"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
Too Big To Fail, Twitter Twits, and Death of the E-Book
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
RIP Julius LaRosa, Email, Cancellation Season
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
TVFTP for week of February 15, 2016
Podcast for the week of February 15, 2016 This week on the TVFTP podcast: People keep expecting radio to roll over and die. Two new studies show that there is still some amazing life left in the Grand Old Lady of broadcast media. Six years ago I did a show that all but shovelled dirt... Continue Reading →
Cast Changes, NBC and Radio Lives!
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
Update on WRFA-LP
This program began when I was approached by Dennis Drew from WRFA-LP, Jamestown something like six years ago. The station has been my "home" ever since. It represents so much that I believe in about local media. First and foremost, it's local. So many local folks stepping up bring music (or commentary) that they are... Continue Reading →
Something New
You may have noticed that things are a little different around here. I was never completely happy with the old design. It was intended to be a place holder, which then turned into the de facto design for quite some time. Well, there's nothing quite like a very long weekend to get some "back burner"... Continue Reading →
Best of the Web – Welcome to Night Vale
(Best of the Web is an occasional series of posts where I highlight websites that I think bring out the best of what the web can be. The choices and the standards upon which they are made are entirely my own) Welcome to Night Vale (podcasts) is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates... Continue Reading →
Movie Review – Empire of th Air
Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio (1991) - Ken Burns delves into the stories of the three men most central to the development of radio and eventually television - Lee de Forest, E.H. Armstrong and David Sarnoff. The growth of Radio into the first electronic, broadcast medium and its dominance of the American... Continue Reading →
Reviewing Richmond Media – Sports Radio
I never really got into reviewing local media when I was in WNY because I knew too many of the players and had a long history there myself. It just felt like I was going to be accused of bias one way or the other. If I said nice things about my friends than I... Continue Reading →