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Smart City Radio
Awhile back, my friend Beth Akeson told me about a public radio show called Smart City. It’s not broadcast on our local public radio affiliates (although I’ve recently put in a request for it at WCBU),...
View ArticleApril Fools Day 1993
Gary Sandberg sent me this April Fools Day report from WCBU in 1993. It’s a hoot: [See post to listen to audio] The best part is, according to a Journal Star article from April 19, 1993, “The story...
View ArticleWOAM only half on
Radio station WOAM (1350 AM) has been broadcasting the past few months in an apparent effort by the owner to keep his FCC license while he tries to sell the station. There are no DJs, no commercials,...
View ArticleWOAM off the air . . . again
Radio station WOAM (AM 1350), which went off the air in 2008 then popped back on unannounced in the fall of 2009 without commercials or disk jockeys, has once again gone off the air. WOAM is owned by...
View ArticleDebate: Are teachers unions to blame for failing schools?
I heard this debate on WCBU tonight. It’s from the program “Intelligence Squared U.S.,” which features an Oxford-style debate. There’s a different topic, or “motion,” each week. The motion for this...
View ArticleWAZU simulcasting Cabool station
There’s a new radio station on Peoria’s dial: WAZU 90.7 FM. Since I read about it in Steve Tarter’s column in the Journal Star, I’ve been checking it out regularly. It’s “a non-commercial station...
View ArticleWCBU has new website
Actually, WCBU has had a new website for a little while now, but I’m just getting around to blogging about it. WCBU is, of course, the public radio station in Peoria (89.9 FM) with studios at Bradley...
View ArticleWCBU news misses the mark
WCBU News this morning said that a successful effort to stop the issuance of general obligation bonds for the museum would be “a moot point” because the County Board could just use a different kind of...
View ArticleWCBU changing format to all news and information
From my inbox: Beginning March 7, 2011, WCBU will expand its offerings for Peoria area public radio listeners. The station will offer all news, information and entertainment programming on 89.9 FM, and...
View ArticleThis American Life on economic development
There’s a Public Radio show called This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass, that I enjoy. They have a theme for each one-hour episode, and the episode is split into several segments, or “acts” as they...
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