But that doesn't mean the organization is done with cutbacks. The network has just issued a press release announcing 3 percent pay reductions for all employees, as well as a year-long salary freeze to go along with the previously announced suspension of retirement-fund matches. Read CPR boss Max Wycisk's reasons for the move below:

  June 18, 2009

• An Indie 101.5 fan who's mad as hell and won't take it anymore

  Howard Beale lives.​Today's conversations with Jeff Norman, president and general manager of The Truth, and John "Whip" Wilbur, who's trying to keep the spirit of the defunct Indie 101.5 alive on the Indie303.com website, will likely do little to reduce the frustration of Indie 101.5 fans, whose favorite station succumbed to the cruel financial realities of the radio business in late July. Indeed, one listener got so riled up that he posted a veritable manifesto on Indie's Facebook page ur

  August 13, 2009

• KUVO searches for new CEO in wake of Gene Craven's retirement

  Photo by Mark MangerGene Craven.​In late 2007, Gene Craven came out of semi-retirement to take over as chief executive officer of financially challenged public-radio station KUVO/89.3 FM. And as he noted in a January 2008 Message column profile, he didn't commit himself to staying with the outlet over the long haul. A key paragraph from that piece reads: "Craven is dedicated to meeting with all of KUVO's stakeholders in order to 'come up with a new mission statement, and from there build a

  August 25, 2009

• As scrapers in Longmont go, so goes the economy

  A Flickr photoScrape this.​What does a heavy equipment auction say about the U.S. economy? Plenty, according to a report by Colorado Public Radio producer Zachary Barr that's airing on National Public Radio stations across the country today. At the event, which took place in Longmont, there were more sellers than buyers, with an especially large supply of scrapers like the one pictured above in stock. The much-higher-than-usual number of these earth-moving vehicles being sold, sometimes fo

  September 1, 2009